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Lawmakers hear pitch to restore funding for rural administrative-advisor program
Summary
Lawmakers heard a request to restore $500,000 in ongoing funding for Utah’s Local Administrative Advisor program, which presenters said served 123 cities and towns in its first two years and helped preserve $9 million in ARPA funds for small communities.
Representative Anthony Loubet convened the General Government Appropriations Subcommittee and heard a funding request to restore ongoing support for the Local Administrative Advisor (LAA) program, which provides planning and administration help to small cities and towns. Sen. Owens introduced the item and said the program has been important across his largely rural district.
“The local administrative advisor program is actually the first of its kind in the country,” said Cameron Dale, executive director of the Utah League of Cities and Towns,…
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