In a few weeks Progress Through Business plans to offer the City of Madison the SelectAbilities platform. SelectAbilities.com was developed to create a network where local economies could grow by enabling neighbors to hire other neighbors, local entrepreneurs , or local businesses; thereby keeping the money local and reinvesting back into their community. However, SelectAbilities has not yet been able to offer this network to communities due to the lack of traffic, and profiles created. Therefore Progress Through Business would like to offer the SelectAbilities platform to the City of Madison to do with it as they see fit. Some of the potential benefits to the City of Madison are listed below:

> Social Networking is the wave of the future, and this could be a way for Madison to be ahead of the curve

> Free service to offer the tax payers, and great way to gain some positive publicity

> Create jobs

> Enable niche businesses to grow / exist in Madison (such as dog walking)

> Bring in additional revenue to the City of Madison in the way of new business filing fees, taxes, etc.

For additional information about SelectAbilities, see www.selectabilities.com