Economic Development Administration Program responsibilities:
- Eligibility Maintenance Activities:
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Maintain active board membership involvement.
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Supply the Economic Development Representative with timely information on plant closures, prospective plant closures and the number of employees affected.
- Economic Development Activities:
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Promote the Northeast Missouri (NEMO) Region as a conducive place for job development.
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Assist the communities of the NEMO Region in the formulation and implementation of programs intended to develop their available resources in order to enhance the local economy by providing new gainful and permanent employment for the unemployed and underemployed. Preserve and create jobs by assisting businesses and industry in the utilization of job development and training programs.
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Develop knowledge and working relationship with the personnel and programs of all pertinent federal, state and local agencies involved with economic development.
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Promote utilization of the Small Business Administration (SBA) 504 and 7 (a) loan programs as an economic development tool for the expansion of an existing business or the creation of a new business.
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Promote the formal business marketing program, which includes the updating, publishing and distributing of promotional literature detailing the community profiles of the region.
- Community Development Activities:
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Endeavor to make energy conservation an integral part of the economic development planning process and its resultant plans and programs.
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Provide assurance to EDA that environmental considerations will be incorporated into the work program consistent with the provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969.
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Develop and maintain a working knowledge of all federal, state and local programs for community and economic development and assist the local governments in the needed assistance.
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Assist communities in economic development efforts including infrastructure development.
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Involve citizens, businesses and the industrial community in the economic development planning of the area.
- Involvement in the Planning Process:
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Encourage business, industry and citizens involvement in every aspect of the economic development process from planning to implementation and maintenance.
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Disseminate pertinent economic development information.
