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There are currently two open positions
at the Five County Association of Governments..
POSITION
ONE: The Five County Association of Governments, an equal opportunity
employer, is looking for an SSW Case Manager. in the Association's Aging
division. SSW Case Manager performs a variety of professional duties related
to the administration of the New Choices Waiver, Alternatives, and Caregiver
Support Programs. This includes, but is not limited to, intake, screening,
eligibility, assessment, care plan development, service coordination and
maintenance of client files. Services are provided in a community setting,which
may include client’s home, home of a loved one or caregiver, assisted living
facility or other community setting. The position will also assist with
information and referral, outreach, community events and training. This position will remain open until
it is filled.
POSITION TWO: The Five County Association of Governments is looking for an Long Term Care Ombudsman- AGING. Are you looking for a part time position which offers a flexible work schedule, weekends, and holidays off, paid vacation and sick leave and an employer paid retirement plan? Do you like the ability to interact with the public but not have to sit behind a desk all day? Do you enjoy helping others and working with the elderly and disabled? Then the Long-Term Care Ombudsman may be the perfect job for you? This position will remain open until it is 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 this open position.
Each year the Five County Association
of Governments has an independent audit
of our organization conducted by a qualified public
auditing firm. The FY2022 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 December 29,
2022. The FY2022 Audit Report is available for public review as a PDF scanned copy of by clicking on THIS LINK.
This Report
document is the Five County Association of Governments'
contribution to the 2022 Utah Annual Action Plan assembled
by the State of Utah’s Housing and Community Development office,
which reports on Community Development Block Grant activities
statewide.The Five County Report for the 2022 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 final document, please use the link directly below. The public was given an opportunity to comment on the draft document and participate in a public hearing. The final draft Report document was presented to the Five County AOG Steering Committee at their meeting on March 9, 2022, and they approved the Report Document. Click HERE to go to the Annual Action Plan webpage.
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 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 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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