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Each June the Five County Association of Governments prepares final budget
revisions for the current fiscal year. It also prepares a draft budget for
the upcoming fiscal year. Copies of the Proposed FY2024 Budget,
and FY2023 Final Budget Revisions, are available here on this webpage for
public review (see directly below), or can be viewed in person during regular
business hours (9am to 5pm MDT M-F) at the Five County Association of Governments
Office, located at 1070 West 1600 South, Building B, St. George, UT.
Click HERE
to view the Final Budget
Revisions for FY2023 that ends June 30, 2023. (note: this is a PDF file)
Click HERE to view the Beginning FY2024 Budget (for the
period July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2024). (note: this is a PDF file)
The Five County Association of Governments,
the governing body of the Association, will hold a public hearing on the
Final Budget Revisions for the FY2023 Budget (for the period July 1, 2022
through June 30, 2023). The Steering Committee will also hold a public hearing the Proposed Budget for FY2024 (for the
period July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2024). These two hearings will be held on
Wednesday, June 14, 2023 during the Five County Association of Governments'
Steering Committee meeting which begins at 1:30 p.m. The two
public hearings will be held at Festival Hall in Combined Rooms 5 &
6; 96 N. Main Street; Cedar City, Utah.
Copies of the Proposed FY2024 Budget, and FY2023 Final Budget Revisions, are available here on this webpage for public review (see below) or can be viewed in person during regular business hours (9am to 5pm MDT M-F) at the Five County Association of Governments Office, located at 1070 West 1600 South, Building B, St. George, UT. The Public Hearing Notice for these two hearings was published in The Spectrum & Daily News Newspaper on both Monday, June 5 and Tuesday, June 6, 2023 (LINK TO LEGAL AD) (note: this is a PDF file). The notice is also posted on the Utah Public Meeting Notice website (UPMN LINK) as a public hearing. NOTE: The Budgets are available directly below: Click HERE
to view the Final Budget
Revisions for FY2023 that ends June 30, 2023. (note: this is a PDF file)
Click HERE to view the Beginning FY2024 Budget (for the
period July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2024). (note: this is a PDF file)
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.
General Notice:Five County Association of Governments, (Owner) is requesting Bids for the remodel of, and freestanding addition to, the Five County Association of Governments Office Building in St. George, and other related site work. Bids for the project will be received at the office of the Five County Association of Governments located at 1070 West 1600 South, Building B, St. George, Utah until 3:30 pm MDT on Tuesday, June 6, 2023. At that time, the Bids received will be publicly opened and read. Obtaining Bidding Documents: Information
and Bidding Documents for the Project can be found at the following designated
website: www.fivecounty.utah.gov (You are here! SEE THE YELLOW BOX BELOW).
The designated website will be updated with addenda, plan holders list, reports,
and other information relevant to submitting a Bid for the Project.
The Issuing Office
for the Bidding Documents is: Campbell Architecture, 46 North 200 East, St.
George, Utah 84770. Submit all questions regarding the bid documents to Kim
Campbell at kim.c@campbelldesign.us
Pre-bid
Conference:
A pre-bid conference for the Project was held on Tuesday, May 16, 2023 at 3:30 pm MDT at the project site. Attendance at the pre-bid conference was mandatory. Instructions to Bidders: For further requirements regarding bid submittal, qualifications, procedures, and contract award, refer to the Instructions to Bidders that are included in the Bidding Documents. The Owner may reject any or all bids submitted. Issued by: Owner: Five County
Association of Governments, By: Gary Zabriskie, Deputy Director; Date:
May 12, 2023
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
There is currently one open position
at the Five County Association of Governments as a Early Childhood Specialist.
Are you a
fun, energetic, outgoing individual who enjoys working with children? Are
you interested in helping local childcare providers enhance their business
and learn the best science-based practices for teaching and caring for children?
Apply today! The Five County AOG is an equal opportunity employer, currently
looking for the right person to join our dynamic team as an Early Childhood
Specialist.
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 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.
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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