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| Meeting: Steering Committee Meeting 12:00 noon |
| Date: 01/10/2024 |
| Location: Festival Hall - Combined Rooms 5 & 6 |
| Address: 96 N. Main St., Cedar City, Utah 84720 |
| Meeting: Steering Committee Meeting 12:00 noon |
| Date: 03/13/2024 |
| Location: Festival Hall - Combined Rooms 5 & 6 |
| Address: 96 N. Main St., Cedar City, Utah 84720 |
| Meeting: Steering Committee Meeting 12:30 p.m. |
| Date: 04/24/2024 |
| Location: Festival Hall - Combined Rooms 5 & 6 |
| Address: 96 N. Main St., Cedar City, Utah 84720 |
| Meeting: Steering Committee Meeting 12:00 noon |
| Date: 06/12/2024 |
| Location: Festival Hall - Combined Rooms 5 & 6 |
| Address: 96 N. Main St., Cedar City, Utah 84720 |
| Meeting: Steering Committee Meeting 12:00 noon |
| Date: 08/21/2024 |
| Location: Festival Hall - Combined Rooms 5 & 6 |
| Address: 96 N. Main St., Cedar City, Utah 84720 |
| Meeting: Steering Committee Meeting 12:00 noon |
| Date: 10/09/2024 |
| Location: Festival Hall - Combined Rooms 5 & 6 |
| Address: 96 N. Main St., Cedar City, Utah 84720 |
| Meeting: Steering Committee Meeting 12:00 noon |
| Date: 11/13/2024 |
| Location: Festival Hall - Combined Rooms 5 & 6 |
| Address: 96 N. Main St., Cedar City, Utah 84720 |
| 2024-04-04 what the Five County AOG is about. | ||||||||||||
AT THE
FIVE COUNTY AOG
There is currently one open position
at the Five County Association of Governments.
The position
is for a HEAT Program
Office Support. If
you take pride in serving your community and would like to work for an organization
that contributes to the goal of self-reliance for low-income families, the
Office Support position in the HEAT Program is looking for you! Apply before 5:00 p.m. on Monday,
April 8, 2024.
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 this open position.
The Five County Association
of Governments' contributes to the 2024 Utah Annual Action
Plan assembled by the State of Utah’s Housing and Community
Development office, which reports on Community Development Block
Grant (CDBG) activities statewide.The Five County report for the 2024 Utah Annual Action Plan describes activities completed in the past year and offers the region an opportunity to review and update goals year to year. The progress made in the last year is complemented by an understanding of the expected funds for the upcoming fiscal year and a discussion of the projects to be rated and ranked in the coming year. For a much more detailed description of the Annual Action Plan process and to view the draft document, please use the link directly below: Click HERE to go to the Annual Action Plan webpage. Information on the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program is available at this LINK
The Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy
(CEDS) was prepared by FCAOG staff in conjunction with the CEDS
Strategy Committee and Steering Committee, through a capacity building
grant from the U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA).
The goal for this strategic plan is to provide guidance for regional
growth while promoting a coordinated approach towards region-wide
economic development objectives in Southwest Utah.The CEDS employs long-range planning processes in their development. This planning method allowed staff to consolidate information from a wide range of stakeholders and synthesize the findings into a comprehensive regional growth strategy. This consolidation also provides consistent and unified policy direction for regional economic development efforts. The Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy adheres to and satisfies all guidelines provided by both the U.S. Economic Development Administration and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The Steering Committee, the governing board of the Five County Association of Governments, approved the CEDS document at it's October 11, 2023 meeting. CLICK HERE to view and/or download the CEDS document.
Passenger rail service between Salt Lake
City and Las Vegas, with the possibility of extending that service into Cedar
City and Washington County, is being studied. There was a presentation made
to the Dixie Metropolitan Planning Organization's governing board, the Dixie
Transportation Executive Council, made by Mr. Bryan Thiot, Executive Director
of the Five County Association of Governments.Please click on THIS LINK to view/print that presentation (which was originally done as a PowerPoint presentation). This is a PDF version of the presentation.
In 2022, the State of Utah embarked on a strategic
planning process to create a Coordinated Action Plan for Economic
Vision 2030.The purpose of this Statewide Plan is to unify the goals and direction of State government with those of seven regions in the State of Utah. This involves, among other things, aligning each region’s existing Comprehensive Economic Development Strategies (CEDS) developed by each of the state’s Association of Governments (AOGs). The overarching objectives are to optimize growth and expand prosperity throughout all counties. The unified approach to economic development requires the State and regional interests to work together in harmony to advance mutual goals. The Coordinated Action Plan for Economic Vision 2030 document can be viewed/downloaded by clicking on this LINK.
The Five County Association of Governments (FCAOG)
is a regional organization serving the Utah counties of Beaver,
Garfield, Kane, Iron and Washington. The FCAOG also serves
as the regional economic development district as a planning partner
with the U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA).
Working regionally the AOG develops and maintains a regional Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS). The goals, objectives, and strategies identified in the comprehensive strategic plan, support the economic development goals of the region, as well as those of the counties and communities that comprise the region. To further its strategic goals the AOG developed an agreement and partnered with the Western Rural Development Center (WRDC) to implement an Area Sector Analysis Process (ASAP) for its five member counties and produce a final summary regional report. The May 2023 Area Sector Analysis Process (ASAP) is an economic development tool that identifies the most desirable and compatible industries for a single community. To View/Print the ASAP Report please click on this LINK
Each year the Five County Association
of Governments has an independent
audit of our organization conducted by a qualified
public auditing firm. The FY2023 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, which
they did at their meeting on November 8, 2023.
The FY2023 Audit Report
is available for public review as a PDF
scanned copy of by clicking on THIS LINK.
The Utah Counties
Indemnity Pool (UCIP) is our Association's
"insurer". A Fraud Tip Hotline
has been established by UCIP, in cooperation
with Lighthouse Services, LLC. This service
has been set up for UCIP members, such as the Five
County Association of Governments, in order
to provide their staff and citizens with easy access
to report fraud, and keep government open and honest.Fraud tips can be submitted four ways: Website: www.lighthouse-services.com/uciputah (available in English or Spanish) Toll-Free Telephone: • English – (877) 410-0007 • Spanish – (800) 216-1288 E-mail: reports@lighthouse-services.com (must include our Association's name with report) Fax: (215) 689-3885 (must include our Association's name with report)
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.
A updated regional
Multi-jurisdictional Natural Hazard Pre-disaster
Mitigation Plan was developed by the Five County
Association of Governments' staff
in collaboration with all of the cities and
towns, the five counties in this region, as well as the
Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah. The Plan update includes information
regarding the type, location and extent
potential and regularly occurring hazards
in the Five County area and also includes information
on previous occurrences of hazard events
and the likelihood of a future natural hazard events.
This update was done through a grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Once adopted as a "guidance document" by each entity, the 5-year plan will be valid for that entity until 2027. If there are any questions on the Plan update, please contact Mr. Nate Wiberg, Senior 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 Five County Association
of Governments
has a microloan fund. The purpose of this fund
is to create permanent, long-term jobs
within the southwestern region of Utah by
providing needed financing to qualified businesses
for eligible activities. Loans
made through the fund are intended to help when
commercial financing proves unreachable. Funds
loaned at interest 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 Southwest Utah Microloan Program, established by the Five County Association of Governments, focuses on loans of $50,000 or less with most being $25,000 or less. The importance of these loans lies in their ability to offset the difficulty that businesses experience in receiving traditional bank financing. To
find out more about the loan fund, please
contact Gary 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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