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Josephine County commissioners approve new economic development grant process, advisory committee
Summary
County leaders endorsed staff’s plan to form an advisory committee to review roughly $600,000 in annual economic development funds, favor an annual fall award timeline, and require applications to pass finance and legal review before presentations and board approval.
Josephine County commissioners on April 8 agreed to adopt a new process for allocating the county’s economic development funds, endorsing a staff recommendation to form a five-member advisory committee that will review applications and make recommendations to the board.
Director Nelson told the board she had sent a packet with a draft application, sample contracts, a scoring guide and a draft board order and recommended an advisory committee of five members that would submit bylaws for board approval. “I recommend that an advisory committee of 5 members be formed,” Director Nelson said, outlining a flow in which finance and legal review applications first, the advisory committee selects applicants for presentations, and the board approves awards at a weekly business session. Contracts would be reimbursement-based rather than paid upfront.
The plan calls for an annual award cycle in the fall so…
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