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HomeMy WebLinkAboutresolution.council.001-77 BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS RESOLUTION #77- 45 ASPEN CITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION NO. 1 (Series of 1977) WHEREAS, Pitkin County has been offered designation as an economic redevelopment area by the Economic Development Administra- tion, and WHEREAS, an Overall Economic Development Program (OEDP) is one of the prerequisites for official designation of the County as a redevelopment area, and WHEREAS, an OEDP Committee which is representative of local economic interests is required to undertake the primary role in preparing and approving an OEDP document which examines the problems, needs and resources of the County and sets forth the goals of the* development program, together with the prioritized strategies devised to achieve these goals. NOW, THEREFORE, it is agreed as follows : 1. The City and County hereby establish an OEDP Committee which will be representative of the economic interests of Pitkin County and which will submit an OEDP document to the Board of County Commissioners for their approval no later than June 13 , -1977. -2- 2 . The OEDP Committee will consist of the following individuals representing the various economic interests of Pitkin County: Judy Dysart Labor State Employment Service Tom Richardson Ski industry Aspen Skiing Corporation Edgar Stanton Cultural Music Associates Andrew Hecht Business Aspen Chamber of Commerce Tom Blake Snowmass Snowmass Resort Association Tom Bell Federal Lands National Forest Service George Stranahan Agriculture Local Rancher Bob Child County Government Elected County Commissioner Stacy Standley City. Government Elected Mayor & Business Nina Johnston Citizen at Large Elected City Council & County Representative Lee Kuhre Industry/Mining Anshutz Coal Mining Co. Also, any City or County elected official may serve as a full voting member at any or all of the OEDP Committee Meetings. APPROVED by the Aspen City Council and Board of County Commissioners of Pitkin County this 28th day of March, 1977. PITKIN COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ATTEST: By: Juli H ne Michael Kinsley County Clerk Chairman APPROVED AS TO FOR14: Sandra M. Stuller County Attorney -3- ASPEN CITY COUNCIL ATTEST: Kathryn S. aut r By: City Cler Stacy S ndley Mayor � Nnll 111 YY1 f,,I V111 OnA110 110"I INCA r7V1 nNMI NI`„tC) , / Holiday Center t3ui rlinq - Suite 200 /� 1 s R O. X 73 7 ��_((( a FRISCO, COWIADO 00443 (303) 4111 5445 -- DATE: 10/4/77 TO: Name: City of Aspen AGLE COUNTY Title: Mayor •A!tAI I Agency: Aspen, Colorado 81611 1 AGt-c r,a F'S I r,1 r lrATtMN FROM: George Smith, A-95 Coordinator Regional Clearinghouse: NWCCOG R1 DCI IF-1= VAIL SUBJECT: Notice of Intent to Review Applicnnt: STATE OF COLORADO/DEPARTMENT OF LOCAL AFFAIRS Project: Section 302 (a) Economic Development Planning Program State Identifying V :77-320000-014 !RAND COUNTY rHASER A copy of the Notice of Intent to apply for financial assistance for the ,RANRY ,RANPIAKE above project is enclosed for your review and comment, in accordance with IIOT WA IN IIR sI ONCS the Intergovernmental Review Requirements. Your review should focus es- KREMMtING pecially on the intended apptication's compatibility with the plans, pro- grams and objectives of your agency. Please fill in the appropriate spaces below to indicate whether or not your agency has an interest in this project. Space is provided for addi- IACKSON COUNTY tional comments. An additional sheet may be attached if more space is WALDF N needed. Staff of the Regional Clearinghouse named above are responsible for coordi- nating this project and are ready to answer any questions you may have or to render assistance in conferring with the applicant. PLEASE RETURN THIS ATKIN COUNTY SHEET ONLY TO THE ABOVE ADDRESS` PLEASE KEEP THE ATTACHED FOR YOUR FILES. ASPEN --- ( ) This agency does not have an interest in the above project and does not wish to comment. ( ) This agency has further interest, in and/or questions concerning the above project and wishes to confer with the applicant. QOUTT COUNTY I IAYDF'N oAKCREEK This agency is interested in the above application 'and wishes to STLArnnoAT RPMNC,`' make the following comment: YAMPA ( ) Favorable ( ) Negative Comment Use this space for additional comment:-_—_ WMMIT COUNTY ----- — I1LUE RIVER — - --^- RRECKENRIDG;F DILLON _ FRISCn SILVER THORNE Signature of person commenting Title Date NON-STATE ASS' 7ANCE _12 STATE IDENTIFIER JC`AFFD_TYFE7 23 T-) 77-320000-014 14 COLORAUO 22 1 D"'T 1) 7380 APPLICANT 2872--- ..STAH--QF-,.COLORUOLDEPARIIIEIiL-Of--LOEAL-AFTAI-RS- ADDRESS CONTACT PERSON&PHONE P_R_0JCCT_TITLE 15_-86__ 02 _____-S_Ecti_QnAQZ(_a_)_Economic De_vah_pmant—H.-annj-n-,PrQgraiii, PROJECT DESCRIPTION The project is part of an overall economic development and growth management planning program to develop a more efficient and effective system for the distribution of development resources and the making of development decisions fn Colarado. IMPACT LOCATION ASSISTANCE (FUNDS — IN-KIND — ETC.) _J FEDERAL 15-22 STATE 2330 LOCAL GC1N.1T. 31-33 I OTHER 3946 TOTAL 47 54 2 03 0 105,000 35,000 0- -0- 140,000 z Cn UJ CAT 55-59 FED PROGRAM AMOUNT&TITLE 6067 I A-NEW TYPE _J 11 .305 State and Local Economic Development PI ng.Pr( -B-RENEWAL 68 > > — CAT 15-19 FED PROGRAM AMOUNT&TITLE Liz 23-30 C-REVISION D-CONTINUATION < E-AUGMENTATION U1 04 F-NOTICE OF INTENT CAT 31-35 FED PROGRAM AMOUNT&TITLE 39-46 G-PRE APPLICATION REVISION REQUESTED 69 CAT 47 51 -FED-PROGRAM KqbGN_f& f1_T_ff_55 A-INCREASE DOLLARS B -DECREASE DOLLARS D C -INCREASE DURATION -70 D-DECREASE DURATION SOURCE OF OTHER FUNDS IN LINE E -CANCELLATION UJ F -OTHER _J STATE GRANTOR (IF APPLICABLE) FEDERAL AGENCY I_%1E__R E-66EST- ation 0 Economic Development Administration L) 7 < REQUIRED MATCHING PERCENTAGES STARTING DATE FEDERAL 15-17 STATE 18- EAR 21-23 YEAR 42-431MOINTH 4445 DAY 4647 0 1977 1 1 _J FIRST YEAR 05 075 025 -0- - J — ENDING DATE < FEDERAL f 24-26 STATE 27-29 LOCAL 0 2 YEAR 48-491MONTH50-51 1DAY 52-53 SECOND YEAR 5 _025— _=0- _L9_7 8__J 9 131.. -0 01 — - ;�L_39-41 IN - FEDERAL 33-35 STATE 36�3�LOCAL D I R ECT CO��T� 9 THIRD YEAR -0- 7 350 OVERHEAD COSTS NOTICE/APPLICATION SUBMITTED TO: STATE LEVEL: Colorado Division of Planning/State Clearing- -0- REGIONAL/METROPOLITAN CLEARINGHOUSE(S): house 5_6_LL,�_Fl M�TCH I - — -0- all areawide A-95 IN-KIND MATCH 74-72 2- Clearinghouses L_3 5 El 3- 510Q0 IS ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT INFO REQUIRED? YES _ NO _X_ TRU"NO COIVPLETE�TO THE B S 01 My KrN �I�A,I F PQE A? B DATE OF APPLICATION TO GRANTOR 4-0111,177 ---- 1. 1 1 YES _X__ NO IS PROJECT UNDER A-95 REQUIREMENTS? YES __ NO X_ ell - WILL-ADDITIONAL EMPLOYEE'nF NEEDED? Di reaLor Division of Planning HAVE MATCHING FUNDS BEEN APPROVED? YES _X__NO CERTIFYING REPRESENTATIVE DATE IS 2 8 CITY 34-39 CITY—]40-45 U.S. ONG.DT. AUTO REGION COUNTY CITY 46-47 48-49 50-51 15 16 17 18-19 20-21 22-23 24.25 26-27 : -1�7 777 __"T", 1- 06 A - D -CDE-0--St _W IT-.IfY!�-0 TO Of GRANTOR TOR CODE z 52-53 154-55 56-5 58-59 60-61 62 63 FUNDS 67-69 7072 73-75 76-78 I.D. AMOUNT 64-66 5 66-8 KEYWORD 15-31 KEYWORD JZ 46 IKEY WORD 4 07 r SOC-1 DEC. 76 COLORADO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PLANNING PROGRAM: A Detailed Program Description Colorado Division of Planning Department of Local Affairs August 30 ,1977 I. Background In January 1976 , the Department of Local Affairs began a small scale economic development planning program funded by a Section 302 grant from the Economic Development Administration (EDA) . The program, which included a program coordinator and three economic development planners outstationed in Sterling, Las Animas and Grand Junction, was housed in the Department ' s Office of Rural Development . Several months later, the Department was assigned responsibility to undertake an extensive revision and expansion of the Colorado portion of the Four Corners Regional Commission Development Plan. Responsibility for the operation of this economic development planning program was delegated to the Department' s Division of Planning , which was also undertaking a long-range growth and human settlement study. In recognition of the need to consolidate the Department ' s two economic development planning programs and to integrate them with the Division of Planning' s other ongoing planning activities , the Executive Director of the Department transferred the 302 program to the Division of Planning and mandated the integration of the two economic development planning programs at the earliest convenient date . On June 22 , 1977 the Division of Planning prepared and submitted to the Executive Director and other senior staff persons an integrated economic development planning work program to achieve this mandate . The following program description summarizes the key purposes , strategies , goals , activities , staffing needs and financial requirements of the Division' s integrated economic development work program. II. Program Purpose The purpose of the Division' s economic development planning program is to help create and maintain a continuing planning process that will serve the Administration' s policy implementation needs and provide a broad spectrum of public and private Page sector decision-makers with timely, realistic guidelines and recommendations for the rational allocation of physical , financial and human resources . Because decision-making in this country is so incremental and fragmented, a continuing planning process is necessary to assure adequate partici- pation by the diverse public and private interests who must be consulted before a highway is built , a power plant constructed, a sewer line laid or a factory located. A continuous planning process not only provides an opportunity for participation in individual decisions , but it also permits--though it certainly does not guarantee-- the synchronization of inter- related decisions on the basis of mutually under- stood and accepted principles . These share principles , or policies , once they are embedded in a continuing process , increase our ability to allocate scarce resources in a more rational , consistent manner so that the highways , the power lines and the sewer system, for example , all will be located where public policy indicates the jobs should be. III. Program Strategy Colorado' s economic development planning needs are diverse and unique. Yet the financial and statutory resources available to the state and localities to address these needs are limited in scope and the arsenal of proven economic planning techniques is small in number. The state-of-the art is moving forward at a quickened pace , but most of the new techniques developed elsewhere in the nation are as yet of unproven value or not readily adaptable to Colorado . Accordingly, the Division' s program is dependent on no single economic development planning philosophy , it offers no grandly expensive or political daring solution to the gamut of Colorado ' s development problems and it promises no simple or Quick answers . instead, it proposes to create from existing program resources a multi-year functional planning process that is flexible in design, closely linked with other state and local functional planning programs , and directed toward a select number of strategic goals . These goals were selected because they are supportive of the Administration' s policy impetus , relatively Page easy to accomplish and, once accomplished, they will substantially strengthen the ability of decision- makers to respond to the development issues--resource allocation conflicts , fiscal crises , plant closings , energy facility siting debates and the host of routine decisions--that inevitably arise in the course of conducting public business at all levels of government . Because the Division' s economic development planning program is in turn simply one element of a long range multi-faceted planning effort , its conduct must be closely coordinated with the Division of Planning' s 701 growth and human settlements policy study, the water quality management planning program, the water resource studies underway in the Department of Natural Resources , the Department of Highway' s transportation planning program and a variety of other functional planning activities in progress locally, among other state agencies , in neighboring states and at the federal level . The A-95 review process , the Colorado Review Process (CRP) , the Planning Coordinating Council (RPC) and its Staff Working Group (SWG) , councils of govern- ments and regional planning commissions local planning departments and the Four Corners Regional Commission will be used to establish many of these coordinating policy and program linkages that are needed for the, successful conduct of this work program. IV. Program Goals and Activities To accomplish the purpose described in section II , the program will include one short-term and seven long- range interrelated goals . These goals and their component activities are : A. TO COMPLETE THE DIVISION' S CURRENT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PLANNING OBLIGATIONS INCURRED UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF THE DIVISION'S EDA SECTION 302 AND THE FOUR CORNERS REGIONAL COMMISSION PLAN REVISION CONTRACTS . Activities : 1. Complete Regions 1 , 6 and 10 302 work elements . 2. Complete projects and process FCRC work elements . 3 . Complete regional public meetings . 4. Aggregate FCRC plan elements . Page B. TO HELP IDENTIFY AND DEFINE THE KEY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ISSUES AND CONFLICTS CONFRONTING THE STATE OF COLORADO AND TO FORMULATE A SET OF DETAILED , REALISTIC STATE DEVELOPMENT GOALS . Activities : 1. Coordinate effort with other ongoing and recently completed issue statements . 2. Prepare a refined analysis of economic development issues and conflicts and formulate appropriate goals that are complementary to the Governor' s growth and development policy statements , the growth and human settlement policy study and other key planning-related documents . 3 . Distribute draft copies of the statement to appropriate agencies and organizations for review and comment . 4. Revise the statement , circulate to appro- priate agencies and organizations and utilize it for subsequent growth management and economic development planning and imple- mentation activities . C. TO INVENTORY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TECHNIQUES AVAILABLE TO THE STATE AND ITS LOCALITIES FOR ADDRESSING THESE DEVELOPMENT ISSUES AND CONFLICTS AND FOR HELPING ACHIEVE ESTABLISHED DEVELOPMENT GOALS . Activities : 1. Conduct literature search and interviews to collect information that has not been pre- viously identified. 2 . Evaluate data, incorporate previously developed inventory information, and prepare a preliminary report for review and comment . 3 . Distribute draft copies of inventory to appro- priate agencies and organizations for review and comment. 4. Revise statement , distribute to appropriate agencies and organizations and utilize it for subsequent economic development planning and implementation activities . D. TO ESTABLISH, MAINTAIN AND SHARE AN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PLANNING INFORMATION BASE INCLUDING, A) UPDATED POPULATION AND EMPLOYMENT ESTIMATES , PROJECTIONS AND GOALS , (B) THE MODELING CAPABILITY TO SHOW POPULATION, EMPLOYMENT AND LAND-USE INTER- RELATIONSHIPS , AND C) GENERAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PLANNING DATA. Page Activities : 1 . Develop a conceptual program for the operation and maintenance of the data base in cooperation with users and practitioners . 2. Assemble , organize and share library-based data and information. 3 . Prepare and update employment and population projections by county.l 4. Develop county-level employment goals in cooperation with councils of governments and regional planning commissions . 5 . Collect data inputs needed to operate CPEZ and PLUM3 simulation models ; run models and analyze outputs . 6 . Distribute economic development planning informa- tion among local , regional , state, multi-state and federal users . 7 . Develop new and improved methods for the genera- tion, and exchange of consistent economic development planning data among data generators and users . D. TO DEVELOP AND IMPLEMENT A PUBLIC INVESTMENT PLAN A) BASED ON CURRENT GROWTH POLICY AND DEVELOPMENT GOALS AND B) INCLUDING BOTH STANDARDS AND CRITERIA FOR EVALUATING PROPOSED PUBLIC INVESTMENT PROJECTS AND A PRIORITIZED LISTING OF STATE-ENDORSED PROJECTS . 4 Activities : 1. Solicit local and regional development goals , policies and project priorities based on existing documents and ongoing programs including the data under development in the growth and human settlements policy study. 2. Develop .project funding criteria and an allocation system for potential investment projects . 1 These and related activities to be undertaken by the Division of Planning demographic section. 2 A simulation model (Colorado Population and Employment) that generates employment and population estimates and projections . 3 A simulation model (Predictive Land Use Models) that makes long-range forecasts concerning the interrelations of population, employment and land use. 4 A public investment plan, as used in this context , refers to a plan for the allocation of public funds (including grants , loans and loan guarantees) for public works construction projects , publicly supported loans to the private sector, and technical assistance and demonstration grants in support of a wide variety of projects . Page 3 . Use the refined issues statement. (from goal l) along with outputs from the growth and human settlements policy study and related plans to revise the investment plan in cooperation with local governments and regional agencies . 4. Use employment and population projections and goals to refine further the investment plan by including estimates of investment outlays required to achieve alternate popula- tion and employment levels . 5 . Submit revised plan to public sector agencies for review and comment . 6 . Revise plan for submission to the Four Corners Regional Commission and for public distribution, E . TO BEGIN CREATION OF AN ECONOMIC IMPACT ANALYSIS AND RESPONSE CAPABILITY THAT WILL ANALYZE AND CHART RESPONSES TO THE EMPLOYMENT AND OTHER ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF IMPENDING MAJOR DEVELOPMENTS AND POTENTIAL GROWTH CONFLICTS . Activities : ) 1 . Develop methods of institutionalizing an economic impact analysis and response capability into the Clearinghouse . 2 2 . Use refined issues statements (from goal 2) , information base data (from goal 4) and Governor ' s Office policy guidance to analyze the impact of selected activities and measure their consequences against regional and state development policies . 3 . Use the inventory of techniques (from goal 3) to chart responses and evaluate the feasibility of options available to decision-makers . F. TO DEVELOP AN IMPLEMENTATION PROGRAM FOR ONGOING STATE INFLUENCE IN THE CAPITAL, LABOR AND OTHER MARKETPLACES IMPACTING ON .ECONOMIC WELFARE OF COLORADO . 1 Recent enactment of H. B. 1121 (Economic Impact Statements) may require modification of the activities to be performed in pursuit of this goal . 2 This activity includes a two-fold purpose of incorporating the economic analysis capability into the Clearinghouse as an independent function and as a component of the State and areawide A-95 project notification and review system. Page I. Use the inventory of economic development techniques (from goal 3) and the products and experience gained from other activities to develop an integrated economic development implementation program that will bring develop- ment policy to bear on the public and private decisions affecting the timing , location and intensity of development . l 2 . Coordinate program content with the implementa- tion plan of the growth and human settlements policy study and submit draft copies to appro- priate agencies for review and comment . 3 . Refine the implementation program, distribute it to appropriate agencies and organizations and mobilize resources for implementation. G. TO MAINTAIN CONTINUING PROGRAMMATIC AND POLICY LIAISON WITH THE GOVERNOR' S OFFICE , THE PLANNING COORDINATING COUNCIL, THE STAFF WORKING GROUP , A DEVELOPMENT ADVISORY COUNCIL, AND OTHER STATE , LOCAL AND PRIVATE AGENCIES WITH A STAKE IN ECONOMIC PLANNING, PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT, GROWTH MANAGEMENT AND RESOURCE ALLOCATION ISSUES : Activities : 1 . Activities will vary, depending on the sub- stantive tasks being performed. The clearing- house will be used as a key means of coordinating the Division' s economic development planning program with other development-related planning activities underway at the local , state and multi-state levels . V. Program Coordination The successful creation of the economic development Planning process envisioned in this work program will require close and frequent coordination within and among a number of organizations . The principal coordinating functions are described below: A. Intradivisional coordination. The Division of P anning s economic development planning program . must be closely linked with the methodology, timing and outputs of the Division' s Section 1 The implementation program will include provisions for the use of PWEDA Section 304 funds and other resources , including new legislation and strengthened Clearinghouse procedures , required to accomplish state and local development goals . r Page 701-funded growth and human settlements policy study and with the Clearinghouse function, the demographic section and the H. B . 1041 program. Responsibility for this coordination will rest with the Director of the Division of Planning. B. Intrade artmental coordination. The Division of Planning ' s economic deve opment planning program must also be closely coordinated with other programs and functions of the Department of Local Affairs . To achieve this coordination and to benefit from the planning and implementation expertise available within other divisions of the department , an intra- departmental advisory committee should be formed to review and advise on the progress of the Division of Planning' s economic development planning program. C. Interdepartmental coordination. Policy level inter- departmental coordination among the Division' s economic development planning program, the Governor ' s Office and other departments shall be the responsi- bility of the Executive Director, the Director of the Division of Planning and the Governor' s Office Planning Liaison. The Planning Coordinating Council and the Staff Working Group will be the principal vehicles for the achievement of this level of coordination. Technical and program-level coordination will be the responsibility of the Director of the Division of Planning and the economic development planning staff. This coordination will be achieved through meetings of the Staff Working Group and its sub- committees and by routine interagency contacts with other functional planning program staff. D. Public artici ation. Continuing contact with local governments , councils of governments and regional planning commissions , Economic Development Districts , private sector interests and other organizations with a stake in economic development and growth management planning shall be maintained by the Director of the Division of Planning, the economic development planning program staff, as needed, and the Executive Director of the Department of Local Affairs . VI . Time Periods The economic development planning work program proposed herein will lead to the emergence of a continuous , evolving planning process . The creation of this process is a statutory function (see CRS 24-32-201 , et . se, e . ) Page and needed activity of state government which, if successful , will be ongoing in nature . Nevertheless , any work program must include a begin- ning, and end and various intermediate completion dates . This work program includes a short-term phase, from July 1 , 1977 to December 15 , 1977 , and a mid-range phase , from December 15 , 1977 to December 31 , 1978 . Successful completion of these tasks will enable the State to begin--but only to begin--to accomplish some of the goals listed in section IV. About two months prior to the completion of the mid- range phase of the work program the division intends to prepare a new work program for the twelvemonth period beginning on January 1 , 1979 . This , and subsequent work programs , will be used as the basis for the Division' s economic development planning grant applications . VII . Staff Needs and Funding Requirements A. Short-term phase. For the short-term phase of the work program, principle contributing staff will be drawn from the existing 302 and FCRC programs in the amount of 7 . 9 FTE supplemented with 1 . 0 FTE general fund personnel . General fund personnel contributing to the program will include the Executive Director and 'Assistant Director of the Department , the Director and Assistant Director of the Division of Planning, three additional Division Directors (Commerce and Development , Housing, and Local Government) the Western Slope-based Principal Planner in the Office of Rural Development and other general fund departmental personnel as may, on occasion, participate in the program. Current federal funding from the Division of Planning' s FCRC plan update and 302 grants , with a 25 percent match of general fund personnel to supplement the 302 grant , will be used to support the project activities described in this work program. An anticipated $50 , 000 of carryover 302 funds and $33 , 722 of unexpended • FCRC funds will be available for the period from July 1 , 1977 to November 30 , 1977 (302) and July 1 , 1977 to December 15 , 1977 (FCRC) . Page I ) By August 30, 1977 the 302-funded field staff in Regions 6 and 10 will have completed their current work assignments ; in Region 1 these responsibilities will be completed by November 30 , 1977 . Concurrently, additional work activities will be undertaken in the Denver office. This shift in work activities and staff responsibilities dictates the need to close the Region 6 and 10 field offices on or about October 15 , 1977 and the Region 1 office on or about December 15 , 1977 . B. Mid-range phase. For the mid-range phase of the work program, anticipated personnel requirements include 6 . 35 federally funded FTE ' s and 1 . 3 general fund FTE ' s . Funding requirements for the mid-range phase of the work program are estimated as follows ; General 302 FCRC Fund Total Direct Costs $107 , 500 $ 28 , 500 $ - $136 , 000 Pass-through Costs - 130, 000 - 130 , 000 Indirect Costs (2) 7 , 500 11 , 000 - 18 , 500 Matching Costs (3) - - 38 , 333 38 , 333 Total $115 , 000 $169 , 000 $38 , 333 $322 , 833 (2) Calculated at 7 percent . (3) Calculated at 25 percent of federal and non-federal costs . The pass-through costs include provision for contractual allocations of approximately $3 , 000 to , $5 , 000 per Plannin and Management Region and about $65 , 000 to 190 , 000 of regional economic development planning funds , to be awarded on a contractual basis . The $3,000 to $5 ,000 allocations will allow each region to undertake the substate components of the mid-range work program; the additional regional funds would allow regions to conduct specialized economic development planning and technical assistance projects . Pass-through funding decisions would be based on previously established standards and criteria for evaluating proposed contracts covering needed planning tasks .