Grant

June 8 - 14, 2018

  • $360,000 for two Economic Adjustment Assistance projects as follows:
    • $180,000 to the Deep East Texas Council of Governments, Jasper, Texas, to support the coordination and development of the Deep East Texas Regional Disaster Recovery and Resiliency Program providing assistance in the declared disaster counties of Jasper, Newton, Pol, Sabine, San Augustine, San Jacinto, and Tyler. The program will include hiring a regional disaster coordinator, identification of potential resiliency, mitigation, and economic recovery projects in the impacted areas. This investment will assist in helping the communities develop and implement recovery plans which will have long-term benefits to rebuild the communities and local economy.
    • 180,000 to the Brazos Valley Council of Governments, Bryan, Texas, to support the coordination and development of the Brazos Valley Regional Disaster Recovery and Resiliency Program. This investment will focus on quickly assessing the economic recovery needs of the disaster impacted communities and matching, preparing, deploying and supporting experienced volunteers to affected communities. The program will help economic developers, individual communities and the regional government to locate and access necessary resources, as well as build capacity to maintain the momentum required for long-term disaster recovery.
  • $348,373 for four Technical Assistance University Center projects to support the third year of a five-year University Center (UC) program, which is a competitively-based partnership between EDA and academic institutions that makes the varied and vast resources of universities available to the economic development practitioner community.
  • $1.76 million for 25 Partnership Planning projects to support the development and implementation of the Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) process. The CEDS process is designed to bring together the public and private sectors in the creation of an economic development roadmap to diversify and strengthen the regional economy.