Tahoe Prosperity Center CEO receives Citizen of the Year Award

South Lake Tahoe resident, and Tahoe Prosperity Center DEO Heidi Hill Drum was awarded Citizen of the Year by the North Lake Tahoe Resort Association, Chamber, Convention and Visitors Bureau.

Hill was given the honor during the 63rd annual Community Awards Banquet on April 6.

“I was very surprised and I am grateful to be recognized, but I am just the messenger," Heidi noted at the ceremony accepting the award. "Our dedicated Board of Directors and staff are just as deserving of the honor recognizing the importance of our work in the region.”

This annual celebration is an opportunity for the north shore of Lake Tahoe to recognize leaders in the community with awards for employees, best new business, business of the year and local government entities.

The Tahoe Prosperity Center is a small organization incorporated after the Tahoe Prosperity Plan was completed at the end of 2010, but in that short time has become focused on its core mission – to strengthen regional prosperity. It ensures good data is used in decision making, works to improve our communities and quality of life for residents and is helping to expand infrastructure improvements needed in today’s digital economy. For more information visit: www.tahoeprosperity.org

The Center's current projects include:

Connected Tahoe
The Tahoe Prosperity Center is expanding high-speed internet and cell phone coverage in the region through a variety of collaborative projects. Every resident should have access to affordable broadband.

Workforce Tahoe
TPC is helping regional businesses find the workers they need, working with schools to provide training for that workforce, and ensuring residents have access to good jobs and the housing needed to live and work here in Tahoe.

Measuring for Prosperity (Community and Economic Indicators for the Lake Tahoe Basin)
The Measuring for Prosperity Report is the only compilation of economic and community demographic data for the Tahoe region. It ensures facts are used to make policy decisions in the region.

AlertTahoe
TPC is working with the University of Nevada, Reno, Seismological Laboratory (UNR) in a public-private partnership to ensure fire cameras are placed in strategic locations around the Lake Tahoe Basin. These cameras have a 24/7 view of the forests and ensure rapid detection and response to wildfires to protect our communities from fire.