The Connecticut Post Online - Council hears strategies from state DECD chief: "After just five weeks on the job, Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development Commissioner Joan McDonald is promising to shake up the state's business growth strategies by reviewing them for effectiveness.
'At the end of the summer we will hold a series of roundtable discussions about which programs work and which programs do not,' McDonald said Monday during The Business Council of Fairfield County's 37th Annual Meeting. This was her first speaking engagement in Fairfield County since Gov. M. Jodi Rell selected her to run the state's economic development agency.
She drew laughs from the more than 250 in the audience at the start when she noted the speed with which the business council approached her to visit Fairfield County.
And, proving business has fully embraced the movement to go green, the council awarded honors to Donald Strait, executive director of Connecticut Fund for the Environment. ..."
