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EDA previews new economic development website; subcommittee explores loan program and grant-form updates
Summary
EDA staff and an intern demonstrated a draft economic development website and the authority’s subcommittee discussed updating grant forms, possible microloan programs and coordination with regional partners to sustain the grant fund.
The Lancaster County Economic Development Authority on July 17 previewed an early-stage economic development website and discussed substantive changes to the EDA’s grant program, including the possibility of a microenterprise loan program to capitalize future local lending.
Staff presentation and demo: John Bateman, EDA staff, introduced Seth Ruby, an information-technology intern who has been building the site structure. "The web page is supposed to be sort of a one-stop shop for everything economic development if you're a business owner, new or old," Ruby said during a live tour of the draft homepage, which includes resource directories, a VEDP site-selection embed and a planned articles feed for timely updates. Bateman described the content plan and noted the site currently uses Drupal and is intended to link to county resources, the Small Business…
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