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| Meeting: Five County AOG Steering Committee; 1:30 p.m. |
| Date: 10/10/2018 |
| Location: Heritage Center; Combined Rooms # 5 & 6 |
| Address: 105 North 100 East; Cedar City, UT |
| Meeting: Five County AOG Steering Committee; 1:30 p.m. |
| Date: 11/14/2018 |
| Location: Five County Association of Governments Tonaquint Center Office Building |
| Address: 1070 W. 1600 South; Building B; St. George, UT |
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The Five County Association of Governments
currently has an open position for a Home
Energy Assistance Program Intake Worker (Garfield County). Looking
for a seasonal job to earn extra money? Interested in helping people in your
community? Then consider joining the Home Energy Assistance Target (HEAT)
Program team in Garfield County! The HEAT team provides winter home-heating
assistance to eligible low-income households throughout Utah. This program
is part of the Five County Association of Governments. This position will
focus on needs in Garfield County. A completed application
for this position must be completed. NOTE: This position will remain
open until filled.
Click HERE to go to our Human Resources page to view the
complete job announcement and position description, as well as specific instructions
on how to apply, for each position. The required Employment Application needs
to be downloaded from that page. You can also contact our Huuman Resources
Director (her contact info is on that page) for additional information.
The Home Energy Assistance Target program, known as H.E.A.T., is a federally-funded
energy assistance program. The goal of the program is to assist eligible
individuals and families meet the higher costs of energy during the winter
and summer. The program typically runs from November 1 through September
30. The Five County HEAT Program office in St. George provides assistance
throughout the year (heating and cooling) for eligible clients in eligible
areas. Because H.E.A.T. provides assistance ONCE every program season, it
is important that families and individuals do all they can to keep their
utility bills current and to conserve energy.Click HERE to go to the HEAT Program web page. The
HEAT office in St. George has relocated to a brand new location. It is now
located at 1664 South Dixie Drive, Unit L-104. It is located in the same
building unit as, and in between of, Sienna Pharmacy and the Park Law Firm.
Click HERE for a Map to
the "new" location
A provision from the tax cut legislation
passed by by Congress in 2017 may have positive economic impacts in southwestern
Utah, with investors incentivized to develop businesses in some of the area’s
lowest-income neighborhoods. Large swaths of Washington, Iron, Beaver
and Garfield counties are among the places across Utah identified this summer
as federally-recognized “Opportunity Zones”
— areas designated where investors can avoid some taxes in exchange for funding
new development.
The hope is that development creates jobs, reduces poverty and sets the groundwork for further economic growth in areas largely being left behind by the state's overall job growth. This region, including even fast-growing Washington County, still ranks overall as a distressed regional economy, based on federal guidelines, thanks to low wages and a limited mix of businesses. Click HERE to go to view a PDF map of this region's Opportunity Zone areas. Click HERE to go to a web page with an interactive map of the nation that you can view all Opportunity Zones.
Each year the Five County Association of Governments has an independent audit
of our organization conducted by a qualified public auditing firm.
The FY2018 Audit was completed by the Certified Public Accounting firm of
Hafen-Buckner of St. George City, Utah and the report was presented to our
governing body, the Steering Committee, for acceptance. The FY2018 Audit Report is available for public review as a PDF scanned copy of by clicking on THIS LINK.
A regional Multi-jurisdictional
Natural Hazard Mitigation Plan was developed by the Five County Association
of Governments' staff in collaboration with all of the cities and the five
counties, and almost all of the towns in this region. The Plan contains information
regarding the type, location and extent of eight regularly occurring hazards
in the Five County area and includes information on previous occurrences of
hazard events and the likelihood of a future hazard event. The natural hazards
identified in this plan are: wildfire, flood, landslide, drought, severe
weather, problem soils, earthquake and radon gas.FEMA completed a review of the Plan and approved the Plan. The 5-year Plan will be valid until early 2022. All jurisdictions who participated in the development of the Plan formally adopted the Plan by resolution. If there are any questions on the Plan and its adoption by your jurisdiction, contact Nate Wiberg, Five County Community Planner, at (435) 673-3548 ext. 105, or via e-mail to nwiberg@fivecounty.utah.gov Click on this link: https://hazardmitigationplan.org to go to the special web site developed to present the Plan to the cities, towns, counties and the public.
The popular Community Services
Resource Directory for southwestern Utah is available. The Directory, published
with Community Services Block Grant funding, is distributed through the Community
Action Partnership of the Five County Association of Governments. While the
Directory is targeted primarily to the under served population, many services
apply to all levels of income and need. The Directory is available to view
online or may be purchased. To view the Directory, please visit the H.E.A.T. and Community Action website at this link: http://fivecountycap.wordpress.com
The updated Comprehensive
Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) document for the Five County Association
of Governments economic development region was submitted to U.S. Department of Commerce, Economic Development Administration
Denver Region and was approved by that federal agency. For more information on the CEDS document,
please contact Bryan Thiriot, Executive Director, Five County Association
of Governments, via e-mail: bthiriot@fivecounty.utah.gov
or by telephone: (435) 673-3548.
The Five County Association of Governments
has a Revolving Loan Fund. The purpose of the Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) is
to create permanent, long-term jobs within the southwestern region of Utah
by providing gap financing to qualified businesses for eligible activities.
Loans made through the Revolving Loan Fund are intended to help bridge the
gap created by shortfalls in commercial financing. Funds are repaid into
the program and recycled to other businesses, thus allowing an on-going job
creation program. Funds are available in Beaver, Garfield, Iron, Kane and
Washington County, Utah.
The Five County Microloan Program focuses on loans of $50,000 or less. The importance of these loans lies in their ability to offset the difficulty that businesses experience in receiving traditional bank financing. If a business loan candidate needs more than $50,000 they are encouraged to apply through the regular Five County Revolving Loan Fund which can provide gap financing in conjunction with a primary commercial lender. In most circumstances we can fund up to 50% of an eligible business capital need with up to approximately $200,000 of RLF fund participation. To
find out more about these two loan funds, please contact Garz Zabriskie,
Director of Community and Economic Development at: gzabriskie@fivecounty.utah.gov , or
phone (435) 673-3548 ext. 126
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 "Associations of Governments" 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.
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