Purpose

•    The core mission of the Utah Permanent Community Impact Fund Board (CIB) is to mitigate socio-economic impacts resulting from natural resource development on federal lands.
•    Through the proposed program the CIB will provide stability for continuous quality planning throughout rural Utah.
•    Provide funds for participating regional Associations of Governments (AOGs) to commit to full-time planners, whose time and responsibilities will be dedicated solely to the core mission and goals of the CIB.

Program Summary

•    The RPP will be flexible in its requirements to allow for the development and implementation of regional and local goals.
•    The CIB will provide funding through an annual, renewable, contract for a full-time planner dedicated to the RPP in each region.
•    The planner will assist communities in the region to address the impacts of natural resource development, including the cyclical nature of such development.

Goals

•    Commit full-time planners, who reports to the AOG, but whose time and responsibilities will be dedicated solely to the core mission and goals of the CIB.
•    Analyze the impacts of natural resource development.
•    Determine the needs of the communities impacted by such development.
•    Evaluate the communities’ assets and capacity to meet their needs.
•    Create capital improvements list for each county.
•    Provide technical assistance to communities to meet their planning needs.
•    Assist communities to prepare grant applications for planning and capital improvement needs to the CIB.
•    Outputs and programmatic activities will have a direct relationship to the efforts of the communities and CIB to mitigate the socio-economic impacts of natural resource development.
•    Establish a system, that is mutually responsive to the CIB and AOG, for furthering and evaluating the program outcomes.

Planners

•    Submit work product and quarterly reports to the CIB, updating progress on goals 1-9 above.
•    Coordinate planning activities that use CIB and other State funds.
•    Coordinate requests for State planning funds, including CDBG, Housing, Quality Growth and GOPB.
•    Provide planning services for communities by coordinating training, identifying funding sources, drafting requests for proposals, reviewing draft plans and ordinances, and advising, including attending public meetings – all with due consideration to the time and fiscal constraints of this program.
•    Attend training sessions and coordination meetings provided by CIB staff. (Initially contemplated to be in-person quarterly, but frequency and/or format may change.)
•    Respond to program evaluations and recommendations from CIB staff.

Work Description

•    Regional Planning Activities (Mandatory)
     o    Regional Capital Improvement List by County
Due April 1
     o    Vetting local requests for planning funds (Mandatory)
Due according to the PCIFB trimester application schedule
•    Local Planning and Technical Assistance Activities (Mandatory, but mix and level flexible based on local needs)
     o    Planning and Zoning, including General (Master) Plan
     o    TA/Grantsmanship (Particularly CIB requests)
     o    TA/Planning-consulting RFPs
     o    Planning Training
     o    Economic Planning
     o    Plan Coordination
     o    Other

Contacts

         Gary Zabriskie                    Nate Wiberg

  435-673-3548 Ext. 126                    435-673-3548 Ext. 105    
  gzabriskie@fivecounty.utah.gov    nwiberg@fivecounty.utah.gov