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RFP: Update to Economic Development Strategy; Union County – Marysville
UNION COUNTY - MARYSVILLE, OHIO Request for Proposals: Update to Economic Development Strategy RFP Summary The Union County Community Improvement Corporation has issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) for an updated Economic Development Strategy (EDS) for Union County...
Bookkeeper & Office Manager (Part Time)
HURON COUNTY GROWTH PARTNERSHIP Bookkeeper & Office Manager (Part Time) Position Summary Huron County Growth Partnership (HCGP) is hiring a part-time Bookkeeper & Office Manager to manage financial records and support daily office operations. This position is...
Housing: An Overlooked Solution Puzzle Piece
The word is out Central Ohio is a wonderful place to live and work. While job opportunities are prevalent, the housing market is a challenge. The headlines are focused on new builds and further directed at greenspace and farmland depletion, zoning, density, affordability, transportation, congestion, the impact on schools, and concerns about community identity. New builds are vital, but the housing puzzle has an overlooked solution piece with abandoned and underutilized property.
Parting Thoughts with Mayor Maggard: Community Building
Parting Thoughts with City of Whitehall Mayor Kim Maggard: A Blog highlighting reflections, takeaways and future plans!
Noble Business Park Wins Community Development Society Award
The East of I-77 Business Park project has been recognized with an international award from the Community Development Society (CDS).
Kenworth Celebrates 100 Years
Fifteen percent of all Class-8 trucks on America’s highways are Kenworth Trucks – and 90% of them are built in Chillicothe, Ohio.
RFP: Strategic Wireless Infrastructure Management and Deployment
Eastgate is issuing this Request for Proposal (“RFP”) for strategic broadband network engineering and deployment to improve broadband access for education, job creation, healthcare, and more in the Target Townships of Mahoning County (collectively the “ConnectMahoning Project”). It is Eastgate’s intent through this RFP for a third-party provider to expand Broadband Infrastructure, as hereinafter defined, to benefit the Target Townships’ residents, businesses, community institutions, government, and overall economic development, and catalyze local innovation.
Legislative Update August 2022 — General Assembly on recess
What just happened? The latest episode of the Manchin Diaries, guest starring Krysten Sinema doesn’t disappoint. On Tuesday, Aug. 16, President Biden signed into law this country’s largest-ever climate change action in response to the “the carbon dioxide problem,” as first described in 1969 by the Nixon Administration.
Federal Updates
CHIPS Act’s subsidies for semi-conductor manufacturing steps into the batting circle, now with a bigger bat. Is it the next batter-up in Congress? With Sen. Manchin’s (D – West Va.) death blow dealt to the Biden Administration’s climate change legislation in the U.S. Senate, the blockade of the pending CHIPS Act imposed by the Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R – Kentucky) appears to have been removed. On Tuesday, July 19, the Senate held a test vote (64-34) to move forward with the semi-conductor manufacturing subsidy measure that had stalled previously in Congress, and now with a bigger impact.
Ohio General Assembly Updates
HB 377 LOCAL FISCAL RECOVERY (Hall, T., Swearingen, D.) Introduced on July 15, 2021, this bill seeks to amend just-enacted HB 168 to appropriate the entirety of the U.S. Treasury’s allocation of Local Fiscal Recovery Funds ($844MM) to nonentitlement units of local government (NEUs), to be distributed by Ohio OBM.
Tracked House Bills – June 2022
Federal News:
Thoughts on the ban of Russian oil’s impact on global energy supply and demand: The European Union’s pending embargo on Russian oil imports (save for pipeline-supplied oil to Hungary and other counties) may re-order the entire globe’s long-held status quo in the supply of energy.
Tracked Senate Bills – June 2022
State News:
State’s Appalachian region to receive $500MM in funding for transformational projects: Inserted into HB 377’s appropriations of the 2nd tranche of ARPA funding from the U.S. Treasury to nonentitlement units of local government (i.e., smaller municipalities, villages, and townships), the General Assembly appropriated an additional $500MM of the State’s ARPA funds to bolster “transformational projects” with “region-wide impact” in Ohio’s 32 Appalachian counties.
2020 Ohio Basic Economic Development Course
Save the date for the 2018 Ohio Basic Economic Development Course! The four-day course will be held April 10-13, 2018 at the Columbus Marriott Northwest, 5605 Blazer Parkway, Dublin, OH 43017. The Ohio Basic Course is an intensive training experience for economic development practitioners, community leaders, local government officials and others committed to building healthy economies for their communities.
Northeast Ohio Development Exchange Holiday Event
Catch up with your colleagues and meet new ones at a year-end NODE special holiday lunch at Root Candles in Medina. You’ll enjoy a lunch with a historical overview from President Brad Root before we get a factory tour. And just in time for the holidays, we’ll visit the factory store for your gift-buying needs. There will also be some holiday surprises!