Five County News
2022-04-27 what the Five County AOG is about. | ||||||||||
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![]() 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.
![]() There are currently three open
positions at the Five County Association of Governments.
The Five County
Association of Governments, an equal opportunity employer, is looking for
a Weatherization Technician to join their Weatherization Program. The
Association is also looking for a Community Action Program Coordinator,
as well as a Community Action Intern.
Click HERE to go to our Human Resources page to view the complete job announcements and position descriptions, application deadlines, as well as specific instructions on how to apply, for these open positions.
![]() The FY2021 Audit Report is available for public review as a PDF scanned copy of by clicking on THIS LINK.
![]() 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)
![]() Click HERE to go to the HEAT Program web page. The
HEAT office in St. George
is 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 St. George location. The
office in Cedar City is loacted at 2069 N. Main Street, Suite
L103, Cedar City, Utah.
![]() 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.
![]() This update is being done through a grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). As has been the case with the current plan (that is being updated) FEMA completed a review of the current Plan and approved it in 2017. The current 5-year Plan is valid until early 2022. This new Plan update will become effective once completed, approved by FEMA and adopted by the jurisdictions in this region. The updated Plan, once adopted will be valid from early 2022 through 2027. If there are any questions on the Plan update, please contact Ms. Alyssa Gamble, Community Planner, at (435) 673-3548 ext. 117, or via e-mail to agamble@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.
To view the Directory, please visit the H.E.A.T. and Community Action website at this link: http://fivecountycap.wordpress.com
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![]() 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
![]() 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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