Keeping jobs close to home full-time effort for Cody

LONGMONT — What Longmont needs now is jobs – primary jobs.

And that partly is what attracted John Cody to his job as president and chief executive officer of the Longmont Area Economic Council. Primary companies are the economic engine, Cody explains. Primary companies can provide much for a city’s economic base because the companies sell their products and services outside of the region and, therefore, have a larger set of consumers. Longmont is home to about 1,400 primary jobs and 200 primary companies, such as Seagate Technologies, Longmont Foods and Amgen Inc.

Cody is proud of that.

“It means less…