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City of Las Cruces Economic Crisis Flash Assessment PREPARED BY THE COMMUNITY ECONOMICS LABORATORY

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Page 1: City of Las Cruces Economic Crisis Flash Assessment · Startup –500 Jobs Jobs in Startup would be dependent on the presence of an angel fund that could seed a minimum of 10 companies

City of Las CrucesEconomic Crisis Flash Assessment PREPARED BY THE COMMUNITY ECONOMICS LABORATORY

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A Strategic Assessment for the Economic Crisis Assessment Strategy Questions:

1. How many jobs does the community need to restore or create to recover from the economic crisis? Economic base jobs, service sector jobs.

2. What changes need to be made to the community’s economic development apparatus?  What is the job creation potential of each program effort? 

This assessment will provide the framework and the parameters for writing a formal operational plan for your economic development apparatus.   

Unanimous consensus is required to proceed with a finding

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Economic BaseEconomic‐base jobs are those where the salaries are paid for by money originating outside of the economy. 

Service‐sector jobs are those where salaries are derived from local exchange of goods and services. 

E > P Growing the Economyfaster than the Population

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Job Creation Program Theaters

Factors of Production

Marketing & Sales 

MarketingSales

Completion

Hard Assets & Capital

LandBuildings

InfrastructureCapital

Workforce

Qualified workersHousing Education

Community Quality

Leadership & Business Climate 

LeadershipTax and regulatory

PlanningOrganization

SoloworkExtractives/Energy

StartupRetirementVisitor FilmEmployer AgricultureFed Gov’t

Community Program Apparatus

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Economic base program theaters

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Theater Activities

Employer Recruiting, expansion and retention of employers

Federal Government BRAC efforts, Health, Education, transfer payments

Film and Digital Media Film, TV, games

Start Up Starting new enterprises that will have employees

Remote Work Enterprises with no employees, remote work

Visitor Driven Tourism, hospitality, transit services

Retirement Affluent retirement strategies

Agriculture New crop development 

Extractives and Energy Mining, oil & gas, power plants, wind, solar, bio 

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Crisis Timeline

Onset Trough Reset Full Recovery

Jan 2020 Jun 2020 Jun 2022 Jan 2025

Intervention

Onset

Trough

Full Recovery

Stages of Economic Crisis

Reset

Demand rebound

Jan  2020

Social Isolating

Lockdown

Lockdown lifted

Distancing lifted

Contraction Bounceback Recovery

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E‐base rate – 30%

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Industry Loss Exposure:2.8% annual natural attrition, 40% COVID attrition

 ‐ 2,000 4,000 6,000 8,000

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Losses Remainder

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Temporary vs Permanent Losses

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Scenario ComparisonsElevated response Business as usual

In this scenario, the city elevates the program efforts in the prioritized theaters and are able to recover all lost e‐base jobs plus a slight gain. The result is full recovery well inside 5 years. 

In this scenario, the economic development efforts remain the same as they stand today and the e‐base losses are not recovered within 5 years. 

Potential: 17,523 jobs

Potential: 27,145 jobs

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Program Theater Status Remote Work – 2,500 Jobs

The group considered the assessment made at the county level which estimated potential for 5,000 new remote work jobs county‐wide. This potential is driven by the global shift to remote work accelerated by the pandemic and is expected to become a more normalized and ubiquitous mode of work. Unchanged, there is potential for 250 new remote‐work jobs over the next five years, all of which would occur organically without a program. 

Employer – 2,000 Jobs

The potential for employer recruitment, retention and expansion was estimated at 2,000 jobs over the next 5 years. Current program capacity would be negatively impacted by the crisis and is estimated to be only 1,500 jobs. 

Startup – 500 Jobs

Jobs in Startup would be dependent on the presence of an angel fund that could seed a minimum of 10 companies with the first rounds of funding. Participants suggested that $65M would be needed for the fund to be able to support promising startups to the point of creating 500 new jobs. 

Retirement – 200 Retirees

There is already an active retiree recruitment program active in Las Cruces. Program operators estimated potential for 200 retirees coming from out‐of‐state marketing efforts combined with local fulfillment partnering with homebuilders and realtors. 

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Program Theater Status (cont.)

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Organic job recovery Current Programs New capacity

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Other TheatersVisitor & Tourism ◦ Hit hard by the pandemic. ◦ Will be able to recover what was lost but further discussion is required to quantify those losses and identify what strategy exists for realizing a full recovery. 

Federal Government ◦ Immigration, NASA and the spaceport◦ Federal hiring freeze ◦ Drive more federal dollars to new or existing federally funded employment, whether through the federal delegation or other means of influence.

Film◦ All of the film activity in New Mexico and globally has been suspended due to COVID‐19. ◦ When production resumes, any film activity statewide will depend on the continuation of the film incentives. The special session of legislature will determine if these incentives will be changed. 

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Total Loss vs Recovery – Elevated Response (managed)Natural E‐base attrition  ‐ 1,533 

COVID e‐base attrition ‐ 5,758 

Natural Service Attrition ‐3,025 

COVID service attrition ‐14,490 

Total jobs for full recovery ‐ 24,806

Organic Recovery 16,273

Theater Potential Estimates 5,200

Induced Service Growth 5,672

Total Estimated Potential 27,145 

Surplus/(Shortage) 2,339 

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Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4

2020 2021 2022 2023 2024

Crisis Trajectory

Elevated Response (managed) No changes Full recovery

Recovery DashboardOnset

Trough

Full RecoveryReset

Demand rebound

Social distancing

Lockdown

Lockdown lifted

Distancing lifted

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Factors of ProductionMarketing and Sales◦ There is currently no program capacity for job creation in Remote Work.◦ MVEDA requires higher volume and better‐quality lead generation, specifically to realize opportunities for onshoring from southeast Asia. 

Physical Inventory◦ Need for appropriate facilities for onshoring opportunities◦ Need greenhouse space◦ Need facilities at the spaceport

Project Finance◦ Need an angel fund to seed startups. The group estimates that $65M would be the desired amount to make 10 early‐stage investments at $500K each and 10 more seed round investments at $3M each, then finally 3 series A investments at $10M each.  

Workforce◦ Immediate return of workforce is not a given. It could be expected that the labor participation rate will decline in the short run given the availability of federal benefits. 

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Strategic ImplicationsRevisit strategy for Economic Development

Leadership will need to rethink based on this assessment whether the current economic development plan is aligned to the post‐COVID‐19 realities across all theaters that involves the programs that are currently in the trenches saving jobs. It would be prudent to establish an industry insights advisory council to inform the recovery process with real time information.  

Initiate program for Remote Work 

Outline the program strategy (how jobs are created), research best practices and examine options for deployment. 

Elevate MVEDA 

Specifically, increase quality and quantity of lead generation for potential re‐shoring opportunities and identify specific needs for physical inventory.

Conduct a workforce gap analysis

Compare the current workforce needs of key industries with the qualifications and availability of local workforce. Align workforce development programming to identified demand.