2012 EDA SEATTLE REGION TRAINING CONFERENCE PORTLAND ∙ APRIL 4, 2012 CEDS Part I: Know Your...
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2012 EDA SEATTLE REGION TRAINING CONFERENCE PORTLAND ∙ APRIL 4, 2012 CEDS Part I: Know Your Region
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Transcript of 2012 EDA SEATTLE REGION TRAINING CONFERENCE PORTLAND ∙ APRIL 4, 2012 CEDS Part I: Know Your...
What’s driving interest?Fiscal environment: budget cuts at federal and state agencies motivating new partnershipsCollaboration: some EDDs using CEDS as opportunity to present “united front”Think tanks: promulgating advantages of “bottom-up” regional strategies
New York’s Bottom-Up ProcessNew regional councils did not take advantage of existing RPC boundaries and networksState employees were appointed as executive directors of new regional councilsLocal elected officials allowed to serve in advisory, ex-officio capacity only