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10 Barriers to Economic Development in Immokalee, Florida 1/8/2018

11 Barrier to growth Agricltre is the overwhelming economic driver in the commnity Agricltre acconts for 60% of all employment and 20% of all bsiness establishments Mch of the capital earned in Immokalee does not stay in Immokalee Casino Migrant workers- send $ back to spport families in their homelands Middle class workers (school teachers, police, ) do not live in Immokalee (Ava Maria) Mch of the residenial and commercial (non agricltre) land in Immokalee is privately owned (40%?) sccessflly scceeded in blocking the Immokalee Master Plan LiNle economic incenive to invest in the land-cash Cows Those Immokalee ciizens who do well economically tend to leave Immokalee Sbstandard hosing Sbstandard faciliies Those middle class employees working in Immokalee live elsewhere (Ava Maria, for example) In 2005 there were 263 bsinesses with an average employment of 6,816 and an average wage of $23,649

12 Large percentage of Immokalee ci=zens are Illiterate Unskilled Poorly edcatedimpoverished

2016 Censs Brea data Medim earnings per worker Medim income per family Immokale e Lehigh Acres $22,249 $26.684 $30.

13 2016 Censs Brea data Medim earnings per worker Medim income per family Immokale e Lehigh Acres $22,249 $ $ $40,226 Immokalee is nincorporated which creates difficlty in collecing data The following Data is dated and while direcionally correct is noisey

14 Demographics 2010 Censs Data 75.6% Hispanic 46.7% born otside USA 29.7% gradated high School 3.8% have college Degree PoplaIon 24,154 Persons per hosehold 4.85% Unemployment rate 12.8% Medim worker income $16, % of homes are rental 30.7% are occpied by owners; home average 4 rooms Medim vale of owner occpied hosing $78,700 Medim Hose hold income $26,684 Per capita income $9,814 Persons in Poverty 43.9%

15 Contermeasres Charitable organizaions Child and infant care Medical care EdcaIon Shelters food economic development in east collier New planned towns-constrcion workers, skilled workers ITECK Bsinesses-Collier, Artrex, Airport

16 Immokalee School Data Janary 5, 2018

17 Demographics Collier Conty vs. Immokalee Collier Conty Immokalee Hispanic 49% 81% Demographic Data Collier Conty vs. immokalee Hai3an 11% 15% Forign born 23% 43% Migrant Hispanic Hai3an Speak english at home 47% 22% Speak spanish 42% 65% Economically needy Forign born Speak creole 7% 9% below poverty line Speak english at home below poverty line 14% 42% Speak creole Speak spanish Economically needy 64% 97% Migrant 9% 43% Collier Conty Immokalee Medim Hosehold income/leigh Acres $62,126 / $40,226 26,684

18 Early childhood edca<on resorces Type Gold Seal Accredited Offer VPK Qality Unknown Total Providers Child care Facilities Family Providers (Lrg and Sm) Non-pblic Schools Pblic Schools Total The Gadalpe Center crrently serves a total of 270 children ages six weeks to five years old.

19 Sorce: Florida Kindergarten screener (FLKRS) test

20 Schools in Immokalee Elementary Schools Eden Park Highlands Immokalee Commnity Lake Trafford Pinecrest Village Oaks Middle Schools Immokalee High Schools Immokalee Alterna6ve Schools Immokalee Technology Academy Immokalee Technology Center Immokalee teen paren3ng New Beginnings Immokalee Steps to the ftre The Pace Program The Phoenix Program

21 Elementary Schools Percent >3 English Math Science Immokalee Best Schools Collier Immokalee Best Schools Collier English Science Math Sorce: Collier conty test scores

22 Middle School Test Reslts Percent > 3 English Math Science Immokalee Best Schools Collier C English Immokalee Best Schools Collier C Science Sorce: Collier conty test scores Math

23 High School Test Scores Immokalee Best Schools Collier C English Percent > 3 English Algebra! Algebra 2 Geometry Biology History Immokalee History Algebra! Best Schools Collier C Biology Algebra 2 Geomet ry Sorce: Collier conty test

24 Collier High schools College Readiness Index English Proficiency AP teated Math Proficiency AP PASSED Sorce: US News and world report srvey Immokalee high school grada3on rate :89% Immokalee Average

25 Take away from the radar charts Immokalee stdents academic performance at the pre k slightly lags the overall Collier school district and sbstan3ally lags the best schools in Collier conty The pre K resorces in Immokalee are effec3ve in preparing children for elementary school Bt Immokalee stdents significantly fall behind the district at the end of elementary school and the gap grows dring middle school and high school Academic ineqali3es magnify as stdents transi3on from learning to read, which takes place from pre k throgh early elementary school (3 rd / 4 th grade), to reading to learn.

26 Agricltre: Immokalee s Economic Engine Make class aware of the major crrent and ftre challenges facing the agricltral bsiness, farm workers and immigrants in the Immokalee commnity and how the varios commnity sectors are responding to and addressing these challenges

27 Agricltre is the economic engine of Immokalee Agricltre acconts for 60% of all employment and 20% of all bsiness establishments Immokalee s Crops inclde Ccmbers, bell peppers, citrs A third of or fresh tomatoes, and 90% of the nadon s winter tomatoes, are grown in Florida However Florida Agricltre and hence Immokalee are nder pressre:

28 Labor Decline of Immigrant workers are entering the USA Florida's vegetable indstry is heavily reliant on migrant labor. many of these laborers are ndocmented "The flow of new arrivals (to work on farms) has stopped," "It's the people newly in this contry who will do the work that people here don't want to do." Mexico's falling ferdlity rate dropped from 7.2 to 2.5 children per family from 1960s to 2000, according to data from the United NaDons. Low wages aren't the isse, a commission of $2.50 a box. "A good picker can do 10 or 12 boxes per hor," earning more than $200 a day, The average is abot half that. Wages have grown from $7.80 in 2002 to $10.35 per hor in 2011

29 Labor Shortage H2A Visas H2A visa program - brings in temporary agricltre workers from LaDn America. Expensive. Grower s responsibility more than $1,000 in transportadon and government visa fees for each laborer the cost of hosing the workers' horly pay, which by law has to meet or exceed that of American laborers'. Changes to law nder Trmp administradon Short fall of immigradon is midgated by H2A visas and the drop in the need for workers

30 Declining Resident Farm Workers Year Resident 121, , , , ,142 96,726 89,173 89,794 89,798 H2a visa , , , , , , , , ,143 Sorce: U.S. Brea of Labor StaDsDcs, Qarterly Censs of Employment and Wages; U.S. Department of Labor, NaDonal

31 Forces Challenging Immokalee s Ftre Pressres of Florida s Agricltre C R O P Y I E L D C R O P D I S E A S E C O N S U M P T I O N DECLINES E X P E N S E S I M P O R T S INCREASES DECLINE IN LABOR DEMAND H U R I C A N E I R M A

32 Year Orange crop Yield (million boxes) Citrs greening Declining DomesHc Demand ConsmpHon/person/year Disease destroyed 75% of Florida orange and grapefrit crop 5.49 gallons 3.95 gallons obliterated 75 percent of Florida s orange and grapefrit crop Labor Demand Decline 18 percent fewer workers than five years ago Increasing Expenses $850/acre $2,250/acre Declining Land se (ACRES) 750,000 in citrs 126,000 abandoned groves 130,000 acres of ghost orchards 476,000 acres in citrs Declining Land se Imports-price war 1/5 of total USA consmphon 8 million boxes of citrs harvested in 2014 in Collier conty Developers have boght p 1 million acres of farmland in the last 10 years 1/3 of tomato consmphon 2.4 billion/yr

33 Whether Immokalee? Immokalee s past and present have been intricacy intertwined with the fortnes of agricltre Agricltre is nder siege: declining demand, compeddve imports; increasing expenses, dieses; less land nder cldvadon; less need for manpower Immokalee is a rral slm, which if condne to rely on agricltre will fail, as many rral towns have in America Many efforts by many good capable organizadons and agencys have worked in Immokalee, bt lijle has changed

34 The Ftre of Immokalee What is the impact on Immokalee ftre of the decline of agricltral prodcdon, hence a corresponding decline in farm workers. How is Immokalee responding to this challenge? Waving Impact Fees Bsiness incbator

35 Lipman Family Farms 02/16/2017

Macro Overview Florida agricltre is a mlti billion dollar contribtor to or economy, 2nd only to torism. Florida farms cover more than 9 million acres and are a model of conservation.

36 Macro Overview Florida agricltre is a mlti billion dollar contribtor to or economy, 2nd only to torism. Florida farms cover more than 9 million acres and are a model of conservation. Farmers, de to advances like micro-drip irrigation, are sing 50% of the water today than they were jst 10 years ago. That is 13 billion gallons of water! Sothwest Florida has been helping to feed the nation for decades. The winter months give s nearly perfect weather (80 degrees dring the day and 60 at night) to grow vegetables. 2

Macro Overview Bt the pressres against farming are significant. When I entered the prodce bsiness in 1985, there were over 100 tomato growers in the state of Florida. Today there are 12.

37 Macro Overview Bt the pressres against farming are significant. When I entered the prodce bsiness in 1985, there were over 100 tomato growers in the state of Florida. Today there are 12...and that nmber will go down this year. Since we began harvesting in October, we have sold millions of boxes of beatifl tomatoes and vegetables...all at a loss. There is static demand so the perfect weather and improved farming techniqes of today have given s an excess spply. Increased spply cases a rsh to the bottom as farmers know that they need to "sell it or smell it". 3

38 Lipman Overview North America s Largest Open Field Tomato Grower Divided into 2 Sections: Farming Florida Soth Carolina Virginia California Mexico Vale Added Repack and Processing 13 Locations 4

Lipman Overview We employ thosands of people. Many of them are migrant laborers. In the 6 short years since I have been rnning this company, we have continally lost or ability to find people.

39 Lipman Overview We employ thosands of people. Many of them are migrant laborers. In the 6 short years since I have been rnning this company, we have continally lost or ability to find people. Or average harvester makes over $30,000/ year, far more than alternative jobs, bt pressres have contined to shrink or spply of people. Florida is now a model of social responsibility, bt this is togh work. Let me be very clear, regardless of what yo hear from or national leaders...these are hard working, God fearing, law abiding people who do work that no one else wants to do 5

Lipman Overview Tomatoes are the world's largest vegetable category. (technically a frit) Global prodction is arond 130 million tons. Abot 2/3 is fresh market and the rest is sed for processing.

40 Lipman Overview Tomatoes are the world's largest vegetable category. (technically a frit) Global prodction is arond 130 million tons. Abot 2/3 is fresh market and the rest is sed for processing. Lipman Farm #7 here in Naples is the largest continos tomato farm in the US encompassing nearly 5,000 acres. Each year we lay over 3,000 miles of plastic mlch and plant arond 9 million tomato plants. We se over 31,000 miles of twine to tie the crop. 6

Lipman Overview It takes abot 100 days for a plant to be ready for harvest. The average yield is abot 12 ponds per plant, bt this year has been more than that.

41 Lipman Overview It takes abot 100 days for a plant to be ready for harvest. The average yield is abot 12 ponds per plant, bt this year has been more than that. In the months of November and December we packed over 500,000 more boxes than last year on the same nmber of planted acres. That is why the market is so cheap. This time of the year, nearly 800 people harvest arond 2 million ponds of tomatoes a day on or Naples Farm. That is nearly 50 tractor trailers of prodct. There are over 80 John Deere tractors on that one farm. In total, Lipman owns over 450 John Deere nits. 7

42 Lipman Overview The Prodce Exchange 2014 Coastal Brokers 2011 The Prodce Exchange 2014 Western Repacking Sam s Prodce 2015 New Jersey The Prodce Exchange 2014 Legend Distribting 2014 Tennessee North Carolina (Branscomb Prodce 2012) Comb s Prodce 2012 The Prodce Exchange 2014 Florida 8

43 Lipman Ftre The Lipman Family has a long term view of bsiness and allows the leadership team to do the right thing. There will most likely be fewer tomato farmers in Florida next year, bt we will be here. We will plant the same nmber of acres and wait for the market to change. We have a debt free balance sheet that gives s the power to think long term. What does the ftre hold? Farming will be togh. We know that. Sstainability will be a given. Competition from Mexico will contine to pt pressre on s and land costs will force more ot of farming. The best farm land in Florida is along the coast. We know that is now nearly all developed. It will take committed families like the Lipmans to feed s. Abraham Lincoln referred to agricltre as the "vital interest of the nation". Never was a more accrate statement made! 9

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