PUBLIC ADMINISTRATOR GENERATED INFORMATION ON ECONOMICDEVELOPEMENT INSTRUCTIONS: OPTION 3For this assignment option, you will interview 1 public administrator and review select publicsector generated data for a chosen community. With this option, you will integrate qualitative(interview information) and quantitative (statistical data on development status) to approximatethe typical approach to applied research and display the information you gain in an audioembedded PowerPoint to satisfy this portion of course requirements.It would be wise to interview someone from the same location as your Case Study Project. Thiswill give you a first-person perspective on some of the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, andthreats faced by community developers in this area. Note that you must interview an individualdirectly related with city management and/or economic development. If you choose to interviewan individual not directly related to these topics, you will have points deducted.The following list gives you some examples of job positions that your candidates may hold: Economic development council, Chamber of commerce, City manager, City council member, Director of economic development, or Mayor (or assistant/deputy mayor)

Before you begin interviewing the candidate, make sure that you have 10–15 questions plannedout that you want to ask.Sample Questions: How does the local planning process impact economic development? What are the strategic approaches you use to economic development? How do businesses impact the economic development of this community? How do the human resources in this community impact economic development? Once you have a strategic development plan, what are the steps for implementation? What are the challenges facing leaders of economic development? What are the economic strengths of your city/town/etc.? What are some of the weaknesses of your economic development plan in your city/town? What are the opportunities for economic development within your city/town?PADM 530Page 2 of 2 What threatens the potential for economic development within your city/town? What leadership traits are important for someone wanting to go into publicadministration/economic development?The interview can be conducted in person or through videoconferencing (with a tool like Skype).You are not required to provide an audio recording of the interview.Once you have completed the interview, you will develop a PowerPoint presentation thatsynthesizes the interview data with other sources of community data. You must include aminimum of 4 sources in addition to the public administrator interview source. A separatedocument listing all sources in current APA format must be submitted with the PowerPoint. ThePowerPoint presentation must include 12–15 slides. Your presentation must include a brief bio ofthe interviewee as well as the logistics of the interview (time, place, location, and anything elsethat will help the reader understand the setting).Use the attached instructions titled “Recording Audio in PowerPoint” to complete an audiorecording for each powerpoint slide. The total presentation time must range from 20– 30minutes.