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education levels of those populations most in need of jobs. For San <br />Marcos, this means jobs that support person with high school education, <br />GED's and in some instances, community college or technical training. <br />These persons are evident in the workforce demographics and in need of <br />jobs paying minimum wage to moderate hourly wages. The City should <br />also continue to support agencies that provide workforce development <br />programs and continuing education courses to increase the educational <br />level and job skills of residents. The goal should be to increase the GED, <br />high school graduation, technical training, and college matriculation rates <br />among residents. This will help in the recruitment of industry such as "call <br />centers ", clerical and manufacturing jobs. Call centers and customer <br />service centers where employees are recruited to process sales or provide <br />customer service support for various industries, have become more and <br />more attracted to areas with similar demographics to that of San Marcos. <br />The combination of well developed and well situated industrial parks and <br />commercial parks available in San Marcos, government incentives for <br />relocation and the workforce to support their industries, have all become <br />incentives in recent years, and San Marcos is poised to continue and take <br />advantage given its assets as well. <br />The Aflac Insurance Company is a great example of a "call center <br />operation" that relocated to a smaller city, and is making a difference by <br />dramatically expanding employment in Columbus, Georgia for persons <br />from similar demographic groups to those most in need of jobs in San <br />Marcos. In 1998, Aflac opened its Computer Service Center housing 600 <br />employees. In 2001, the company opened its Corporate Ridge office, a <br />104 -acre development housing the company's claim processing and call <br />center operations. Aflac recently opened a new phase of the expansion in <br />2007, which added 90,000 square feet to the existing Paul S. Amos <br />Corporate Ridge campus building located in Columbus. The City of <br />Columbus provided an incentive package including tax abatement and <br />102 <br />