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Meeting: Five County AOG Steering Committee Meeting; 1:00 p.m.

Date: 03/14/2012

Location: Beaver Co. Admin. Building (Commission Chambers)

Address: 105 East Center Street; Beaver, UT

Meeting: Five County AOG Steering Committee Meeting; 1:00 p.m.

Date: 04/18/2012

Location: Parowan Public Library (Council Chambers)

Address: 16 South Main Street; Parowan, UT

Meeting: Five County AOG Steering Committee Meeting; 1:00 p.m.

Date: 05/09/2012

Location: Panguitch City Library (Council Chambers)

Address: 25 South 200 East; Panguitch, UT

Meeting: Five County AOG Steering Committee Meeting; 1:00 p.m.

Date: 06/13/2012

Location: Kane County Emergency Services Training Facility/Search & Rescue Building

Address: Search & Rescue Building; Kanab, UT

Meeting: Five County AOG Steering Committee Meeting; 1:00 p.m.

Date: 08/08/2012

Location: Panguitch City Library (Council Chambers)

Address: 25 South 200 East; Panguitch, UT

Meeting: Five County AOG Steering Committee Meeting; 1:00 p.m.

Date: 09/19/2012

Location: Beaver Co. Admin. Building (Commission Chambers)

Address: 105 East Center Street; Beaver

Meeting: Five County AOG Steering Committee Meeting; 1:00 p.m.

Date: 10/10/2012

Location: Heritage Center

Address: 105 North 100 East; Cedar City, UT

Meeting: Five County AOG Steering Committee Meeting; 1:00 p.m.

Date: 11/14/2012

Location: Five County AOG; Large Conference Room

Address: 1070 West 1600 South, Bldg. B; St. George, UT




• News

2012-02-16 other news and happenings at the Five County AOG.

EASTERN WASHINGTON COUNTY RURAL PLANNING ORGANIZATION MEETING    A meeting of the Eastern Washington County Rural Planning Organization's Rural Transportation Executive Council (RTEC) will be held on Thursday, February 23, 2012 at 1:30 pm. The meeting will be held at the Toquerville City Hall located at 212 N Toquer Blvd, Toquerville, Utah. This meeting is open to the public.        Click HERE to the view agenda for the meeting that is posted on the Utah Public Meeting Notice web site.  Draft "unapproved" minutes from the previous meeting are also provided at this same link.  CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT LIST PRIORITIZATION MEETINGS In response to a November 2, 2011 notification letter, the Community and Economic Development staff received back Capital Improvement Lists (CILs) packet from many counties, cities, towns and special service districts in the Five County region.  Data provided from the updated Capital Improvement Lists is incorporated by our staff into the Utah Permanent Community Impact Fund Board (CIB) prioritized project lists.  These documents are used for funding decisions by the Community Impact Fund Board. We will be holding a meeting in each county in late February and early March to prioritize the 1-Year CIB Project lists by consensus of the attendees. They will be held on the following dates and times:  Feb. 21, 11:00 a.m. Beaver County Administration Building (Commission Chambers); Feb. 21, 3:00 p.m. Cedar City & Brian Head Visitors Center (Conference Room); Feb. 28, 10:30 a.m. Kane County Courthouse (Commission Chambers); Feb. 28, 3:00 p.m. Panguitch City Library (City Council Chambers); Mar. 1, 2:00 p.m. Five County AOG Bldg. in Tonaquint Center, St. George (Conference Room). Notice of these meetings will be mailed to all eligible entities in the Five County AOG region.    For additional information (including the addresses and telephone number) to particpate in these scheduled meetings, please click on this LINK.       For information on the Capital Improvement Lists, and to view last years submitted lists and to print out blank copies, please click on this LINK.     LATEST EDITION OF ASSOCIATION'S NEWSLETTER PUBLISHED Every two months the Five County Association of Governments publishes a widely circulated and informative newsletter entitled "FIVE COUNTY NEWS FROM 'R' VIEW".  The latest edition was just published. The newsletter, in hardcopy form, is mailed via first class U.S. mail to county, city and town leaders and other individuals in our five county region, as well as to other regional, state and federal agencies.  You can also conveniently view the newsletter on this web site. Click HERE to go to the Association's newsletter page to view and/or download the latest edition of the newsletter.   (You can also view all past editions of the Association's newsletters on that same page).   KANE COUNTY GENERAL PLAN UPDATE COMPLETED The Community and Economic Development Division staff of the Five County Association of Governments has completed work with Kane County on an update of the Kane County General Plan which was created in 1998. A general plan provides for the health, safety and general welfare of both residents and visitors to Kane County.  A seperate WordPress-based web site has been created where the Plan Update process followed is explained and the adopted documents are presented.  Click HERE to go to the Kane County General Plan Update WordPress website.  Be sure to bookmark this Five County AOG home page as a "favorite" so you can easily return here.   CITY OF ST. GEORGE DOWN PAYMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM ** FUNDING FOR THIS PROGRAM HAS BEEN EXPENDED. ADDITIONAL FUNDING WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE JULY 1, 2012 ** St. George City has a Down Payment Assistance Program (DPAP) for first-time home buyers.  A zero interest loan can provide up to $6,000 toward down payment and closing costs and is available for homes located in St. George City. St. George City has elected to utilize Community & Economic Development division staff here at the Five County Association of Governments to administer this program for the City. Because funding for this program comes from Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funding received by St. George City, this program is only available for homes that are located within the St. George City limits. The most notable changes to the program from last year are: 1) the maximum DPAP lending amount has been reduced to $6,000, and 2) If the home is not sold or refinanced within 10 years then the loan becomes a grant and is forgiven. Funding for this program is made available each July and the program continues until all of the allocated funding is depleted.  Information about the Down Payment Assistance Program as well as an application is available to download/print (as PDF files):  Applicant Instructions  and  Application Form For additional information please contact:   Darren Janes, Community Planner, Five County Association of Governments,  at (435) 673-3548 (ext. # 117) or via e-mail: djanes@fivecounty.utah.gov As required by Utah Code the Five County Association of Governments publishes all of its public meetings on the "Utah Public Meeting Notice" (UPMN) web site.   You can search for our meetings by date or subject keyword.  To locate all of the meeting announcement postings published on the UPMN site by the Five County Association of Governments you can use this link and use the "Advanced Search" tab. You will need to type in the word five into the "Entity" box, highlight the "Five County Association of Governments" link that comes up, select a date range you want to view and then click on the "Submit" button. It will then show all upcoming meetings scheduled by the Five County AOG in the date range you selected. Alternatively, you can use this LINK, choose to Find a Notice, and select "Special Districts" for Government type, choose "Five County Association of Governments" for the Entity, and you will see the Public Body list with links to each of them. Shown above are only the most recent announcements and/or news. To view all of the other news and happenings, please click HERE or on the  'News/Events' link found on this or any of our web pages. You can also use the link provided directly below:

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2011-06-02 other news and events at the Five County AOG.

SR-9 ZION CANYON SCENIC BYWAY CORRIDOR MANAGEMENT PLAN COMPLETED The Five County Association of Governments' Community & Economic Development program staff recently worked with the communities of Springdale, Rockville, Virgin and LaVerkin on the development of a Scenic Byway Corridor Management Plan (CMP) for the portion of SR-9 from the Junction of SR-9 and SR-17 in LaVerkin and Zion National Park.  This specific portion of the State Route 9 corridor is called the 'Zion Scenic Byway' in the Corridor Management Plan document.  Following adoption by the four local communities and Washington County late last year and early in 2011, the Utah Legislature approved the Plan by passing SJR4 during their 2011 session. It should be noted that the entire state managed segments of SR-9 are already a State of Utah designated State Scenic Byway known as the 'Zion Park Scenic Byway'. We are holding monthly work meetings with a planning team made up of local, county, state and federal agency staff and/or officials.  The purpose of the Corridor Management Plan (CMP) is to identify, locate, and describe meaningful intrinsic values along the corridor.  The document is a locally developed general plan for a coordinated and collaborative approach to marketing the value added to the corridor communities by a scenic byway and provides a framework for later implementation efforts.  A locally developed CMP is also necessary in the event the local jurisdictions along the corridor and the state of Utah determine to apply to the National Scenic Byways program for designation as a national scenic byway.  It is anticpated that the Zion Canyon Corridor Council will submit and application for nomination of this segment of SR-9 for National Scenic Byway Status. Information on the CMP planning process is available on the Zion Canyon Corridor Management Plan Web Site. Be sure to bookmark the Five County AOG home page as a "favorite" so you can easily return here after visiting the zioncanyoncmp.org web site. To go directly to a new web site established for the Zion Canyon Corridor Management Plan please use this link:      www.zioncanyoncmp.org ASSOCIATION'S ANNUAL REPORT FOR 2010 PUBLISHED The Five County Association of Governments has just published its Annual Report for 2010. The Annual Report was presented to, and accepted by, the Association's Steering Committee at their meeting on October 13, 2010.  The report provides brief summaries of some of the principal achievements of the Association's programs and activities which took place during the period of July 1, 2009 through June 30, 2010.   The Annual Report is published as a service for the use and benefit of the elected officials in the five county region of southwest Utah; appointed boards and commissions; local, state and federal agencies; and the general public. Click HERE to go directly to our Annual Report page where you can view and/or download the new 2010 Annual Report document.   For historical purposes, Annual Reports from 2001 through 2009 are also available online on that same web page.  Earlier reports are archived at the Association office.   FIVE COUNTY AOG 2011 UPDATED REGIONAL HUD CONSOLIDATED PLAN AVAILABLE ONLINE The Five County Association of Government's HUD required Consolidated Plan documents the housing, community, economic development, homelessness and other special needs in southwestern Utah.  This regional Consolidated Plan is updated and amended annually by the Steering Committee of the Association.  Staff from the Community Development Program and Human Services Program of the Five County Association of Governments work to prepare the annual update for adoption by the Steering Committee. Please click HERE  for more information on the Consolidated Plan. AMENDED CIB CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS LISTS PUBLISHED A consolidated list of the anticipated capital needs for eligible entities is submitted each December to the Utah Permanent Community Impact Fund Board for each county area in this region. This list is produced as a cooperative venture of all the eligible entities within each county area and is coordinated by the Association's Regional Planning Program Planner, Gary Zabriskie. The lists include a short term (one year) and a medium term (year two through year five) component. The lists contain the following items: jurisdiction, summary description, project time frame, anticipated time of submission to the CIB, projected overall cost of project, anticipated funding sources, the individual applicants' priority for their own projects, as well as the county area priority for each project (on 1 year list only). Projects not identified on a county's or DCC's list, will not be funded by the CIB, unless they address a bona fide public safety or health emergency or for other compelling reasons. It should be noted that the 1 Year Capital Improvement Lists in Garfield, Iron, Kane and Washington County were amended in early 2011. Click HERE to go directly to the Regional Capital Improvements Planning page to find out more information on the CIB and you can view and/or download the 1 Year and 2-5 year lists.

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