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Washington Cooperative Support Center

“Cooperative development, healthy space for all members of Thurston County”

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In January 2001 the Washington Cooperative Support Center (WCSC), a 501( c) 3 non profit organization, was established to lower the cost of living and doing business in our community. Our organization is achieving this goal by establishing cooperatives who synergistically work to lower operating costs. These cost saving cooperatives include Temporary labor and Construction. At the same time, our cooperatives enhance the quality of life for the people with need in our community by offering employment, competitive earnings, and training. WCSC is working in Thurston County to provide members with dependable alternative resources that are self-funding, which empower our local community with long-term sustainable solutions to community problems. Mission Statement To lower the cost of living and doing business for the residents of Thurston County. Vision Statement A sustainable holistic infrastructure supporting, and supported by, the community. WCSC is a synergistic not for profit cooperatives. Synergy, as defined, is the cooperative interaction among groups that creates an enhanced combined effect. WCSC envisions communities as living entities, which require sustainable infrastructure. Sustainable infrastructure means financial services, employment opportunities, transportation, housing, and health care. How do we realize our vision? By creating economic opportunity while providing community based economic development and enhancement of basic community need services. These include financial resources, training and employment opportunities, meal and personal care facilities, child care, transportation and health care alternatives. WCSC has already begun this process. Click on any link to see what we are and where we are headed.

Olympia’s Comprehensive Plan

What is Sustainable Economic Development?
A sustainable community is one that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. The term “economic development” means the strengthening of the material prosperity of a community.

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“Cooperative development, healthy space for all members of Thurston County”

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Olympia Comprehensive Plan Goals

GOALS AND POLICIES

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GOAL SEC1: To maintain and enhance Olympia’s high quality of life, since livability is the most powerful economic engine available to city government.
POLICIES:
SEC 1.1 Provide a healthy community that is a desirable environment for business investment and activity.
a. Maintain the integrity of community infrastructure, such as water, sewer, street, park, storm water management, and other public facilities and systems.
SEC 1.2 Foster a vibrant, inclusive, diverse civic atmosphere, with an involved community that cares about others; is dynamic; and is responsive to community needs and to social justice.
SEC 1.3 Promote education, creativity, and the arts.
SEC 1.4 Develop or support programs and strategies to:
a. be responsive to economic and human rights, especially the rights of the poor and marginalized,
b. reduce poverty and homelessness in Olympia,
c. establish a local definition for living wage levels,
d. encourage jobs that provide a living wage, and
e. monitor how effectively the local economy is producing living wage jobs.
SEC 1.5 Develop or support programs and strategies to keep existing housing affordable, to promote new affordable housing, and to encourage
SEC 2.3 Promote the concept of buying from local businesses as a way to strengthen the local economy.
SEC 4.3 Use City procurement, service contracting, and other operational practices to support sustainability in manufacturing and other business activities and provide living-wage jobs that meet self-sufficiency standards.
SEC 5.2 Use regulatory incentives to encourage sustainable practices.

SEC 9.2 Base public infrastructure investments on:
a. Comprehensive Plan goals;
b. A determination that the public cost will be recovered through increased revenues derived from generated private investments, provided that the infrastructure is for a public purpose and does not constitute an invalid gift of public funds;

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“Cooperative development, healthy space for all members of Thurston County”

WCSC

Thurston County Basics

Sustainable Economic Development

Olympia Comprehensive Plan Goals

Sustainable Development

Financial Development

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Community Car Wash

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“Cooperative development, healthy space for all members of Thurston County”

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Thurston County Financial Development

WCSC completed a small business survey in 2000 which asked business owners if a financial entity whose mission was to lower your cost to live or your cost to do business would you invest?
93% of the hundreds of Thurston County business owners agreed that such a financial entity would be beneficial to the needs of all business owners.
The Thurston County Community Development Credit Union or the Cooperative Development Bank of Thurston County are proposed to help create a more prosperous community.

Please go to WCSC web page and fill out the Credit Union Survey
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National Consumer Cooperative Bank
The National Consumer Cooperative Bank (NCCB) was created and chartered by the National Consumer Cooperative Bank Act (92 Stat. 499, 12 U.S.C.A. 3001), enacted on August 20, 1978. The bank is directed by the act to encourage the development of new and existing cooperatives. The bank provides specialized credit and technical assistance to eligible cooperatives that provide goods, services, housing, and other facilities to their members as ultimate consumers. The bank is itself structured as a cooperative financial institution.

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“Cooperative development, healthy space for all members of Thurston County”

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In 2007, there were 27.2 million businesses in the United States. Census data show that there were 6 million firms with employees and 20.4 million without in 2005.
Picking a number somewhere in the middle the average small business owners spends approximately $1500 a month on insurance (liability and workmen's) using these numbers consider this if the 27 million small business firms in America took there insurance revenues and invested them in their own Cooperative Bank the first months revenue would be forty billion five hundred million. Utilizing fractional reserve banking would create an asset which could provide assurance coverage for all small business owners, their families, and workers.
Thurston County has approximately 16,000 business owners as of 2006 if each of us invested the average $1500 a month into our own Cooperative Bank to cover basic insurance needs utilizing fractional reserve banking this would provide the our community with a potential $240 million dollar asset which could be leveraged locally to provide startup funding for other community investment opportunities. This figure is just our insurance overhead, think about all the other expenses we small business owners incur each month.

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“Cooperative development, healthy space for all members of Thurston County”

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Thurston County Basics

Olympia Comprehensive Plan Goals

Sustainable Development

Financial Development

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A Hand Up Temporary Labor Company TLC

Most agree that a living wage means that a person would be providing for their financial, housing, insurance, personal, transportation, child and health care needs without subsidy.
At minimum wage with no other benefits workers would require assistance to cover the cost of these services if available.
The temp labor industry says it will gross over $100 billion this year in the US, fifty per cent of our nations workforce go to work daily as temp workers.
WCSC opened A Hand Up Temporary Labor Company TLC in Olympia in 2001 at that time there were 8 for profit labor halls in the Olympia area. Currently at the end of 2006 there are 12 for profit labor halls. The temp labor industry suggests that an average labor hall will generate over $1million annually. Temp labor halls profit from charging their customers $13-15 per hour while paying their workers minimum wage with no other benefits.
TLC mission is to lower the cost of living for TLC workers by providing advocacy, training, employment, a meal, a ride to work, and a higher wage.
TLC has moved into office space that will provide our workers with personal services which would include showers and laundry facilities.
By the Community Members of Thurston County supporting the utilization of one primarily temp labor hall operated as a not for profit funds would be available which are used provide direct benefit services
WCSC is committed to the concept of providing employee housing and community center where working people can be while waiting for jobs, training, or just enjoying the community.

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“Cooperative development, healthy space for all members of Thurston County”

WCSC

Thurston County Basics

Olympia Comprehensive Plan Goals

Sustainable Development

Financial Development

Cooperative Bank

TLC

Community Car Wash

Community Services

Transportation

Recycling Services

Community Delivery

A Hand Up Construction

CBDO General

Current Projects

Community Life Center

Community Service

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Community Car Wash
(Proposed)

WCSC supports the concept of a Community Based Car Wash whose mission would be to provide the community with a quality service while providing day labor for workers through TLC.
There are car wash facilities in Thurston County but none offer a hand wash. TLC would provide day labor to the members of the county who are in need of day work helps create opportunity for workers to help themselves.
The weather in Olympia is mild enough to provide these services on a daily basis, this service would fit the needs of many workers who are available daily for work where there are no current opportunities.
Proactive community based solutions which synergistically enhance work ethic, community, advocacy, employment, opportunity.
Monies raised through this community based business are administered through WCSC which help to fund holistic community services which provide training opportunities, employment, transportation, housing, child and health care.

Quote Olympia’s Comprehensive Plan

Cities can effectively collaborate with other public and private entities that have more direct roles in economic development, such as ports, business associations, and economic development associations. They can develop and maintain the community infrastructure needed for healthy businesses and neighborhoods.

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A Hand Up Community Services is a program of WCSC which would provide day labor positions operated through the TLC.
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Interior services

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There are a few car washes in Olympia none offer hand wash capabilities.
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Interior cleaning is available/
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Downtown Olympia valet services

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Parking in Olympia is one reason county residents argue for not shopping downtown. TLC have bondable licensed workers ready for provide the services.
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Competitive rates profits generated help TLC to provide benefits to workers.
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Small Business Vehicle Services Cooperative
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Many of the some 8000 small business owners in Thurston County are in need of vehicle services which are customer service oriented understanding the needs of small business owners who need it now and at a discount.
Triple A has been in service for many years; it does not however service the commercial needs of small business owners.
WCSC is proposing a Community Investment Organization which would provide Triple A type services to our small business community while providing the community at large with a apprenticeship opportunity working with our Community Colleges who provide Auto Tech degrees this program would allow for on the job training for students while providing the community with an efficient way to deal with a needed community service.

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Facility proposal suggestion would be the Old Lacey Fire Station. This community facility has been idle for many years with the support of these Community Investment Organizations like the Thurston County Credit Union these proposed projects would become a reality.

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Washington Cooperative Support Center

“Cooperative development, healthy space for all members of Thurston County”

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Thurston County Basics

Olympia Comprehensive Plan Goals

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Community Services

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Inventing Synergistic Sustainable Cooperative Community Programs

As more than 3 billion quart-size, high-density polyethylene motor-oil containers head for U.S. landfills each year. Each year, U.S. motorists use about 150,000 tons of HDPE containers, leaving the insidious waste in landfills. While many used plastic containers can be recycled, containers contaminated with motor oil pose special problems. Most recycling programs cannot accept emptied motor oil bottles.
Currently, in order to recycle used plastic containers with residual petroleum products, the containers usually must be cleaned first to remove the petroleum residue.
While developers have created techniques to separate plastic and oil, these methods are often too expensive and/or too energy intensive to implement on a production scale.
Using solvents to wash away the oil creates different waste products that are difficult to dispose of, Wu said.
Recycling partially cleaned oil containers for new oil bottle manufacturing has been one of the primary targets for the recovered HDPE plastic.
CAM is working on an initiative which would create recycling centers in Washington State for the reclamation of oil containers. This will create jobs in each county, while relieving our landfills of hazardous waste.

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Community Moving & Delivery Services
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Community Moving and Delivery Services is committed to providing competitive small moving and delivery services throughout the Thurston County area. The benefits of this not for profit company is three fold.
Provide needed efficient delivery and small move services
Provide a needed on the job training opportunity
Provide the local moving companies a safe, efficient, competitive, trained, labor force.
Fourteen years of experience in the Thurston County moving industry has indicated a need for an on time, efficient, skilled, equipped, courteous system of moving and delivery services. The great deal you made on a furniture purchase goes away when damage occurs.
Most major movers in the country hire from temporary labor halls of which there are twelve in the area. There is only one not for profit labor hall, TLC which provides to employers at no charge a full Washington State Patrol background check, training, a ride to work, a meal, personal services, and a higher wage. (5 panel drug screening is also available at cost.)
WCSC provides a in house training facility which allows workers the opportunity to learn skills needed to move furnishings and protect interiors. Student movers are trained in the use of traditional moving equipment and techniques which not only save the client money the employer is benefited by referral business and low damage and accident claims.
WCSC is asking the business and residential community to purchase service commitments for moving and delivery services. These service contracts provide the daily work which allows crews to develop skills while the larger need of community services such as advocacy, training, employment, a meal, a ride to work, and a higher wage through TLC. Future goals of TLC are to provide shower/laundry services to our workers at cost.

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Please go to www.WashingtonCSC.com to get quotes or arrange to for services or call 360-459-9765.

The development of this program is assisted by Bruce Palm who is President of WCSC and has donated many years of support the Thurston County area. Mr. Palm has owned and operated Affordable Moving Services which has been operating in the Thurston County area since 1992.
Since 1994 Mr. Palm has asked his clients that opted for load and unload services for a reference in writing and received a 95% referral rating on average since it implementation.

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Washington Cooperative Support Center

“Cooperative development, healthy space for all members of Thurston County”

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Thurston County Basics

A Hand Up Construction

Olympia Comprehensive Plan Goals

Sustainable Development

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Cooperative Bank

TLC

Community Car Wash

WCSC opened A Hand Up Construction in 2002 with a mission of building low cost community infrastructure training, and employment.
WCSC has been designated by HUD and the City of Olympia as a Community Based Development Organization CBDO. A Hand Up Construction has worked with the City of Olympia, Homes First a not for profit rehab contractor and South Puget Sound Habitat for Humanity.

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A Hand Up Construction has for the last year worked to develop land owned by WCSC. A Hand Up Construction is a partner with Habitat and the City of Olympia to install the utility work needed to build the 14 homes which are planned for the Fairview Project in North Olympia.

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To have a healthy environment for businesses and residents, communities should also regard as “infrastructure” their public investments in major quality of life features and amenities: schools, parks and recreation, air and water quality, arts and entertainment, and so on. Providing a high quality of life is the most effective tool for attracting and maintaining high quality job opportunities in the community. In other words, livability is the most powerful economic engine available.

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“Cooperative development, healthy space for all members of Thurston County”

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By Carol Wayman, NCCED
Background
The Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds are the largest and most flexible Federal funds available to cities, states, and community-based organizations. The purpose of CDBG is to improve communities by providing decent housing, a suitable living environment, and expanding economic opportunities, principally for persons with low and moderate incomes. Cities with more than 50,000 people and urban counties with more than 200,000 people automatically receive CDBG. These are called “entitlement jurisdictions.”
States also automatically get CDBG money to distribute to small towns and rural counties.
The amount of CDBG funds a local or state government gets is determined by a formula, which takes into account poverty, population, and housing conditions. Seventy percent of a jurisdiction’s total CDBG allocation has to benefit low- and moderate-income people.
CDBG funds can be used for a wide array of activities, such as:
• Housing activities:
− Rehabilitation (loans and grants to homeowners, landlords, nonprofits, and developers);
− New construction completed by community-based development organizations (CBDOs) within entitlement cities. (Through HUD’s States and Small Cities program, any neighborhood-based nonprofit organization that serves the development needs of a non-entitlement area is eligible to construct new housing.)1
− Down payment assistance and other first-time homebuyer activities;
− Lead-based paint detection and removal;
• Purchasing land and buildings;
• Constructing or rehabilitating public facilities such as shelters for the homeless and domestic violence victims;
• Increasing accessibility to persons who are elderly and disabled;
• Providing public services such as employment training, transportation, health care, and child care (public services are capped at 15 percent of a jurisdiction’s CDBG funds);
• Capacity building for nonprofits;
• Rehabilitating commercial or industrial buildings; or
• Extending loans or grants to businesses, including microenterprises.
To be eligible for CDBG funding, an activity must also meet one of the following three national objectives:
1. Benefit people with low- and moderate-incomes (at least 70 percent of the jurisdiction’s funds must be spent this way);
2. Aid in the prevention or elimination of slums and blight; or

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www.hud.gov/offices/cpd/economicdevelopment/programs/rhed/gateway/pdf/Guide_Section4.pdf

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Community Hand Car Wash (Proposed) Community

Community project providing day labor through The Hand Up Temporary Labor Company TLC.
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Fairview Project

Community Car Wash

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WCSC through A Hand Up Construction working in partnership with South Puget Sound Habitat for Humanity 2006.

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Not for profit temporary labor company providing the community with an alternative for hiring workers through a community based development organization.

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WCSC has been designated by HUD and the City of Olympia as a Community Based Development Organization CBDO whose mission is to build low cost community infrastructure such as low income housing and training.

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Group converting recycle bins is part of new cooperative August 11, 2003 BY SHARON MICHAEL THE OLYMPIAN OLYMPIA - The dozen or so men who had just finished lunch gathered around a picnic table Friday at Yauger Park in west Olympia as their supervisor, Stephanie Jekel, handed out attaboys for being ahead of schedule and laid out the afternoon's work. The men - some young, some middle-age - look pretty much like any city or county work crew, but they are employees of a 2-year-old nonprofit cooperative that operates a temporary labor company - TLC,

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Published December 27, 2006
BY SHARON MICHAEL THE OLYMPIAN OLYMPIA
Let voters decide fate of ordinance The city of Olympia's new sidewalk ordinance has drawn strong support and equally vocal criticism. There's nothing wrong with allowing Olympia voters to decide the fate of the new law.

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Olympia gains sidewalk ordinance
Matt Batcheldor, The Olympian the olympian After weeks of heated debate, the Olympia City Council quietly passed the controversial pedestrian interference ordinance Tuesday night at its last meeting of the year.

Many of the problems Olympians have been expressing concern over the last 6 years through Community Forums held around the community have been loitering, car camping, public nuisance, pan handling. Many of these issues could be alleviated with community space.

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WCSC supports the concept of a large community service center where the community is welcome to relax in a community space which would provide many services helping community members to find work, community resources, or just hang out.

Washington Cooperative Support Center

“Cooperative development, healthy space for all members of Thurston County”

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Related Links

This page is an archive of related links to sites which have detailed information which correlates to subjects WCSC is working to educate and inform our community of cooperative support opportunities which are possible with synergistic cooperative effort.

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Washington Cooperative Support Center
WCSC works to lower the cost of living or the cost of doing business for the community of Thurston County.
www.WashingtonCSC.com

Olympia Salvage is a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote environmental sustainability by diverting building materials from the waste stream. Our goal is to provide the South Puget Sound region with affordable services and alternatives to the consumption of our limited natural resources.
www.olympiasalvage.org/

The Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds are the largest and most flexible Federal funds available to cities, states, and community-based organizations. The purpose of CDBG is to improve communities by providing decent housing, a suitable living environment, and expanding economic opportunities, principally for persons with low and moderate incomes.
www.hud.gov/offices/cpd/economicdevelopment/programs/rhed/gateway/pdf/Guide_Section4.pdf
ommunity Development Block Grants

The City of Olympia
Our mission is to improve the quality of life and to enhance the spirit of the community through personalized services, citizen involvement, planning for the future, and a commitment to timely action.
www.ci.olympia.wa.us/citygovernment/

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Washington Cooperative Support Center

“Cooperative development, healthy space for all members of Thurston County”

WCSC

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Economic Backyard

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What is in your economic backyard? Most people agree that their so called economic backyard consists of financial resources, employment, transportation, housing, and child and health care. This is mission of WCSC to lower these costs while providing greater community benefits without taxes.

TLC

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Water Park

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CAM

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Cooperative Child Care

VISION STATEMENT Our vision for family child care is to promote the healthy growth and development of children and provide support for families by providing high quality, developmentally appropriate and flexible care, through a wide range of care options. An important part of this vision is for each child care provider to become an advocate for children and family issues that promote and enhance the well-being of the children and families we serve as well as foster the growth and development of the provider community through best practices concepts.
MISSION STATEMENT: To promote the healthy growth and development of children in family child care and the strengthening of their families and communities through:
Enhancing the quality of family child care
Communicating a positive image and information about the immense benefits of Family Child Care to the broad community (local, state, federal) through research, advocacy and effective marketing
Strengthening and expanding the family child care network — associations, individual providers — reflecting the rich diversity of cultures and ethnicities in California
Securing adequate funds and resources to achieve the goals of the California Association for Family Child Care
Developing leadership and advocacy skills by providing opportunities for education, training and exposure and identifying ways to be proactive rather than reactive.
Insuring that providers have adequate support by providing resources for information about regulations and legal support where appropriate
Incorporating a Family Child Care providers “code of ethics” into every aspect of our work
Coordinating with a broad range of community and social service agencies at all levels to support children and families

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Water Park

Shooters Coop

Health Care

Dog Lovers

Washington Cooperative Support Center

“Cooperative development, healthy space for all members of Thurston County”

WCSC

Thurston County Basics

Olympia Comprehensive Plan Goals

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Financial Development

Cooperative Bank

TLC

Community Car Wash

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Cooperative Small Business Support Center

Call Center Services

WCSC completed the Small Business Survey in 2000 it was found that over 70% of the small business persons called did not answer their phones.
In today's fast paced need to know now consumer society it is imperative to answer all your calls.
WCSC has the facility space and the infrastructure to provide these services by the small business community investing in ether the credit union or the cooperative bank this call center could be a reality.
TLC has qualified workers now ready to answer the call. This concept of a small business support center which would include a call center, copy center, audio visual center could help the small business community lower their costs while increasing their earnings positions.

Copy Services Center

How many times have you been out on an estimate or a call and found that you did not have the needed forms? You rush to the copy center and the lines are long and the cost.
WCSC has the space to provide the small business community with this resource. Having customer service staff which are paid to help.

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Working with the community business and residential the numbers alone would allow us to create a pre-paid legal opportunity whereby our rights and responsibilities would be protected. These services offered by multilevel marketing firms would offer better protection if funded directly from cooperative membership dues.

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Washington Cooperative Support Center

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WCSC

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Community Security Services (Proposed)

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The mission of WCSC is to lower the cost of living or the cost of doing business for our community members. WCSC works synergistically to provide services through its existing cooperative models, TLC, A Hand Up Construction can offer labor and basic installation of security equipment.
The Community Security Services Cooperative whereby two person patrols employed by TLC, would provide 24/7 security patrols in member neighborhoods funding provided by membership dues.

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Washington Cooperative Support Center

“Cooperative development, healthy space for all members of Thurston County”

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Water Park

Olympia Comprehensive Plan Goals

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TLC

Water park attendance in the US is on the increase with the average cost of admission around $40 per person that the almost 12 million visits in 2006 which was an increase of 2.5% industry wide.
Water parks are a lifestyle properties which are the largest demographic group. With the 335 million water park visits in 2006 creating a $11.5 billion in revenues.

Community Car Wash

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The Port of Olympia is struggling with ways to fund clean up operations for the Cascade Pole reclamation operations, thousands of gallons of tainted water are being pumped daily from ground water which is being treated and then sent to LOTT.

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Water Park

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Dog Lovers

Washington Cooperative Support Center

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Shooters Cooperative

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A Hand Up Construction

Last year in the country there was a revolution of interest I the shooting arts, memberships in clubs such as the NRA (National Rifle Association) and new purchases of guns show that there is a renewed interest in the sport and right for citizens to be armed.
Thurston County has no public shooting range, WCSC is working to initiate a shooters range with the help of the NRA at the port of Olympia.
The range would be constructed in part by A Hand Up Construction utilizing used shipping containers which can be assembled on site.
The goal of this community venture is to encourage education, training, and safe, gun ownership and develop a healthy interest in the shooting arts for youth programs and adults.

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Water Park

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Shooters Coop

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Dog Lovers

Washington Cooperative Support Center

“Cooperative development, healthy space for all members of Thurston County”

WCSC

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Health Care

Olympia Comprehensive Plan Goals

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WCSC is committed to saving our community time and money. Health care costs are escalating medical tourism is a reality. Why not develop a state of the art all inclusive health care resort as a funding source for a county wide urgent care sys ?

Cooperative Bank

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Outsourcing Your Heart - Elective Surgery in India? Medical Tourism is Booming
With no health insurance and lacking $60,000 for a badly needed operation, Steinard, a 59-year-old Floridian, hopped onto the Internet and then onto a plane to India ... 8,300 MILES LATER, IT'S FIXED ... found out that he was closer to a heart attack than he had imagined. Steinard had a double bypass last week in New Delhi … in the U.S. insurers negotiate discounts, but the uninsured pay retail rates for medical procedures.
India's, like its other outsourcing segments, is booming. Apollo Hospitals, one of the largest private chains in the world with 46 hospitals in three countries, and Wockhardt Hospitals Group, which has eight hospitals in India, are working through agencies like IndUShealth, PlanetHospital and The Medical Tourist Co. in Britain to build business across the West.
Time Magazine, 29 May 2006

For many medical tourists, though, the real attraction is price. The cost of surgery in India, Thailand or South Africa can be one-tenth of what it is in the United States or Western Europe, and sometimes even less. A heart-valve replacement that would cost $200,000 or more in the U.S., for example, goes for $10,000 in India--and that includes round-trip airfare and a brief vacation package. Similarly, a metal-free dental bridge worth $5,500 in the U.S. costs $500 in India, a knee replacement in Thailand with six days of physical therapy costs about one-fifth of what it would in the States, and Lasik eye surgery worth $3,700 in the U.S. is available in many other countries for only $730. Cosmetic surgery savings are even greater: A full facelift that would cost $20,000 in the U.S. runs about $1,250 in South Africa.

How is the medical tourism trend being tracked and what trends, if any, do gathered statistics show?
Ten years ago, medical tourism was hardly large enough to be noticed. Today, more than 250,000 patients per year visit Singapore alone--nearly half of them from the Middle East. This year, approximately half a million foreign patients will travel to India for medical care, whereas in 2002, the number was only 150,000.

Water Park

Shooters Coop

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Health Care

Dog Lovers

Washington Cooperative Support Center

“Cooperative development, healthy space for all members of Thurston County”

WCSC

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Olympia Comprehensive Plan Goals

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Financial Development

Cooperative Bank

TLC

Community Car Wash

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A Hand Up Construction

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Trails for Tails Program

Community Benefits

Child Care Coop

Business Services Coop

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Water Park

Shooters Coop

Cooperative Association of Dog Lovers of Thurston County

This association is dedicated to the safe, secure, healthy life of the canine population of Thurston County and their owners by creating financial support for programs which contribute to their health and well being.
One of the enjoyments of living with your friend is watching their experiences on their daily outings. Local parks have become less a place for friends to come and play. The cost for care along with the cost of living has skyrocketed.
It is estimated as high as 40,000 dog lovers in Thurston County. could provide the funding for land lease, insurance, veterinarian, and medication benefits.
Trails for tails program would create parks which are lease free to sociably respectful owners and friends which could produce other community benefits for the county park systems and their constituents with less stress on their facilities.
Help our members understand the financial benefits from financial cooperation.

Safe secure pathways for dogs and their friends.

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Olympia, Washington 98501

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Dog Lovers

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It poisons the blessing of liberty itself. It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is to-day, can guess what it will be to-morrow. Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be a rule, which is little known, and less fixed?

It poisons the blessing of liberty itself. It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is to-day, can guess what it will be to-morrow. Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be a rule, which is little known, and less fixed?

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