Community Planning Assistance

CIB Regional Planning Program

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.

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.

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.

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.

Regional Planning Activities (Mandatory)
- Regional Capital Improvement List by County
  Due April 1
- 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)
- Planning and Zoning, including General (Master) Plan
- TA/Grantsmanship (Particularly CIB requests)
- TA/Planning-consulting RFPs
- Planning Training
- Economic Planning
- Plan Coordination
- Other