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Comprehensive Economicc Developmen nt Strategyy Annual Performance Report For period January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2015

East Central Intergovernmental Association 7600 Commerce Park Dubuque IA 52002 563-556-4166 www.ecia.org

Prepared by the East Central Iowa Economic Development District under Economic Development Grant No. 05-83-05318. The preparation of this report was financially aided (50% federal; 50% local) through a Federal grant from the Department of Commerce - Economic Development Administration authorized by the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 as amended.

tableofcontents Executive Summary .........................................................................................................2 Adjustments to ECIA’s Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy .........................3 Report on Changing Economic Conditions and Adjustments .......................................3 Evaluation of Progress ..................................................................................................11 CEDS Goals and Measurable Benchmarks.................................................................11 ECIA 2015 Annual Scope of Work and Measurable Progress ....................................12 Disaster and Economic Recovery and Resiliency ......................................................31 Regional Implementation Strategy...........................................................................31 ECIA Strategy Committee and Planning Roster ..............................................................36 FY2016 Scope of Work .............................................................................................38 Evaluation of Progress APPENDIX..................................................................................42 Strategy for Implementation.........................................................................................53

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executivesummary Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy 2015 Annual Report The completion of the 2015 Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) Annual Performance Report is intended to provide an update of East Central Intergovernmental Association’s 2015 through 2019 Five-Year Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS). The CEDS for the ECIA five-county region has been updated for the next five years, beginning January 1, 2015 through December 31, 2019 (2015-2019). The CEDS is being utilized in the region as a playbook for engaging in a collaborative region-wide effort to raise productivity, create wealth and increase prosperity for our citizens. The CEDS is used to monitor and evaluate our long term economic goals and strategies and to coordinate the economic development activities in the region. It is the intent of the CEDS document and the process to be used as a tool for not only developing goals and strategies that guide the economic growth of the region but to track and benchmark our progress. ECIA’s full five year CEDS can be found at http://www.ecia.org/publications/index.cfm.

The purpose of this CEDS annual report is to outline the work and achievements that have been completed over the past twelve months toward accomplishing the goals and objectives outlined in the CEDS. This report also outlines any updates and changes in the goals and objectives and any revisions to the action plan.

This report also reflects the work that has been done in the past year as outlined in the specific elements of the Scope of Work for the current grant year. The 2015 Annual Performance Report covers the period from January 1, 2015 through December 31, 2015. The Vision of the CEDS is to generate long-term The following report describes the economic conditions in the region for Dubuque, Delaware, Jackson, Cedar and Clinton Counties as well as outlines growth and prosperity significant events and issues that have occurred over the past twelve months to which will improve the shape and direct ECIA’s regional economic development planning program. quality of life for the

citizens of the region.

Overall 2015 was a solid economic development year for the region.

Although there was one significant loss in Dubuque at the IBM Global Services Center with more than 200 employees laid off, regionally the job losses were kept to a minimum. We saw a surge in advanced manufacturing activities that commenced in 2015 with communities preparing for future growth by acquiring land to expand their industrial parks. Specific challenges to the region include fighting the brain drain and finding workers to fill open positions while preparing for retirements that will impact every employment sector in the next five years.

The CEDS goals and objectives, descriptions of ECIA’s progress toward the CEDS goals, and an updated list of vital projects to achieve the goals appear in this annual report. Input was received from the CEDS Strategy Committee and the ECIA Board of Directors as well as from the public. The CEDS strategy committee periodically meets to review the CEDS goals and the progress toward meeting the goals. Input to develop this annual report was received from local community leaders, economic developers, schools, and private business.

The CEDS Committee, with input from local representation, adopted the five-year CEDS in December of 2015 and at that time, created SMART Goals: Smart, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-based.

In addition to the SMART Goals, specific tasks have been identified; measurable performance measures developed; a schedule has been reflected; and evaluation indicators developed for the region. The Implementation and Evaluation Report has been adjusted to indicate projects that have been completed (BOLD type) and projects that have either been updated or added (RED type). In addition to the Implementation and Evaluation Report, the Results of the Plan have been updated. The Results of the Plan evaluates the overall activity in the job market, which is driven in part by the total economic development activity in the region. The jobs lost and gained in calendar year 2015 for the region have been listed.

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adjustmentstoecia’scomprehensiveeconomic developmentstrategy Report on Changing Economic Conditions and Adjustments Business and Industry The year 2015 began with a couple of major layoff announcements. More than 200 workers at the IBM Dubuque facility lost their jobs in February, 2015. The Dubuque layoff was the result of widespread reductions nationwide. IBM is in the process of aggressively transforming its services and as it does so, the company continues to rebalance its workforce to meet the changing requirements of its clients to lead in new, high-value segments of the IT industry including cloud, analytics, security, social and cognitive computing. As part of its ongoing efforts to optimize its facilities worldwide in addition to the workforce balancing, IBM also consolidated operations in Dubuque including vacating two floors in the Roshek Building in Dubuque. IBM was at 1300 employees at its peak employment in Dubuque in 2011 and are now down to approximately 625 employees at the service center, which is less than half of its full employment levels.

A second discouraging announcement came in July of 2015 with Ashford University in Clinton announcing it will close its Clinton campus at the end of the school year in the spring of 2016. Ashford University purchased the campus in Clinton in March 2005 and just 10 years after its purchase, is closing its doors.

The Clinton campus employed more than 400 employees but in 2013 had started to reduce its workforce by offering voluntary resignations. Bridgepoint Education, a for-profit company, is the owner of Ashford University. Ashford Clinton campus only represents 1% of university’s students; the remaining 99% are online students. Three hundred fifty-five of the existing Clinton campus students who are on track to complete their degrees will be able to do so before the May, 2016 closure and the 60% of the returning campus students are pursuing a degree program that is also available online.

While we saw the reductions in workforce with IBM and Ashford University, we did see hiring increases in multiple Dubuque-area manufacturers. John Deere, Flexsteel Industries, A.Y. McDonald, Andersen Eagle, and Mi-T-M each added to their workforce in 2015. Manufacturing has represented a strong sector in our region and the local economy this year. John Deere add more than 100 employees in late 2014 and 2015. Their increase is due to the strong growth of the company’s construction and forestry division. MiT-M, located in Peosta, grew by more than 20 employees. Manufacturing was not the only growth sector.

Northeast Iowa Community College reported more than 500 employees up from its 410 previously reported. Hirschbach Motor Lines announced a relocation to Dubuque with the intention to move 100 corporate and operational employees to Dubuque and the addition of 80 new jobs. They will be investing $9 million in the renovation of a building in the Historic Milwork District in Dubuque. Insurance broker Cottingham & Butler’s employment increased by 50 employees to 460 and they plan to add another 90 employees over the next three years.

A new emphasis was placed on retail development in 2015 in hopes that stronger efforts locally to recruit retail will help prop up this stagnant economic sector in the region. This year the Greater Dubuque Development Corporation hired a consultant to identify and help address the gaps in the current retail market, stop the leakage of consumers into the surrounding markets, and recruit new retailers to the region. Retail Strategies of Birmingham, Alabama were hired as the advisory group that specializes in retail development and recruitment. According to a retail trade Analysis Report released by Iowa State University Department of Economics in March 2014 indicates that real total taxable sales in Dubuque County reached $1.23 billion in fiscal year 2013, marking a 1.2% drop from the previous year. Since 2004, taxable retail sales for the region have only grown by 2.5%. Retail not only contributes to the quality of life for the region but it supports economic growth by generating key tax revenue.

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Workforce Population growth remains a concern for area businesses in the region and across the State of Iowa. Iowa’s major industries are highly productive and have seen job growth but the overall State’s low population growth could hurt its future workforce. Battelle Technology Partnership Practice released their updated report in 2015, “Iowa’s Economic Re-Envisioned Economic Development Roadmap, December 2014” and have found that Iowa has outperformed the nation when it comes to the growth of middle and high skilled jobs while the number of low skilled jobs has declined. The State’s economic output was 5.9% higher than the pre-recession levels in 2007, which outpaces the national growth of 4.7%. Industry clusters have seen the number of high-skills jobs grow faster than the nation in recent years. Twenty-three percent of Iowa’s workforce are in high-skilled jobs compared to 26% for the nation in 2013. Iowa clusters are not projected to be strong job generators over the next ten years which in the Battelle Report is of particular concern.

Also, two of the three companies interviewed during the Battelle Study indicated workforce recruitment concerns. Ten of the Iowa industries are expected to see job growth nationally of less than 1% per year from 2012 to 2022. Industry clusters include: Agriculture and food production; automation and industrial machinery; Avionics and communication electronics; Biosciences; Building and construction products; Health Services; Heavy machinery; Information services; Insurance and finance; Manufacturing; Transportation and Logistics; and Renewable energy.

Outmigration remains a concern in the ECIA region. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, from 2010 to 2014, Iowa’s population grew by 2% versus the national growth of 3.3%. However, in the ECIA region, all but one county suffered from outmigration: Delaware experienced a -2.1% growth, Cedar -.5%, Clinton -2.2%, Jackson -1.8% and Dubuque showed a 2.9% positive growth. Reversing this population decline is critical to filling the anticipated workforce shortages.

Specifically to the ECIA region, Greater Dubuque Development hired Smart Solutions Group to conduct a skills gap analysis for the greater Dubuque Laborshed which includes the ECIA region. The purpose of the study was to provide economic developers, workforce developers, and educators with information on projected workforce strategies and gaps and to identify potential strategies to prevent those shortages.

The report was published in early 2015. Chart 1 on the next page illustrates the closing gap between the available workforce and the increase in employment demand out to 2024. The number of available workers out to 2024 continues to decrease while the demand continues to increase. By 2025 we will have a shortage of more than 7,400 workers in the Dubuque region alone. Charts 2 and 3 on the following page illustrate the correlation between the decline in the working age population versus the demand in the labor growth out to the year 2024 compared to Iowa and the United States. While Iowa has a slower labor growth demand than the United States, the Unites States is showing a positive growth in working age population. The Dubuque region illustrates a decline in the working age population and a shortage of workers versus the increase in labor growth. The ECIA region will be facing a severe labor shortage by the year 2024 if the issue is not addressed immediately. Specifics from the Smart Solutions Group 2014 report indicated the following: • 63% of the Dubuque area businesses interviewed expressed a challenge with workforce recruitment just above Iowa’s average of 56%.

• A skills gap of 7,471 in the region over the next ten years in the top 50 positions and fields that require a post-secondary education and training.

• The oldest members of the baby boomer generation celebrated their 65 birthday and every day for the next ten years, 10,000 baby boomers nationally will reach the age of 65.

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Charts 4 and 5 on the previous page illustrate the Dubuque region skills gap of workers by occupation to the year 2024. The largest skills gap in Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck drivers with Sales Representatives and Wholesale Manufacturing in a close second. The Smart Solutions report went on to outline the greatest shortage of works in particular sectors by 2024 as outlined below: • • • • • • •

Manufacturing 1,494 Construction, maintenance 1,372 Finance, insurance 918 Transportation, warehousing 871 Office services 761 Health Care 609 All others 1,446

According to clustermapping.us/region’s website, our scorecard for the region’s performance in the U.S. economy is based on three categories of data performance drivers, business environment, and demographics and geography. This downward trend of population growth specifically of the young adult population has been spiraling downward from 1998-2013 as indicated in Chart 6 below. Our region is ranked 90th for young population growth in the United States against similar regions with a -1.25% growth rate. Chart 7 also illustrates the greater number of people above age 75 residing in the ECIA region versus the national average.

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Another factor adding to the shortage of young adults and workers in the region is fighting the “brain drain.” With four four-year colleges located in the Dubuque region and three community colleges, with over 2,000 students graduating each year, economic development professionals and employers must fight to retain those students after graduation in the region. It is estimated that over 50% of the students relocate after graduation outside the region. New graduates are primarily looking for places they want to live versus where they find a job. It is important for students in the region to feel connected to their community and highly value a work-life balance.

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To close the deal and keep the Millennials in the region, employers must recruit to what makes them tick…. technology, work-life balance, and making a difference in the world.

In the southern part of the ECIA Region, Clinton Regional Development Corporation is partnering with the Quad Cities Chamber, Eastern Iowa Community College, Iowaworkforce Development and Blackhawk College to conduct three future workforce needs studies. The studies are kicking off in November, 2015 and will be complete in early 2016. The studies will include a Laborshed Employment Study, Skills 2020 Survey, and a Graduate Inventory Report. The data resulting from these studies will depict the existing workforce, the skill set employers believe they need to fill jobs in 2020, and the pipeline of degreed workers produced annually by local post-secondary educational institutions.

The workforce composition in the ECIA region is also changing. According to data collected by Inclusive Dubuque, the black and Latino population in the Dubuque area has increased greater than the State averages from 2009 to 2013. The City of Dubuque’s black population increased by 229% from 2009 to 2010 with 5% of the City of Dubuque’s population black. The Inclusive Dubuque report also indicated that the median income for white households is more than double that of black households and black residents are almost three times as likely to be unemployed. Statewide, 36.8% of black households live below the poverty line, compared to 52.5% of black households in Dubuque. The unemployment rate of black residents in Dubuque is 16.9%. Latino residents comprise 2.4% of the Dubuque population and about 10.5% are unemployed and nearly 40% live below the poverty level. Statewide 26% of the Latino households are below the poverty line. The Inclusive Dubuque report went on to indicate that more needs to be done to raise awareness among employers and the community of the barriers faced by minority groups in seeking employment. Keeping Dubuque open and welcoming will be integral to mitigating the projected skills gap shortage over the next decade.

Agriculture Farmland values throughout Iowa have declined more than 11% during this past year as low commodity prices and other factors weigh on agriculture according to a survey released by the Iowa Chapter of Realtors Land Institute in September 2015. The report indicated that the average farmland in Iowa was worth $7,095 an acre on September 1, 2015, down 11.3% from the same time in 2014. In a report earlier in the year from the Center for Agriculture and Rural Development at Iowa State University placed average land values in Iowa at $7,943 in January 2015. This was a decrease of 8.9% of values in 2014 and the largest ever year over year decrease in Iowa since 1986. The average values continued to decline through September of 2015 as indicated in the Realtors Land Institute Report. Declines were reported across all nine Iowa crop-reporting districts with the largest drop in values in northeast Iowa at 15% which encompasses portions of the ECIA region. Specifically in Dubuque County there has been a 10.8% decrease in values and in Delaware County an 8.2%. Jackson County fell lower than the average with a 4.99% decrease in value. Factors contributing to this decrease across Iowa and in the ECIA region include lower commodity prices specifically the drop in corn pricing, lack of stable alternative investments, cash on hand, and increasing interest rates. The biggest impact has come from low corn and soybean prices, which have left farmers and ranchers with less money to invest in equipment, land and other input costs.

Stubbornly low corn and soybean prices are having a more severe impact on the agricultural economy than previously thought, with net farm income expected to plunge 36 percent this year to its lowest level in nine years, the Agriculture Department said Tuesday. The charts on the next page illustrate the decrease in farm income nationally for 2015.

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The USDA indicated that farm income will drop to $58.3 billion, more than 20 percent lower than its February, 2015 forecast of $73.6 billion. A year ago farmers posted farm income of $91.1 billion. If the USDA’s estimates are accurate, it would mark a 36 percent decline in net farm income from 2014 to 2015 - the largest drop since 1983. In 1983 the farm economy was reeling from its worst downturn since the Great Depression as crop prices fell and interest rates soared, forcing some farmers out of business.

The projected 2015 decrease in farm income will be the second consecutive annual drop since farmers and ranchers posted record income of $123.7 billion just two years ago. The sharp decline in profitability comes after record corn and soybean production in 2014 and 2015 output that is expected to be among the strongest ever. Plentiful surpluses are flooding once tight markets, pushing prices lower. Corn prices are now less than $3.70 a bushel, compared to an average of $7 in 2012. Soybeans have dipped below $9 a bushel versus $14.40 three years ago when much of the Corn Belt was mired in a drought. The downturn in commodity prices has left some producers struggling to reach profitability this year as expenses exceed how much they receive for their crops. Average household farm income in 2015 is projected to be $19,121, down from last year’s high of $28,687, according to USDA. (source Des Moines Register, August 25, 2015.)

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Industrial Land The region experienced growth and expansion in the industrial parks in 2015. Dyersville Economic Development celebrated the opening of its Phase II in the 20 West Industrial Park with the addition of approximately 50 acres and seven new lots for tenants. Lots range from 2.5 to 10 acres. The City of Dubuque purchased a 166 acre farm at $12,500 per acre and when fully developed the cost per acre is estimated at $120,000. The City also purchased the 125 acre McFadden farm for $17,000 per acre.

The total cost per acre once fully developed is $97,000. The City also purchased a 36.5 acre farm and when fully developed the total cost per acre is estimated at $101,000. This property was more expensive per acre because of its close proximity to the City’s current industrial park having easy access to utilities and abuts a developed road. The 200 plus acres of developable land with the remaining 150 acres will provide a five to fifteen year supply of industrial park property.

The Bellevue economic development group and city leaders also hope to expand their tax base by bringing more businesses to town with the purchase of farmland for a new industrial park. They recently purchased five acres one mile south of Bellevue along Highway 52 for $15,000 an acre. They also obtained a five year option on an additional 48 acres at that same site. The City does not intend to further develop the site with sewer and water until it has a prospect for the site.

One of the largest industrial developments for Clinton County in decades, the Lincolnway project has brought more than $25 million in corporate facility developments and 75 new jobs so far in 2014 and 2015. The Railpark remains a priority for the region.

The air and rail park promises to connect global industry to one of Union Pacific Railroad’s busiest rail lines. Developers have been working closely with the Iowa Economic Development Authority to certify the site for quick startup for manufacturers. When complete, the site will offer more than 500 acres of land inventory including three barge terminals, four railroads, an airport and a four-lane highway.

Transportation Funding for Iowa Cities and Counties In March, 2015 the State of Iowa increased their gasoline and diesel fuel tax by 10 cents per gallon, the first time since 1989 to provide an additional $215 million annually for city, county and state roads. The tax increase was widely supported by chamber of commerce, Iowa Farm Bureau, business groups, economic developers, cities, counties, and the Iowa trucking industry. In Dubuque County, cities and the county are expected to receive approximately $2.2 million in new revenues each year. Jackson County, one of the smaller counties in the region will receive an additional $722,000 annually for road projects.

Tourism Tourism remained strong in the region with Dubuque County seeing revenue from visitors rise by more than 70% over ten years with great gains expected to come. Tourism generated more than $319 million in Dubuque County in 2013, according to the more recent State of Iowa Economic Impact Study. The same study indicated that the tourism industry supported 2,820 employees and generated $4.2 million in local tax revenues that year. According to the same report for 2014, Dubuque generated over $329 million in tourism expenditures. Clinton County generated more than $117 million in tourism expenditures in 2014 and supported more than 970 employees.

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Parks to People remained a priority for the region. Governor Branstad’s new partnership selected in the summer of 2014 to improve Iowa state parks; Grant Wood Mississippi River region (Dubuque, Jackson, and Jones Counties) received nearly $2 million in a State appropriation as the pilot project for the Parks to People initiative. The designation funding is to be supplemented with contributions from local governments, businesses, non-profit organizations and individuals, equating to a five-to-one match that will be used to revitalize the parks and trail systems in the region. The Grant Woods Region used 2015 as their planning year developing a master plan and budget and seeking public input on priority projects. The designation requires the group to raise approximately $6-$8 million in matching funds or contributions of land and or services to further the regional, State, and local park systems in the region. The area now includes four state parks, scenic byways, and the potential for land and water development. The Parks to People initiative will create the partnerships, plans, and facilities to physically connect parks, communities, and trails across a number of boundaries and expand connections of parks-to-trails, parks-to-parks, and parks-tocommunities, especially among state and county park through cooperation between state officials, local governments and private groups and individuals.

Entrepreneurship and One Stop Center for Manufacturing Companies According to the Iowa Small Business Development Centers, more and more local entrepreneurs are looking to start new business or improve their existing business.

According to the Northeast Iowa Small Business Center, they served 236 clients in 2014 up from 211 the prior year creating 78 new jobs in Eastern Iowa. In Dubuque County alone, 136 clients were served of the 236, which is the fifth highest in the State. Executive Director of the Start-up Dubuque Center said this same momentum has continued into 2015. As of the end of February, 2015, he had already served 116 clients creating 35 new jobs in the Dubuque are alone, which puts him on pace to far exceed 2014 totals. Clients coming to the centers are from all walks of life and need help with business plans and securing financing. Existing business owners typically need assistance with management and cash flow.

While entrepreneurship remains strong, Northeast Iowa Community College(NICC) and the Center for Industrial Research and Service (CIRAS) saw a demand for a one-stop service for local manufacturers.

The two educational institutions announced in June, 2015 that partnered and are working together to help advanced manufacturing companies in the region. They are partnering to provide a single point of contact for manufacturers to find programs and support services to assist them in achieving their long term goals.

In the past manufacturers may have contacted each entity separately but with the partnership the two entities will work together to provide a seamless service to them. In many cases it will double the resources available to area manufacturers. Through this work NICC and CIRAS plan to help advanced manufacturing businesses improve their financial performances, upgrade engineering capacities, achieve manufacturing excellence, and improve team performance.

Housing and Construction Permits The slowdown in building permits continued in 2015 for the region. Major construction projects continue around the region such as hospital expansions and renovations and rehabilitation to several educational facilities, the overall construction projects declined in 2015. The City of Dubuque issued 635 construction permits through June, 2015 down from 682 at the same time last year. Valuation was only about one-half as the same time last yar with $29 million compared to $58.5 million in 2014.

Housing remains a priority for the entire region. Specifically workforce housing for median income households. The southern portion of the ECIA region will be impacted by the opening of the Thompson Prison located in Thompson, Illinois. The first wave of prisoners arrived in July, 2015. The full employment 10 CEDS Annual Report January 2015 - December 2015

at the prison is expected to reach 1100 employees and as a result, houses will be built and bought in the region; apartments rented; services and groceries purchased; and household items needed. There will be more children in the schools and the tax base for the region will increase whether it is through property tax or sales tax. An economic impact study completed for the region by the Department of Economics at Iowa State University indicates that the prison will generate over $61 million annually in contracted sales. Economic Development professionals and community leaders have been preparing for the influx of households with Thompson, Illinois just 20 minutes from the City of Clinton in Clinton County and the City of Sabula in Jackson County. The impact of the prison opening will be felt as far away as Bellevue, Iowa, approximately 50 minutes driving time. The prison officials expect that 80% of the employees will reside in Illinois but 20% or over 220 households will reside in Iowa and in the southern part of the ECIA region.

To prepare for the influx and to determine the housing demand, Jackson County commissioned a Housing Needs Study in July, 2015. The study is just being completed. The City of Clinton also commissioned a Housing Needs Study with that study just kicking off in November, 2015. Both studies will provide the justification necessary for developers to initiate housing to meet the demand related to the Thompson Prison and to fill the workforce housing gap.

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CEDS Goals and Measurable Benchmarks

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The adopted S.M.A.R.T. goals for the region were adopted with the ECIA 2015-2019 CEDS. Progress toward these goals is highlighted in the attached appendix based on the performance and benchmarks outlined in the five year CEDS. The CEDS Strategy Committee and the ECIA Council reviewed the goals and did not adopt any changes for 2016. The document was made available for public comment in late November and December 2015. Please see the Appendix for an illustration of the progress toward achieving the goals below through 2015.

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Skilled Workers: Improve the quantity and quality of the region’s workforce to address employer demands Advanced Manufacturing; Healthcare; and Professional, Scientific, Technical Services by expanding the number of participants in regional training programs by 10% and increasing the number of trained skilled employees in these sectors by 10% by January 2020.

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Transportation Infrastructure: Improve highway and bridge transportation infrastructure funding to attract, retain, and expand business in the region by increasing the State and Federal funding to the region by 10% by January 2020.

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Housing: Increase the number of workforce rental and single family housing units in the region by 2% to accommodate the industry demands by January, 2020.

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Community Development: Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds to the region by 20% and completing 15 projects by January 2020.

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Business Development: Remain economically competitive by retaining businesses, encouraging expansion, and attracting new industry in the region by increasing SBA and RLF loan activity by 10%; increasing annual business retention calls to regional employers by 5%; increasing the total regional laborforce by .5%; increasing commercial construction by 10%, and increasing entrepreneurial start-ups by 5% total by January 2020.

Note: The base data was collected for January 1, 2015 using the most recent data available through Stats America, Census, Assessors office and internal data. Annually data will be collected as a benchmark for progress as part of the CEDS Annual Reporting requirements to track regional progress.

DataAnnual can be found in the back of2015 this docment in the Appendix.

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ECIA 2015 Annual Scope of Work and Measurable Progress On the following pages is the 2015 Scope of Work that was submitted with the Five Year CEDS. The report on the following pages outlines the scope of work progress.

A. LOCAL GOVERNMENT MEETINGS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT GROUP MEETINGS: ECIA staff regularly attends meetings of local governments and local economic development groups to provide information and facilitate program implementation.

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ECIA participates and sits on the Board of the Greater Dubuque Development Corporation and attends their regular board meetings at least quarterly.

Accomplishments and Quantifiable Deliverables a. Staff attended five Greater Dubuque Development Corporation Board meetings in 2015. b. Staff attended 10 monthly meetings with Greater Dubuque Development staff in 2015 to discuss local projects.

The ECIA Executive Director is on the Board of Directors and attended their regular board meetings.

Attending the meetings maintains relationships with local businesses and with Greater Dubuque Development staff and keeps ECIA involved in economic development priorities in the Dubuque area.

Difficulties There were no difficulties encountered.

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ECIA participates and sits on the Board of the Dubuque Area Chamber of Commerce and attends their monthly board meetings.

Accomplishments and Quantifiable Deliverables a. Staff attended five monthly board meetings in 2015 and three board subcommittee meetings related to redesigning their dues structure.

This was third year of a three year term for the ECIA Executive Director participating on the Chamber Board of Directors. Attending the meetings maintains relationships with local businesses and with Chamber staff. Through this partnership, ECIA was able to partner with the Chamber and the school district to offer an educational event or freshman and sophomore high school students to learn more about high demand jobs in technology, engineering and advanced manufacturing by visiting the businesses and learning about careers in their field. We intend to partner for the same event in 2016 and have already begun the planning.

Difficulties There were no difficulties encountered other than this is the last year of a three year term on their board.

Term limits are established by their bylaws. The career event was a success but we learned to get students and their parents engaged we need to advertise early and offer some type of food and free gift for them to attend.

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ECIA staff regularly hosts and participates in City Clerk meetings in Delaware, Dubuque and Cedar Counties and is exploring the option to add regular meetings in Jackson and Clinton Counties. ECIA hosts two meetings a year of the regional city clerks.

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a. ECIA hosted two regional City Clerk meetings and provided training and speakers on relevant topics pertaining to city business. b. ECIA staff attended nine Delaware County Clerk meetings in 2015, four Dubuque County Clerk meetings, and three Cedar County Clerk meeting. c. ECIA staff developed a Clinton County Economic Development Coalition in partnership with State Senator Hart and attended 6 meetings in 2015. d. ECIA staff developed a Clinton County Mayors group and hosted 4 meetings in 2015 with the Mayors. ECIA staff also hosted a derelict building tour with the mayors of four communities and discussed the need or downtown redevelopment in the communities as well as dealing with vacant abandoned buildings and brownfields.

The meetings with the Clerks were all well attended and beneficial for everyone in attendance. The meetings serve as both networking meetings and educational sessions. Several speakers attend the two regional meetings at ECIA and presented on topics such as nuisance abatement, personnel policies, funding for community and economic development projects, housing trust fund, etc. The Clinton County Economic Development Coalition has opened up the dialogue among partners throughout the county as well as with the smaller communities in the county. Defining a mission, vision and priorities for the Coalition was completed in this past year. We are beginning to work towards a formal work plan with specific tasks and schedules and several working groups have been formed for the various priorities.

Difficulties During this past year, a long time staff person that dealt with the Clerk meetings retired and it was difficult to replace the staff person and also difficult for the Clerk groups to accept the change in staff. The Executive Director became more involved to assist with the staff transition and to assist with the various meetings.

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ECIA staff regularly attends and acts as the secretary for the Jackson County Mayors.

Meetings are held monthly in Jackson County. ECIA attends and participates in the Mayors monthly meetings in Cedar County.

Accomplishments and Quantifiable Deliverables a. ECIA Staff attended five Jackson County Mayors meetings and provided speakers for each meeting. b. ECIA staff attended 2 Cedar County Mayors meetings and also attended the five monthly Cedar County service providers meetings.

Staff attended and took the minutes for all of the Jackson Mayors meeting this past year. ECIA staff prepared agendas and arranged for speakers at each meeting. Speakers included hazard mitigation planning, flood control, emergency services, transportation funding, grant writing, etc.

Difficulties There were no difficulties encountered.

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ECIA staff will continue with regular roundtable discussions within each county in 2015 on an annual basis with ED groups, Clerks, Mayors and Boards of Supervisors to discuss potential projects, needs for their county, etc.

Accomplishments and Quantifiable Deliverables a. ECIA staff hosted two roundtable meetings with Delaware and Clinton Counties.

ECIA continued meeting with Clinton County on their economic development needs and formed the Clinton County Economic Development Coalition. ECIA staff developed a follow up chart of potential projects and funding sources for Delaware County and a chart for the Clinton County building tour.

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ECIA staff toured five communities in Clinton County and developed a list of potential funding sources to assist with their specific community needs. ECIA staff will continue working with the communities to move the projects forward through the Clinton County Economic Development Coalition and the Mayors meetings.

Difficulties One difficulty is getting the mayors from each community to attend the meetings regularly. Most mayors in small communities have other full-time jobs and have difficulty finding time to add another meeting in their schedule but those that have attended have found the meetings to be very beneficial. Another difficulty we foresee is getting the communities to move forward with the suggestions coming out of the roundtables and the building tour in Clinton County. The communities have limited staff and resources to pursue projects.

ECIA staff will assist where we can but the potential projects are time consuming and require dedicated staff. We are looking for funding resources to assist with staffing needs to move the projects forward.

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ECIA staff participates in the Tri-State Alliance regional partnership. The entity focuses on furthering economic development and transportation in the tri-state region of Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin. The Tri-State Alliance meets quarterly in person and monthly by teleconference.

Accomplishments and Quantifiable Deliverables a. ECIA staff are working closely with the Tri-State Alliance members on a freight study for the region. The study will examine the impacts of freight on the region, areas of growth, facilities needed and future expansion of freight, rail, roadways and intermodal facilities. Study will be funded by the IL DOT and the IA DOT. The monthly meetings have been discontinued until the freight study kicks off in the spring or early summer 2016.

ECIA staff have completed a draft of an EDA technical assistance grant to be submitted to the EDA within the next two to three months. The EDA technical assistance grant will assist with the economic development activities for the 8 county regional freight study. The outcome will be a comprehensive freight study for the region analyzing all forms of freight movement throughout the region and making recommendations for future improvements.

Difficulties The Tri-State Alliance has experienced a few key staffing changes this past year on the Illinois side of the partnership and had lost its purpose and steam in moving forward. We see the value in the partnership so to move forward we found a key element important to the region which is the movement of freight on rail, highway and on the river. An obstacle to the freight study is securing the funding to hire a consultant to do the study. Illinois DOT and the Iowa DOT are committed but we need to secure matching funds and the EDA funds for the economic development component. Our goal is to begin the study by May, 2016.

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ECIA holds monthly Prosperity Eastern Iowa meetings with local economic developers.

Accomplishments and Quantifiable Deliverables a. ECIA staff hosted six Prosperity meetings and hosted several training sessions on various topics such as; social media, Home-Based Iowa, Housing Trust Fund, workforce development, business retention, workplace culture, the importance of STEM, EMSI data, and IMPLAN. b. ECIA staff hosted a bus trip to Hagie Manufacturing for members of PEI as well as the businesses in the region; 23 individuals attended the event. The event focused on workplace culture as well as business retention.

Difficulties There were no difficulties encountered; however, the HAGIE event took a full day, so many higher-level staff where unable to attend.

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ECIA ED staff to meet with GDDC staff on a monthly basis to discuss local and regional ED projects related to retention and expansion of local businesses.

Accomplishments and Quantifiable Deliverables a. ECIA staff attended the GDDC monthly meetings on a regular basis and this year attended 9 monthly meetings. b. Two new loans and one grant application resulted from the meetings.

GDDC information sharing has resulted in new loan applications and funded loans for Business Growth, Inc. as well as new grant applications such as RISE grants. Information sharing has resulted in improved communication and better services to the businesses.

Difficulties The loan services that ECIA provides fills some of the business needs, but not all. There is a lack of equity capital for young businesses starting up or growing quickly in the region.

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ECIA staff participates in the Start-Up Dubuque monthly meetings with the Small Business Development Center, Greater Dubuque Development and ECIA Business Growth to discuss entrepreneurial activity in the region.

Accomplishments and Quantifiable Deliverables a. ECIA staff participated in six Start-Up Dubuque monthly meetings and participated in the organizational board development meetings.

Start-up Dubuque has established an active steering committee and a separate advisory committee comprised of business leaders and entrepreneurs. They meet regularly and are ready to work with their first start-up businesses.

Difficulties An initial challenge for Start-Up Dubuque is identifying new start-up businesses in the area and outreaching to those businesses and getting them to come in and utilize the services. Another issue is the lack of equity capital for young businesses. Additionally, the local SCORE chapter has been non-committal to the start up partnership which is frustrating.

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ECIA staff participates in the City of Dubuque’s Project Hope meetings. The group is focused on defining poverty in the Dubuque area and finding solutions to the barriers that people experience in finding and maintaining long term employment. The group meets monthly.

Accomplishments and Quantifiable Deliverables a. Project HOPE has developed a Targeted Workforce Strategy diagram that documents the local collaboration of education, economic development, and workforce partners aimed at sharing customers, services, and outcomes. They continue to discuss success model strategies for the recruitment, assessment, career development, education, training, and job placement of low income youth and adults.

In addition, they continue utilizing local and state initiatives such as Opportunity Dubuque, Re-engage Dubuque, Home Base Iowa, and Skilled Iowa while embracing new ideas like Sector Boards and Career Pathways. b. Project HOPE is developing a Targeted Workforce Strategy Career Pathway Map that documents intake, outreach, referrals, interdisciplinary teams, and career exploration leading to the establishment of an individual development plan supplemented by additional services such as soft skills, work-based learning, adult education and literacy, and/or Getting Ahead. This model has expanded the Opportunity Dubuque initiative to provide additional supports for those individuals with barriers that need CEDS Annual Report January 2015 - December 2015

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to be addressed before they are work ready. In addition, it will create a better opportunity for leveraging resources provided by Dubuque Works, ECIA, and NICC, as well as, enhancing partnerships with Circles, IowaWORKS, NICC, Promise Jobs, Re-engage Dubuque, and other community partners.

Difficulties This new Career Pathway Map requires extensive coordination to be effective especially the establishment of interdisciplinary teams that are comprised of staff from various agencies working toward a common participant goal and providing supports that move the individual toward achieving self-sufficiency. The Project HOPE partners have developed a draft plan, but much work still needs to be completed.

The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) that began on July 1, 2015. This new legislation has created a lot of challenges for local providers during this transition year, but Project HOPE partners are exploring opportunities to align programs and services to more effectively serve employers, students, and job seekers.

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ECIA staff participates in the DubuqueWorks, Opportunity Dubuque, and the ReEngagement Center committees. The three groups are focused on workforce solutions for the Dubuque area. The groups meeting monthly and quarterly.

Accomplishments and Quantifiable Deliverables ECIA staff attended 10 of the 10 Dubuque Works meetings. Dubuque Works continues to focus on employment issues and collaborates with the Project HOPE membership. Dubuque Works is hosted by GDDC and Project Hope is hosted by the Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque. DubuqueWorks continues to focus on identifying and overcoming barriers for lower income individuals in finding and keeping employment and also in connecting employers to potential employees to fill their vacant positions.

Difficulties We continue to look for funding to keep the initiatives moving forward.

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ECIA staff have been meeting with the Clinton and Jackson County Economic Developers and local leaders regarding the impact of the Thompson Prison opening in Thompson, IL and how the region can better prepare for the influx of new employees.

Accomplishments and Quantifiable Deliverables a. ECIA staff arranged a trip for the regional economic development professionals to participate in an employee recruitment event for the Thompson Prison. b. Jackson County completed a housing needs assessment to determine the demand for workforce housing. c. The City of Clinton is in the process of completing a housing needs assessment to determine the demand for workforce housing.

Full employment capacity at the Thompson, Illinois prison is expected to reach 1100 employees with approximately 20% living outside of Illinois potentially in Iowa in both Clinton and Jackson Counties in the ECIA region. Prisoners began to arrive in July 2015 with the prison at full capacity by 2018. Jackson County commissioned a county-wide housing needs assessment with a final draft completed in November 2015. The study indicates a need for more than 300 housing units by 2025. ECIA staff completed the housing study for Jackson County. The City of Clinton is beginning their housing study with an expected completion date of January 2016.

Difficulties There were no difficulties encountered to date.

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ECIA staff revised the CEDS and submitted a new five year CEDS in December 2014.

Accomplishments and Quantifiable Deliverables a. Five year CEDS was completed and submitted to EDA in December 2014. CEDS is for the period of January 1, 2015 thru December 31, 2019. b. Annual CEDS report completed for December 31, 2015.

CEDS report was submitted for January 1, 2015. CEDS included the new resiliency section. ECIA staff developed a new process for tracking projects and benchmarks this year so it is not as cumbersome to update for the annual CEDS submittal.

Difficulties One difficulty with the CEDS process is ensuring that new economic developers understand the CEDS process and stay engaged with the process throughout the year. We are fortunate that we have not experienced a large turnover in regional economic developers but it is important to keep the goals and priorities in front of even the experienced economic development professionals so they do not forget the role and importance of the CEDS to the region.

B. TRAINING AND CONFERENCE: Attend and participate in meetings of national, state, and local organizations affecting regional strategy policies and programs.

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ECIA staff will continue to participate in the annual trip of the Clinton and the Dubuque communities to meet with federal officials concerning local needs. Trips are scheduled for February and May, 2015.

Accomplishments and Quantifiable Deliverables a. ECIA staff attended the City of Dubuque Washington D.C. Legislative trip in May, 2015 and participated in meetings prior to the trip with Department of Energy, Department of Transportation, Department of Commerce, and Department of Housing and Urban Development.

The Executive Director and the Transportation Director attended all of the meetings and presented to the legislative staff and the Congressional staff on the transportation priorities for Dubuque area. b. Clinton did not travel to Washington D.C. in 2015. But ECIA staff have been participating in their planning for their annual trip to the Des Moines State Capitol in February 2016.

Two ECIA staff attended the Dubuque Washington D.C. trip and presented to the legislative staff and delegation. Staff also attended departmental meetings with HUD, IADOT, EDA, and DOE staff to discuss projects, guidelines, programs that would fit the City and regional priorities.

Difficulties It becomes more and more expensive each year to attend the Washington D.C. events. Unless there is more content than the meetings with legislative staff, we are not sure we can continue to budget for the Washington, D.C. event. Adding the department visits are very beneficial and assists in justifying the time and trip expense.

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ECIA staff will attend the Iowa League of Cities meeting.

Accomplishments and Quantifiable Deliverables a. Three ECIA staff attended the Iowa League Meeting in September 2015.

ECIA staff attended meetings on Brownfield redevelopment, housing development, city code ordinances, flood mitigation planning, land use planning, open meetings, etc. This information is valuable to ECIA’s every day work and can be used with our member governments. A long time ECIA staff person that retired CEDS Annual Report January 2015 - December 2015

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in 2014 was honored at the League meeting and inducted into the League Hall of Fame for his years of service.

Difficulties No difficulties were encountered.

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ECIA staff will attend Iowa DNR meetings in Des Moines.

Accomplishments and Quantifiable Deliverables a. Director of Community Development and the Municipal Relations Coordinator attended a training on Derelict buildings in 2015. b. Director of Community Development attended an IDNR training at the League of Cities conference in September 2015. c. Director of Community Development attended and Iowa Economic Development application workshop in September 2015 and they covered IDNR programs and services.

Difficulties The IDNR programs are a good resource however cities must acquire the property, it is expensive, complicated and a very long process. It gets discouraging for smaller cities with limited staff and technical expertise.

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ECIA staff will attend regional meeting hosted by the EDA.

Accomplishments and Quantifiable Deliverables a. ECIA Executive Director and Economic Development Director attended and participated in the EDA Peer Review in August, 2015 in Des Moines, Iowa.

The Iowa Association of Regional Councils hosted an event with EDA to discuss State and national economic development priorities and EDA also conducted Peer Reviews The Executive Director and the Economic Development Director attended the Peer Review in Des Moines and participated with 3 other Council of Governments in the review. The Peer Review is a great opportunity to learn what other EDA Districts are doing in their work program and provides for an excellent networking opportunity.

Difficulties There were no difficulties encountered.

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ECIA staff will attend two national meetings - either NADO, NADCO, NARC, or the IEDC

Accomplishments and Quantifiable Deliverables a. ECIA Executive Director attended the IEDC Annual Conference in October, 2015. b. ECIA Economic Development Director attended the NARC Annual Conference in November, 2015. c. ECIA Executive Director and the Director of Housing attended an IEDC Housing Development training in July, 2015. d. ECIA Housing Director attended the National NAHRO meeting in October, 2015. e. ECIA Grants and Development Coordinator and Regional Economic Development Coordinator attended the NADO Annual Training Conference in October, 2015.

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back best practices and new ideas to be implemented in the ECIA region.

Difficulties We continue to budget for these meetings as the budgets allow and hope that we can continue to attend as budgets become tighter and tighter every year. Professional development is important to keep staff up to date on new trends and best practices and fresh with ideas that can be implemented in the region.

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ECIA staff will attend training to become familiar with “green” and sustainable business practices that can be introduced to Buyer Supplier companies and member governments.

Accomplishments and Quantifiable Deliverables a. ECIA Regional Economic Development Coordinator attended the City of Dubuque Sustainability Conference in October, 2015. b. ECIA Regional Economic Development Coordinator attended and presented on Buyer/ Supplier to businesses at the Manufacturing Alliance meeting in Peosta, Iowa in January, 2015. c. ECIA Regional Economic Development Coordinator will be partaking in training through the University of Iowa on air quality.

Difficulties There were no difficulties encountered.

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ECIA staff will attend training related to local government finance and municipal finance.

Accomplishments and Quantifiable Deliverables a. The Municipal Relations Coordinator attended the following: • Iowa League of Cities Leadership Summit (April 2015) – Moneyball strategies, economic development tools • Iowa Municipal Finance Officers Association Conference (April 2015) – Budget Preparation, Personnel, Audits • International Economic Developer Council Strategic Planning Training (June 2015) – Capital Improvement Planning • Preservation Iowa Summit (June 2015) – Historic Tax Credits, SSMIDs • Iowa Municipal Professionals Institute (July 2015) – Public funds investment, capital improvement planning, Iowa’s budgeting system, TIF • Iowa Downtown Summit (August 2015) – TIF, SSMIDS, Historic Tax credits, Main Street, CDBG • National Brownfields Conference (September 2015) – Revolving Loan Funds, TIF, Developer agreements • Iowa Brownfields Workshop (September 2015) – Examples of how other Iowa communities financed redevelopment of nuisance properties b. The ECIA Finance Assistant and Director of Finance provided training and financial assistance to the Colesburg City Clerk regarding their financial reporting requirements and daily accounting procedures and reports in July 2015. c. The Director of Finance attended training on the new GASB 68 regulations impacting disclosure of pension plan information in governmental financial statements. d. The Director of Finance attended training on the new WIOA (Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act) accounting and reporting requirements.

Difficulties None at this time.

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C. INFORMATION DISSEMINATION: Disseminate census, economic, statistical and program information by telephone, e-mail, letter, newsletter, personal contact, and training programs. Maintain a database for use in program development and implementation.

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ECIA staff prepares six newsletters each year that is emailed out to over 800 individuals and/or entities in the region and archived on our website.

Accomplishments and Quantifiable Deliverables a. ECIA staff emailed out six newsletters in 2015 to our member governments and mailing list.

Newsletters remained available on the ECIA website for anyone to access that visits the website. The newsletter covers pertinent stories and examples of best practices from around the region as well as news highlights and important events. b. ECIA staff emailed out six Grant Alerts in 2015 to our member governments and mailing list providing up to date information on grant programs and deadlines related to private, State and Federal grant programs.

Six newsletters and six grant alerts were distributed to over 800 people on the mailing list. This outreach keeps ECIA in touch with our member governments and provides information on best practices in the region and opportunities for programming and funding.

Difficulties No difficulties were encountered.

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ECIA staff maintains the websites for ECIA, Prosperity Eastern Iowa, the Regional Transit Authority, and the Eastern Iowa Regional Housing Authority/Corporation and the Eastern Iowa Regional Utility Service Systems, Buyers Supplier Connection, Petal Project, Dubuque Metropolitan Transportation Study, ECIA Business Growth and Accessmyfuture.com.

Accomplishments and Quantifiable Deliverables a. ECIA staff updated and fully revamped the ECIA web site in 2015. The site went live on July 1, 2015. b. ECIA Staff updated and fully revamped the ECIA Business Growth web site in 2015. The site went live October 1, 2015. c. ECIA staff updated the RTA web site in 2015. The site went live in July, 2015. d. ECIA staff updated and fully revamped its partner, the Dyersville Economic Development Corporation’s web site and it went live October 1, 2015.

Four web sites were updated this year and all were done by in-house staff to be economically efficient and to have better control of the design and the content. We will begin working on the housing websites in the upcoming year.

Difficulties Staffing changes make it difficult to maintain the web sites. Web sites should be ever evolving and not stagnate. They are basically outdated the day they go live. Being able to update the website in-house is a benefit but it is also expensive to have staff able to do the work. ECIA had to lay off their web designer in 2015 making it difficult to finish the projects. However, we were able to finish them and go live. Another issue is getting cities and economic development groups to pay for regular web site updates and for us to have the staff to get the work done.

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ECIA staff responds to approximately 150-200 requests for information each year pertaining to grant applications, TIF districts, enterprise zone, city finance, business loan programs, etc.

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Accomplishments Quantifiable Deliverables a. ECIA staff from all departments regularly take calls and emails from our member governments and economic development partners and provide technical assistance related to their questions. Staff responded to over 200 inquiries in 2015 with topics varying from code enforcement, derelict buildings, nuisances, budgeting, zoning, grants, downtown redevelopment, and transportation. It appears that this year there were more inquiries about nuisance abatement and downtown redevelopment than in previous years.

From the inquiries ECIA is able to gain additional contracts for work with our communities. For example, we have done three housing studies this past year. We have also worked on numerous city codes and ordinances related to inquiries from our member governments. It seemed as if downtown redevelopment was one of the most inquired about topics this past year. The smaller communities are concerned about revitalizing their main streets. In response to those inquiries, ECIA sponsored a downtown redevelopment meeting and invited the communities and economic developers. We had over 60 people attend the event.

Difficulties There were no difficulties encountered.

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ECIA staff participates in local, regional and national meetings discussing programs, projects and successes in our region related to economic and community development.

Accomplishments and Quantifiable Deliverables a. ECIA staff hosted a Tools for Economic Development meeting in March, 2015 and presented information on the ECIA economic development programs; and also hosted representatives from the USDA, IFA and the State Iowa Economic Development Authority on their programs related to economic development. Over 20 people attended the meeting from the region. b. ECIA staff hosted a Downtown Redevelopment event in May, 2015 and presented information on ECIA’s programming for community development but also hosted representatives from the USDA, IFA and the State Iowa Economic Development Authority on their programs related to downtown redevelopment. Over 60 people attended the meeting from the region. c. ECIA hosted two social media trainings in the region. One for economic developers specifically targeting their web site, the use of Facebook, Twitter, etc. The second training was targeted at small communities. d. ECIA was successful in receiving a three year USDA grant to offer trainings in the region to build the capacity of our member communities in the areas of community development, economic development, housing, grant writing, board and commissioner training, LEAN, solar, personnel policy training, administrative law, nuisance abatement, Finance 101, etc.

We have utilized this funding to expand our efforts of outreach to our communities and to compliment the work we do with our EDA planning grant. We are also able to do more one-on-on trainings with targeted groups in our communities as well. The grant is from 2015-2017.

Difficulties The training events were successful and very beneficial for recipients of the USDA grant; however, it was a challenge to accommodate everyone’s schedules, so attendance was not what ECIA staff had hoped for at some of the training events. In addition, obtaining surveys after the training event was difficult at some events. Some of the members also thought they were getting bombarded with too many trainings so we regionally diversified the events.

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applications for funding of projects of local and regional concern.

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ECIA staff regularly prepare grant applications and loan applications for CDBG projects such as water, sewer, child care centers, etc.

Accomplishments and Quantifiable Deliverables a. CDBG – public works: The following projects were applied for and submitted on behalf of the cities: • Clinton sewer separation project – funded in 2015 – Total budget $1,325,000 ($600K + $725 local) • Sabula – water and sewer system improvements – not funded – will reapply for 2016 funding – Total budget $992,750 ($300K + $692,750 local) • Lowden – wastewater plant improvements – not funded – will reapply for 2016 funding – Total budget $367,000 ($183.5K + $183.5K local) • Preston – water system improvements – not funded – will reapply for 2016 funding Total budget $410,300 ($205K + $205,300 local) In addition to the above noted re-applications, St. Donatus will be submitting an application for wastewater treatment plant improvements for the 2016 round of applications – approx. Total budget $516,000 ($135K CDBG + $381K local) b. CDBG – housing rehabilitation: The following projects were applied for and submitted on behalf of the cities: • DeWitt – owner-occupied rehab – target 10 houses – funded in 2015 - total budget $405,000 ($395K + $10K local) • Lowden - owner-occupied rehab – target 6 houses – not funded – likely to reapply for 2016 funding - total budget $251,000 ($245K + $6K local) • Maquoketa - owner-occupied rehab – target 12 houses – likely to reapply for 2016 funding - total budget $498,000 ($486K + $12K local) c. CDBG Community Facilities & Services: The following projects were applied for and submitted on behalf of the cities: • Clinton – on behalf of New Directions/ASAC – reroof 2 of their facilities – will reapply for 2016 funding - Total budget $212,650 ($174,650 + $38,000 local provided by New Directions/ASAC • Clinton County – on behalf of Skyline Center – expansion of Day Habilitation Program facility – will reapply for 2016 funding – Total budget $2,400,000 ($800,000 + $1,600,000 local provided by Skyline Center) d. HOME Program – homeownership assistance: ECIA regionwide (except Dubuque County (has an open program)) application – assist 7 homebuyers with provision of downpayment & rehab - not funded – won’t decide on reapplication until 2016 – Total budget $294,000 ($288,750 + $5,250 local) e. HMGP funds: Applied for Delaware County – Multijurisdictional Multi-Hazard Mitigation Planning grant – awards not till early 2016. In 2015, two of the CDBG applications were awarded.

Difficulties The CDBG federal budget has been cut over the past ten years to the point where there is simply not enough funding available in the state program to fund all eligible and needed projects. The HMGP Program does not have adequate funding available to fund all planning grant applications.

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ECIA staff regularly prepare applications for State economic development programs.

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Staff prepare applications to the Iowa DOT for financing of new streets into industrial parks through their RISE (Revitalize Iowa’s Sound Economy) grant program.

• Prepared a $314,604 application for 50% of the funding for new 2,000 ft. street for the City of Dyersville for the expansions of 20 West Industrial Center.

• Prepared a $337,030 application for 50% of the funding for new 1,275 ft. street for the City of Farley for the construction of 11th Avenue NW to serve several new industrial lots.

Difficulties Funding is only 50% of the project so the community must come up with 50% and that can be a challenge for many communities.

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ECIA staff regularly prepare federal and state grant program applications for programs such as RISE, State of Good Repair, EPA Brownfield, and TIGER. ECIA staff will continue to pursue these grant programs annually for communities in the region.

Accomplishments and Quantifiable Deliverables a. ECIA staff prepared and submitted a regional EPA Brownfields Assessment application in November 2014.

The program was not funded but ECIA intends to reapply in November 2015. The intent is to conduct Phase I assessments on vacant and abandoned buildings and sites in the ECIA region and apply for EPA funding to clean-up the sites and redevelop eventually. b. ECIA staff prepared and submitted a Department of Housing and Urban Development Lead Grant on behalf of the City of Clinton to mitigate lead risks in the City.

The grant was not awarded but ECIA intends to partner with Clinton and reapply in 2016. c. ECIA staff prepared and submitted a TIGER grant application on behalf of the City of Clinton to extend a road from their technology park to their main downtown area in Clinton. The grant application was not awarded. The City will have to look to other resources to complete the project. d. ECIA staff prepared and submitted REAP applications on behalf of two trail projects related to the Parks to People initiative in Jackson County in August 2015. Two grants were awarded with over $175,000 of funds to complete the projects. e. ECIA Staff signed a grant writing contract with the Parks to People initiative that includes Jackson, Dubuque and Jones County in the ECIA Region.

ECIA began researching and writing grants for Parks to People in July, 2015 and have prepared and submitted 18 grants to date. f. ECIA staff signed a grant writing contract with Maquoketa Betterment to research and write grants for their downtown redevelopment of the City of Maquoketa priorities.

ECIA began writing grants in March, 2015 and have prepared and submitted 48 grants to date. g. ECIA staff was successful at obtaining $100,000 in REAP funds that will be used to construct a pedestrian and bike bridge over the Maquoketa River.

The project is an element of the $4.6 million Prairie Creek Connections Initiative, an effort to complete a trail loop crossing through the recreation area, downtown Maquoketa, Hurstville Interpretive Center and Maquoketa State Park. h. ECIA staff was successful at obtaining a REAP grant for $75,000 for the construction of a pedestrian bridge over Mill Creek in Bellevue.

The bridge will connect trail systems in Bellevue State Park with parks within city limits. i. ECIA staff submitted two RISE grants to the Iowa DOT: $314,604 for City of Dyersville for a 2,000 ft. extension of Industrial Parkway in the 20 West Industrial Center; $337,000 CEDS Annual Report January 2015 - December 2015

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for City of Farley for a new 1,275 ft. street (11th Avenue NW) in the Industrial Park.

Difficulties There were no unusual difficulties encountered. As usual with the CDBG program for housing, community facility and public works, TIGER, and with EDA Technical Assistance grants, funding is always limited compared to the number of applications.

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ECIA staff prepare Community Attraction and Tourism grant applications for communities. We anticipate 1 applications per year for this funding.

Accomplishments and Quantifiable Deliverables ECIA staff communicated with the grant program officer about four potential projects and also promoted the grant program in the ECIA newsletter.

Difficulties Applicants finding project match from varied resources.

E. DATA CENTER: Collect data and program information on economic development trends and conditions including finance, labor, business development, industrial development, and the agricultural economy.

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ECIA maintains data for grants and reports which is used in applications.

Accomplishments and Quantifiable Deliverables a. ECIA regularly collects data in its transportation department for its mapping, model and grant related work. This data is readily available for all staff to utilize in their grant and loan related work. b. ECIA is purchasing IMPLAN data for the Prosperity Eastern Iowa and ECIA region to run and produce economic impact reports for the economic developers, cities and counties in the region. The data will be available for January 1, 2016.

We anticipate by early 2016 we will be able to run regional reports for 2016 using the IMPLAN software providing economic impact reports.

Difficulties Data is expensive and developing our own data dashboard would be expensive. It appears there are many sources of data and costs vary. Rather than developing our own tool as we originally wanted to pursue, partnering is more economical and efficient.

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ECIA maintains the Location One Information System for the region to track the available sites and buildings through the Prosperity Eastern Iowa web site. This is updated on an ongoing basis.

Accomplishments and Quantifiable Deliverables a. Prosperity Eastern Iowa members are responsible for updating their community sites and buildings, with ECIA staff providing the region wide statistics and community information. b. ECIA Regional Economic Development Coordinator periodically checks the sites and buildings in Location One and reports any errors to the regional PEI partners and ensures corrections are made if needed.

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Difficulties There were no difficulties encountered.

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ECIA is working with the City of Dubuque and Greater Dubuque Development and exploring the uses and creating a Data Dashboard for Dubuque and also to the greater ECIA Region.

We are talking with consultants, reviewing best practices and determining our data needs for the region. ECIA has received a small amount of funding for this endeavor from the USDA and hopes to secure additional funding to develop the regional dashboard in 2015.

Accomplishments and Quantifiable Deliverables a. Iowa State University Extension has also come out with a recently released data dashboard by county which is an excellent resource for all data sets and is available to all Council of Governments in Iowa.

ECIA was considering developing its own data dashboard but with the implementation of the ISU dashboard, ECIA no longer needs to spend its own resources in developing and designing a data dashboard.

Difficulties The original concept was to develop our own regional live data dashboard on our website. However, the cost is prohibitive and data is now readily available on many free web sites. The ISU site is also going to be very useful when completely live. While it is not interactive directly on our own web site, it fills the niche and is much less expensive to implement.

F. DEVELOPMENT STUDIES: Assist local governments and economic development entities in preparing Community Builder Plans.

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ECIA staff will prepare strategic plans for development groups, chambers or cities in the upcoming year.

Accomplishments and Quantifiable Deliverables a. ECIA has seen a trend in the need for Housing Needs Studies and Assessments due to the new Workforce Housing Tax Credit and Workforce Housing Loan programs in Iowa.

For any new construction projects, a Housing Study is required by the State of Iowa to apply for either funding source. In 2015, ECIA completed a draft study for Delaware County, a full study for Jackson County and is working on studies for the City of Clinton and the City of Dyersville. b. ECIA is partnering with Iowa State University Extension and submitted a proposal to complete a 10 year visioning process for the City of Clinton and the Clinton Chamber with the project beginning in early 2016.

ECIA has seen a trend in the need for housing related studies and community visioning. We hope the trend continues with ECIA able to assist our communities and also charge a fee for the service. These studies also lead to future potential projects in our member government communities.

Difficulties ECIA has not encountered any difficulties.

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in conducting their community-wide fundraising efforts for community projects. We plan to do two feasibility plans in 2015.

Accomplishments and Quantifiable Deliverables a.

ECIA has seen a greater interest in the fundraising initiative. ECIA signed a contract with the City of Asbury and completed their feasibility study in 2015. Signed a contract with Little Angles Acquin Daycare and is in the process of completing their feasibility study. Signed a contract with Parks to People and started their feasibility study in October 2015.

Difficulties Feasibility studies have become very popular throughout the region with donor fatigue being a concern.

There needs to be more coordinated efforts in the region to avoid this happening. People only have so much money to donate and only so much free time to give to a project. Asking people multiple times for multiple priorities can be very annoying to the donor. We have begun discussing a coordinating effort in Jackson County and hopes this happens in the other counties.

G. EASTERN IOWA RURAL UTILITIES SERVICES SYSTEMS: Provide technical assistance to local governments and coordinate with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Iowa Department of Economic Development (IDED) in the efforts to administer the 28E organization that provides water and sewer services to cities and rural residents.

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ECIA will continue work with counties in the region in the design and application plans for funding for unsewered communities in the region.

Accomplishments and Quantifiable Deliverables a. Staff are working via EIRUSS with Delaware County to address the wastewater needs of the unincorporated Petersburg community. b. Staff secured a Planning and Design loan from the Iowa DNR State Revolving Fund (SRF) program to prepare a Preliminary Engineering Report (PER) and the most feasible option.

Upon completion and approval of the PER, staff will work to secure funding for construction. c. Staff is also working via EIRUSS with Jackson County to address the wastewater needs of the unincorporated Droessler Subdivision and Spruce Creek Park north of Bellevue.

Based on a PER prepared for the City of Bellevue, it appears the most feasible option is to install a public water supply thereby eliminating the separation issues between water wells and septic systems. d. Staff secured a Planning and Design loan from the Iowa DNR State Revolving Fund (SRF) program to prepare project plans and specifications and updated cost estimates. Upon completion, staff will work via EIRUSS to secure funding for construction.

Difficulties Funding for these water and sewer projects are complicated and takes several years to secure. The State IDNR had allocated funding to the rural water and sewer organizations for five years but in the past two years the funding was not appropriated by the State. It is very difficult for ECIA to staff the EIRUSS without planning funding. Currently the State association is working closely with the legislature to secure funding for future years to continue serving rural areas. ECIA has been able to work with our counties and secure planning funding on an as needed basis and bill for services are projects occur.

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traditionally provided technical assistance to local governments via a Municipal Relations Coordinator and the Regional Economic Development Coordinator and has extended this to economic development technical assistance. The association will provide technical expertise in financing and deal packaging.

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ECIA will assist with Tax Increment Financing in the region.

Accomplishments and Quantifiable Deliverables Provided Economic Development Finance 101 to the elected officials and others in Jackson County. Sessions included TIF Financing, SBA programs, USDA Business Programs, and SBA 504 and RLF financing. A second Finance 101 is scheduled for December, 2015 in Clinton County.

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ECIA will assist in writing ordinances and in developing zoning plans.

Accomplishments and Quantifiable Deliverables ECIA works with member communities in updating their city codes and individual ordinances every year, using a Model Code that is updated by an attorney. This year, staff assisted three communities with full city code updates, and wrote five individual ordinances.

Difficulties None at this time.

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ECIA will assist with RISE applications for roadways in to business parks.

Accomplishments and Quantifiable Deliverables ECIA staff submitted two RISE grants to the Iowa DOT: $314,604 for City of Dyersville for a 2,000 ft. extension of Industrial Parkway in the 20 West Industrial Center; $337,000 for City of Farley for a new 1,275 ft. street (11th Avenue NW) in the Industrial Park.

Difficulties None at this time.

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ECIA will assist communities in preparing Urban Revitalization plans and Urban Renewal Plans.

Accomplishments and Quantifiable Deliverables Community development department did not have any Urban Renewal plans or comprehensive plans completed this year.

Difficulties With city and county budgets tight, completing these type of plans has been pushed back to later years.

Cities do not have the resources to complete the plans as often as they would like to.

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ECIA will assist with EPA, IDNR and IDED Brownfield grant applications.

Accomplishments and Quantifiable Deliverables a. ECIA staff prepared and submitted a regional EPA Brownfields Assessment application in November 2014.

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The program was not funded but ECIA intends to reapply in November 2015. The intent is to conduct Phase I assessments on vacant and abandoned building and sites in the ECIA region and apply for EPA funding to clean-up the sites and redevelop eventually. b. ECIA staff prepared and received an EDA Technical Assistance Grant in partnership with Northeast Iowa Community College to conduct a feasibility study on expanding the Manchester Education Partnership Center.

The grant initiated in May of 2015 and will conclude in April, 2016. The Manchester Education Center is a collaborative partnership developing workforce pipelines through needs driven, responsive training and retraining programs to fill high demand jobs in Delaware County and the surrounding counties. The goal of the grant is to look at best practices nationally and determine the feasibility and develop a business plan to expand the Delaware County center. c. ECIA staff are working with the City of Dubuque on an EDA Public Works Application for a pier in the Port of Dubuque to accommodate the Viking Cruise Lines expanding on the Mississippi River.

The application will be submitted to the EDA in November, 2015. d. ECIA staff are working with Prosperity Eastern Iowa partners to submit an EDA Technical Assistance grant to review best practices nationally and develop a plan to recruit, retrain, and retain older workers to assist in addressing the regional workforce shortage. The application will be submitted to the EDA in December, 2015. e. ECIA staff is partnering with Blackhawk Hills Regional Council to submit an EDA Technical Assistance grant to conduct a regional freight study for the 8 counties in Illinois and Iowa in partnership with the Metropolitan Planning Organization, the Regional Planning Organization, and the Iowa and Illinois Department of Transportations. The application will be submitted in December, 2015.

ECIA has been very busy with several EDA technical assistance grants partnering with other regional planning groups and the community college to implement the programs. All projects are a benefit to our member governments and a resource for our members. Many times the grant can be used as a model for our other communities and a learning tool and best practices for the future.

Difficulties As with any grant programs, time is an issue in preparing the grants applications and the competition is fierce with funding limited.

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ECIA staff will continue to assist small communities under 500 population with utility billing and accounting services.

Accomplishments and Quantifiable Deliverables ECIA staff assisted the City of Colesburg with their accounting procedures and reviewed their balance sheet and accounts receivable and payable. While ECIA is available to assist communities with their utility billing and accounting, the accounting package and services that we provided ten years ago is no obsolete.

There are competitively priced accounting packages available now through Quickbooks that smaller communities can adopt versus utilizing our package developed over 10 years ago.

Difficulties The niche market for accounting software no longer exists for small cities. There are affordable packages now available. We no longer are supporting or marketing our accounting package but are providing technical assistance and guidance as needed.

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ECIA staff through the Prosperity Eastern Iowa entity will continue to provide expertise in web page design and optimization and developing and submitting proposals to leads and inquiries in the region.

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Accomplishments and Quantifiable Deliverables ECIA staff completed one PEI partner’s website. ECIA staff also conducted training to the partner so the partner can make updates to the site as needed. ECIA staff follows a lead protocol as outlined in the PEI Strategic Plan. ECIA emails all PEI leads when information is received from the State of Iowa on a potential lead and provides follow up as necessary.

Difficulties ECIA had to lay off their web designer in 2015 making it difficult to commit to future web site development.

Another issue is getting cities and economic development groups to pay for regular web site updates and for us to have the staff to get the work completed.

I. PROSPERITY EASTERN IOWA COLLABORATIVE MARKETING: Administer and conduct the activities identified by the Prosperity Eastern Iowa Economic Development Partnership to further business retention and expansion in ECIA’s three of ECIA’s Counties, Dubuque, Delaware, Jackson and then Jones County. Key projects and activities that will be conducted include: 1.

ECIA implemented the local industry business retention and expansion program and regional compiling of this data. PEI partners conduct synchronist calls and visits to businesses in their coverage area to ensure that the businesses needs are being met.

Accomplishments and Quantifiable Deliverables ECIA provided local businesses and PEI partners with culture training and an all-day event with a tour to Hagie Manufacturing. Having a positive workplace culture both sustains and attracts people to work for a business or continue employment with the businesses.

Difficulties Since workforce continues to be an issue within the State of Iowa; businesses are finding it difficult to hire a sufficient amount of skilled workers to fill positions. In addition, many workers are lacking soft skills, unable to pass pre-requisites of the position (ie. drug test); or have other barriers to employment, such as child care or transportation issues.

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Continue updating the regional websites: Buyer Supplier; Prosperity Eastern Iowa; Accessmyfuture.com; and Petal-project.com.

Accomplishments and Quantifiable Deliverables The regional sites are updated as needed. A manufacturing trading post has been added to the Buyer Supplier website. This trading post is for manufacturers who are wanting to buy/sell products that are already in their inventory. ECIA staff continues to posts RFP’s from the City of Dubuque.

Difficulties It continues to be a challenge to have businesses use the Buyer/Supplier website. The Petal Project website is highly used as it provides a tool kit for businesses to use when becoming Petal certified.

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in 2015. ECIA Staff are working with ECIA member communities and the Prosperity Eastern Iowa members and providing training opportunities on economic development, community development, brownfields, etc.

Difficulties Budgets are tight for local economic development groups and at the state level which makes the grant process more competitive and maintaining membership and local match a concern.

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Continue to partner with the State of Iowa on the export conference and program.

Accomplishments and Quantifiable Deliverables PEI partners decided to host an exporting conference as needed to discuss state-wide programs. This was a priority in 2012 but the focus for our partners continues to be Workforce.

Difficulties None at this time.

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Continue to pursue partnerships to expand Buyer Supplier into other parts of Iowa; into Wisconsin; and into Illinois.

Accomplishments and Quantifiable Deliverables In 2013 the partnership with Northeast Iowa Business Network, Jo Daviess, Carroll, and parts of Whiteside County in Illinois ended due to funding cuts.

Difficulties Many surrounding cities/counties/economic development groups are interested in Buyer Supplier but cannot afford the annual membership dues 7.

Continue to promote and seek businesses to participate in the Petal Project sustainability program and green business program that can be incorporated into their daily business practices.

Accomplishments and Quantifiable Deliverables The Petal Project has assisted 38 businesses in the community with improving and “greening� their daily business practices. There is an existing partnership with the Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque and their Grants to Green program assisting non-profit agencies in the region to help non-profits become more energy efficient and provide technical assistance and possible funding to pursue energy efficient modifications to existing or planned buildings. Petal partners in educating the participating non-profits on sustainability.

Difficulties Continued funding for the Petal Project continues to be a challenge. Keeping companies engaged on an ongoing basis after they are certified is a challenge. The Grants to Green program is in its second of a three year funded grant program. An application for the program will be submitted but it is unsure it will get funded again.

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Continue to focus on workforce recruitment and retention in the region.

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Disaster and Economic Recovery and Resiliency Measurable Progress Disaster Resiliency The ECIA region is committed to being a resilient region with respect to disaster mitigation and preparedness. Disasters know no boundaries and cast an immediate need for cooperation and collaboration across city and county borders. There has to be an integration of responses and resources to support those areas that have weak capacity. ECIA coordinates with county governments as lead jurisdictions and local emergency management coordinators and will ensure that all jurisdictions, including school districts, participate. ECIA assists cities in implementing plan recommendations in current planning processes and evaluating the effectiveness of those actions and overall planning process. Multi-jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plans (MJHMP) have been completed for all counties in the ECIA region. A multijurisdictional plan is important because it: offers an opportunity to cooperate on mutual concerns; allows economies of scale by leveraging individual capabilities and sharing costs and resources; avoids duplication of efforts; and imposes an external discipline on the process. The multi-jurisdictional plans for each county within the ECIA region can be found on the ECIA website at www.ecia.org/resiliency.

In 2015, the five counties in the ECIA region were very fortunate and did not receive any FEMA disaster declarations compared to one FEMA disaster declaration an August 5, 2014 for Jackson and Cedar Counties in Iowa related to severe storms, tornadoes, winds and flooding. However, the declarations were down from three declarations in the region in 2013.

Regional Implementation Strategy This strategy for governments and business is a resource to utilize before and after a disaster. The Strategy is used as a guiding process and resource document for those wishing to perform pre-disaster planning and post-disaster recovery. Revisiting the Strategy will be done throughout the course of the five year CEDS to reflect changing resources, potential disaster scenarios and general government and business landscapes.

The Regional Implementation Strategy is intended to serve as a framework for ongoing recovery and mitigation activities. The goals and objectives of the regional strategy are as follows: Goal 1: Increase capabilities within the region to mitigate the effects of hazards by enhancing existing or designing and adopting new policies that will reduce the damaging effects of hazards.

1.1. Reduce repetitive property losses due to flood, wildfire, winter storms, and other hazards.

1.2. Protect critical facilities, infrastructure, and utility systems.

1.3. Improve the integrity and resiliency of infrastructure within the region by applying for funding for previously identified recovery and mitigation projects. These projects include road repair, the enhancement of back-up generators, storm and sanitary sewer systems, wastewater treatment facilities, power transmission, among others.

1.4. Encourage the incorporation of mitigation measures into repairs, redevelopment, and capital improvement projects for governments, businesses, education institutions, and the public.

1.5. Identify funding opportunities for future mitigation measures.

1.6. Prepare and Update of Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plans.

1.7. Encourage local governments and community school districts to pursue FEMA Funding for safe rooms at public facilities.

Accomplishments and Quantifiable Deliverables All of the above strategies are addressed in the ECIA region countywide, Multi-Jurisdictional Multi-Hazard Mitigation Plans. The plans identify potential hazards, identify and map critical facilities, identify projects to address and mitigate damages from hazards and apply for funding when appropriate for projects.

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implement projects whenever feasible.

Difficulties HMGP funding is limited and may delay the updates of some plans in a timely manner. Without an approved plan, communities are not eligible for FEMA funding for HMGP projects. The HUD competition will be extremely competitive for a limited amount of available funding.

Goal 2: Protect the most vulnerable populations, buildings, and critical facilities within the region through the implementation of cost effective and technically feasible mitigation projects.

2.1. Educate property and business owners on affordable mitigation and preparedness measures that can be taken to reduce property loss.

2.2. Assure that vulnerable buildings and critical facilities within the region are identified and cataloged, and that vulnerability assessments are completed for each identified facility.

2.3. Assure that vulnerable populations such as the elderly, homeless, low income or those with limited English proficiency are included in educational programs regarding preparedness or mitigation.

2.4. Enhance the capabilities to collect, analyze, update, and exchange data and information to support risk assessment and mitigation needs.

Accomplishments and Quantifiable Deliverables Current Multi-Jurisdictional, Multi-Hazard Mitigation plans included components to educate the public regarding potential hazards and opportunities to make properties resilient to disasters. Vulnerable populations were identified and locations documented to allow for contacts and assistance as may be necessary following disasters.

Difficulties Current Multi-Jurisdictional, Multi-Hazard Mitigation plans completed over the past three-four years.

Goal 3: Continue to replace and protect housing stock damaged and lost by 2008 and 2011 flooding.

3.1. Encourage local governments and private developers to partner to construct new affordable single family housing in the region. ECIA over the last five years has worked with its local governments and the Iowa Economic Development Authority through their New Production program to replace lost housing in the region. Over 175 new homes have been constructed throughout the five county region. ECIA over the last five years has worked with local governments and the Iowa Economic Development Authority through their New Production Multi- Family housing program to replace lost rental housing in the region. Over 100 new rentals have been developed. ECIA will continue to encourage local governments and private developers to partner to in the construction of new affordable rental housing in the region.

3.2. Promote the Eastern Iowa Regional Housing Corporation’s Housing Trust Fund program to private developers, cities, counties and local citizens. The mission of the EIRHC Housing Trust Fund is to assist in the provision of providing decent, safe and affordable housing, as well as providing access to the resources for creating housing opportunities to the families served in eastern Iowa. The emphasis is to provide economic assistance to benefit the low, very low, and extremely low-income residents of Dubuque, Delaware, Jackson, Cedar and Clinton Counties for a variety of housing needs. Funding priorities for the Housing Trust fund include: Lead Hazard Remediation; Owner-Occupied Rehabilitation Activities; Emergency (Transitional) Housing and Special Needs Housing; Infrastructure, Lot Development, New/ Rehab Construction, including rental rehabilitation; and Down Payment Assistance/ Ownership Preservation.

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Accomplishments and Quantifiable Deliverables The Eastern Iowa Regional Housing Corporation HTF was awarded $ 379,802.00 from the Iowa Finance Authority in 2015 to create or preserve housing for LMI individuals, and to promote homeownership opportunities. The 2015 funds will be used to Rehabilitate 138 rental properties, create 16 new rental properties, preserve 7 existing owner-occupied housing units, and to promote 1 new homeownership opportunity.

In 2015 the Housing Trust Fund submitted the 2016 application requesting an additional $326,554.00 from the Iowa Finance Authority to create or preserve 39 housing units for LMI individuals, and to promote 8 new homeownership opportunities.

In 2015 the Housing Trust Fund awarded $ 379,802.00 to the following Agencies; Eastern Iowa Regional Housing Authority $95,391.75 to rehabilitate 108 rental units, DAC, Inc., $ 44,437.50 to rehabilitate 30 group home units, Community Action of Eastern Iowa, $ 31,250.00 to provide weatherization assistance for 5 owner-occupied units, and Community Housing Initiative, $ 188,873.75 the Housing trust Fund also provided $ 5,000.00 down payment assistance to one home buyer and $ 14,850.00 emergency repairs to two owner-occupied units, one received a new furnace, A/C and the other received a new roof.

The 2016 projects included in the 2015 application include; City of Dewitt, $ 110,000 to assist 5 homebuyers with down payment assistance and 14 owner-occupied homeowners with rehabilitation, ECIA, $ 64,917 to develop 12 LMI housing Units in Maquoketa, Iowa Valley for Habitat for Humanity, 34,999.00 to construct 1 new home and assist 5 owner-occupied homeowners with rehabilitation. The award amount will also include 3 individuals with down payment assistance, a 2 owner-occupied homeowners with emergency rehabilitation.

Difficulties The Housing Trust Fund‘s 2015 application for the 2016 funding round, we had to eliminate or put on hold 15 other agencies or homeowners applications, that applied for funding, but because of Funding Limitation, we will not be able to assist. Another issue is there is no State funding available any longer for new production housing with down payment assistance. The program was funded with 2008 Federal Flood funding and the funds are depleted making it difficult to fund workforce housing in the region.

Goal 4: Improve the resiliency of the private sector to disaster situations 4.1. Promote business continuity planning and maintain resources and example plans for interested businesses through ECIA Business Growth Inc., local Chambers of Commerce and Economic Development Corporations.

4.2. Promote Business Continuity and Continuity of Operations planning to critical assets and major employers identified in the Hazard Mitigation Planning process.

4.3 Promote economic diversification regionally to insulate the region from economic disasters and difficult times.

Accomplishments and Quantifiable Deliverables Provided loans to businesses to assist them with expansions that will diversify their customers bases and the number and variety of suppliers. The Board of Directors of E.C.I.A. Business Growth, Inc. approved 10 loans to nine businesses totaling $3,547,500. This will result in the creation of 111 new jobs and the retention of 17 jobs. One loan was an Energy Efficiency loan, which will reduce the company’s electrical consumption, thus improving its viability and continuity.

Difficulties None at this time.

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Goal 5: Improve the level of responder, government, business, and citizen awareness and preparedness for disaster.

5.1. Identify and develop needed training and exercises for targeted responder, government and citizen audiences.

5.2. Strengthen outreach and partnerships with the private sector, nonprofit organizations and the public.

5.3. Improve public understanding of hazards and risk by providing public awareness, preparedness, and mitigation information through various channels of communication.

Accomplishments and Quantifiable Deliverables Current Multi-Jurisdictional, Multi-Hazard Mitigation plans included components to educate the public regarding potential hazards and opportunities to make properties resilient to disasters. Vulnerable populations were identified and locations documented to allow for contacts and assistance as may be necessary following disasters.

Difficulties No difficulties were encountered Goal 6: Develop programs to assure that response agencies, governments, educational institutions, and local businesses are able to operate during times of disaster.

6.1. Promote the development of emergency response plans, including continuity of operations plans, among local response agencies, governments, educational institutions and local businesses.

6.2. Provide education, training, and exercise opportunities for local entities to prepare for and test their ability to operate during times of disaster.

Accomplishments and Quantifiable Deliverables Current Multi-Jurisdictional, Multi-Hazard Mitigation plans included components to educate the public regarding potential hazards and opportunities to make properties resilient to disasters. Vulnerable populations were identified and locations documented to allow for contacts and assistance as may be necessary following disasters. We have been fortunate in 2015 that we have not had any disasters.

Difficulties No difficulties were encountered.

Goal 7: Coordinate a multi-jurisdictional approach to integrate hazard mitigation and land use planning.

7.1. Create maps to identify hazardous areas.

7.2. Incorporate hazard mitigation into zoning, subdivision, and building codes where applicable.

7.3. Develop policies and ordinances to steer development away from hazardous areas.

7.4. Review land for potential hazards before subdivision approval.

7.5. Consider providing incentives for building in non-hazardous areas.

7.6. Preserve and enhance protective features of the natural environment including wetlands, vegetation on steep slopes, and other natural areas that promote ground water infiltration.

7.7. Retrofit buildings and facilities at risk in redeveloping areas.

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Difficulties No difficulties were encountered Goal 8: Coordinate future transportation plans with appropriate hazard mitigation plans.

8.1. Prioritize which roads and bridges that shall remain passable during an emergency or evacuation.

8.2. Identify alternative routes if prioritized roads and bridges become impassible.

8.4. Establish ongoing means of redundant communication with fire, sheriff, and police departments and the County Emergency Management Agency to ensure sharing of crime and security information among all concerned.

8.5. Work with public safety agencies including law enforcement, fire, emergency medical services, and emergency management regarding security and emergency preparedness plans.

8.6. Define transit system’s role in non-transit emergencies.

8.7. Review evacuation plans in the region, focusing on transit security plans.

Accomplishments and Quantifiable Deliverables • Multi-Jurisdictional, Multi-Hazard Mitigation plans are incorporated into land use planning by local governments. Development in potential hazard areas (e.g. – floodplains) are discouraged. The plans include the identification of floodplains and critical facilities that must be protected in any development efforts.

• Hazard mitigation plans are included in Dubuque County Regional Comprehensive Plan • Hazard mitigation plans are included in Long Range transportation Plans for Dubuque Metro and Regional Planning Affiliation 8 • Transportation Staff works with Multi-Disciplinary Safety Teams (MDST) in Dubuque and Clinton and address hazard mitigation planning process.

• Staff will coordinate with MDST groups when updating the Hazard Mitigation plans • Transportation Staff meets with MDST group every two months to address Safety, Security and Hazard Mitigation issues Difficulties Staff takes into consideration Hazard Mitigations issues while ranking transportation project but it is hard to quantify the impact.

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FY 2016 SCOPE OF WORK – January 2016 to December 2016 Grantee:

East Central Intergovernmental Association

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EDA Planning funds will support the implementation of an Economic Development program designed to create and retain jobs throughout the region. An updated five-year Economic Development Strategy was adopted for the region beginning January, 2015 and runs through December, 2019. ECIA intends to perform the following activities as part of our 2016 EDA Planning Grant: A. LOCAL GOVERNMENT MEETINGS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT GROUP MEETINGS: ECIA staff regularly attends meetings of local governments and local economic development groups to provide information and facilitate program implementation.

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ECIA participates and sits on the Board of the Greater Dubuque Development Corporation and attends their regular board meetings at least quarterly.

ECIA facilitates are county-wide economic development group in Clinton County and will participate in at least six meetings this year.

ECIA facilitates a county-wide Mayors group in Clinton County and will participate in at least four meetings this year.

ECIA staff regularly hosts and participates in City Clerk meetings in Delaware, Dubuque and Cedar Counties. ECIA hosts two meetings a year of the regional city clerks.

ECIA staff regularly attends and acts as the secretary for the Jackson County Mayors.

Meetings are held monthly in Jackson County. ECIA attends and participates in the Mayors monthly meetings in Cedar County.

ECIA staff will continue with regular roundtable discussions within each county in 2016 on an annual basis with ED groups, Clerks, Mayors and Boards of Supervisors to discuss potential projects, needs for their county, etc.

ECIA staff participates in the Tri-State Alliance regional partnership and will be focusing on a freight study in 2016. The entity focuses on furthering economic development and transportation in the tri-state region of Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin. ECIA staff expects to participate in at least four meetings this year.

ECIA holds six meetings a year with Prosperity Eastern Iowa local economic developers.

ECIA provides staff for their regional economic development efforts.

ECIA ED staff to meet with GDDC staff on a monthly basis to discuss local and regional ED projects related to retention and expansion of local businesses.

ECIA staff participates in the Start-Up Dubuque quarterly meetings with the Small Business Development Center, Greater Dubuque Development and ECIA Business Growth to discuss entrepreneurial activity in the region.

ECIA staff participates in the Parks to People Community and Economic Development initiative in Jackson, Dubuque and Jones Counties. This group meets at least every other month and ECIA provides staffing support for their efforts.

ECIA staff participates in the City of Dubuque’s Project Hope meetings. The group is focused on defining poverty in the Dubuque area and finding solutions to the barriers that people experience in finding and maintaining long term employment. The group meets monthly.

ECIA staff participates in the DubuqueWorks, Opportunity Dubuque, and the ReEngagement Center committees. The three groups are focused on workforce solutions for the Dubuque area. The groups meet monthly and quarterly.

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ECIA staff will attend the Iowa League of Cities meeting.

ECIA staff will attend Iowa DNR meetings in Des Moines.

ECIA staff will attend regional meeting hosted by the EDA. ECIA staff will attend two national meetings - either NADO, NARC, NADCO or the IEDC meetings.

ECIA staff will attend training to become familiar with "green" and sustainable business practices that can be introduced to Buyer Supplier companies and member governments.

ECIA staff will attend training related to local government finance and municipal finance.

C. INFORMATION DISSEMINATION: Disseminate census, economic, statistical and program information by telephone, e-mail, letter, newsletter, personal contact, and training programs. Maintain a database for use in program development and implementation.

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ECIA staff maintains the websites for ECIA, Prosperity Eastern Iowa, the Regional Transit Authority, and the Eastern Iowa Regional Housing Authority/Corporation and the Eastern Iowa Regional Utility Service Systems, Buyers Supplier Connection, Petal Project, Dubuque Metropolitan Transportation Study, and Accessmyfuture.com.

ECIA staff responds to approximately 150-200 requests for information each year pertaining to grant applications, TIF districts, enterprise zone, city finance, business loan programs, ordinances, etc.

ECIA staff participates in local, regional and national meetings discussing programs, projects and successes in our region related to economic and community development.

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ECIA staff regularly prepare applications for State economic development programs.

ECIA staff regularly prepare federal and state grant program applications for programs such as RISE, EPA Brownfield, USDA programs, and TIGER. ECIA staff will continue to pursue these grant programs annually for communities in the region.

ECIA staff regularly prepare and review private foundation grants for our member governments.

ECIA staff prepare Community Attraction and Tourism grant applications for communities.

We anticipate 1 application per year for this funding.

E. DATA CENTER: Collect data and program information on economic development trends and conditions including finance, labor, business development, industrial development, and the agricultural economy.

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ECIA works closely with Northeast Iowa Community College on economic development (NICC) projects and has access to EMSI data and can produce regional workforce data reports. ECIA anticipates requesting at least two reports from NICC in 2016 related to upcoming projects.

ECIA is working with its Prosperity Eastern Iowa partners to purchase IMPLAN data for the region and utilizing the data to run economic impact reports for our members. We anticipate completing two reports for our members in 2016.

F. DEVELOPMENT STUDIES: Assist local governments and economic development entities in preparing Community Builder Plans.

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ECIA has implemented a new program and are working with small communities and no-profits on feasibility plans for community and economic development projects. ECIA staff prepare feasibility studies for the community projects and provide oversight and assistance to communities in conducting their community-wide fundraising efforts for community projects.

We plan to do two feasibility plans in 2016.

G. EASTERN IOWA RURAL UTILITIES, INC.: Provide technical assistance to local governments and coordinate with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Iowa Department of Economic Development (IDED) in the efforts to administer the 28E organization that provides water and sewer services to cities and rural residents.

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ECIA will continue work with counties in the region in the design and application plans for funding for unsewered communities in the region.

ECIA staff will work to secure funding for staff and preliminary engineering costs to continue doing water and sewer projects in underserved communities.

H. ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE: Provide technical assistance to local governments, development corporations, chambers of commerce, businesses, and individuals, in the ongoing implementation of the Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy. ECIA has traditionally provided technical assistance to local governments via a Municipal Relations Coordinator and the Regional Economic Development Coordinator and has extended this to economic development technical assistance. The association will provide technical expertise in financing and deal packaging.

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ECIA will assist with Tax Increment Financing in the region.

ECIA will assist in writing ordinances and in developing zoning plans.

ECIA will assist with RISE applications for roadways in to business parks.

ECIA will assist communities in preparing Urban Revitalization plans and Urban Renewal Plans.

ECIA staff will continue to explore funding and programs to address the workforce shortage in the region.

ECIA staff will continue to explore funding options to develop a pocket neighborhood in the region to develop a replicable model in the region and to address the workforce housing needs of the region.

ECIA staff will continue to explore funding options to address the derelict building needs of the region to secure resources for our member governments.

ECIA will assist with EPA, IDNR and IDED Brownfield grant applications.

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and accounting services.

ECIA staff through the Prosperity Eastern Iowa entity will continue to provide expertise in web page design and optimization and developing and submitting proposals to leads and inquiries in the region.

I. PROSPERITY EASTERN IOWA COLLABORATIVE MARKETING: Administer and conduct the activities identified by the Prosperity Eastern Iowa Economic Development Partnership to further business retention and expansion in ECIA’s three of ECIA’s Counties, Dubuque, Delaware, Jackson and then Jones County. Key projects and activities that will be conducted include: 1.

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ECIA implemented the local industry business retention and expansion program and regional compiling of this data Continue updating the regional websites: Buyer Supplier; Prosperity Eastern Iowa; Accessmyfuture.com; and Petal-project.com.

Continue to seek partners and raise funds for the Prosperity efforts.

Continue to partner with the NICC to produce reports using EMSI data.

Continue to work on workforce recruitment and retention strategies for the region to address the workforce shortage in the areas of advanced manufacturing, healthcare, over the road drivers, and technology.

Continue to promote and seek businesses to participate in the Petal Project sustainability program and green business program that can be incorporated into their daily business practices.

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ECIA Strategic Projects, Programs & Activities Funding

General Information Report

CEDS Goal (if applicable)

Project Title

Project Description

Project Location (County) Cedar County

Project Location (City) Lead Organization

Lead Department (ECIA Projects)

Cedar County

ECIA

Administration

Completed

Vital

Technical Assistance

Seeking Funding

Vital

Facility Construction / Rehab.

2012-2015

2014-2015

Project Status

Project Priority

Project Type

Both

General Technical Community Development: Assistance Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds to the region by 20% and completing 15 projects

by January 2020.

Provided grant and financing information to Board of Sups and County Engineer for the new Secondary Maintenance Facility and provided information to Tipton CD/ED Director on Housing Needs Assessment

Both

Clarence Library Community Development: Construction Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds to the region by 20% and completing 15 projects

by January 2020.

The new library will more than Cedar County double the space of the current facility.The total project cost is $466,538.

02/2015: In deliberations with CAT board.

Clarence

Friends of the Edna Zybell Memorial Library

Administration

Both

Housing Needs Housing: Increase the number of workforce rental Assessment and single family housing units in the region by 2% to accommodate the industry demands by January, 2020.

Completed Housing Needs Assessment in 2014

Cedar County

Tipton

Tipton Economic Development

Administration Completed /Transportatio n

Vital

Planning

Both

Hardacre Theater Community Development: Enhance community and Preservation public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds to the region by 20% and completing 15 projects

by January 2020.

ECIA staff is facilitating a Cedar County capital campaign to restore the theater; feasibility study in progress; Contract amount is $2,750

Tipton

Hardacre Theater Preservation Association

Administration

Vital

Facility Construction / Rehab.

Seeking Funding

Schedule

Jobs Created or Retained (projected or actual)

Jobs Lost (projected or actual)

Private or Leveraged Funding Sources

Private or Leveraged Funding Total

ECIA Assisted Grant Funding Sources

ECIA Assisted Grant Funding Total

Other Grant Funding Sources

Other Grant Funding Total

Local Match Source

Local Match Total

2014

Total Project Cost

Amount Billed to Community for Contract

$0

4

$210,707 Cedar County Community Foundation; Roy J. Carver Foundation

$66,000 Clarence Foundation

$5,000 In-kind labor

$30,000

2014-2017

Additional Value of ECIA Staff time Not in a contract $150

$311,707

$2,500

$400

$0

$4,000

$2,000

$0

$481

$300

Both

Cedar County Clerks Meetings 2014

Staff attends meetings and answers pertinent questions.

Three in 2014

Cedar County

Cedar County

ECIA

Administration

Vital

Technical Assistance

Ongoing

$0

$462

Both

Cedar County Clerks Meetings 2013

Staff attends meetings and answers pertinent questions.

Two in 2013

Cedar County

Cedar County

ECIA

Administration

Vital

Technical Assistance

Ongoing

$0

$308

Both

Cedar County Mayors Meetings 2015

Staff attends meetings and answers pertinent questions.

Cedar County

Cedar County

ECIA

Community Development

In Progress

Vital

Technical Assistance

Ongoing

$0

Both

Cedar County Mayors Meetings 2014

Staff attends meetings and Cedar County answers pertinent questions.

Two in 2014 Wastewater collection and Cedar County treatment facility improvements

Cedar County

ECIA

Community Development

In Progress

Vital

Technical Assistance

Ongoing

$0

$675

Bennett

City of Bennett

Community Development

In Progress

Vital

Infrastructure

2009-2015

$702,400

$3,000

Lowden

City of Durant

Community Development

Seeking Funding

Vital

Facility Construction / Rehab.

2013-2017

Both

Community Development: Wastewater Facility Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds to the region by 20% and completing 15 projects

by January 2020.

Both

Community Development: Sewer System Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds to the region by 20% and completing 15 projects

by January 2020.

Construct sewer system.

Applied for funding in fall 2013 (not funded), 2014 (awards announced in April).

ECIA staff did Environmental work at contracted cost of $1,000.

Cedar County

Community Development Block Grant

$300,000

City of Bennett

$402,400

$0

$930

$3,000

Both

Community Development: Acquire floodEnhance community and public damaged properties facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds to the region by 20% and completing 15 projects by January 2020.

Cedar County Removal of damaged properties and mitigate future flood damage; 2013 (2 houses, 1 in the City and 1 in the County) and 2014 (1 house in the City) Funding secured via DOT due to ECIA involvment.

Lowden

City and ECIA

Community Development

In Progress

Vital

Technical Assistance

Both

Water System Community Development: Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds to the region by 20% and completing 15 projects

by January 2020.

Water system improvements; Applied for funding in 2011, 2012; Continue to seek funding

Lowden

City of Lowden

Community Development

Seeking Funding

Vital

Both

Housing: Increase the number of workforce rental and single family housing units in the region by 2% to accommodate the industry demands by January, 2020.

Housing Rehab grant Cedar County application prepared in 2012; continue to seek funding

Mechanicsville

ECIA

Community Development

Seeking Funding

Both

Water System Community Development: Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds to the region by 20% and completing 15 projects

by January 2020.

Water system improvements; Cedar County Funds secured; work in progress; applying for additional funds in November 2012, 2013, 2014 (awarded)

Stanwood

City of Stanwood

Community Development

Both

Housing: Increase the number of workforce rental and single family housing units in the region by 2% to accommodate the industry demands by January, 2020.

Owner-Occupied Rehabilitation Assistance

Provide owner-occupied rehabilitation assistance to seven (7) households; Applied for funding in 2011 (not funded), 2013 (not funded), 2014 (6) households (waiting notification). ECIA staff did Environmental at contracted rate of $1,000.

Cedar County

Lowden

City of Lowden

Both

Housing: Increase the Homeownership number of workforce rental Program and single family housing units in the region by 2% to accommodate the industry demands by January, 2020.

Provide assistance to 6 owner occupied households; Applied for funding in 2011, 2012, and 2013; Six owner occupied households rehabilitated.

Cedar County

Stanwood

Both

Housing: Increase the Housing Assistance number of workforce rental and single family housing units in the region by 2% to accommodate the industry demands by January, 2020.

Section 8 HCV Assistance 85 families assisted $220,185 in Housing Assistance Payments to landlords - July 1, 2012 June 30, 2013

Cedar County

Both

Housing: Increase the Housing Assistance number of workforce rental and single family housing units in the region by 2% to accommodate the industry demands by January, 2020.

Section 8 HCV Assistance 85 families assisted $182,006 in Housing Assistance Payments to landlords - July 1, 2013 June 30, 2014

Both

Housing: Increase the number of Derelict Building Tour for workforce rental and single family Clinton Coalition meetings housing units in the region by 2% to accommodate the industry demands by January, 2020.

Toured derelict buldings in Grand Mound, Lost Nation, Charlotte, and Delmar

Housing Rehab Grant

2013-2014

$0

$500

Infrastructure

Ongoing

$0

$6,000

Vital

Technical Assistance

Ongoing

$0

$3,000

Seeking Funding

Vital

Infrastructure

2005-2015

$0

$6,000

Community Development

Seeking Funding

Vital

Facility Construction / Rehab.

Ongoing

$0

City of Stanwood

Community Development

Completed

Vital

Technical Assistance

Ongoing

Cities of: Bennett, Clarence, Durant, Lowden, Massilion, Mechanicsville, Tipton, Stanwood

EIRHA

Housing

In Progress

Vital

Technical Assistance

Cedar County

Cities of: Bennett, Clarence, Durant, Lowden, Massilion, Mechanicsville, Tipton, Stanwood

EIRHA

Housing

In Progress

Vital

Technical Assistance

Cedar County

Delmar, Charlotte, Lost Nation, Grand Mound

ECIA

Community Development

Seeking Funding Vital

Cedar County

Facility Construction / Rehab.

2015-2017

Community Development Black Grant

$227,994

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FY 13

HUD

$220,185

$220,185

FY 14

HUD

$182,006

$182,006

$650

$6,000

$9,000

$2,000

CEDS

Wastewater Treatment Community Development: Facility replacement Enhance community and upgrade public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds to the region by 20% and completing 15 projects

by January 2020.

Construct new WWTF to meet Cedar County DNR permit limits and upgrade stormwater system to eliminate infiltration; To be bid summer 2014. This is an MSA project but keep it on for CEDS

Durant

CEDS

Housing: Increase the number of workforce rental and single family housing units in the region by 2% to accommodate the industry demands by January, 2020.

Land Annexation and Subdivision Development

Cedar County Annex land to accommodate new housing development, add streets and improvements as needed to accommodate subdivision development, increase and provide utilities for subdivision development

CEDS

Housing: Increase the number of workforce rental and single family housing units in the region by 2% to accommodate the industry demands by January, 2020.

Market Rate Housing Development

CEDS

City of Durant

Community Development

Seeking Funding

Vital

Facility Construction / Rehab.

2013-2017

$0

Durant, Durant, None Mechanicsville, Tipton Mechanicsville, Tipton

Seeking Funding

Vital

Infrastructure

Ongoing

$0

Continue supporting a Housing Cedar County Development on 10-15 acres of land

Lowden

City of Lowden

None

Seeking Funding

Vital

Facility Construction / Rehab.

Ongoing

Industrial Park Projects Business Development: Remain economically competitive by retaining businesses, encouraging expansion, and attracting new industry in the region by increasing SBA and RLF loan activity by 10%; increasing annual business retention calls to regional employers by 5%; increasing the total regional laborforce by .5%; increasing commercial construction by 10%, and increasing entrepreneurial start-ups by 5% total by January 2020.

Develop a 20-acre park in the Cedar County northeast section of the city; One new park in the county for industrial growth and three expanded parks for industrial growth; existing business moved to Durant industrial park; new business also in park - Norfolk Iron and Metal

Mechanicsville

City of Mechanicsville None

Seeking Funding

Vital

Planning

2009-2017

$0

CEDS

Industrial Parks Business Development: Improved Remain economically Access competitive by retaining businesses, encouraging expansion, and attracting new industry in the region by increasing SBA and RLF loan activity by 10%; increasing annual business retention calls to regional employers by 5%; increasing the total regional laborforce by .5%; increasing commercial construction by 10%, and increasing entrepreneurial start-ups by 5% total by January 2020.

Infrastructure improvements: Construct a road in the industrial park and upgrade street in the Southeast Industrial Park

Cedar County

Tipton

City of Tipton

None

Seeking Funding

Vital

Infrastructure

2009-2015

$0

CEDS

City Hall and Council Community Development: Chambers Updates Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds to the region by 20% and completing 15 projects

by January 2020.

City Hall and Council Chambers Updates for accessibility study and plan needed. Possible community center with chamber

Cedar County

Tipton

City of Tipton

None

Seeking Funding

Suggested

Ongoing

$0

CEDS

Incubator for New Business Development: Remain economically Startups competitive by retaining businesses, encouraging expansion, and attracting new industry in the region by increasing SBA and RLF loan activity by 10%; increasing annual business retention calls to regional employers by 5%; increasing the total regional laborforce by .5%; increasing commercial construction by 10%, and increasing entrepreneurial start-ups by 5% total by January 2020.

Incubator program for small new startup businesses, flexible space, small business support center

Cedar County

Tipton

Cedar County Economic Development

None

Seeking Funding

Suggested

Facility Construction / Rehab.

Ongoing

Planning on doing a TIF

Possibly EDA

Possible City funding

$0

$0

CEDS

David's Famous Business Development: Gourmet Frozen Remain economically Custard competitive by retaining businesses, encouraging expansion, and attracting new industry in the region by increasing SBA and RLF loan activity by 10%; increasing annual business retention calls to regional employers by 5%; increasing the total regional laborforce by .5%; increasing commercial construction by 10%, and increasing entrepreneurial start-ups by 5% total by January 2020.

New production facility; Total Cedar County project cost is $1.2 million.

Tipton

Cedar County Economic Development

CEDS

Pedersen Valley Park : Community Development: recreational complex Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds to the region by 20% and completing 15 projects

by January 2020.

Cedar County Community Center, Library, and ballfields, including: Gymnasium, fitness rooms, weightlifting and cardiovascular equipment, racquetball court, locker rooms, elevated track, meeting rooms, kitchen, council chambers, and a future pool; site is selected, land is being acquired, grants applied for and then a possible tax levy may take place; City purchased 22 acres of park land in Summer of 2013.

Public planning process to be competed in June of 2014.

LOST and bond issue are both expected to be on the ballot for voters on November of 2014. In the process of conducting a feasiblity study and fundraising plan for the project.

West Branch

CEDS

Trail from West Branch Community Development: Village to the Hoover Enhance community and public facility infrastructure Nature Trail and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds to the region by 20% and completing 15 projects

by January 2020.

Cedar County The project includes a 400foot-long, 10-foot-wide concrete trail, a 100-foot-long bridge over the creek and floodplain and 200 feet of stream bank stabilization to control erosion. The trail will start at the south end of the mobile home park’s storm shelter, curve behind the building toward the north, then cross the creek and curve south to connect with the Hoover Nature Trial.

CEDS

Transportation Infrastructure: Improve highway and bridge transportation infrastructure funding to attract, retain, and expand business in the region by increasing the State and Federal funding to the area by 10% by January 2020.

Continue South Downy Road Industrial Park Project to Tide Water Drive

Sites available; utilities connected to the site; possible road construction; Total project cost is $450,000

CEDS

Housing: Increase the number of workforce rental and single family housing units in the region by 2% to accommodate the industry demands by January, 2020.

Slachs Commercial Subdivision

CEDS

CEDS

None

State-High Quality Jobs Program

34

$125,000

Completed

Vital

Facility Construction / Rehab.

2014

City of West Branch None and the West Branch Park Commission

Seeking Funding

Suggested

Facility Construction / Rehab.

2014-2017

West Branch

City of West Branch

None

Seeking Funding

Vital

Infrastructure

2011-2015

Cedar County

West Branch

City of West Branch

None

Seeking Funding

Vital

Infrastructure

Ongoing

New housing subdivision; possible annexation of 50 acres of land; seeking developer and funding

Cedar County

West Branch

City of West Branch

None

Seeking Funding

Vital

Facility Construction / Rehab.

Ongoing

$0

Transportation Infrastructure: College Street Improve highway and bridge Improvements transportation infrastructure funding to attract, retain, and expand business in the region by increasing the State and Federal funding to the area by 10% by January 2020.

Improved street; new bridge; new sewer and water; new sidewalks; Shovel-ready; need to secure funding

Cedar County

West Branch

City of West Branch

None

Seeking Funding

Vital

Infrastructure

Ongoing

$0

Pathway project Community Development: Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds to the region by 20% and completing 15 projects

by January 2020.

Five projects consisting of 14 Cedar County sections and more than 6 miles of new pathways; Conceptual plan

West Branch

City of West Branch

None

Seeking Funding

Vital

Infrastructure

Ongoing

$0

Private, Fundraising, Grants

Planning to apply for FEMA Safe Room, Vision Iowa CAT, Baseball Tommorrow Fund

State (REAP)

$125,000

Planning to do: Tax Levy, Local Option Sales Tax, TIF, Urban Renewal Plan, GO Bond

$75,000 City

Planning on doing a TIF with Casey's Store

$0

$15,000

$90,000

$0

$0

CEDS

Inflow and Infiltration Community Development: Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds to the region by 20% and completing 15 projects

by January 2020.

Reduce the amount of stormwater entering the wastewater system by repairing and replacing wastewater mains; Study completed and areas identified; initial repairs complete; need to secure funding for remaining repairs

Cedar County

West Branch

City of West Branch

None

Seeking Funding

Vital

Infrastructure

Ongoing

$0

CEDS

Waste Water Community Development: Treatment Facility Enhance community and Improvements public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds to the region by 20% and completing 15 projects

by January 2020.

Reduce ammonia levels; Cedar County Researching options; need to update/develop a facility plan

West Branch

City of West Branch

None

Seeking Funding

Vital

Facility Construction / Rehab.

Ongoing

$0

CEDS

Cedar County Tourism Community Development: Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds to the region by 20% and completing 15 projects

by January 2020.

Cedar County Organize a county-wide tourism organization for promotion of tourism in Cedar County; Organization in place and staff hired

Cedar County

Cedar County Board None of Supervisors

In Progress

Vital

Other

Ongoing

$0

CEDS

Housing: Increase the number of workforce rental and single family housing units in the region by 2% to accommodate the industry demands by January, 2020.

Need rental housing development

Cedar County

Tipton

City of Tipton

Seeking Funding

Vital

Ongoing

$0

CEDS

Community Development: Enhance Airport expansion community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds to the region by 20% and completing 15 projects by January 2020.

Expand Mathews Memorial airport to accommodate larger planes

Cedar County

Tipton

Tipton

Both

Community Development: CDBG Wastewater Administering CDBG Enhance community and Grant Administration. wastewater grant (Grant funded in 2013) public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds to the region by 20% and completing 15 projects

by January 2020.

Both

Housing: Increase the number of workforce rental and single family housing units in the region by 2% to accommodate the industry demands by January, 2020.

Both

Water grant Community Development: administration Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds to the region by 20% and completing 15 projects

by January 2020.

Rental Housing

Homeownership Program

Clinton County Calamus

None

Seeking Funding Vital

Infrastructure

2016-2018

FAA - 90% grant money

ECIA

Community Development

In Progress

Vital

Technical Assistance

2013-2016

Provide assistance to owner Clinton County Camanche occupied households to rehab 10 homeowner occupied units; Funds applied for in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011; 2012; (Never funded)

City of Camanche

Community Development

Seeking Funding

Vital

Technical Assistance

Ongoing

Water grant administration

ECIA

Community Development

Completed

Vital

Technical Assistance

2014-2016

Clinton County Charlotte

Community Development Black Grant

Community Development Black Grant

$300,000

$187,700

$7,500,000

City of Calamus

City of Charlotte

$884,400

$92,188

$1,184,400

$9,000

$0

$21,000

$279,888

$18,000

Provide assistance to 13 owner occupied households; Applied for funding in 2011 (Not funded); Applied for funding in 2014 (funded)

Clinton County Clinton

City of Clinton

Community Development

Seeking Funding

Vital

Technical Assistance

2014-2016

HOME

$470,000

Sewer System Community Development: Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds to the region by 20% and completing 15 projects

by January 2020.

Combined sewer system separation; Cost for total project: $75,000,000. ECIA is helping in phases. One grant funded because of ECIA. One grant applied for by ECIA in fall of 2013. A recent study estimates $80 million in capital improvement projects are needed for the city of Clinton by 2037.

Clinton County Clinton

City of Clinton

Community Development

In Progress

Vital

Infrastructure

2013-2018

CDBG

$800,000

Both

Housing: Increase the number of workforce rental and single family housing units in the region by 2% to accommodate the industry demands by January, 2020.

First Time Homebuyer Program

Acquisition and rehab of ten homes for first time homebuyers. Funded in 2011.

Five houses complete. Will continue to seek additional funding.

Clinton County Clinton

ECIA

Community Development

In Progress

Vital

Technical Assistance

Ongoing

HOME

$399,990

Both

Housing: Increase the number of workforce rental and single family housing units in the region by 2% to accommodate the industry demands by January, 2020.

Homeownership Program

Provide homeownership Clinton County DeWitt assistance to one household; Applied for funding in 2011; Four houses are complete, one is in the final stages of completion, and DeWitt is looking for one more applicant.

City of DeWitt

Community Development

In Progress

Vital

Technical Assistance

Ongoing

HOME

$225,000

Both

Wastewater System Community Development: Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds to the region by 20% and completing 15 projects

by January 2020.

New wastewater system; Seeking funding

Elvira

Community Development

Seeking Funding

Vital

Facility Construction / Rehab.

Both

Housing: Increase the number of workforce rental and single family housing units in the region by 2% to accommodate the industry demands by January, 2020.

Provide assistance to 13 Clinton County Lost Nation owner occupied households for rehabilitation in the City; Applied for funding in 2011, 2012, 2013 (Not funded)

City of Lost Nation

Community Development

Seeking Funding

Vital

Technical Assistance

Both

Community Development: Low Moor Sewer Project Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds to the region by 20% and completing 15 projects by January 2020.

Connect Low Moor Sewer to Clinton Clinton County Low Moor / Clinton

City

Community Development

Completed

Vital

Facility Construction / Rehab.

Both

Housing: Increase the number of workforce rental and single family housing units in the region by 2% to accommodate the industry demands by January, 2020.

Provide assistance to owner occupied households for rehabilitation in the City; Applied for funding in 2012 (Not funded)

City of Wheatland

Community Development

Seeking Funding

Vital

Technical Assistance

Both

Housing: Increase the New Production number of workforce rental Homeownership and single family housing Program units in the region by 2% to accommodate the industry demands by January, 2020.

25% downpayment housing Clinton County Clinton assistance to LMI buyers in Clinton County - New Production (NP2) - 2008 State flood funds to construct 41 units total. Total grant amount=$1,666,164.00. Two houses for City of Clinton.

One done in 2014. One done in 2012.

ECIA

Community Completed Development/ Housing

Vital

Facility Construction / Rehab.

2012-2014

New Production 2

Both

Housing: Increase the New Production number of workforce rental Homeownership and single family housing Program units in the region by 2% to accommodate the industry demands by January, 2020.

25% downpayment housing Clinton County DeWitt assistance to LMI buyers in Clinton County - New Production (NP2) - 2008 State flood funds to construct 41 units total. Total grant amount=$1,666,164.00. One house for City of DeWitt will be done in 2014.

ECIA

Community Completed Development/ Housing

Vital

Facility Construction / Rehab.

Complete

New Production 2

Both

Housing: Increase the number of workforce rental and single family housing units in the region by 2% to accommodate the industry demands by January, 2020.

Both

Homeownership Program

Housing Rehab Grant

Homeownership Program

Clinton County Elvira

Clinton County Wheatland

$100,000

$570,000

$3,000

$500,000

$1,300,000

$3,000

City of Clinton

$50,000

$449,990

$78,000

City of DeWitt

$6,000

$231,000

$3,000

2013-2018

$0

$1,500

Ongoing

$0

$9,000

Constructed in 2010 2013

CDBG / SRF

$240,000 $

Ongoing

City of Clinton

$341,000

$341,000

$581,000

$0

$3,000

$18,750

$18,750

$3,000

$18,750

$18,750

$3,000

Both

Transportation Infrastructure: 2012 Washington Improve highway and bridge Boulevard/ MRT transportation infrastructure funding to attract, retain, and expand business in the region by increasing the State and Federal funding to the area by 10% by January 2020.

Improved recreational activity Clinton County Camanche

City of Camanche

ECIA In Progress Transportation and Planning

Vital

Infrastructure

2013-2015

Both

9th Street Trail Project Transportation Infrastructure: Improve highway and bridge transportation infrastructure funding to attract, retain, and expand business in the region by increasing the State and Federal funding to the area by 10% by January 2020.

Improve Recreational activity; constructed in FY 2013

Clinton County Camanche

City of Camanche

ECIA In Progress Transportation and Planning

Vital

Infrastructure

Complete

Both

9th Avenue to Platt Transportation Trail Project Infrastructure: Improve highway and bridge transportation infrastructure funding to attract, retain, and expand business in the region by increasing the State and Federal funding to the area by 10% by January 2020.

Improve Recreational activity: constructed in FY 2013

Clinton County Camanche

City of Camanche

ECIA In Progress Transportation and Planning

Vital

Infrastructure

Complete

Both

Community Development: Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds to the region by 20% and completing 15 projects by January 2020.

ECIA Completed Transportation and Planning

Vital

Infrastructure

2006-2013

Department of Transportation - TIGER

Both

Transportation Infrastructure: Liberty-Lincolnway Improve highway and bridge Mississippi River Trail transportation infrastructure Connection funding to attract, retain, and expand business in the region by increasing the State and Federal funding to the area by 10% by January 2020.

Improve Recreational activity

City of Clinton

ECIA In Progress Transportation and Planning

Vital

Infrastructure

2012-2014

RPA 8 Enhancement Grant

Both

Business Loan Business Development: Remain economically competitive by retaining businesses, encouraging expansion, and attracting new industry in the region by increasing SBA and RLF loan activity by 10%; increasing annual business retention calls to regional employers by 5%; increasing the total regional laborforce by .5%; increasing commercial construction by 10%, and increasing entrepreneurial start-ups by 5% total by January 2020.

$143,000 SBA 504 Loan to Clinton County Clinton Wagner Pharmacy to aquire and remodel a building for a second business location.

Total project cost of $377,899

Clinton Naitonal Bank

Economic Development

Completed

Vital

Facility Construction / Rehab.

Both

Business Development: Lyons Technology Park Remain economically competitive by retaining businesses, encouraging expansion, and attracting new industry in the region by increasing SBA and RLF loan activity by 10%; increasing annual business retention calls to regional employers by 5%; increasing the total regional laborforce by .5%; increasing commercial construction by 10%, and increasing entrepreneurial start-ups by 5% total by January 2020.

Clinton County Clinton Extension of 19th Avenue North and construction of 10th Street NW in the Lyons Technology Park. Seek funding for infrastucture and rail for park development; Phase I & II complete; phase III partially funded; still seeking $2 million; construction tentatively scheduled for 2015/2016. Two adjacent properties purchased

City of Clinton

Economic Development

In Progress

Vital

Infrastructure

Liberty Square

Demolish dilapidated houses; Clinton County Clinton construct sanitary/storm sewers, pave Camanche/Liberty Avenue (Liberty Square); received state funding and TIGER grant to finish project

Clinton County Clinton

2012 None

Ongoing None

$237,600

$237,600

RPA 8 Enhancement Grant

$160,010

$160,010

RPA 8 Enhancement Grant

$271,000

$271,000

RPA 8 Enhancement Grant

Bank & Business

None

$240,360 SBA 504 Loan

RISE Grant Application

$2,700,000 State Funds; State Federal Funds

$9,267,670 City of Clinton

$2,700,000

$3,000

$79,024

$79,024

$143,000

$449,433

$14,667,670

City of Clinton

$0

$383,360

$9,000

$1,188,274

$1,637,707

$1,500

Both

Kwik Star Business Development: Remain economically competitive by retaining businesses, encouraging expansion, and attracting new industry in the region by increasing SBA and RLF loan activity by 10%; increasing annual business retention calls to regional employers by 5%; increasing the total regional laborforce by .5%; increasing commercial construction by 10%, and increasing entrepreneurial start-ups by 5% total by January 2020.

Kwik Trip, a family-owned business based in La Crosse, Wis., will open one of its Kwik Star stores in DeWitt at 5 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 13.

Both

Expander Americas, Inc. Business Development: Remain economically competitive by retaining businesses, encouraging expansion, and attracting new industry in the region by increasing SBA and RLF loan activity by 10%; increasing annual business retention calls to regional employers by 5%; increasing the total regional laborforce by .5%; increasing commercial construction by 10%, and increasing entrepreneurial start-ups by 5% total by January 2020.

Both

Public Library Community Development: Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds to the region by 20% and completing 15 projects

by January 2020.

Both

Community Development: Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds to the region by 20% and completing 15 projects by January 2020.

Both

Clinton County DeWitt

Kwik Star

None

Completed

Vital

Other

2014

12

Clinton County DeWitt Expander Americas Inc. purchased the 15,000-squarefoot building on four acres at 223 E. Industrial St. at the end of October and hopes to begin production by midDecember. Expander makes pivot expander pins for heavy equipment in the construction, forestry, mining and oil/natural gas industries.

Initially, the plant will employ six to eight people. Its workforce will grow to 30-35 as more operations are relocated from Arizona. Check back in 2015.

Expander Americas, Inc.

None

In Progress

Vital

Other

2014

8

Clinton County Clinton Improved public library; seeking funding; ongoing discussions; ECIA Staff has met with Library Director and will meet with Board in April 2015.

City of Clinton

None

Seeking Funding

Suggested

Facility Construction / Rehab.

Ongoing

Update the City of Clinton’s airport zoning ordinance in conformance with Iowa Department of Transportation’s (IDOT) Airport Land Use & Height Overlay Zoning Ordinance model.

Clinton County Clinton

ECIA

Transportation In Progress

Vital

Planning

2013-2014

Transportation Infrastructure: US 67 & Millcreek Improve highway and bridge PKWY Swap Project transportation infrastructure funding to attract, retain, and expand business in the region by increasing the State and Federal funding to the area by 10% by January 2020.

Coverting US 67 through City of Clinton to local road and make Millcreek Parkway US 67 with IADOt building Millcreek Parkway extension.

Clinton county Clinton

City

Transportation In Progress

Vital

Infrastructure

2014-2016

Both

Housing: Increase the number of workforce rental and single family housing units in the region by 2% to accommodate the industry demands by January, 2020.

City and private developer interested in additional senior housing similar to Churchview Apts. Owned by the EIRHA

Clinton County Grand Mound

Grant Mound

Housing

Seeking Funding

Vital

Facility Construction / Rehab.

Both

Housing: Increase the number of One on one technical workforce rental and single family Assistance housing units in the region by 2% to accommodate the industry demands by January, 2020.

Researched funding options for an assisted living facility/retirement center in the Lions Business District in Clinton, Iowa

Clinton County Clinton

Private Developer

Administration

Seeking Funding

Vital

Technical Assistance

Airport Zoning

Grand Mound Senior Housing

Ongoing

Ongoing

$0

Iowa DOT Airport Planning and Zoning Grant

Discussed HTF and Workforce Housing Tax Credit with City Clerk

$14,100

$14,100

$0

$375

$0

$180

$180

CEDS

Clinton Chamber Local Business Development: & Government Affairs Remain economically Committee - 2015 competitive by retaining businesses, encouraging expansion, and attracting new industry in the region by increasing SBA and RLF loan activity by 10%; increasing annual business retention calls to regional employers by 5%; increasing the total regional laborforce by .5%; increasing commercial construction by 10%, and increasing entrepreneurial start-ups by 5% total by January 2020.

ECIA staff attend committee meetings to discuss Chamber and stakeholder issues and provide feedback from a regional perspective and any assistance ECIA can offer. 2/11/15

Clinton County Clinton

Clinton Chamber

Administration

In Progress

Other

CEDS

Comprehensive Plan Community Development: Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds to the region by 20% and completing 15 projects

by January 2020.

Encourage community design that results in sustainable design and land use with "smart growth" components; Funding secured; Commission would like to see the plan address how to entice development of new housing that falls in a higher pricerange than the average in order to attract residents and businesses.

Clinton County Clinton

City of Clinton

Community Development?

In Progress

Vital

Planning

CEDS

9th AVE: From Transportation Anamosa rd to HWY Infrastructure: Improve 67 highway and bridge transportation infrastructure funding to attract, retain, and expand business in the region by increasing the State and Federal funding to the area by 10% by January 2020.

Cost: $100,000

Clinton County Camanche

City of Camanche

ECIA Completed Transportation and Planning

Vital

CEDS

Transportation Infrastructure: Third St: From 4th Improve highway and bridge Avenue to 13th transportation infrastructure Avenue funding to attract, retain, and expand business in the region by increasing the State and Federal funding to the area by 10% by January 2020.

Cost: $170,800

Clinton County Camanche

City of Camanche

ECIA Completed Transportation and Planning

CEDS

Transportation Infrastructure: 9th AVE: From Anamoa Cost: $100,000 Improve highway and bridge rd to HWY 67 transportation infrastructure funding to attract, retain, and expand business in the region by increasing the State and Federal funding to the area by 10% by January 2020.

Clinton County Camanche

City of Camanche

CEDS

Transportation Infrastructure: Y44/Davenport Street Improve highway and bridge transportation infrastructure funding to attract, retain, and expand business in the region by increasing the State and Federal funding to the area by 10% by January 2020.

Cost: $31,200

Clinton County Camanche

CEDS

Transportation Infrastructure: Mill Creek Expressway Improve highway and bridge Enhancements transportation infrastructure funding to attract, retain, and expand business in the region by increasing the State and Federal funding to the area by 10% by January 2020.

CEDS

Transportation Infrastructure: Clinton County Improve highway and bridge Secondary Roads transportation infrastructure funding to attract, retain, and expand business in the region by increasing the State and Federal funding to the area by 10% by January 2020.

2015

$308

Ongoing

$0

Infrastructure

Complete

$0

Vital

Infrastructure

Complete

$0

ECIA In Progress Transportation and Planning

Vital

Infrastructure

2013-2015

$0

City of Camanche

ECIA Completed Transportation and Planning

Vital

Infrastructure

Complete

$0

Construct northern leg of the Clinton County Clinton Mill Creek Expressway; Conducting needs assessment; property acquisition completed

City of Clinton

ECIA Seeking Funding Transportation and Planning

Vital

Infrastructure

2013-2018

$0

Y-60 Rehab and Resurfacing; Shovel-ready

Clinton County

ECIA Seeking Funding Transportation and Planning

Vital

Infrastructure

2012-2015

$0

Clinton County Clinton County

CEDS

Transportation Infrastructure: Street Reconstruction Improve highway and bridge transportation infrastructure funding to attract, retain, and expand business in the region by increasing the State and Federal funding to the area by 10% by January 2020.

6th Avenue 5th Street to Union Clinton County DeWitt Pacific; Total street and utility reconstruction; Shovel-ready; Seeking funding

City of DeWitt

ECIA Seeking Funding Transportation and Planning

Vital

Infrastructure

Ongoing

$0

CEDS

Recreational Community Development: Trail/Bridge Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds to the region by 20% and completing 15 projects

by January 2020.

Most of the recreational trails are complete; Replacing pedestrian bridge in progress

Clinton County DeWitt

City of DeWitt

ECIA In Progress Transportation and Planning

Vital

Infrastructure

2009-2014

$0

CEDS

Skilled Workers: Improve the quantity and quality of the region’s workforce to address the employer demands in the areas of Advanced Manufacturing, Healthcare, and Information Technology by expanding the number of participants in the regional training programs by 10% and by increasing the number of trained skilled employees in these sectors by 10% by January 2020.

Silver Creek Trail Phase III

Trail extension -east from Clinton County DeWitt Well #7 to 5th Street; Shovelready

City of DeWitt

ECIA Seeking Funding Transportation and Planning

Vital

Infrastructure

Ongoing

$0

CEDS

Transportation Infrastructure: Improve highway and bridge transportation infrastructure funding to attract, retain, and expand business in the region by increasing the State and Federal funding to the area by 10% by January 2020.

11TH ST

Pavement rehab from 6th Ave to Silver Creek Bridge

Clinton County DeWitt

City

ECIA Transportation and Planning

Completed

Vital

Infrastructure

CEDS

Winkel, Parker & Business Development: Foster Accounting Remain economically competitive by retaining businesses, encouraging expansion, and attracting new industry in the region by increasing SBA and RLF loan activity by 10%; increasing annual business retention calls to regional employers by 5%; increasing the total regional laborforce by .5%; increasing commercial construction by 10%, and increasing entrepreneurial start-ups by 5% total by January 2020.

Accounting; Expansion

Clinton County Clinton

Clinton Regional Economic Development Development Corporation, City of Clinton

Completed

Vital

Planning

Complete

20

company

CEDS

Data Dimensions Business Development: Remain economically competitive by retaining businesses, encouraging expansion, and attracting new industry in the region by increasing SBA and RLF loan activity by 10%; increasing annual business retention calls to regional employers by 5%; increasing the total regional laborforce by .5%; increasing commercial construction by 10%, and increasing entrepreneurial start-ups by 5% total by January 2020.

Process Automation; New facility

Clinton County Clinton

Clinton Regional Economic Development Development Corporation, City of Clinton

Completed

Vital

Facility Construction / Rehab.

Complete

35

company

CEDS

Housing: Increase the number of workforce rental and single family housing units in the region by 2% to accommodate the industry demands by January, 2020.

Wastewater Treatment Improvements at WWTF to Facility meet new limits - ammonia limits & gen. operation

Clinton County Welton

City of Welton

Seeking Funding

Vital

Infrastructure

IIW

Project is constructed

Ongoing

$607,000 City of DeWitt

SBA 504 (IL)

$1,300,000

$900,000

$151,750

$758,750

$900,000

$1,300,000

$0

$375

CEDS

Housing: Increase the number of Housing Development workforce rental and single family housing units in the region by 2% to accommodate the industry demands by January, 2020.

Clinton County Camanche, DeWitt, Annex land to accommodate new housing development, Lost Nation, add streets and improvements Wheatland as needed to accommodate subdivision development, increase and provide utilities for subdivision development

Camanche, DeWitt, Lost Nation, Wheatland

None

Seeking Funding

Vital

Infrastructure

Ongoing

$0

CEDS

Job Creation and Business Development: Private Sector Remain economically Improvements competitive by retaining businesses, encouraging expansion, and attracting new industry in the region by increasing SBA and RLF loan activity by 10%; increasing annual business retention calls to regional employers by 5%; increasing the total regional laborforce by .5%; increasing commercial construction by 10%, and increasing entrepreneurial start-ups by 5% total by January 2020.

Clinton County Clinton Create 1,250 jobs and generate $130 million in new private sector improvements; To attract jobs that pay 20 percent more than the current median wage; $1 billion ADM expansion last 5-7 years; & 67 million in tech park; 645 new jobs

Clinton Regional Development Corporation, City of Clinton

None

In Progress

Vital

Planning

Ongoing

$0

CEDS

Community Development: Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds to the region by 20% Business Development: Remain economically competitive by retaining businesses, encouraging expansion, and attracting new industry in the region by increasing SBA and RLF loan activity by 10%; increasing annual business retention calls to regional employers by 5%; increasing the total regional laborforce by .5%; increasing commercial construction by 10%, and increasing entrepreneurial start-ups by 5% total by January 2020.

Manufacturing Meadows III

Active urban renewal and urban revitalization area; Continue to evaluate ways to create inventory

City of Clinton

None

Seeking Funding

Vital

Planning

Ongoing

$0

Lincolnway Rail Port Industrial Park

Develop Lincolnway Rail Port Clinton County Clinton Industrial Park to accommodate industries requiring 50 acres or more; Phase 1 completed; awarded RISE grant; Accommodate both rail and non-rail industries; 2012 city approved building spur track into park; City of Low Moor has pledged to provide water service to the industrial park; RAIL.ONE, Nevada Rail Materials, and Data Dimensions are open.

Clinton Regional Development Corporation, City of Clinton

None

In Progress

Vital

Facility Construction / Rehab.

Ongoing

$0

Business Development: Remain economically competitive by retaining businesses, encouraging expansion, and attracting new industry in the region by increasing SBA and RLF loan activity by 10%; increasing annual business retention calls to regional employers by 5%; increasing the total Business Development: Remain economically competitive by retaining businesses, encouraging expansion, and attracting new industry in the region by increasing SBA and RLF loan activity by 10%; increasing annual business retention calls to regional employers by 5%; increasing the total regional laborforce by .5%; increasing commercial construction by 10%, and increasing entrepreneurial start-ups by 5% total by January 2020.

Lyons Business and Tech Park

Two adjacent properties purchased.

Clinton County Clinton

Clinton Regional Development Corporation, City of Clinton

None

In Progress

Vital

Planning

Ongoing

$0

Commercial Area Development

Continue development of the commercial area north of U.S. 30 and east of Mill Creek Parkway; Wild Rose Casino since 2008 and Hampton Inn opened in 2012; new prospects continue to be developed; new auto dealership under construction

Clinton County Clinton

Clinton - Valley Bluff None Development

In Progress

Vital

Infrastructure

Ongoing

$0

Housing: Increase the number of workforce rental and single family housing units in the region by 2% to accommodate the industry demands by January, 2020.

Student Housing

Rehabilitate vacant property in City for student housing; Partially done with Ashford Community College rehab of best western hotel; Develop student housing

Clinton County Clinton

City of Clinton

In Progress

Vital

Facility Construction / Rehab.

2014-2020

$0

CEDS

CEDS

CEDS

CEDS

Clinton County Clinton

None

CEDS

Clinton County Business Development: Coordinating Council Remain economically (Rita Hart Group) - 2015 competitive by retaining businesses, encouraging expansion, and attracting new industry in the region by increasing SBA and RLF loan activity by 10%; increasing annual business retention calls to regional employers by 5%; increasing the total regional laborforce by .5%; increasing commercial construction by 10%, and increasing entrepreneurial start-ups by 5% total by January 2020.

Started in 2014 and formerly Clinton County led by John Staszewski, with representatives from DeWitt, Clinton, County, Clinton Chamber, and others. Attend and facilitate stakeholder conversation regarding economic development goals and actions in Clinton County. Develop mission and vision, agendas, etc. - 5/8/15, 5/29/15

CEDS

Business Education Skilled Workers: Improve Coordinator the quantity and quality of the region’s workforce to address the employer demands in the areas of Advanced Manufacturing; Healthcare; and Professional, Scientific, Technical Services by expanding the number of participants in the regional training programs by 10% and by increasing the number of trained skilled employees in these sectors by 10% by January 2020.

Connect business and education to create youth awareness of local career opportunities

CEDS

Community Development: Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds to the region by 20% and completing 15 projects by January 2020.

CEDS

ECIA/Senator Rita Hart Administration

In Progress

Vital

Planning

Clinton County Clinton County

DeWitt Chamber & Development Company

None

In Progress

Vital

Technical Assistance

Ongoing

Explore ways for expanding recreational/historic trail system from park along historic highway; construct sidewalks from depot to old jailhouse; add recreational equipment to the park; develop a camp ground, athletic field, establish bike paths; Funding sources identified, matching funds secured, timeline for project finalized, work complete; park improved, sidewalks installed, athletic field constructed, etc

Clinton County Delmar

City of Delmar

None

Completed

Vital

Planning

Project complete

$0

Business Development: Locate business to Crossroads Business Remain economically Park competitive by retaining businesses, encouraging expansion, and attracting new industry in the region by increasing SBA and RLF loan activity by 10%; increasing annual business retention calls to regional employers by 5%; increasing the total regional laborforce by .5%; increasing commercial construction by 10%, and increasing entrepreneurial start-ups by 5% total by January 2020.

Retain employees and reuse infrastructure; Guardian Industries completed phase II of a $45 million expansion in 2011, Custom-Pak completed a new 250,000 sq ft building in Spring 2012

Clinton County DeWitt

DeWitt Chamber & Development Company

None

In Progress

Vital

Infrastructure

Ongoing

$0

CEDS

Transportation Infrastructure: Street Improvements Improve highway and bridge transportation infrastructure funding to attract, retain, and expand business in the region by increasing the State and Federal funding to the area by 10% by January 2020.

Extended Industrial Drive; improvements to 300th Avenue; Shovel-ready

Clinton County DeWitt

City of DeWitt

None

Seeking Funding

Vital

Infrastructure

2012-2015

$0

CEDS

Housing: Increase the number of workforce rental and single family housing units in the region by 2% to accommodate the industry demands by January, 2020.

Clinton County DeWitt

City of DeWitt

None

Seeking Funding

Vital

Facility Construction / Rehab.

2012-2022

$0

Community Recreational Projects

Residential Housing New houses for less than Development with D&N $210,000; The 34-lot Investment Partnership subdivision with 19 family lots and 15 condominium units on 15.4 acres on the city's west side is targeting lower cost new housing.

Clinton County

Ongoing

$2,490

$2,000

Clinton County

$12,000

$14,000

CEDS

Library Expansion Community Development: Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds to the region by 20% and completing 15 projects

by January 2020.

Expanded library; Shovelready; seeking funding; still valid, timeline not determined

Clinton County DeWitt

City of DeWitt

None

Seeking Funding

Vital

Facility Construction / Rehab.

Ongoing

$0

CEDS

New police station Community Development: Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds to the region by 20% and completing 15 projects

by January 2020.

Improved facility; Shovelready; seeking funding; meetings ongoing to decide plan - in the works

Clinton County DeWitt

City of DeWitt

None

In Progress

Suggested

Infrastructure

Ongoing

$0

CEDS

Maschio Gaspardo Business Development: Remain economically competitive by retaining businesses, encouraging expansion, and attracting new industry in the region by increasing SBA and RLF loan activity by 10%; increasing annual business retention calls to regional employers by 5%; increasing the total regional laborforce by .5%; increasing commercial construction by 10%, and increasing entrepreneurial start-ups by 5% total by January 2020.

An international company specializing in the production of agricultural machinery for tillage, seeding, haying landscaping and crop care will move its North American base of operation from Eldridge to DeWitt early in 2014.

Clinton County DeWitt

None

Completed this Year

Vital

Facility Construction / Rehab.

2014

CEDS

Transportation Infrastructure: Improve highway and bridge transportation infrastructure funding to attract, retain, and expand business in the region by increasing the State and Federal funding to the area by 10% by January 2020.

Y44

Pavement rehab Y44 /Davenport Street; project complete

Clinton County Calamus

City

Transportation

Completed

Vital

Infrastructure

2013-2014

CEDS

Transportation Infrastructure: Improve highway and bridge transportation infrastructure funding to attract, retain, and expand business in the region by increasing the State and Federal funding to the area by 10% by January 2020.

Transportation Infrastructure: Improve highway and bridge transportation infrastructure funding to attract, retain, and expand business in the region by increasing the State and Federal funding to the area by 10% by January 2020.

Transportation Infrastructure: Improve highway and bridge transportation infrastructure funding to attract, retain, and expand business in the region by increasing the State and Federal funding to the area by 10% by January 2020.

Transportation Infrastructure: Improve highway and bridge transportation infrastructure funding to attract, retain, and expand business in the region by increasing the State and Federal funding to the area by 10% by January 2020.

Transportation Infrastructure: Improve highway and bridge transportation infrastructure funding to attract, retain, and expand business in the region by increasing the State and Federal funding to the area by 10% by January 2020.

9th AVE

Pavement Rehab from HWY 67 to Platt st; project complete

Clinton County Camanche

City

Transportation

Completed

Vital

Infrastructure

2013-2014

Third St

Pavement rehab from 4th Avenue to 13th Avenue; project complete

Clinton County Camanche

City

Transportation

Completed

Vital

Infrastructure

9th AVE

Pavement rehab from Anamos rd to HWY 67

Clinton County

Camanche

City

Transportation

In Progress

Vital

19th Ave North Phase III

Complete 19th Ave North Phase III

Clinton County Clinton

City

Transportation

Completed

TIGER Grant analysis

Providing perfromance measures information to FHWA

Clinton County Clinton

City

Transportation

County

CEDS

CEDS

CEDS

CEDS

CEDS

Transportation Y60/250th Ave Infrastructure: Improve highway and bridge transportation infrastructure funding to attract, retain, and expand business in the region by increasing the State and Federal funding to the area by 10% by January 2020.

Pavement Rehab from 2400' Clinton County Clinton County North of Y60/Main St to Hwy 61

25

$0

$31,200 Clinton County

$7,800

$39,000

$375

$271,302 City of Camanche

$67,826

$339,128

$375

2013-2014

$170,800 City of Camanche

$42,700

$213,500

$375

Infrastructure

2015-2016

$100,000 City of Camanche

$25,000

$125,000

$375

Vital

Infrastructure

Ongoing

$300,000

$1,500,000

$375

In Progress

Vital

Infrastructure

Complete

$0

$375

Transportation Completed

Vital

Infrastructure

Complete

$1,111,875

$375

$1,200,000 City of Clinton

$889,500 Clinton County

$222,375

CEDS

Y-44/170th Avenue Transportation Infrastructure: Improve highway and bridge transportation infrastructure funding to attract, retain, and expand business in the region by increasing the State and Federal funding to the area by 10% by January 2020.

Pavement rehab from E-63 to Clinton County Clinton County City of Calamus

County

Transportation Completed

Vital

Infrastructure

Complete

CEDS

Transportation Infrastructure: Improve highway and bridge transportation infrastructure funding to attract, retain, and expand business in the region by increasing the State and Federal funding to the area by 10% by January 2020.

Pavement Rehab of Y 60 Within City Clinton County Delmar

City of Delmar

Transportation

Vital

Infrastructure

Project is constructed

CEDS

Evergreen Packaging Business Development: Remain economically competitive by retaining businesses, encouraging expansion, and attracting new industry in the region by increasing SBA and RLF loan activity by 10%; increasing annual business retention calls to regional employers by 5%; increasing the total regional laborforce by .5%; increasing commercial construction by 10%, and increasing entrepreneurial start-ups by 5% total by January 2020.

Permanently closed its Clinton facility Sept. 1, 2014

CEDS

Business Development: Remain Adcraft Printwear - Facility economically competitive by Expansion retaining businesses, encouraging expansion, and attracting new industry in the region by increasing SBA and RLF loan activity by 10%; increasing annual business retention calls to regional employers by 5%; increasing the total regional laborforce by .5%; increasing commercial construction by 10%, and increasing entrepreneurial start-ups by 5% total by January 2020.

8,500-square-foot expansion — a Clinton County Clinton metal warehouse located just east of their original headquarters. Check back in 2015 for new employees

Adcraft Printwear Facility Expansion

None

CEDS

Community Development: Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds to the region by 20% and completing 15 projects by January 2020.

Housing: Increase the number of workforce rental and single family housing units in the region by 2% to accommodate the industry demands by January, 2020.

Camanche Community Center

Initial sketch in existence but no Clinton County Camanche formal plans as of September 2015.

City of Camanche

None

Valley Bluff Horizons Housing Development

Construction of 200 units of multifamily housing in the City of Clinton

Clinton County Clinton

Private Developer

Community Development

Community Development: Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds to the region by 20% and completing 15 projects by January 2020.

Community Development: Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds to the region by 20% and completing 15 projects by January 2020.

Community Development: Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds to the region by 20% and completing 15 projects by January 2020.

Housing: Increase the number of workforce rental and single family housing units in the region by 2% to accommodate the industry demands by January, 2020.

New Jail and expanded communication center

New Jail and expanding the communications center and the sheriff's office

Clinton County Clinton County

Clinton County

Delaware County Comprehensive Plan

Encourage community design Delaware that results in sustainable County design and land use with "smart growth" components; Funding secured; County adopted in 2013 and 3 communities participated.

Delaware County

Delaware County

Acquire flooddamaged properties

Removal of damaged Delaware properties and mitigate future County flood damage; Funding secured - closed out

Manchester

Multi-Family Housing Development

Applied for funding Manchester (2), Dyersville (1), Earlville(2), Hopkinton (1); Applied for NP program but denied in 2013. Applied in 2014 for MFNP6 Manchester (2). Neither successful

Manchester, Dyersville, Earlville, Hopkinton

CEDS

CEDS

Both

Both

Both

Y60

Clinton County Clinton

Delaware County

Completed

Completed this Year

2014

Seeking Funding Vital

Facility Construction / Rehab.

2016-2018

Seeking Funding Vital

Infrastructure

2016-2018

Community Development

Completed

Vital

Planning

City and ECIA

Community Development

In Progress

Vital

Technical Assistance

Manchester, Dyersville, Earlville, Hopkinton

Community Development

Seeking Funding

Vital

Facility Construction / Rehab.

$314,636 Clinton County

$66,500 Clinton County

107

$78,659

$393,295

$375

$16,625

$83,125

$375

$0

Referendum

$21,000,000

Complete in 2013

$63,000

$3,000

Ongoing

$0

$1,500

2013-2016

$0

$5,760

Both

Housing: Increase the number of Housing Needs workforce rental and single family Assessment housing units in the region by 2% to accommodate the industry demands by January, 2020.

Both

Skilled Workers: Improve the quantity and quality of the region’s workforce to address the employer demands in the areas of Advanced Manufacturing, Healthcare, and Information Technology by expanding the number of participants in the regional training programs by 10% and by increasing the number of trained skilled employees in these sectors by 10% by January 2020.

Regional Education Center

Both

Business Development: Remain economically competitive by retaining businesses, encouraging expansion, and attracting new industry in the region by increasing SBA and RLF loan activity by 10%; increasing annual business retention calls to Business Development: Remain economically competitive by retaining businesses, encouraging expansion, and attracting new industry in the region by increasing SBA and RLF loan activity by 10%; increasing annual business retention calls to Business Development: Remain economically competitive by retaining businesses, encouraging expansion, and attracting new industry in the region by increasing SBA and RLF loan activity by 10%; increasing annual business retention calls to Transportation Infrastructure: Improve highway and bridge transportation infrastructure funding to attract, retain, and expand business in the region by increasing the State and Federal funding to the area by 10% by January 2020.

Transportation Infrastructure: Improve highway and bridge transportation infrastructure funding to attract, retain, and expand business in the region by increasing the State and Federal funding to the area by 10% by January 2020.

Housing: Increase the number of workforce rental and single family housing units in the region by 2% to accommodate the industry demands by January, 2020.

Both

Both

Both

Both

Both

Delaware County

Delaware County Economic Development

Transportation

Completed

Vital

Technical Assistance

Delaware Educational services that County respond to the growing demands of employers including contract training, soft skills training, and specific, employer-based skills training.

Applied for EDA funding in March 2014 for $47,500.

Grant not funded May, 2014 and resubmitted Fall 2014.

Manchester

Northeast Iowa Community College

ECIA

Seeking Funding

Vital

Facility Construction / Rehab.

Dardis Building

Construct Building

Delaware County

Dyersville

ECIA

ECIA Business Completed Growth

Vital

Facility Construction / Rehab.

Project complete

2

Bank & Business

1,132,340 SBA 504

$742,000

$1,874,340

Dardis Equipment

Purchase Equipment

Delaware County

Dyersville

ECIA

ECIA Business Completed Growth

Vital

Facility Construction / Rehab.

Project complete

0

Business

$28,000 EDA-RLF

$250,000

$278,000

KC Kramer Building

Land and new building

Delaware County

Dyersville

ECIA

ECIA Business Growth

Completed

Vital

Facility Construction / Rehab.

Project complete

0

Bank & Business

$977,998 SBA 504

$640,000

$1,617,998

West Marion Street Trail

Improve Recreational activity;

Delaware County

Manchester

Manchester

ECIA Transportation and Planning

In Progress

Vital

Infrastructure

2013-2015

RPA 8 Enhancement Grant $155,124

$155,124

Riverfront Trail Extension

Improve Recreational activity;

Delaware County

Manchester

Manchester

ECIA Transportation and Planning

In Progress

Vital

Infrastructure

2013-2015

RPA 8 Enhancement Grant $151,409

$151,409

Homeownership Program

EIRHA purchased a lot in Delaware Manchester to develop an County affordable single family home.

Manchester

Manchester

EIRHA

In Progress

Vital

Facility Construction / Rehab.

2014-2015

EIRHA

Housing Needs Assessment

Delaware County

$1,000

2014

2013-2015

$0

$180

$0

City

Both

Community Development: Enhance Wastewater System community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds to the region by 20% and completing 15 projects by January 2020.

New wastewater system; Delaware Preliminary engineering report County completed; seeking funding

Lake Delhi

Lake Delhi

EIRUSS

Seeking Funding

Vital

Facility Construction / Rehab.

2009-2016

Both

Community Development: Whitewater Park Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds to the region by 20% and completing 15 projects Community Development: Enhance Wastewater System

Park will consist of six drops at Delaware roughly 18" per drop and County span over 800 ft.; Public fundraising complete; Project total: $1.8 million

Manchester

City of Manchester

None

In Progress

Vital

Facility Construction / Rehab.

2014-2015

New wastewater system; Prior Delaware funding applications not County successful. Project is being updated in 2015 and will pursue funding in late 2015.

Petersburg

City of Petersburg

None

Seeking Funding

Vital

Facility Construction / Rehab.

Ongoing

Additional land adjacent to Spring Branch Stream (the Wastewater system upgrade project is complete Funding secured in 2014 project in progress.

Delaware County

None

Seeking Funding

Vital

Infrastructure

2010-2015

Colesburg

Delaware Co. Conservation Dept.

City of Colesburg

Vital

Infrastructure

2014

CDBG

$300,000

City

$2,198,514

$2,498,514

$900

Ryan

City of Ryan

None

Vital

Infrastructure

2016

CDBG

$144,000

City

$163,035

$307,035

$3,000

Both

Both Both Both

community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds Community Development: Enhance community and public facility i f t t di Community Development: Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase Community Development: Enhance community and public facility i f t t di

BF Park - campground improvements Sewer Well Application

Delaware County Delaware County Delaware County

None In Progress

Private contributions

$630,000 Vision Iowa CAT

$300,000 IDNR Low Head Dam, IDNR REAP

$200,000 City, County, Citizens, Businesses

$1,280,000

$0

$10,000

$2,410,000

$3,000

$0

$720

$0

Both

Housing Assistance

Provide Section 8 HCV Rental assistance to participating families

Delaware County

EIRHA

Colesburg, Delhi, Edgewood, Greeley, Hopkinton, Manchester, Ryan 122 families

In Progress

Vital

Rental Assistance

Ongoing

Ongoing

Skilled Workers: Improve the Manchester Welding quantity and quality of the region’s Program workforce to address the employer demands in the areas of Advanced Manufacturing; Healthcare; and Professional, Scientific, Technical Services by expanding the number of participants in the regional training programs by 10% and by increasing the number of trained skilled employees in these sectors Community Development: Enhance Sewer community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds to the region by 20% and completing 15 projects by January 2020.

Long term, community Delaware generated and sustained County initiative to equip unemployed and under employed Iowans in Eastern Iowa with the skills necessary to advance to career track, high wage jobs with full benefits; Manchester: 50 have graduated from the program Currently 31 are Project Complete Delaware County

Manchester

Region 1 NICC, West Workforce and Delaware Schools, Development local industries: Henderson Products, XL Specialized Trailers, Paladin and EIP, DCED, Great Delaware County Foundation

In Progress

Vital

Technical Assistance

Delhi

City of Delhi

Completed

Vital

Infrastructure

Both

Housing: Increase the number of workforce rental and single family housing units in the region by 2% to accommodate the industry demands by January, 2020.

Housing Rehab Grant

Provide assistance to 6 owner occupied households for rehabilitation in the City; Applied for funding in 2012, 2013 (Not funded)

Delaware County

Dundee

City of Dundee

Community Development

Seeking Funding

Vital

Technical Assistance

Both

Housing: Increase the number of workforce rental and single family housing units in the region by 2% to accommodate the industry Housing: Increase the number of workforce rental and single family housing units in the region by 2% to accommodate the industry demands by January, 2020.

Housing Rehab Grant

Provide assistance to 6 owner occupied households for rehabilitation in the City; Applied for funding in 2011, 2012 (Not funded) Provide assistance to 6 owner occupied households for rehabilitation in the City; Applied for funding in 2012, 2013 (2013 funded)

Delaware County

Edgewood

City of Edgewood

Community Development

Seeking Funding

Vital

Delaware County

Greeley

City of Greeley

Community Development

Seeking Funding

Housing: Increase the number of workforce rental and single family housing units in the region by 2% to accommodate the industry demands by January, 2020.

Housing Rehab Grant

Provide assistance to 6 owner occupied households for rehabilitation in the City; Applied for funding in 2013 (not funded)

Delaware County

Hopkinton

City of Hopkinton

Community Development

Seeking Funding

Delaware County

Earlville

EIRHC HTF

Both

Both

Both

Both

Both

Housing Rehab Grant

HTF - Individual Rehab Housing Rehab $ 7,500.00 Roof Replacement

IN Progress

2013

$290,278

NICC, local businesses

$71,900 WIA (Promise Jobs), ECIA, Gap funding

$1,872,487

$360

Ongoing

$0

$6,000

Technical Assistance

Ongoing

$0

$6,000

Vital

Technical Assistance

Ongoing

$243,000

$6,000

Vital

Technical Assistance

Ongoing

$0

$3,000

2015

CDBG

$71,900

CDBG

$300,000

$237,000

City

City

$1,572,487

$6,000

Delaware County

Manchester

EIRHC HTF

In Progress

Technical Assistance

HTF - Individual Rehab Housing Rehab $ 9,000.00 Roof Replacement

Delaware County

Manchester

EIRHC HTF

IN Progress

Technical Assistance

Delaware County Clerks Meetings - 2015

Delaware County Delware County

Both

HTF - Rental Rehab

Both

Both

Rental Rehab $ 45,000.00 Boiler and Pipe Replacement Zone Valve Replacement Drop Ceil installation

Staff attends clerk's meetings and answers pertinent questions 1/28/15, 3/26/15, 4/30/15, 6/17/15, 7/2/15

Transportation Infrastructure: Idustrial Park Expansion Improve highway and bridge transportation infrastructure funding to attract, retain, and expand business in the region by increasing the State and Federal Community Development: Enhance One on one technical community and public facility Assistance infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds to the region by 20% and completing 15 projects by January 2020.

Expand 20 West Industrial Delaware County Park (Phase II); phase I complete; 25 acres still available; utilities are in place in phase 1; seeking funding to Read through and sent on Delaware information regarding a USDA County

CEDS

Delaware County Jail Community Development: Expansion Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds to the region by 20% and completing 15 projects

by January 2020.

Larger and more secure Delaware County Jail; $4 million project; Spring 2014 vote - Vote vailed

CEDS

Housing: Increase the number of Housing Development workforce rental and single family housing units in the region by 2% to accommodate the industry demands by January, 2020.

CEDS

CEDS

Both

Both

CEDS

ECIA

Administration

In Progress

Vital

Technical Assistance

In Progress

Vital

Infrastructure

2015

Ongoing

$770

Dyersville

City of Dyersville

Manchester

Delaware County ED

Administration

Completed this Year

Suggested

Infrastructure

Delaware County

Delaware County

Delaware County

None

Seeking Funding

Vital

Facility Construction / Rehab.

2014-2016

$0

Encourage a private developer to renovate an old school into rental workforce housing; County needs to provide rental needs assessment to potential developers

Delaware County

Dundee

Dundee

None

Seeking Funding

Vital

Facility Construction / Rehab.

2014-2016

$0

Housing: Increase the number of Homeownership workforce rental and single family Program housing units in the region by 2% to accommodate the industry demands by January, 2020.

Provide assistance to owner occupied households; Seeking funding; 13 homeowner occupied units rehabilitated within the city

Delaware County

Dundee

Dundee

None

Seeking Funding

Vital

Technical Assistance

Ongoing

$0

Community Development: Enhance Wastewater System community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds to the region by 20% and completing 15 projects by January 2020.

Housing: Increase the number of Housing Development workforce rental and single family housing units in the region by 2% to accommodate the industry demands by January, 2020.

Wastewater treatment plant upgrade; Shovel-ready;

Delaware County

Earlville

Earlville

None

Seeking Funding

Vital

Infrastructure

2014-2016

$0

Encourage a private developer to renovate an old school into rental workforce housing; County needs to provide rental needs assessment to potential developers

Delaware County

Earlville

Earlville

None

Seeking Funding

Vital

Facility Construction / Rehab.

2014-2016

$0

Telecommunications grant to connect teachers and students with medical issues

2012-2016

Ongoing

$45

CEDS

CEDS

CEDS

CEDS

Industrial Park Utility Business Development: Connection Remain economically competitive by retaining businesses, encouraging expansion, and attracting new industry in the region by increasing SBA and RLF loan activity by 10%; increasing annual business retention calls to regional employers by 5%; increasing the total regional laborforce by .5%; increasing commercial construction by 10%, and Business Development: Remain Industry Park economically competitive by Development retaining businesses, encouraging expansion, and attracting new industry in the region by increasing SBA and RLF loan activity by 10%; increasing annual business retention calls to regional employers by 5%; increasing the total regional Housing: Increase the number of Housing Development workforce rental and single family housing units in the region by 2% to accommodate the industry demands by January, 2020.

Housing: Increase the number of Housing Development workforce rental and single family housing units in the region by 2% to accommodate the industry demands by January, 2020.

CEDS

Community Development: Enhance Emergency Services community and public facility Facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds to the region by 20% and completing 15 projects by January 2020.

CEDS

Business Development: Remain economically competitive by retaining businesses, encouraging expansion, and attracting new industry in the region by increasing SBA and RLF loan activity by 10% increasing Community Development: Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds to the region by 20% and completing 15 projects

by January 2020.

CEDS

Delaware Provide utilities within the County industrial park; Water and sewer is in the industrial park; Electric and natural gas connected as needed.

Edgewood

City of Edgewood

None

Completed

Vital

Infrastructure

2009-2014

$0

Development of a 54 acre commercial park by a private investor; located at the corner of Iowa Highway 13 and U.S. 20

Delaware County

Manchester

City of Manchester

None

In Progress

Vital

Infrastructure

Ongoing

$0

Encourage private development to accommodate new housing development for median income, add streets and improvements as needed to bdi i i Encouraged at private

Delaware County

Manchester, Ryan

Manchester, Ryan

None

In Progress

Vital

Infrastructure

Ongoing

$0

Delaware County

Ryan

Ryan

None

Seeking Funding

Vital

Facility Construction / Rehab.

Ongoing

$0

Delaware County Emergency Management

None

Seeking Funding

Vital

Facility Construction / Rehab.

Ongoing

$0

Facility Construction / Rehab.

developer to renovate a local pub into workforce housing rental units; County needs to provide rental needs i l New facilities to house

Delaware sandbag supply, emergency County shelter trailer, communications trailer, generators and other disaster related supplies; Shovel-ready; seeking funding

JEDA Polymers

The company plans to build a 48,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in the Dyersville Industrial Park with a capital investment of $4.5 million

Delaware County

Dyersville

Dyersville Economic Development

None

Complete in 2015 Vital

2014-2015

16

JEDA Polymers

$2,028,040 SBA 504, EDA & IRP RLF

$1,922,000 Tax Increment Financing

$545,000

$4,495,040

Whitewater park restooms and parking lot and add lighting along the trail to the acquatic center

Add a parking lot and restroom facilities to the Whitewater Park and lighting and benches along the trail to the acquatic center

Delaware County

Manchester

Manchester

None

Vital

Infrastructure

Ongoing

$0

CEDS

Housing: Increase the number of workforce rental and single family housing units in the region by 2% to accommodate the industry demands by January, 2020.

Edgwood Convalescent Expand assisted living facilities Delaware Home expansion and individual apartments County

Edgewood

Edgewood

None

Vital

Facility Construction / Rehab.

Ongoing

$0

CEDS

Housing: Increase the number of workforce rental and single family housing units in the region by 2% to accommodate the industry demands by January, 2020.

Good Neighbor Home Expansion

Expand assisted living facilities Delaware and individual apartments County

Manchester

Manchester

None

Vital

Facility Construction / Rehab.

Ongoing

$0

CEDS

Community Development: Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their

New Swimming Pool

Construct a new community swimming pool

Edgewood

Edgewood

None

Vital

Infrastructure

Ongoing

$0

Delaware County

$4,000

CEDS

CEDS

Both

Both

Both

Both

Community Development: Road Maintenance Enhance community and Facility public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private Business Development: Business Development: Remain

Construct a new Road Maintenance Facility

Delaware County

Manchester

Manchester

None

Guardian Expansion in DeWitt

DeWitt

Clinton County

City of DeWitt

ECIA

Dubuque County

Asbury

City of Asbury

Administration

Vital

Infrastructure

Seeking Funding

Seeking Funding

Vital

In Progress

Vital

Facility Construction / Rehab.

Ongoing

Infrastructure

economically competitive by retaining businesses, encouraging expansion, and attracting new industry in the region by increasing SBA and RLF loan activity by 10%; increasing annual business retention calls to regional employers by 5%; increasing the total regional laborforce by .5%; increasing commercial construction by 10%, and increasing entrepreneurial start-ups by 5% total by January 2020.

Remain economically competitive by retaining businesses, encouraging expansion, and attracting new industry in the region by increasing SBA and RLF loan activity by 10%; increasing annual business retention calls to regional employers by 5%; increasing the total regional laborforce by .5%; increasing commercial construction by 10%, and increasing entrepreneurial start-ups by 5% total by January 2020.

Community Development: Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the b f bli d i t f d

Municipal Campus

Combines City Hall, Police, and Library into one building: broke ground September 2014

Cascade Aquatic Center

ECIA staff is facilitating a Dubuque capital campaign to build a County new aquatic center; feasibility study in progress

Cascade

City of Cascade

Administration

Seeking Funding

Vital

Facility Construction / Rehab.

2014-2016

Cascade Aquin Daycare Center

ECIA staff is facilitating a Dubuque capital campaign to add on to County the existing daycare center

Cascade

Aquin Daycare Center

Administration

Seeking Funding

Vital

Facility Construction / Rehab.

2014-2016

Community Development: Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private Community Development: Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their

Both

2012-2015

Ongoing

$0

$308

Dubuque County Clerks Staff attends meetings and Meetings -2014 answers pertinent questions.

Four in 2014.

Dubuque County

Dubuque County

ECIA

Community Development

Vital

Technical Assistance

Ongoing

$0

$1,013

Vital

Facility Construction / Rehab.

Both

Community Development: Enhance community and

Dyersville

Dyersville

Community Development

In Progress

Vital

Infrastructure

Both

Housing: Increase the number of workforce rental and single family housing units in the region by 2% to accommodate the industry demands by January, 2020.

Dubuque County Dubuque County

Dyersville

Community ECIA, local contractors, regional Development cities

Completed

Vital

Facility Construction / Rehab.

Both

Housing: Increase the number of workforce rental and single family housing units in the region by 2% Housing: Increase the number of workforce rental and single family housing units in the region by 2% to accommodate the industry Community Development: Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of

Dubuque County Dubuque County

Dyersville

ECIA, local contractors, regional ECIA, local contractors, regional cities

Community Development

Completed

Vital

Dyersville

Community Development

Completed

Vital

Technical Assistance Technical Assistance

Dubuque County

Dyersville

Dyersville

Community Development

Completed

Vital

Technical Assistance

Project complete

Dubuque County

This grant has not ECIA even started yet and homeowners/communi ties have not been identified Dubuque City of Dubuque

Community Development

In Progress

Vital

Facility Construction / Rehab.

2015-2017

Community Development

In Progress

Vital

Facility Construction / Rehab.

2004-2020

Both

$0

Technical Assistance

In Progress

Both

$813,500

Vital

Community Development

Community Development: Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of Community Development: Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of Community Development: Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of

$630,000

Administration

ECIA, EIRHA, local contractors, regional cities

Both

City of Asbury, County

Woodward Foundation, Marla - check asbury chart

ECIA

Dubuque

Housing: Increase the number of workforce rental and single family housing units in the region by 2% to accommodate the industry

$183,500 DRA, McElroy Trust,

Dubuque County

Dubuque County

Both

Individuals, local businesses

Dubuque County

Housing: Increase the number of New Production workforce rental and single family Homeownership housing units in the region by 2% to Program accommodate the industry demands by January, 2020.

Both

2015-2017

Dubuque County Clerks Staff attends meetings and Meetings -2015 answers pertinent questions.

3/24/15, 6/23/15

Both

Both

$0

25% downpayment housing assistance to LMI buyers in ECIA region - New Production (NP4) - 2008 State flood funds to construct 49 units in Dubuque and Dubuque County; Funds secured; construction in progress Wastewater treatment Double the capacity of the facility upgrade sewer system to mitigate raw New Production 30% downpayment housing Homeownership assistance to LMI buyers in Program (Overall) ECIA region - New Production (NP1) - 2008 State flood funds to construct 16 it Production i D ill(NP1) 16 - it New Production New Homeownership Additional value is the sale New Production New Production (NP1) Homeownership Additional value is down Program payment assistance. 8 at Acquire floodRemoval of damaged damaged properties properties and mitigate future flood damage; Funding secured; purchased 34 i targets 6 first time Homeownership This grant Program

Bee Branch Flood Mitigation

home buyers within incorporated Cities in Dubuque County excluding Dubuque. Approved 1. Carter Road Detention Basin Completed in 2004 $1,076,315; 2. West 32nd Street Detention Basin

Dubuque County

2009-2015

Private loans

IEDA NP

2011-2015 Complete in 2009

EDA

$0

City

$1,000,000

$4,000,000

$0

$3,720,000

$3,000

Private loans and additional housing development

$2,848,000 IEDA NP

Complete

Home Values

$2,640,000

$0

$2,640,000

$0

Complete

Down Payment Value

$792,000

$0

$792,000

$0

$3,000

Wahlert Foundation; Private Donations

$165,000

$872,000

$3,000,000

FEMA; CDBG

$4,466,800

$4,466,800

IFA-HOME program

$285,250

$285,250

State RECAT; National Scenic ByWays; Mississippi River Trail; Federal Pass-Thru

$140,866,780

$141,031,780

Sewer and Water Extension

Sewer and water extension to DOT facility on Hwy 136; Cost: $1,500,000

Dubuque County

Dyersville

Dyersville

Dyersville

Seeking Funding

Vital

Infrastructure

2014-2016

$0

12th Ave SE Utility Extension Project

Sewer and water extension and improved water quality; Cost: $974,500

Dubuque County

Dyersville

Dyersville

Dyersville

Seeking Funding

Vital

Infrastructure

2014-2016

$0

Both

Both

Both

Community Development: Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds to the region by 20% and Transportation Infrastructure: Improve highway and bridge transportation infrastructure funding to attract retain and Transportation Infrastructure: Improve highway and bridge transportation infrastructure funding to attract, retain, and expand business in the region by increasing the State and Federal funding to the area by 10% by January 2020.

Trail

Develop a trail to direct pedestrians and bicyclists around Asbury Road; Safe alternative route for pedestrians and bicyclists; trail location identified and a portion of funding secured; sidewalk is complete bicycle Safety Improvements: Tree Removal, Remove Realign the intersection Vertical Curve, Realign Hales of Asbury Road and Mill Road to eliminate skew 1st Ave Trail Project Improve Recreational activity;

Dubuque County

Asbury

City of Asbury

ECIA Transportation and Planning

Completed

Vital

Infrastructure

2009-2015

Dubuque County

Asbury

City of Asbury

Vital

Infrastructure

2013-2015

Dubuque County

Cascade

City of Cascade

ECIA In Progress Transportation and Planning ECIA In Progress

Vital

Infrastructure

2012-2015

Transportation and Planning

$0

IDOT, local

$243,015

$243,015

$190,718

RPA 8 Enhancement Grant $190,718

Both

Green Dubuque

Reduce emissions by 50 Dubuque percent by 2030; Greenhouse County gas emissions study complete;

Dubuque

Dubuque

ECIA Transportation and Planning

In Progress

Vital

Planning

Both

Walking school bus

Create a safe walking route Dubuque for kids to walk with adult County supervision; Monitor increase in children walking and biking to school,

Dubuque

Dubuque Community School District

ECIA Transportation and Planning

Completed

Vital

Planning

9th & 11th Street Conversion

Convert one-way to two-way streets to help circulate traffic efficiently in intermodal Convert one-way to two-way and eliminate elm street extension and improve traffic Remove on-street parking within 200 feet of the intersection, Add left turn Improved connectivity between small communities and recreational trail access; Encourage community design that results in sustainable design and land use with "smart growth" components; Funding secured; work in progress; all communities except for Dyersville, have adopted the plan in 2013

Dubuque County

Dubuque

City of Dubuque

Completed this Year

Vital

Infrastructure

2013-2014

Dubuque County

Dubuque

City of Dubuque

Completed this Year

Vital

Infrastructure

2013-2014

City, USDOT

$744,000

$744,000

Dubuque County

Dubuque

City of Dubuque

ECIA Transportation and Planning ECIA Transportation and Planning ECIA Transportation and Planning

In Progress

Vital

Infrastructure

2013-2015

IDOT

$478,750

$478,750

Dubuque County

Dubuque County

Dubuque County

ECIA Transportation and Planning

In Progress

Vital

Infrastructure

2011-2015

$0

Dubuque County

Dubuque County

Dubuque County

ECIA Transportation and Planning

Completed

Vital

Planning

Complete

$0

2013-2015

$0

Both

Both

Both

Both

Both

Transportation Infrastructure: Improve highway and bridge transportation infrastructure funding to attract, retain, and Transportation Infrastructure: Improve highway and bridge transportation infrastructure funding to attract, retain, and Transportation Infrastructure: Improve highway and bridge transportation infrastructure funding to attract retain and Transportation Infrastructure: Improve highway and bridge transportation infrastructure funding to attract retain and Community Development: Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds to the region by 20% and completing 15 projects by January 2020.

Elm Street conversion

Safety Improvements: Grandview Ave/Loras Blvd and Grandview Heritage Trail Improvements Dubuque County Smart Plan

Ongoing

2013

$0

IDOT

$0

City

$1,700,000

$1,700,000

Both

Community Development: Enhance Smart Zoning community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds to the region by 20% and completing 15 projects by January 2020.

Create a smart zoning code for cities and county in Dubuque county designed to help implement form based zoning; Project underway

Dubuque County

Dubuque County

ECIA, Dubuque County

ECIA Transportation and Planning

In Progress

Vital

Planning

Both

Transportation Infrastructure: Improve highway and bridge transportation infrastructure funding to attract, retain, and expand business in the region by increasing the State and Federal funding to the area by 10% by January 2020.

Mud Lake Road Improvements

Extentsion, widening, subdrain and paving;

Dubuque County

Dubuque County

Dubuque County

ECIA In Progress Transportation and Planning

Vital

Infrastructure

2012-2015

$0

Both

Transportation Infrastructure: Improve highway and bridge transportation infrastructure funding to attract, retain, and expand business in the region by increasing the State and Federal

Farley Road Widening Project underway; increased and Subdrain costs and design issues

Dubuque County

Dubuque County

Dubuque County

ECIA In Progress Transportation and Planning

Vital

Infrastructure

2011-2015

$0

Transportation Infrastructure: Improve highway and bridge transportation infrastructure funding to attract, retain, and expand business in the region by increasing the State and Federal Transportation Infrastructure: Improve highway and bridge transportation infrastructure funding to attract, retain, and expand business in the region by increasing the State and Federal funding to the area by 10% by January 2020.

Highway 52 Improvements

Both

Transportation Infrastructure: Improve highway and bridge transportation infrastructure funding to attract, retain, and expand business in the region by increasing the State and Federal funding to the area by 10% by January 2020.

Highway 20 improvements

Both

Transportation Infrastructure: Improve highway and bridge transportation infrastructure funding to attract, retain, and expand business in the region by increasing the State and Federal funding to the area by 10% by January 2020.

Both

Skilled Workers: Improve the quantity and quality of the region’s workforce to address the employer demands in the areas of Advanced Manufacturing; Healthcare; and Professional, Scientific, Technical Services by expanding the number of participants in the regional training programs by 10% and by increasing the number of trained skilled employees in these sectors Business Development: Remain economically competitive by retaining businesses, encouraging expansion, and attracting new industry in the region by increasing SBA and RLF loan activity by 10%; increasing annual business retention calls to regional employers by 5%; increasing the total regional laborforce by .5%; increasing commercial construction by 10%,

Both

Both

Both

Both

Both

Both

Community Development: Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of

Dubuque County and City of Holy Cross

Dubuque County and ECIA In Progress City of Holy Cross Transportation and Planning

Vital

Infrastructure

Ongoing

$0

Dubuque year plan; construction County planned for 2015; City roads will need to be built and extended to support the interchange; funding needed for city portion of project; $17 million project is expected to improve traffic safety at Seventh Street and Highway 20 improvements Dubuque from Peosta to Seipple Road; County DOT priority; Study complete; waiting on funding

Dyersivlle

City of Dyersivlle

ECIA In Progress Transportation and Planning

Vital

Infrastructure

2012-2016

$0

Dubuque County

Dubuque County, Iowa DOT

ECIA Seeking Funding Transportation and Planning

Vital

Infrastructure

2014-2020

$0

7th Street Reconstruction

Connector between downtown, Historic Millwork District and Port of Dubuque; Cost: $4,500,000; RISE grant awarded for 50% of a portion of the project funded; Project is currently delayed

Dubuque

City of Dubuque

ECIA In Progress Transportation and Planning???

Vital

Infrastructure

2012-2015

$0

Dubuque Works Strategic Plan

Develop a strategic work plan Dubuque for the Dubuque area to County address impending workforce shortage - Dubuque Works

Dubuque

Economic Development

In Progress

Vital

Planning

Ongoing

$0

Local Business Loan Program

SBA 504 Loans, Local RLF Dubuque loans and Energy Efficiency County Loans are available through and processed by E.C.I.A. Business Growth, Inc.,.; loans to local businesses result in the creation of new jobs and the retention of existing jobs.

Dubuque

Greater Dubuque Development Corporation; Dubuque Area Chamber of Commerce, ECIA, Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque, Dubuque Area Labor E.C.I.A. Business Growth, Inc.

Economic Development

In Progress

Vital

Planning

Ongoing

$0

Energy Efficiency Upgrades

Provide energy efficiency upgrades in commercial sector, energy audits of municipal buildings, RLFs for

Dubuque County

Dubuque

City of Dubuque

Economic Development

In Progress

Vital

Infrastructure

Ongoing

$0

Petal Project

Green business certification program to encourage environmental practices in the business community;

Dubuque County

Dyersville

Physical Therapy Solutions; Prosperity Eastern Iowa

Economic Development

Completed this Year

Vital

Technical Assistance

2013-2014

$0

$1,125

Staff presentation at Dyersville Chamber's Noon Knowledge

Presented information on the Dubuque Petal Project in conjunction County with Physical Therapy Solutions green ribbon cutting: Time coded to Petal

Dyersville

Physical Therapy Economic Solutions; Prosperity Development Eastern Iowa

Completed this Year

Vital

Technical Assistance

2014

$0

$375

Ongoing

$0

Highway 20 West Interchange

Coordinate with the State on improving Highway 52 from Sageville to Luxemburg; Securing funds for the improvements, completion of h l included i din IDOT's 5f Project

Dubuque County

Dubuque County

Both

Housing: Increase the number of Homeownership workforce rental and single family Program housing units in the region by 2% to accommodate the industry demands by January, 2020.

Provide homeownership Dubuque assistance for first time County homebuyers; had one rehab in 2008 for $119,000

Dyersville

EIRHA

EIRHA

In Progress

Vital

Technical Assistance

Both

Community Development: Enhance Smart City pilot community and public facility program for infrastructure and increase access sustainability to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds to the region by 20% and completing 15 projects by January 2020.

Revamp how water, energy and tranportation systems operate; reduce carbon footprint; Cost: $2.5 million; Water meter replacement complete. Smarter Travel underway.

Dubuque

Dubuque, IBM, AY McDonald

None

In Progress

Vital

Infrastructure

Dubuque County

2009-2017

IDOT

$1,000,000

$1,000,000

Both

Community Development: Enhance Installion of Sidewalks community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds to the region by 20% and completing 15 projects by January 2020.

Shovel-ready; need to secure funding

Dubuque County

Bernard

City of Bernard

None

Seeking Funding

Vital

Infrastructure

Both

Community Development: Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional

Downtown Revitalization

The Cascade Area Chamber of Commerce is considering a downtown revitalization project and is soliciting the input of downtown property owners.

Dubuque County

Cascade

Cascade Economic Development

None

Seeking Funding

Vital

Both

Project Hope

Dubuque County

Dubuque

Youth Re-Engagement Center

Dubuque County

Dubuque

None Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque, Dubuque Community Schools, Northeast Iowa Community College, ECIA, city of None City of Dubuque/Project Hope, NICC, Dubuque Community

In Progress

Both

Meet regularly to discuss reengaging the dropout youth and the unemployed and under employed; EDA technical assistance planning grant funded in August 2011; Business Plan completed Reconnect with high school drop-outs and encourage them to work on GED attainment or return to high

Both

Solar Power Pilot Study A state agency has been awarded a $1 million grant from the U.S Department of Energy to launch a statewide program aimed at promoting the installation of solar power t Piland t repaving i ti of Asbury Road Widening

Dubuque County

Dubuque

City of Dubuque

Dubuque County

Dubuque County

Both

Both

Transportation Infrastructure: Improve highway and bridge transportation infrastructure funding to attract, retain, and expand business in the region by increasing the State and Federal funding to the area by 10% by January 2020.

Transportation Infrastructure: Improve highway and bridge transportation infrastructure funding to attract, retain, and expand business in the region by increasing the State and Federal funding to the area by 10% by January 2020.

2010-2016

$0

Planning

2014-2017

$0

Vital

Planning

Ongoing

In Progress

Vital

Technical Assistance

Ongoing

None

In Progress

Vital

Planning

Ongoing

Dubuque County

None

Completed

Vital

Infrastructure

EDA

NICC

Asbury Road, the main road through the community

Passenger Bridge Overpass

This bridge will overpass 3rd Avenue and assist students in getting to school safely

Dubuque County

Dyersville

Dyersville

None

Seeking Funding

Vital

Infrastructure

Ongoing

Trail Extension

Extend trail to X49 past Ellen Kennedy Center, past school, to convert to Heritage Trail

Dubuque County

Dyersville

City of Dyersville

None

Seeking Funding

Vital

Infrastructure

Ongoing

$100,000

$100,000

$100,000

City Council members voted 40 at a special meeting Thursday (Oct 30) to approve an application for a new pilot program through the Iowa Economic Development Authority. The program, a partnership between IEDA's Iowa Downtown Resource Center and Drake aims to Create affordable housing opportunities

Dubuque County

Dyersville

City of Dyersville

None

Seeking Funding

Vital

Dubuque County

Dubuque

City of Dubuque

None

In Progress

$0

Both

Community Development: Enhance Downtown community and public facility Revitalization infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds to the region by 20% and completing 15 projects by January 2020.

Both

Housing: Increase the number of workforce rental and single family housing units in the region by 2% to accommodate the industry demands by January, 2020.

Affordable Housing

Both

Business Development: Remain economically competitive by retaining businesses, encouraging expansion, and attracting new industry in the region by increasing SBA and RLF loan activity by 10%; increasing annual business retention calls to regional Business Development: Remain economically competitive by retaining businesses, encouraging expansion, and attracting new industry in the region by increasing SBA and RLF

Rousselot

Rousselot announced plans to invest in a 9,000 squarefoot expansion to its facility.

The expansion project was expected to increase production by 40 percent

Dubuque County

Dubuque

Rousselot

None

Completed

Vital

Facility Construction / Rehab.

2014

10

Rousselot

Rite Hite

Workforce expansion

Dubuque County

Dubuque, Peosta

Rite Hite

None

Completed

Vital

Other

2014

18

Rite Hite

Long term, community Dubuque generated and sustained County initiative to equip unemployed and under employed with the skills necessary to advance to career track, high wage jobs with full benefits; Program

Dubuque County

Region 1 City of Dubuque, Project Hope, NICC, Workforce and Development Dubuque Community Schools, ECIA, local businesses

In Progress

Vital

Technical Assistance

Skilled Workers: Improve the Opportunity Dubuque quantity and quality of the region’s workforce to address the employer demands in the areas of Advanced Manufacturing; Healthcare; and Professional, Scientific, Technical Services by expanding the number of participants in the regional

$100,000

2012-2014

Pavement Rehabitation

Transportation Infrastructure: Improve highway and bridge transportation infrastructure funding to attract, retain, and expand business in the region by increasing the State and Federal funding to the area by 10% by January 2020.

Both

$45,000

Dubuque Community Schools

US Department of Energy>Iowa Economic Development Authority>Iowa Environmental Council

Both

Both

$45,000

2014-2016

Ongoing

Ongoing

NICC, GDDC

$16,300,000

#REF!

WIA, IEDA Career Link

$100,800 Dubuque Community Schools,

$100,000

$200,800

$400

Both

Transportation Infrastructure: Improve highway and bridge transportation infrastructure funding to attract, retain, and expand business in the region by increasing the State and Federal funding to the area by 10% by January 2020.

X 49 and 1st Avenue West Intersection

In the City of Dyersville, X49 and 1st Avenue West: Intersection of X49 and 1st Avenue West

Dubuque County

Dyersville

Dyersville

Transportation

In Progress

Vital

Infrastructure

Ongoing

RPA STP

$264,000

$66,000

$330,000

Both

Transportation Infrastructure: Improve highway and bridge transportation infrastructure funding to attract, retain, and expand business in the region by increasing the State and Federal funding to the area by 10% by January 2020.

1st Avenue West Bridge Deck Overlay

In the city of Dyersville, On 1st Dubuque Avenue West Bridge Deck County Overlay, Over Bear Creek, from X49/332nd Ave to Beltline Rd

Dyersville

Dyersville

Transportation

In Progress

Vital

Infrastructure

Ongoing

RPA STP

$260,000

$65,000

$325,000

Both

Transportation Infrastructure: 14th Street and Improve highway and bridge Pedestrian Bridge at 5 transportation infrastructure Points funding to attract, retain, and expand business in the region by increasing the State and Federal funding to the area Transportation Infrastructure: Westside Park Improve highway and bridge Bike/Walking Trail transportation infrastructure Project

ECIA Transportation Staff developed the cost benefit analysis for the 2014 TIGER grant. Total project cost is $19.5 million

Dubuque County

Dubuque

City of Dubuque

Transportation Seeking Funding

Vital

Infrastructure

Ongoing

Bike/walking trail along 3rd Ave SW: From 5th St SW to 1st St SW & south on 3rd St SW & 3rd Ave SW To the drainage ditch along 5th street & Bear Creek

Dubuque County

Dyersville

Dyersville

Transportation

Completed

Vital

Infrastructure

Complete

RPA Enhancement

$250,000

$63,000

$313,000

Centralia Clerk & Mayor Orientation 2015

Orientation with new Centralia clerk and update for Mayor, 5/18/15

Dubuque County Centralia

ECIA

Administration

Completed

Technical Assistance

2015

Dubuque Brownfields FY13 Assessment

Keep budget, attend community meetings, assist with quarterly reporting for Dubuque's FY13 EPA assessment grant

Dubuque County Dubuque

Dubuque

Administration

In Progress

Technical Assistance

2014-2016

$400,000

$5,649

Dubuque Brownfields FY15 Areawide Planning

Keep budget, oversee contractor, Dubuque County Dubuque assist with and attend community meetings, workplan and quarterly reporting for Dubuque's FY15 EPA areawide grant

Dubuque

Administration

In Progress

Technical Assistance

2015-2017

$200,000

$20,000

Business Advocacy Council meeting - 2015

Staff attends meetings and answers pertinent questions 2/2/15, 3/9/15, 4/13/15, 5/11/15,

Dubuque County Dubuque

Dubuque Chamber

Admnistration

Technical Assistance

Ongoing

Delong Avenue Water Main Looping Project

New water main; Shovelready;

Dubuque County

Cascade

Cascade

Community Development

Seeking Funding

Vital

Facility Construction / Rehab.

Waste Water Treatment Plant upgrades

Cascade’s $400,000 lowinterest state revolving is zerointerest and will go toward planning and design; for preliminary planning of the Waste Water Treatment Plant upgrades Construct IA 32 (Southwest Arterial) from Seippel Road to Hwy 61/151 to provide less congestion in surrounding areas; Final engineering and land acquisition started in 2009; $2.9 million in ARRA

Dubuque County

Cascade

Cascade

Community Development

Seeking Funding

Vital

Planning

Dubuque County

Dubuque

Dubuque County

ECIA Transportation and Planning

In Progress

Vital

Infrastructure

Both

funding to attract, retain, and expand business in the region by increasing the State and Federal funding to the area by 10% by January 2020.

Both

Both

Both

Both

CEDS

CEDS

CEDS

Community Development: Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of Community Development: Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of Business Development: Remain economically competitive by retaining businesses, encouraging expansion, and attracting new industry in the region by increasing SBA and RLF loan activity by 10%; increasing annual business

Community Development: Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds Community Development: Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds

Transportation Infrastructure: IA 32 (Southwest Improve highway and bridge Arterial) transportation infrastructure Construction funding to attract, retain, and expand business in the region by increasing the State and Federal funding to the area

$308

$308

2014-2016

$0

2014-2016

$0

2003-2019

IDOT, DMATS STP

$90,000,000

$90,000,000

Transportation Infrastructure: Improve highway and bridge transportation infrastructure funding to attract, retain, and expand business in the region by increasing the State and Federal funding to the area by 10% by January 2020.

Transportation Infrastructure: Improve highway and bridge transportation infrastructure funding to attract, retain, and expand business in the region by increasing the State and Federal funding to the area by 10% by January 2020.

Great River Road Reconstruction

Partial reconstruction completed; Status of the reconstruction, improved safety and access

Dubuque County

Dubuque County

Dubuque County

ECIA In Progress Transportation and Planning

Vital

Infrastructure

2012-2014

$0

X 49 and 1st Avenue West Intersection

Cost: $264,000; In progress

Dubuque County

Dyersville

Dyersville

ECIA Transportation and Planning

In Progress

Vital

Infrastructure

2013-2015

$0

CEDS

Transportation Infrastructure: Improve highway and bridge transportation infrastructure funding to attract, retain, and expand business in the region by increasing the State and Federal funding to the area by 10% by January 2020.

7th Street SW Bridge Replacement

Cost: $1,200,000; need to secure funding

Dubuque County

Dyersville

Dyersville

ECIA Transportation and Planning

Seeking Funding

Vital

Infrastructure

2009-2015

$0

CEDS

Transportation Infrastructure: Improve highway and bridge transportation infrastructure funding to attract, retain, and expand business in the region by increasing the State and Federal funding to the area by 10% by January 2020.

Beltline Bridge Replacement

Cost: $1,200,000; need to secure funding

Dubuque County

Dyersville

Dyersville

ECIA Transportation and Planning

Seeking Funding

Vital

Infrastructure

2012-2015

$0

CEDS

Transportation Infrastructure: Improve highway and bridge transportation infrastructure funding to attract, retain, and expand business in the region by increasing the State and Federal funding to the area by 10% by January 2020.

12th Avenue SW Bridge Replacement

Cost: $1,200,000; need to secure funding

Dubuque County

Dyersville

Dyersville

ECIA Transportation and Planning

Seeking Funding

Vital

Infrastructure

2012-2015

$0

CEDS

Transportation Infrastructure: Improve highway and bridge transportation infrastructure funding to attract, retain, and expand business in the region by increasing the State and Federal funding to the area by 10% by January 2020.

US 20 Interchange for 320th Avenue into Industrial Park

Cost: $20,000,000; Funded through IADOT

Dubuque County

Dyersville

Dyersville

ECIA Transportation and Planning

In Progress

Vital

Infrastructure

2012-2015

$0

CEDS

Transportation Infrastructure: Improve highway and bridge transportation infrastructure funding to attract, retain, and expand business in the region by increasing the State and Federal funding to the area by 10% by January 2020.

US 20 Overpass for Cost: $3,000,000; need to 332nd Avenue (X49 to secure funding ethanol plant)

Dubuque County

Dyersville

Dyersville

ECIA Transportation and Planning

Seeking Funding

Vital

Infrastructure

2012-2015

$0

CEDS

Transportation Infrastructure: Improve highway and bridge transportation infrastructure funding to attract, retain, and expand business in the region by increasing the State and Federal funding to the area by 10% by January 2020.

12th Ave SW Extension New road for Interchange access; Cost: $800,000; Immediate Need RISE

Dubuque County

Dyersville

Dyersville

ECIA Transportation and Planning

Seeking Funding

Vital

Infrastructure

2012-2015

$0

CEDS

Business Development: Downtown Development Remain economically competitive by retaining businesses, encouraging expansion, and attracting new industry in the region by i i SBA d RLF l

Dubuque

Dubuque Main Street Economic

In Progress

Vital

Planning

Ongoing

$0

CEDS

CEDS

Local banks collaborated to Dubuque create low-interest loan pool County to encourage downtown economic growth; $149 million invested since 2008 with an additional increase of 1,120 l i 2008 Th

Development

CEDS

Housing: Increase the number of Expansion of Housing workforce rental and single family Subdivisions housing units in the region by 2% to accommodate the industry demands by January, 2020.

Possible 230 units constructed

Dubuque County

Asbury

Asbury

None

Seeking Funding

Vital

Facility Construction / Rehab.

CEDS

Transportation Infrastructure: Improve highway and bridge transportation infrastructure funding to attract, retain, and expand business in the region by increasing the State and Federal Community Development: Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and Transportation Infrastructure: Improve highway and bridge transportation infrastructure funding to attract, retain, and expand business in the region by increasing the State and Federal funding to the area by 10% by January 2020.

Monroe Bridge Repair

Shovel-ready;

Dubuque County

Cascade

City of Cascade

None

Seeking Funding

Vital

09' Manhole Replacement Project

New sanitary sewer manholes; Dubuque Shovel-ready; County

Cascade

Cascade

None

Seeking Funding

Dubuque Regional Airport Facility Expansion

Airport to expand facilities; Dubuque New terminal, parking lot and County access road; Cost: $40 million; implement master plan; State RISE grant submitted and approved; Construction in progress.

City of Dubuque

City of Dubuque

None

Community Development: Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the b f Development: bli d i Enhance t f d Community

Portside Plaza

Funding; construction timeline; Dubuque owners; tenants; Flexsteel County home office started in Port of Dubuque; $63 million mixed use condos, office and retail in Port of Dubuque

City of Dubuque

City of Dubuque

Millwork District Preserve and sustain the Dubuque Revitalization Strategy Millwork District by providing County commercial, housing, and employment opportunities; $200 million in residential and commercial development in 29 t b ildi one-stop Pl Start Up Dubuque Entreprenurial Dubuque (formerly known as center for new business start County the Schmid Innovation ups Center)

City of Dubuque/Millwork District

Convention Expansion

CEDS

CEDS

CEDS

CEDS

CEDS

CEDS CEDS CEDS CEDS

CEDS

CEDS

community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the b f bli d i t f d

Business Development: Remain economically competitive by retaining businesses, encouraging expansion, and attracting new industry in the region b i i Development: SBA d RLF Community

Enhance community and Community Development: Enhance community and Business Development: Remain economically Business Development: Remain economically competitive by retaining businesses, encouraging expansion, and attracting new industry in the region by increasing SBA and RLF loan activity by 10%; increasing annual business retention calls to regional employers by Community Development: Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private Community Development: Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds to the region by 20% and completing 15 projects

by January 2020.

Retail Development Extend fiber optic cable to DBQ Dubuque Technology Park

Energy efficiency, conservation and IBM "Smart City"

Phase II Historic Federal Building (Dubuque)

Expanded facility; Cost: $24,732,105 Develop a 30-acre retail site at old Farmland Foods Fiber optic connection for industrial park Tenants include McKesson Co., Cartegraph, Kunkel & Associates, Sedgwick, Straka Johnson Architects, Entegee, and Windstream; Rockfarm Supply Chain Solutions will break ground on its new, 10,000-square-foot building in October 2014 and expects to employ 50 people by Energy efficiency and conservation and IBM "Smart City"; Energy efficiency upgrades in the commercial sector, energy audits of municipal buildings; RLF for energy efficiency retrofit to landlords or property owners, RLF for municipal buildings for energy efficient retrofits Renovation, cost: $6 million

Dubuque County Dubuque County Dubuque County Dubuque County

Ongoing

$0

Infrastructure

2012-2015

$0

Vital

Infrastructure

2014-2016

$0

In Progress

Vital

Facility Construction / Rehab.

2007-2016

None

In Progress

Vital

Planning

Ongoing

$0

City of Dubuque/Millwork District

None

In Progress

Vital

Planning

Ongoing

$0

Dubuque

City of Dubuque, NICC, Chamber, ECIA, SDC, SCORE

None

In Progress

Vital

Infrastructure

2013-2014

Dubuque

Grand River Center

None

Seeking Funding

Suggested

2012-2017

$0

Seeking Funding

Suggested

Facility Construction / Infrastructure

2012-2016

$0

Federal, State, RISE

Private donations

$0

$1,000,000

$1,000,000

Dubuque

Greater Dubuque Development

None

Dubuque

City of Dubuque

None

Seeking Funding Vital

Infrastructure

Complete

$0

Dubuque

City of Dubuque, Greater Dubuque Development

None

In Progress

Vital

Infrastructure

Ongoing

$0

Dubuque County

Dubuque

City of Dubuque

None

In Progress

Vital

Infrastructure

Ongoing

Dubuque County

Dubuque

City of Dubuque

None

Seeking Funding

Vital

Facility Construction / Rehab.

2011-2016

US Dept of Energy, ICAAP

$2,174,700

$2,174,700

$0

CEDS

CEDS

CEDS

CEDS

CEDS

CEDS

CEDS

CEDS

Dubuque Encourage new and existing County businesses to locate to expanded industrial park; Cost of this phase: $5 million; Grading, streets, water, sewer extensions

Dubuque

City of Dubuque

None

In Progress

Vital

Infrastructure

Ongoing

New park along both sides of Seippel Road near Highway 20; Grading underway; Funding needed for construction of US 20 interchange; 110 acres graded and ready for development, including addition of water sanitary Water pollution control plant upgrade; Cost: $65,000,000

Dubuque County

Dubuque

City of Dubuque

None

In Progress

Vital

Infrastructure

Ongoing

Dubuque County

Dubuque

City of Dubuque

None

Seeking Funding Vital

Infrastructure

Complete

$0

Garfield, Heeb, and New retaining walls; ShovelCooper Retaining Walls ready;

Dubuque County

Dubuque

Dubuque

None

Seeking Funding

Vital

Facility Construction / Rehab.

2010-2015

$0

Utillity Expansion to Dubuque Regional Airport

New sanitary sewer and water main serving the Dubuque Regional Airport expanded terminal; Shovelready;

Dubuque County

Dubuque

Dubuque

None

Seeking Funding

Vital

Facility Construction / Rehab.

2010-2015

$0

Foye, Merchant, and Gold Street Reconstruction

Shovel-ready;

Dubuque County

Dubuque

City of Dubuque

None

Seeking Funding

Vital

Infrastructure

Ongoing

$0

Louise Lane Bridge Construction

Shovel-ready;

Dubuque County

Dubuque

City of Dubuque

None

Seeking Funding

Vital

Infrastructure

Ongoing

$0

Provide long term low interest loans for rental property rehabilitation

Dubuque County

Dubuque

Dubuque

None

Seeking Funding

Vital

Technical Assistance

Ongoing

$0

Business Development: Industrial Center West Remain economically competitive by retaining businesses, encouraging expansion, and attracting new industry in the region by increasing SBA and RLF loan activity by 10%; increasing annual business retention calls to regional employers by 5%; increasing the total regional laborforce by .5%; increasing commercial construction by 10%, and Industrial Center South Business Development: Remain economically competitive by retaining businesses, encouraging expansion, and attracting new industry in the region by increasing SBA and RLF loan activity by 10%; increasing annual business retention calls Community Development: Water Pollution Control Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds to the region by 20% and completing 15 projects by January 2020.

Community Development: Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds Community Development: Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds Transportation Infrastructure: Improve highway and bridge transportation infrastructure funding to attract, retain, and expand business in the region by increasing the State and Federal funding to the area by 10% by January 2020.

Transportation Infrastructure: Improve highway and bridge transportation infrastructure funding to attract, retain, and expand business in the region by increasing the State and Federal funding to the area by 10% by January 2020.

Housing: Increase the number of Rental Property workforce rental and single family Rehabilitation housing units in the region by 2% to accommodate the industry demands by January, 2020.

$0

RISE

$230,000

$230,000

CEDS

Housing: Increase the number of Novelty Ironworks workforce rental and single family project housing units in the region by 2% to accommodate the industry demands by January, 2020.

76-unit development

Dubuque County

Dubuque

Dubuque

None

In Progress

Vital

Facility Construction / Rehab.

2013-2015

$0

CEDS

Housing: Increase the number of EZ Contracts workforce rental and single family housing units in the region by 2% to accommodate the industry demands by January, 2020.

20 housing units will be created; 1689 Main St (6), 407-409 Loras Blvd (4), 324326 W. Locust (5), 346-348 W. Locust (5)

Dubuque County

Dubuque

Dubuque

None

In Progress

Vital

Facility Construction / Rehab.

2013-2015

$0

CEDS

Transportation Infrastructure: Improve highway and bridge transportation infrastructure funding to attract, retain, and expand business in the region by increasing the State and Federal

Massey Station Road Widening, Subdrain and Paving

Shovel-ready;

Dubuque County

Dubuque County

Dubuque County

None

Seeking Funding

Vital

Infrastructure

Ongoing

$0

CEDS

Community Development: Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional

Swimming Pool Expansion

Improved swimming pool; waiting on funding, shovelready

Dubuque County

Dyersville

City of Dyersville

None

Seeking Funding

Vital

Facility Construction / Rehab.

2010-2015

$0

CEDS

Community Development: Enhance Main Street Program community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds to the region by 20% and completing 15 projects by January 2020.

Housing: Increase the number of Subdivision workforce rental and single family Development housing units in the region by 2% to accommodate the industry demands by January, 2020.

The City of Dyersville would like to start a main street program

Dubuque County

Dyersville

City of Dyersville

None

Seeking Funding

Vital

Planning

Ongoing

Promote Urban Revitilization/tax incentive plan for new subdivision development

Dubuque County

Epworth

Epworth

None

Seeking Funding

Vital

Planning

Ongoing

$0

Business Development: Industrial Park Remain economically Improvements competitive by retaining businesses, encouraging expansion, and attracting new industry in the region by increasing SBA and RLF loan activity by 10%; increasing annual business retention calls to regional employers by Community Development: Enhance Wastewater System

Extend streets, sewer and water; plat and survey completed

Dubuque County

Farley

City of Farley

None

In Progress

Vital

Infrastructure

Ongoing

$0

Wastewater treatment disinfection; Shovel-ready;

Dubuque County

Farley

Farley

None

Seeking Funding

Vital

Infrastructure

2014-2016

$0

CEDS

CEDS

CEDS

community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds to the region by 20% and completing 15 projects by January 2020.

CEDS

Community Development: Enhance Water Main community and public facility Replacement infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds to the region by 20% and completing 15 projects by January 2020.

First Street Water Main Replacement and Reconstruction; Shovel-ready;

Dubuque County

Farley

Farley

None

Seeking Funding

Vital

Facility Construction / Rehab.

CEDS

Business Development: Remain economically competitive by retaining businesses, encouraging expansion, and attracting new industry in the region by increasing SBA and RLF loan activity by 10%; increasing annual business retention calls to regional employers by 5%; increasing the total regional laborforce by .5%; increasing commercial construction by 10%, and increasing entrepreneurial Community Development: Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds to the region by 20% and completing 15 projects

by January 2020.

Industrial Park Development

Purchase land for the purpose of developing an industrial park; Industrial park developed

Dubuque County

New Vienna

City of New Vienna

None

Seeking Funding

Vital

Infrastructure

Elementary School Facility Expansion

Increase learning skills; Increase ITBS results

Dubuque County

West Dubuque School District

None

Seeking Funding

Vital

Planning

Vital

Infrastructure

CEDS

CEDS

Sageville Elementary Community Development: Improvements - Senior Enhance community and public facility infrastructure High Media Center and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds to the region by 20% and completing 15 projects

by January 2020.

Sageville - New elevator; new Dubuque classrooms and office. Senior - County New media center; Shovelready; seeking funding

Sageville

Dubuque Community School District

None

Seeking Funding

CEDS

E.B. Lyons Interpretive Business Development: Center Expansion Remain economically Project competitive by retaining businesses, encouraging expansion, and attracting new industry in the region by increasing SBA and RLF loan activity by 10%; increasing annual business retention calls to regional employers by 5%; increasing the total regional laborforce by .5%; increasing commercial construction by 10%, and increasing entrepreneurial start-ups by 5% total by January 2020.

An outdoor education area will be built near the center over the next several months, along with new informational kiosks, increased parking, a new restroom facility and an Americans with Disabilities Accessible trail. At the same time, the Iowa Department of Natural Resources will construct a new maintenance and storage shed.

Dubuque County

Dubuque

E.B. Lyons Interpretive Center

None

In Progress

2014-2016

$0

Ongoing

$0

Ongoing

$0

2014-2016

$0

$0

CEDS

Kendall Hunt Business Development: Publishing Remain economically competitive by retaining businesses, encouraging expansion, and attracting new industry in the region by increasing SBA and RLF loan activity by 10%; increasing annual business retention calls to regional employers by 5%; increasing the total regional laborforce by .5%; increasing commercial construction by 10%, and increasing entrepreneurial start-ups by 5% total by January 2020.

Dubuque-based Kendall Hunt Dubuque Publishing closed its County distribution center located at 7200 Chavenelle Road on June 1, 2014.

Dubuque

Kendall Hunt Publishing

None

Completed this Year

2014

10

$0

CEDS

Jeld-Wen Business Development: Remain economically competitive by retaining businesses, encouraging expansion, and attracting new industry in the region by increasing SBA and RLF loan activity by 10%; increasing annual business retention calls to regional employers by 5%; increasing the total regional laborforce by .5%; increasing commercial construction by 10%, and Cartegraph Business Development: Remain economically competitive by retaining businesses, encouraging expansion, and attracting new industry in the region by increasing SBA and RLF loan activity by 10%; increasing annual business retention calls to regional employers by 5%; increasing the total regional laborforce by .5%; increasing commercial construction by 10%, and increasing entrepreneurial start-ups by 5% total by January 2020.

Closure of the wood fiber production plant

Dubuque County

Dubuque

Jeld-Wen

None

Completed this Year

2014

52

$0

Lay offs

Dubuque County

Dubuque

Cartegraph

None

Completed this Year

2014

8

$0

CEDS

Sears Business Development: Remain economically competitive by retaining businesses, encouraging expansion, and attracting new industry in the region by increasing SBA and RLF loan activity by 10%; increasing annual business retention calls to regional employers by 5%; increasing the total regional laborforce by .5%; increasing commercial construction by 10%, and increasing entrepreneurial start-ups by 5% total by January 2020.

Store closed in April 2014

Dubuque County

Dubuque

Sears

None

Completed this Year

2014

50

$0

CEDS

Skilled Workers: Improve the quantity and quality of the region’s workforce to address the employer demands in the areas of Advanced Manufacturing; Healthcare; and Professional, Scientific, Technical Services by expanding the number of participants in the regional Community Development: Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private Business Development: Remain economically competitive by retaining businesses, encouraging expansion, and attracting new industry in the region by increasing SBA and RLF loan activity by 10%; increasing annual business retention calls to regional employers by

Dubuque County

Dubuque

Northeast Iowa Community College

None

In Progress

Vital

Dubuque County

Dubuque

City of Dubuque

None

In Progress

Vital

Dubuque County

Dubuque

None

Completed this Year

Vital

CEDS

CEDS

CEDS

Youth CareerConnect Program

NICC and Upper Explorerland Regional Planning Commission will partner with 23 high schools in the Northeast Iowa Pathways to Employment project to help the college's efforts to develop new and expand existing concurrent enrollments in high-demand industries such as finance Schmitt Island Master The Cunningham Group, an Plan architectural firm out of Minneapolis, presented a master plan for Schmitt Island before the Dubuque Racing Association Board of Directors.

It was presented in three phases, that included retail and housing uses, leisure and recreational uses as well as Tri State Quality Metals Currenty located on leased space in Peosta, plans are to build a new, 44,000 square foot facility in the Dubuque Industrial Center South

Planning

2014-2016

US Dept. of Labor

$2,700,000

$2,700,000

$0

Facility Construction / Rehab.

2014

10

Tri-State Quality Metals

$3,400,000

$3,400,000

CEDS

CEDS

CEDS

CEDS

CEDS

CEDS

CEDS

Business Development: Remain economically competitive by retaining businesses, encouraging expansion, and attracting new industry in the region by increasing SBA and RLF loan Community Development: Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional Community Development: Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and Community Development: Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and Business Development: Remain economically competitive by retaining businesses, encouraging expansion, and attracting i d i Infrastructure: h i b Transportation

JEDA Polymers

The company plans to build a 48,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in the Dyersville Industrial Park with a capital investment of $3.7 million. Check back in 2015.

Dubuque County

Peosta

New science building

Construct new science building; Cost: $13 million;

Dubuque County

Dubuque

Vital

Facility Construction / Rehab.

2014

Clarke College

Seeking Funding Vital

Facility Construction / Rehab.

Complete

$0

Dubuque County

Dyersville

Go the Distance Baseball, LLC

Seeking Funding

Vital

Facility Construction / Rehab.

2011-2015

$0

Dubuque County

Dyersville

City of Dyersville

In Progress

Vital

Infrastructure

2015-2020

$0

Dubuque County

Dyersville

City of Dyersville

In Progress

Vital

Infrastructure

2012-2016

$0

Dubuque County

Dubuque

City of Dubuque

In Progress

Vital

Infrastructure

2015-2016

Dubuque County

Dubuque

City of Dubuque

Completed this Year

Vital

Facility Construction / Rehab.

2013-2014

Improve the Pier to accommodate larger vessels for docking in Dubuque area.

Dubuque County

Dubuque

City of Dubuque

Economic Development

Seeking Funding Vital

Infrastructure

2016-2017

Facility Construction / Rehab.

2012-2015

Go the Distance Baseball, LLC

Phase One: Six baseball and softball fields, concession stands, indoor state of the art training center, conference center (possibly a Commercial Park Acquire and develop Development commercial property for a new commercial park; (12th Ave SW/332nd Ave Street Expansion); Land has been Idustrial Park Expansion Expand 20 West Industrial Park (Phase II); phase I complete; 25 acres still available; utilities are in place in phase 1; seeking funding to d iwill f begin at the h Northwest Arterial The trail Improve highway and bridge Bike/Hike Trail to the intersection of Pennsylvania transportation infrastructure Bergfeld Recreation Avenue and the Northwest funding to attract, retain, and Area - Phase 5 Arterial and will extend expand business in the region southerly along the west side by increasing the State and of the arterial to Chavenelle Federal funding to the area Road. The trail then will head Blain's Farm and Fleet New Dubuque store opened Business Development: in October 2014 Remain economically competitive by retaining businesses, encouraging expansion, and attracting new industry in the region by increasing SBA and RLF loan activity by 10%; increasing annual business retention calls to regional employers by 5%; increasing the total regional laborforce by .5%; increasing commercial construction by 10%, and

Completed this Year

CEDS

Transportation Infrastructure: Improve highway and bridge transportation infrastructure funding to attract, retain, and expand business in the region by increasing the State and Federal funding to the area by 10% by January 2020.

CEDS

Business Development: Remain Mi-T-M - Facility Expansion economically competitive by retaining businesses, encouraging expansion, and attracting new industry in the region by increasing SBA and RLF loan activity by 10%; Community Development: Enhance SouthPort redevelopment community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds to the region by 20% and completing 15 projects by January 2020.

Formerly housed in three separate buildings, the company's fabrication efforts now are conducted under one roof in a 320,000-square-foot facility. Completed in 2014 but will hire additional workers in 2015.

Redevcelopment of the South Port 33 acres in the Port of Dubuque

Dubuque County

Peosta

Mi-T-M

None

Completed

Dubuque County

Dubuque

City of Dubuque

Economic Development

Seeking Funding Vital

Infrastructure

2016-2025

Community Development: Enhance Rehabiltate downtown community and public facility buildings infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds to the region by 20% and completing 15 projects by January 2020.

Community Development: Enhance New City Hall community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds to the region by 20% and completing 15 projects by January 2020.

Redevelop and rehabilitate buildings in downtown Cascade

Dubuque County

Cascade

City of Cascade and Casscade Development

Community Development

Seeking Funding Vital

Infrastructure

2016-2020

Move City Hall to a rennovated bulding or construct new building

Dubuque County

Cascade

City of Cascade

Community Development

Seeking Funding Vital

Infrastructure

2016-2020

CEDS

CEDS

CEDS

Pier improvements Port of Dubuque

None

Vital

16

JEDA Polymers

$3,155,000

Tax Increment Financing

Iowa Natural Resources Commission

100

EDA Public Works Grant

40

Brownfields grant for site assessments

$545,000

$3,700,000

$200,000

$200,000

$4,700,000

$4,700,000

$3,000,000 to $4,000,000

CEDS

Business Development: Remain Industrial Park Expansion economically competitive by retaining businesses, encouraging expansion, and attracting new industry in the region by increasing SBA and RLF loan activity by 10%; increasing annual business retention calls to regional employers by 5%; increasing the total regional laborforce by .5%; increasing commercial construction by 10%, and increasing entrepreneurial start-ups by 5% total by January 2020.

The Dubuque Industrial Center Dubuque South will consist of 140 acres County owned by the City of Dubuque, acquisition cost of $770,000. The new industrial park is being designed by IIW, PC and it is estimated that grading, utility and design costs will be $2,602,320. This will result in 4 industrial sites ranging from 12.66 to 26.79acres, with the larger sites being divided into small sites, depending on the needs of the new industrial customers. The number of usable acres is 76.16 (out of 140

Dubuque

Dubuque

ED

CEDS

Transportation Infrastructure: North Cascade Road Improve highway and bridge transportation infrastructure funding to attract, retain, and expand business in the region by increasing the State and Federal funding to the area by 10% by January 2020.

Utility and road; Project cost: $4.2 million, broken into phases

Dubuque County

Dubuque

City of Dubuque

Transportation Seeking Funding and Planning

ECIA Region

Both

Northeast Iowa City/County Managers Meetings - 2015

Attend meetings and provide feedback, answer questions 2/27/15, 5/29/15

Both

ECIA Fund Alert

Compile list of pertinent grants ECIA Region and send out to region via Vertical Response on a monthly basis

Dubuque

Both

ECIA Spotlight Newsletter

Bi-monthly communication to regional members and partners about replicable community assistance and agency activities

ECIA Region

Dubuque

Attended feedback session and open house for Great River Road Master Plan, Guttenburg (6/11/15)

ECIA Region

Both

Great River Road Master Community Development: Plan Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds to the region by 20% and completing 15 projects

by January 2020.

Seeking Funding Vital

Vital

Infrastructure

Infrastructure

2016-2018

$2,600,000

2016-2018

Administration

In Progress

ECIA

Administration

In Progress

Vital

Technical Assistance

Monthly

$1,000

ECIA

Administration

In Progress

Vital

Technical Assistance

Bi-Monthly

$2,000

Iowa Scenis Byways

Completed

Technical Assistance

Other

Ongoing

2015

$308

$347

Both

Eastern Iowa Rural Community Development: Revitalization Initiative Enhance community and (EIRRI) public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds to the region by 20% and completing 15 projects

by January 2020.

ECIA Region This project will assist ECIA's rural local government members with brownfields revitalization from beginning to end. ECIA just applied for an EPA Brownsfield Assessment grant in December 2014 for $200,000.

Dubuque

ECIA

Administration

Seeking Funding

Vital

Technical Assistance

Ongoing

Both

Upper Mississippi Skilled Workers: Improve Manufacturing the quantity and quality of Innovation Center the region’s workforce to address the employer demands in the areas of Advanced Manufacturing; Healthcare; and Professional, Scientific, Technical Services by expanding the number of participants in the regional training programs by 10% and by increasing the number of trained skilled employees in these sectors by 10% by January 2020.

Tri-state region

NICC

Administration

In Progress

Vital

Technical Assistance

Ongoing

Both

ECICA City Clerks Meeting

UMMIC’s mission is to serve as ECIA Region a catalyst for economic growth and as a regional hub for manufacturing by assisting manufacturers in the region to succeed through innovation, supply chain positioning, and business development activities. The 25 counties in Iowa, Illinois, and Wisconsin that encompass this project have a strong manufacturing ecosystem. The region’s manufacturing concentration ranks in the top third in the nation for key manufacturing technology or supply chains (KTS) by location quotient (LQ) for employment. ECIA Staff completed a business plan in 2014 f spring h C and fall Host the ECIA Region regional City Clerks meeting attended by city clerks from the five county region.

Dubuque

ECIA

Community Development

In Progress

Vital

Technical Assistance

Bi-Annual

$0

Both

Housing: Increase the number of New Production workforce rental and single family Homeownership housing units in the region by 2% Program (Overall) to accommodate the industry demands by January, 2020.

25% downpayment housing ECIA Region assistance to LMI buyers in ECIA region - New Production (NP2) - 2008 State flood funds to construct 41 units in Dubuque, Maquoketa, Clinton, Dyersville (7), Edgewood and Dubuque County; 40 units complete; 1unit remaining; Funded in 2010 and homes constructed in 2010 and 2011

Dubuque, Maquoketa, Community ECIA, local Clinton, Dyersville, contractors, regional Development Edgewood and Dubuque cities County

Completed

Vital

Facility Construction / Rehab.

Complete

Private loans and additional housing development

Both

Housing: Increase the number of New Production workforce rental and single family Homeownership housing units in the region by 2% Program (Home Value) to accommodate the industry demands by January, 2020.

New Production (NP2) Additional value is the sale price of the houses: 7 at $165,000.

Dyersville

Completed

Vital

Technical Assistance

Complete

Home Values

ECIA Region

Community ECIA, local contractors, regional Development cities

$866,250 IEDA NP

$1,155,000

$323,750

$0

$3,000

$1,190,000

$1,155,000

$0

Both

Housing: Increase the number of workforce rental and single family housing units in the region by 2% to accommodate the industry demands by January, 2020.

Both

Housing: Increase the number of New Production workforce rental and single family Homeownership housing units in the region by 2% Program to accommodate the industry demands by January, 2020.

Both

New Production Housing: Increase the number of workforce rental Homeownership and single family housing Program units in the region by 2% to accommodate the industry demands by January, 2020.

Both

Community Development: Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and Transportation Infrastructure: Improve highway and bridge transportation infrastructure funding to attract, retain, and expand business in the region by increasing the State and Federal funding to the area by 10% by January 2020.

Transportation Infrastructure: Improve highway and bridge transportation infrastructure funding to attract, retain, and expand business in the region by increasing the State and Federal funding to the area by 10% by January 2020.

Transportation Infrastructure: Improve highway and bridge transportation infrastructure funding to attract, retain, and expand business in the region by increasing the State and Federal funding to the area by 10% by January 2020.

Both

Both

Both

Both

Both

Both

Complete

Down Payment Value

Facility Construction / Rehab.

2012-2015

Private loans

IEDA NP

$0

Vital

Facility Construction / Rehab.

2014-2016

Private loans

IEDA NP

$0

In Progress

Vital

Technical Assistance

2014-2017

USDA

ECIA Transportation and Planning

ECIA In Progress Transportation and Planning

Vital

Infrastructure

Ongiong

STP, DOT

$17,700,000

$17,700,000

DMATS Region

ECIA Transportation and Planning

ECIA In Progress Transportation and Planning

Vital

Infrastructure

Ongoing

STP, DOT

$2,600,000

$2,600,000

A consolidated effort to ECIA Region achieve funding; creation of a state-wide rail program in Iowa; advocate for additional financial resources; Cost: $3.2 million; creation of community coalition; presentations to legislative committees; correspondence to Congressional delegations; City needs to find funding for Community Development: Enhance Dubuque Intermodal Will create a multi-modal ECIA Region community and public facility Transportation Campus (bicycle, pedestrian, bus, rail, infrastructure and increase access and to community services and single occupant vehicle) hub amenities to meet the demands of for the region; Cost- $10.5 regional employers and their million of which $8 million is employees by increasing the number of public and private funds from Sate of Good Repair to the region by 20% and Grant submitted TIGER V in Converting projects In partnership with city of ECIA Region into 3D Dubuque, Greater Dubuque Development Corp, and DOT; Visualization for future projects helping to get better public input;

Dubuque

City of Dubuque

ECIA Seeking Funding Transportation and Planning

Vital

Infrastructure

2009-2018

State

Dubuque

City of Dubuque

ECIA In Progress Transportation and Planning

Vital

Facility Construction / Rehab.

2013-2015

Federal (State of Good Repair), City, local funds

Dubuque

ECIA

ECIA Completed Transportation and Planning

Vital

Planning

Community Development: Enhance Jule/RTA transit study community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds to the region by 20% and completing 15 projects by January 2020.

Dubuque and RTA region

ECIA

ECIA Transportation and Planning

Vital

Planning

New Production Homeownership Program (Downpayment Assistance Value)

Government Training Institute DMATS - Resurfacing and Pavement rehabbing projects

DMATS - Bridge Replacement

Dyersville

Community ECIA, local contractors, regional Development cities

Completed

Vital

Technical Assistance

25% downpayment housing ECIA Region assistance to LMI buyers in ECIA region - New Production (NP3) - 2008 State flood funds to construct 54 units in Dubuque; 54 units t 25% ldownpayment housing ECIA Region assistance to LMI buyers in ECIA region - New Production (NP5) - 2008 State flood funds to construct 16 units in Betty Building in Millwork District; project cost: $4 million; 72 units in Bob Johnson building; project cost: $27 million; Funds secured; construction in progress

Dubuque

ECIA, EIRHA, local Community contractors, regional Development cities

Completed

Vital

Dubuque

ECIA, EIRHA, local Community contractors, regional Development cities

In Progress

ECIA has implemented a ECIA Region government training institute in which members are welcome $22.1 million will be used to ECIA Region bring the road system to standards of which $17.7 million will be DMATS Surface Transportation Program (STP) funds.

Dubuqe

ECIA

ECIA

DMATS Region

$3.2 million will be used to replace bridges that are below standards of which $2.6 million will be from STP Bridge Program.

New Production (NP2) Additional value is the amount downpayment assistance: 7 at $41,250

ECIA Region

ECIA Region

Ride the Rail, Passenger Train Service (Amtrak) from Chicago to Dubuque

Creating projects to facilitate ECIA Region future changes in the area for all modes of transportation by taking into consideration safety and security of the area; primary input for TIP; Shopping Route implemented in October 2011; Applied for funds for evening college route and mid-town loop (2012-2013);

In Progress

2014

Ongoing

$288,750

$288,750

ECIA, ECIA Business Growth, EIRHA

$150,000

City, GDDC

$150,000

$300,000

$0

$10,500,000

$10,500,000

$0

$0

$0

Both

Transportation Infrastructure: Improve highway and bridge transportation infrastructure funding to attract, retain, and expand business in the region by increasing the State and Federal funding to the area by 10% by January 2020.

Julien Dubuque Bridge Improvements

ECIA Region Work with City of Dubuque and State of Iowa to widen Julien Dubuque Bridge to fourlanes; Funds secured for AE and architectural phase – 2002; secure funds for construction. Status of the project in the State plan; status of Federal funds for construction

Dubuque County

Dubuque County

ECIA Transportation and Planning

Seeking Funding

Vital

Infrastructure

Both

Transportation Infrastructure: Improve highway and bridge transportation infrastructure funding to attract, retain, and expand business in the region by increasing the State and Federal funding to the area by 10% by January 2020.

Highway 20 Study

The IADOT staff Coordinated ECIA Region with the City of Dubuque and DMATS to analyse future improvments between Seipple Rd and Century Dr on Highway 20. IADOT is working with HDR to complete the study. However, there is no funding to make the suggested improvments as of now.

Dubuque County

Dubuque County

ECIA Transportation and Planning

Seeking Funding

Vital

Planning

Both

Transportation Infrastructure: Improve highway and bridge transportation infrastructure funding to attract, retain, and expand business in the region by increasing the State and Federal funding to the area by 10% by January 2020.

Annual DOT transportation project update

Stu Anderson, DIrector, Planning, Programming and Modal Division at Iowa Department of Transportation conducts two hour session every December to commuciate updates in transportation projects.

DMATS and RPA officials are invited as well as general public.

ECIA Region

Dubuque County

ECIA

ECIA Transportation and Planning

In Progress

Vital

Technical Assistance

Both

Transportation Infrastructure: Improve highway and bridge transportation infrastructure funding to attract, retain, and expand business in the region by increasing the State and Federal funding to the area by 10% by January 2020.

RPA 8 - Resurfacing and Pavement rehabbing projects

$52.3 million will be used to bring the road system to standards of which $4.5 million will be RPA 8 Surface Transportation Program (STP) funds.

ECIA Region

RPA Region

ECIA Transportation and Planning

ECIA In Progress Transportation and Planning

Vital

Infrastructure

Ongoing

STP, DOT

$4,500,000

$4,500,000

Both

Transportation Infrastructure: Improve highway and bridge transportation infrastructure funding to attract, retain, and expand business in the region by increasing the State and Federal funding to the area by 10% by January 2020.

RPA 8 - Bridge Replacement

$4.6 million will be used to ECIA Region replace bridges that are below standards of which $3.7 million will be funds from STP Bridge Program.

RPA Region

ECIA Transportation and Planning

ECIA In Progress Transportation and Planning

Vital

Infrastructure

Ongiong

STP, DOT

$3,700,000

$3,700,000

Both

Transportation Infrastructure: Improve highway and bridge transportation infrastructure funding to attract, retain, and expand business in the region by increasing the State and Federal funding to the area by 10% by January 2020.

ECIA Long Range Transportation Plan DMATS LRTP 20102040

ECIA Region

Dubuque

ECIA

ECIA In Progress Transportation and Planning

Suggested

Technical Assistance

Both

Community Development: Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and

Smarter Travel

List of transportation federal aid projects within DMATS area; Help cities and counties to program their five year budgets with projects that are federal aid eligible and have a positive impact within their region; Create a timeline for future projects helping communities to start planning and programming for implementation In partnership with city of Dubuque and IBM; Web portal for transit providers;

ECIA Region

Dubuque, Peosta, ECIA Asbury, East Dubuque

ECIA In Progress Transportation and Planning

Vital

Planning

Ongoing

$0

2013-2020

$0

Annual

$1,200

2010-2040

$0

Ongoing

$0

Both

Both

Both Both

Both

Both

Business Development: Remain economically competitive by retaining businesses, encouraging expansion, and attracting new industry in the region by increasing SBA and RLF loan activity by 10%; Housing: Increase the number of workforce rental and single family housing units in the region by 2% to accommodate the industry demands by January, 2020.

Transportation Infrastructure: Improve highway and bridge Transportation Infrastructure:

CEDS

Transportation Infrastructure: Improve highway and bridge transportation infrastructure funding to attract, retain, and

CEDS

Planning

Ongoing

$0

Skilled Workers: Improve the quantity and quality of the region’s workforce to address the employer demands in the areas of Advanced M f t i H lth d

Economic Prosperity Eastern Development Iowa (AccessMyFuture.com)

EIRHA

Seeking Funding

Vital

Technical Assistance

Ongoing

$0

EIRHA

Housing

In Progress

Vital

Technical Assistance

ongoing

$0

Dubuque

NICC

Region 1 Employment and Training

In Progress

Vital

Planning

Ongoing

$0

Provide technical assistance to ECIA Region Jackson, Jones, and Dubuque Counties for the Parks to People Program; Traveled to Des Moines for award announcement; Project awarded. ECIA Staff will do grant writing. Possibly project management, fundraising, and marketing. Priority Initiatives are listed separately in this document

Dubuque, Jackson, and Jones Counties

ECIA

Transportation In Progress

Vital

Technical Assistance

Iowa Tourism Grant for ECIA Region brand and logo development. Submitted July 13, 2015. Total project cost = Participate in the MRT board ECIA Region activities and encourage One on one technical Met with DMATS, RPA 8, project ECIA Region Adv. Mfg Center of Tri-State Partnership with 3 ECIA Region Excellence Comm. Colleges, ECIA Region, and two other EDA Districts for Tri-State Adv. Mfg Center of U.S. 30 Construction Support the construction of ECIA Region between Cedar Rapids U.S. 30 as a four-lane and Clinton highway from Cedar Rapids to Clinton; in the State five

Dubuque, Jackson, and Jones Counties

ECIA

Administration Completed this Year

Vital

Technical Assistance

ECIA Region

ECIA Transportation and Planning

In Progress

Vital

Planning

Dubuque, Delaware,

ECIA

Transportation,

all Counties

NICC

Administration

Seeking Funding In Progress

Vital Vital

Technical Planning

ECIA Region

ECIA Transportation and Planning

ECIA In Progress Transportation and Planning

Vital

Infrastructure

2009-2018

$0

ECIA Region

ECIA Region

ECIA Transportation and Planning

ECIA In Progress Transportation and Planning

Vital

Planning

2009-2018

$0

ECIA Region

Cascade, Holy Cross, Farley Worthington, Epworth, Zwingle, Peosta

Cascade, Holy Cross, None Farley Worthington, Epworth, Zwingle, Peosta

Seeking Funding

Vital

Infrastructure

Ongoing

$0

ECIA Region

Dubuque

Small Business Development Center/Northeast Iowa Community College

Completed

Vital

Other

Homeownership Program - Public Housing

Work with existing tenants to ECIA Region purchase their unit; Number of public housing units sold; five homes sold to date; two in Dyersville in 2005 and 2006 at $50,000 each

DeWitt, Manchester, DeWitt, Manchester, Worthington, Preston, Worthington, Dyersville Preston, Dyersville

Work with existing tennants to ECIA Region purchase a unit using their existing rental assistance; 21 NICC will be offering both a ECIA Region one-year diploma and a twoyear Associates of Applied Science degree in the field of Industrial Maintenance. Begins Fall 2013.

EIRHA

New Industrial

Both CEDS

CEDS

Vital

quantity and quality of the region’s Maintenance Program workforce to address the employer demands in the areas of Advanced Manufacturing; Healthcare; and Professional, Scientific, Technical Services by expanding the number of participants in the regional training programs by 10% and by increasing the number of trained skilled employees in these sectors by 10% by January 2020.

Community Development: Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds to the region by 20% and completing 15 projects

by January 2020 Community Development: Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to

Dubuque

Career test drive component to website; program developed and available to students in Dubuque County and DeWitt

Housing: Increase the number of Homeownership workforce rental and single family Program Section 8 housing units in the region by 2% to d h Improve i d Skilled Workers: the

Both

CEDS

In Progress

ECIA Region

Career Test Drive

Parks to People Grant Wood Mississippi River Region - Technical Assistance

Parks to People Grant Wood Mississippi River Region - Grants Mississippi River Trail

Transportation Infrastructure: U.S. 30 Expansion Improve highway and bridge transportation infrastructure funding to attract, retain, and expand business in the region b i i htheSnumber ofd Housing: Increase Housing Development workforce rental and single family housing units in the region by 2% to accommodate the industry demands by January, 2020.

Small Business Business Development: Remain economically Development Center competitive by retaining businesses, encouraging expansion, and attracting new industry in the region by increasing SBA and RLF loan activity by 10%; increasing annual business retention calls to regional employers by 5%; increasing the total regional laborforce by .5%; increasing commercial construction by 10%, and

Study to expand U.S. 30 to four-lanes through Cedar, Clinton and Linn Counties to Chicago; Feasibility study complete; some funding f h j Annexdland to accommodate new housing development including low and median income housing, add streets and improvements as needed to accommodate subdivision development, increase and provide utilities for subdivision development

Virtual one stop shop for entrepreneurs to increase access to resources; Center open; Director hired

None

2014-2018

Iowa DNR

2015

Iowa Tourism Council

$1,900,000

$1,900,000

$7,500

$5,000

$5,000

$500

Ongoing

$0

Ongoing

$1,000 Ongoing

2012-2014

EDA Technical Assist.

NICC

$62,500

$62,500

$0

$4,000

CEDS

Transportation Infrastructure: Improve highway and bridge transportation infrastructure funding to attract, retain, and expand business in the region by increasing the State and Federal funding to the area by 10% by January 2020.

CEDS

Digital Communications Business Development: Remain economically competitive by retaining businesses, encouraging expansion, and attracting new industry in the region by increasing SBA and RLF loan activity by 10%; increasing annual business retention calls to regional employers by 5%; increasing the total regional laborforce by .5%;

Both

Highway 20 East, Galena Bypass

Cost: $250,000,000;

ECIA Region

Investigate and encourage ECIA Region companies to provide up-todate digital communications to local businesses, industry and residential consumers

Dubuque County

Dubuque County

None

Seeking Funding

Vital

Infrastructure

Ongoing

Tipton, Farley, and Dyersville

Tipton, Farley, and Dyersville

None

In Progress

Suggested

Infrastructure

Ongoing

Administration

Vital

Technical Assistance

Jackson County Municipal Serve as secretary and facilitate League (JCML) 2015 the monthly meetings of the (JCML) - 1/14/15, 3/11/15, 6/10/15

Jackson County

Jackson County

ECIA

Housing: Increase the number of workforce rental and single family housing units in the region by 2% to accommodate the industry demands by January, 2020.

Housing Needs Assessment

Provided an outline and a sample Housing Needs Assessment to Jackson County ED Director and continue discussing housing needs

Jackson County

Jackson County

Jackson County Administration Economic Development Alliance

Completed

Vital

Planning

2013-2015

Both

Business Development: Remain economically competitive by retaining businesses, encouraging expansion, and attracting Business Development: Remain economically competitive by retaining businesses, encouraging expansion, and attracting i d Development: i h i b Community

Downtown Revitalization

Downtown facacde improvements and other community communities

Jackson County

Maquoketa

Maquoketa Betterment Fund

Administration

Seeking Funding

Vital

Planning

Ongoing

Downtown Revitalization

ECIA staff facilitated a meeting with the regional USDA representatives to discuss downtown facacde improvements and other ii d Several ientities, including of

Jackson County

Maquoketa

Maquoketa Betterment Fund

Administration

Jackson County

Bellevue

City of Bellevue

Community Development

Seeking Funding

Vital

Planning

Jackson County

Leisure Lake

EIRUSS

Community Development

In Progress

Vital

Infrastructure

ongoing

Water - Droessler Provide water to Droessler Subdivision and Spruce Subdivision and Spruce Creek Creek Park Park

Jackson County

Jackson County

EIRUSS

Community Development

In Progress

Vital

Infrastructure

ongoing

New Production Provided downpayment Homeownership assistance to one family Program (Home Value) through New Production Program in Maquoketa New Production (NP2) Additional value is the sale price of the house. 1 at

Jackson County

Maquoketa

ECIA

Community Development

Completed

Vital

Facility Construction / Rehab.

Both

Both

Both

Both

Bellevue Strategic Enhance community and Planning public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the Wastewater System Community Development: Enhance community and Leisure Lake public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds to the region by 20% and completing 15 projects

by January 2020.

Community Development: Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private Housing: Increase the number of workforce rental and single family housing units in the region by 2% to accommodate the industry demands by January, 2020.

the City of Bellevue, the Bellevue Chamber of Commerce and Bellevue Economic and Tourism Association (BETA) joined together in November 2014 to set goals and strategies in order for the community to Construct wastewater system to serve Leisure Lake subdivision

130

company

$6,200,000

$6,200,000

Ongoing

Both

Both

$0

$0

$462

$0

$180

$30,000

$600

Ongoing

USDA Rural Development; WIRB; CDBG

$5,069,000

$5,069,000

$0

2013

IEDA NP

$130,000

$130,000

$12,000

New Production Homeownership Program (Downpayment Assistance Value)

Jackson County

Maquoketa

ECIA

Community Development

Completed

Vital

Facility Construction / Rehab.

2013

IEDA NP

An IFA HOME grant that will Jackson County assist seven households to become homeowners - seven homes completed.

Maquoketa

ECIA

Community Development

Completed

Vital

Facility Construction / Rehab.

2014

HOME funds

Jackson Assisting City with CDBG County Housing Fund application to assist 12 households in a targeted area of the city with rehabilitation needs. No money has been funded yet.

State recommends environmental review and potential houses identified before grant is submitted. Will know by April 2015.

Maquoketa

City of Maquoketa

Community Development

In Progress

Vital

Facility Construction / Rehab.

2014-2016

Wastewater Treatment Working with City to assist in Jackson Facility development of wastewater County treatment facility improvement project

Miles

City of Miles

Community Development

In Progress

Vital

Infrastructure

ongoing

Comprehensive Plan

Sabula

City of Sabula

Community Development

Completed

Vital

Planning

St. Donatus

City of St. Donatus

Community Development

Seeking Funding

Vital

Planning

Both

Housing: Increase the number of workforce rental and single family housing units in the region by 2% to accommodate the industry demands by January, 2020.

Both

IFA HOME Grant Housing: Increase the number of workforce rental and single family housing units in the region by 2% to accommodate the industry demands by January, 2020.

Both

Housing: Increase the number of workforce rental and single family housing units in the region by 2% to accommodate the industry demands by January, 2020.

CDBG Housing Fund

Both

Community Development: Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their Community Development: Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds to the region by 20% and completing 15 projects by January 2020.

Community Development: Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds to the region by 20% Community Development: Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds to the region by 20% and completing 15 projects

by January 2020.

Wastewater Treatment Working with City to address Jackson Facility wastewater treatment facility County issues. IIW is in discussions with City on future plans. Received Disadvantaged Community Designation in 2014 which will give them time to plan appropriately and financially feasible.

Both

Both

Both

Both

Transportation Infrastructure: Improve highway and bridge transportation infrastructure funding to attract, retain, and expand business in the region by increasing the State and Federal funding to the area by 10% by January 2020.

New Production (NP2) Additional value is down payment assistance. 1 at $32,500 (Downpayment Assistance)

Encourage community design Jackson that results in sustainable County design and land use with "smart growth" . This was part of the levee project.

CDBG

Ongoing

Improvements to existing storm Jackson County Sabula water levee system; Construction complete; (work remains due to City & funding). Assisted with CDBG application in 2012 for levee improvements but was never funded.

Sabula

Community Development

Completed

Vital

Facility Construction / Rehab.

2010-2016

Bellevue Riverview Trail: Phase II

Improve recreational activity; the second phase of the project will bring the trail north on the west side of Highway 52 for 1.46 miles, where it will turn east under the railroad bridge and end near the entrance to the OffShore and Baymont on the road to Spruce Creek. ECIA prepared RPA grant.

City of Bellevue

ECIA In Progress Transportation and Planning

Vital

Infrastructure

2013-2015

Bellevue

$32,500

$270,000

$270,000

$3,000

$0

$3,000

$1,053,000

$3,000

$300,000

City will borrow from SRF

$753,000

$10,000

$10,000

ongoing

Levee System Improvements and Certification Project

Jackson County

IJOBS - partial funding

$32,500

$0

$0

RPA 8 Enhancement Grant $250,000

State Recreational Trails Program

$260,000 City

$90,000

$600,000

$5,000

$1,200

Both

Both

Both

Both

Both

Both

Transportation Infrastructure: Highway 52 Improve highway and bridge Reconstruction transportation infrastructure funding to attract, retain, and expand business in the region by increasing the State and Federal funding to the area Buyer Supplier

Business Development: RLF Loan Remain economically competitive by retaining businesses, encouraging expansion, and attracting new industry in the region by increasing SBA and RLF loan activity by 10%; increasing annual business retention calls to regional employers by 5%; increasing the total regional laborforce by .5%; increasing commercial RLF Loan Business Development: Remain economically competitive by retaining businesses, encouraging expansion, and attracting new industry in the region by increasing SBA and RLF loan activity by 10%; increasing annual business retention calls to regional Business Development: RLF Loan Remain economically competitive by retaining businesses, encouraging expansion, and attracting new industry in the region by increasing SBA and RLF loan activity by 10%; increasing annual business retention calls to regional employers by 5%; Community Development: Enhance Recreational Park community and public facility Development infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds to the region by 20% and completing 15 projects by January 2020.

DOT listed this on their five year program; St. Donatus portion in progress. 2014: No RPA money for this project as of now.

Jackson County

St. Donatus

City of St. Donatus

ECIA In Progress Transportation and Planning

Vital

Infrastructure

2012-2015

$0

There are over 1,200 Eastern Iowa businesses participating in Buyer Supplier, a buy local search engine. Forty of those businesses are located in Jackson County. Membership has increased by 1200% since Waste Authority of Jackson County, $225,000 RLF Loan

Jackson County

Buyer Supplier

Prosperity Eastern Iowa

Economic Development

In Progress

Vital

Technical Assistance

Ongoing

Jackson County

Maquoketa

ECIA Business Growth, Inc.

Economic Development

Funded

Vital

Technical Assistance

FY 2014

0

$0 Revolving Loan Fund

$225,000

$225,000

Jackson County Care Facility, Jackson $300,000 RLF Loan County

Maquoketa

ECIA Business Growth, Inc.

Economic Development

Funded

Vital

Technical Assistance

FY 2014

0

$0 Revolving Loan Fund

$300,000

$300,000

Hospice of Jackson County, $56,000 RLF Loan

Jackson County

Maquoketa

ECIA Business Growth, Inc.

Economic Development

Funded

Vital

Technical Assistance

FY 2014

0

$0 Revolving Loan Fund

$56,000

$56,000

Develop 11 acres of park land with recreational facilities; Number of acres acquired and developed; enhanced recreational opportunities, new tourists to the area

Jackson County

Bellevue

City of Bellevue

None

Seeking Funding

Vital

Infrastructure

2009-2015

$0

$0

Both

Transportation Infrastructure: Pine/Ash Street Improve highway and bridge Reconstruction transportation infrastructure funding to attract, retain, and expand business in the region by increasing the State and Federal funding to the area by 10% by January 2020.

Total cost: $322,000; Shovelready;

Jackson County

Lamotte

City of Lamotte

None

Seeking Funding

Vital

Infrastructure

2012-2014

$0

Both

Transportation Infrastructure: Improve highway and bridge transportation infrastructure funding to attract, retain, and expand business in the region by increasing the State and Federal funding to the area by 10% by January 2020 Transportation Infrastructure: Improve highway and bridge transportation infrastructure funding to attract, retain, and expand business in the region b i i Development: h S d Community

Washington Street Reconstruction

Cost: $150,000;

Jackson County

Maquoketa

City of Maquoketa

None

In Progress

Vital

Infrastructure

2012-2015

$0

Street Resurfacing

Shovel-ready;

Jackson County

Miles

City of Miles

None

Seeking Funding

Vital

Infrastructure

Ongoing

$0

Mississippi River Docks

Install docks along the Mississippi River for easier access

Jackson County Bellevue

City of Bellevue

None

Seeking Funding

Vital

Infrastructure

Ongoing

Both

Both

Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds to the region by 20%

Both

Aquatic Center/Pool Community Development: Upgrade Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds to the region by 20% and completing 15 projects

by January 2020.

Both

Community Development: Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional Community Development: Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds to the region by 20% and completing 15 projects

by January 2020.

Grant Wood Total Cost: $9,225,525; Mississippi River Region 10/2015: Received $75,000 - Mississippi Circuit in REAP funding for Millcreek Pedestrian Bridge portion of the overall project. Applied through ECIA's RPA for (Local) Transportation Alternatives Grant Wood Total Cost: $3,677,401; Mississippi River Region 10/2015: Received - Prairie Creek $100,000 in REAP funding Connections

Community Development: Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds to the region by 20% and completing 15 projects Transportation Infrastructure: Improve highway and bridge transportation infrastructure funding to attract, retain, and expand business in the region by increasing the State and Federal funding to the area by 10% by January 2020.

Both

Both

Both

Aquatic Center/Pool Upgrade Jackson County Bellevue

City of Bellevue

None

Seeking Funding

Vital

Infrastructure

Ongoing

Jackson County

Bellevue

City of Bellevue

Administration Seeking Funding

Vital

Infrastructure

2009-2017

REAP

$75,000

$75,000

$1,560

$780

Jackson County

Maquoketa

City of Maquoketa

Administration Seeking Funding

Vital

Infrastructure

2009-2017

REAP

$100,000

$100,000

$1,560

$780

Grant Wood Total Cost: $2,416,680; Mississippi River Region - Maquoketa River on the Move

Jackson County

Maquoketa

Grant Wood Mississippi River Region

Administration Seeking Funding

Vital

Infrastructure

2009-2017

South Main Street Bridge

Small City funding for South Main Street Bridge Replacement and Culvert Extension = $265,200.

Jackson County

LaMotte

City of Lamotte

Transportation Seeking Funding and Planning

Vital

Infrastructure

Vital

Planning

Both

Urban Revitalization Business Development: District Updates Remain economically competitive by retaining businesses, encouraging expansion, and attracting new industry in the region by increasing SBA and RLF loan activity by 10%; increasing annual business retention calls to regional employers by 5%; increasing the total regional laborforce by .5%; increasing commercial construction by 10%, and increasing entrepreneurial start-ups by 5% total by

The city of Maquoketa would like to unify their existing urban renewal areas; currently working with ECIA to update urban renewal maps

Jackson County

Maquoketa

City of Maquoketa

Transportation Seeking Funding and Planning

Both

Community Development: Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of Community Development: Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community

Maquoketa Delegation Dubuque Tour

Accompanied Maquoketa delegation on a tour of downtown Dubuque with John and Mary Gronen (3/12/15)

Jackson County

Maquoketa

JCEA

Administration

Completed

Other

Sabula School

Met with Sabula Council members, school board member, school superintendent, JCEA, and Mel Pins to discuss options for the

Jackson County

Sabula

JCEA

Administration

Completed

Technical Assistance

Meet to discuss housing options for Jackson County in communities such as Bellevue, Sabula, Preston and Maquoketa

Jackson County

Jackson County

Jackson County Economic Development Alliance

Administration, Housing and Community Development

Seeking Funding

Both

Both

Housing: Increase the number of One on one technical workforce rental and single family Assistance housing units in the region by 2% to accommodate the industry demands by January, 2020.

Vital

Technical Assistance

2015-2016

$0

RPA

$265,000

$66,000

$331,000

$1,200

Ongoing

Ongoing

Completed

$385

2015

$231

$500

Both

Housing: Increase the number of One on one technical workforce rental and single family Assistance housing units in the region by 2% to accommodate the industry demands by January, 2020.

Met to tour property in Maquoketa and sent information to group regarding Eco-Village design

Jackson County

Jackson County

Jackson County Economic Development Alliance

Administration, Housing and Community Development

Seeking Funding

Vital

Technical Assistance

Ongoing

$500

Both

Skilled Workers: Improve the One on one technical quantity and quality of the region’s Assistance workforce to address the employer demands in the areas of Advanced Manufacturing; Healthcare; and Professional, Scientific, Technical Services by expanding the number of participants in the regional training programs by 10% and by increasing the number of trained skilled employees in these sectors by 10% by January 2020.

Met with Family Dollar, DAC and Jackson County Ed to discuss CareerLink grant

Jackson County

Jackson County

Jackson County Economic Development Alliance

Transit

Seeking Funding

Vital

Technical Assistance

Ongoing

$500

Both

Skilled Workers: Improve the Workforce recruitment and quantity and quality of the region’s retention workforce to address the employer demands in the areas of Advanced Manufacturing; Healthcare; and

Met with Jackson County Economic Alliance, Chamber and Clinton Community College to discuss workforce and expanding their community college offerings in

Jackson County

Maquoketa

Admin

Completed this Year

Vital

Planning

Ongoing

$167

CEDS

Community Development: Enhance community and public facility infrastructure Community Development: Enhance community and public facility infrastructure Business Development: Remain economically competitive by retaining Business Development: Remain economically competitive by retaining Housing: Increase the number of workforce rental Community Development: Enhance community and public facility infrastructure Business Development: Remain economically competitive by retaining Business Development: Remain economically competitive by retaining businesses, encouraging expansion, and attracting new industry in the region by increasing SBA and RLF loan activity by 10%; increasing annual business retention calls to regional employers by 5%; increasing the total regional laborforce by .5%; increasing commercial construction by 10%, and increasing entrepreneurial Housing: Increase the number of workforce rental and single family housing units in the region by 2% to accommodate the industry demands by January, 2020.

New sewer and water extension to development north of City; Shovel-ready Improved wastewater system;

Jackson County

Bellevue

City of Bellevue

Community Development

Seeking Funding

Vital

Infrastructure

2010-2016

Jackson County

Spragueville

City of Spragueville

Community Development

In Progress

Vital

Infrastructure

2014-2016

Locate and evaluate potential sites for industrial park development. 10/2015: The Create updated maps for urban renewal area

Jackson County

Bellevue

City of Bellevue

Economic Development

Vital

Planning

2016-2018

Jackson County

Bellevue

City of Bellevue

None

Completed

Vital

Planning

Up to 400 upscale condominiums; Land for The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is crafting the plan for the 770-acre Follow up on leads brought to JCEA; Make annual visits with existing industries to discover Identify potential industrial/commercial areas along U.S. 61 highway corridor; Study growth patterns – prevent sprawl; Study completed and areas identified; commercial and industrial areas identified; property rezoned

Jackson County Jackson County

Bellevue

City of Bellevue

None

In Progress

Vital

Bellevue

City of Bellevue

None

In Progress

Facility Construction / Planning

Jackson County

Jackson County

None

Seeking Funding

Vital

Planning

Ongoing

$0

Jackson County

Jackson County/City of Maquoketa

Jackson County Economic Alliance (JCEA) Jackson County/City of Maquoketa

None

In Progress

Vital

Planning

2013-2018

$0

Jackson Annex land to accommodate new housing development of County all income ranges; add streets and improvements as needed to accommodate subdivision development; increase and provide utilities for subdivision development; encourage spec housing; Miles under construction

LaMotte, Miles

LaMotte, Miles

None

In Progress

Vital

Infrastructure

Ongoing

$0

Downtown Overlay; New mill/overlay; new water mains; new sanitary sewer mains; Shovel-ready; PhasingpProject

Maquoketa

Maquoketa

None

Seeking Funding

Vital

Infrastructure

2014-2018

$0

CEDS

CEDS

CEDS

CEDS CEDS

CEDS

CEDS

CEDS

CEDS

Sewer and Water Extension Wastewater System Upgrades Industry Park Development Urban Renewal Maps

Condominium Project Bellevue State Park

Economic Development - Recruitment; Syncronist Industrial/Commercial areas growth pattern study

Housing Development

Community Development: Water-Sewer Enhance community and Replacement public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds to the region by 20% and completing 15 projects

by January 2020.

Jackson County

$0

$261,410

$81,000

$261,410

$0

2014

Ongoing

$0

2014-2018

CEDS

CEDS

CEDS

CEDS

CEDS

Business Development: Remain economically competitive by retaining businesses, encouraging expansion, and attracting new industry in the region by increasing SBA and RLF loan activity by 10%; increasing annual business retention calls Housing: Increase the number of workforce rental and single family housing units in the region by 2% to accommodate the industry demands by January, 2020.

Main Street Main Street Downtown Downtown Streetscape mill/overlay, ADA ramps; Improvements Cost: $270,000;

Jackson County

Maquoketa

City of Maquoketa

None

Seeking Funding

Vital

Infrastructure

Community Development: Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the Community Development: Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds to the region by 20% and completing 15 projects Housing: Increase the number of workforce rental and single family housing units in the region by 2% to accommodate the industry demands by January, 2020.

2012-2016

$0

Rental Housing

Coordinate with developers to Jackson construct rental housing County

Maquoketa

Maquoketa

None

Seeking Funding

Vital

Facility Construction / Rehab.

Ongoing

$0

Sewer System

Upgrade Sewer System; Shovel-ready;

Jackson County

Miles

Miles

None

Seeking Funding

Vital

Infrastructure

2010-2016

$0

Water Main Replacement

Water Main replacement Jackson Phase 2 and 3; Shovel-ready; County

Miles

Miles

None

Seeking Funding

Vital

Infrastructure

2010-2016

$0

Hansen Subdivision

Shovel-ready; need funding; Development of new subdivision of 15 new lots

Jackson County

Miles

City of Miles

None

Seeking Funding

Vital

Planning

Ongoing

$0

CEDS

Water Main Project Community Development: Phase I Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds to the region by 20% and completing 15 projects

by January 2020.

New water main; Cost: $180,000; Study completed

Jackson County

Preston

City of Preston

None

In Progress

Vital

Infrastructure

2012-2015

$0

CEDS

Water Main Project Community Development: Phase II Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds to the region by 20% and completing 15 projects

by January 2020.

New water main; Cost: $290,000; Study completed

Jackson County

Preston

City of Preston

None

In Progress

Vital

Infrastructure

2012-2015

$0

CEDS

Water Main Project Community Development: Phase III Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds to the region by 20% and completing 15 projects

by January 2020.

New water main; Cost: $303,000; Study completed

Jackson County

Preston

City of Preston

None

In Progress

Vital

Infrastructure

2012-2015

$0

CEDS

Water Main Project Community Development: Phase IV Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds to the region by 20% and completing 15 projects

by January 2020.

New water main ; Cost: $247,000; Study completed

Jackson County

Preston

City of Preston

None

In Progress

Vital

Infrastructure

2012-2015

$0

CEDS

Business Development: Remain economically competitive by retaining businesses, encouraging expansion, and attracting new industry in the region by increasing SBA and RLF loan activity by 10%; increasing annual business retention calls to regional employers by 5%; increasing the total regional laborforce by .5%; increasing commercial construction by 10%, and increasing entrepreneurial Community Development: Enhance community and public facility infrastructure Community Development: Enhance community and public facility infrastructure Community Development: Enhance community and public facility infrastructure Community Development: Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and ii h Community Development:

Locate and evaluate potential Jackson sites for industrial park County development

Preston

City of Preston

None

Seeking Funding

Vital

Planning

2013-2015

$0

Facility Construction / Rehab.

Facility Construction / Rehab.

Facility Construction / Rehab.

Facility Construction / Rehab.

Ongoing

$0

Ongoing

$0

Ongoing

$0

Ongoing

$0

Ongoing

$0

CEDS

CEDS

CEDS

CEDS

CEDS

Industry Park Development

Wastewater Treatment New wastewater treatment project facility; Proceeding with engineering selection and Well Project New additional well; Cost: $350,000

Jackson County

Sabula

Sabula

None

Seeking Funding

Vital

Jackson County

LaMotte

Lamotte

None

Seeking Funding

Vital

Storm Water Project

New storm water system

Jackson County

Springbrook

Springbrook

None

Seeking Funding

Vital

Water Project

Improved water system

Jackson County

Springbrook

Springbrook

None

New wastewater treatment facility; Analyze capacity needs

Jackson County

Monmouth

Monmouth

None

New wastewater treatment facility; no cost determined

Jackson County

St. Donatus

Renovation 1848 Elementary

Improved building; Shovelready; seeking funding

Jackson County

Public Boat Docks

Public Boat docks and trasnient slips on the Mississippi River below the Lock and Dam No. 12

Jackson County

Seeking Funding

Vital

Facility Construction / Rehab.

St. Donatus

Seeking Funding

Vital

Facility Construction / Rehab.

Bellevue

Bellevue Community School

Seeking Funding

Vital

Infrastructure

City of Bellevue

City of Bellevue and Army Corpse of Engineers

Seeking Funding Vital

Infrastructure

Anamosa

Grant Wood Mississippi River Region Prosperity Eastern Iowa

Administration Seeking Funding

Vital

Infrastructure

Both

Grant Wood Total Cost: $1,443,250; Jones County Mississippi River Region - Crossing the Wapsi Petal Project Encourage sustainable and PEI Region energy conserving measures in all housing rehabilitation and construction activities; Work

Economic Development

In Progress

Vital

Both

Petal Project

PEI Region

Vital

Shift 5%

PEI Region

Economic Development Economic Development

In Progress

Both

Prosperity Eastern Iowa Buyer Supplier

In Progress

Vital

Dubuque

ECIA

Prosperity Eastern Iowa

In Progress

Vital

Technical Assistance

Dubuque

ECIA

Prosperity Eastern Iowa

In Progress

Vital

Dubuque

ECIA

Prosperity Eastern Iowa

In Progress

Region 1

Region 1

IowaWORKS and Dubuque Works

Region 1 Employment and Training

Region 1

Region 1

IowaWORKS

Region 1

Region 1

IowaWORKS

Region 1

Dubuque and Manchester

IowaWORKS

Region 1

Dubuque and Manchester

IowaWORKS

Region 1 Employment Region 1 Employment and Training Region 1 Employment and Training in Region 1 Employment and Training in Delaware and Dubuque C i

CEDS

Wastewater Treatment Enhance community and Project public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private Community Development: Wastewater Plant Improvements Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to

Vital

CEDS

CEDS

Both

Both

Community Development: Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and

Community Development: Enhance community and public facility infrastructure

Green business certification PEI Region program to encourage Encourage regional companies PEI Region to shift 5% of their out-ofregion spending back into the region; Businesses connected

Business Development: Remain economically competitive by retaining Skilled Workers: Improve the quantity and quality of the region’s workforce to Business Development: Remain economically competitive by retaining businesses, encouraging

Workforce recruitment On November 13, 2014, PEI PEI Region and retention will be hosting a workplace culture education event for all Regional Approach to PEI will be marketing the PEI Region Veteran recruitment Home Base Iowa initiative in order to be apart of the Regional Workforce In July of 2014, PEI applied PEI Region Recruitment Program for grant funding to collaborate with regional economic development entities

Both

Skilled Workers: Improve the quantity and quality of the region’s workforce to address the employer

IowaWORKS and Dubuque Works

Both

Skilled Workers: Improve the quantity and quality of Skilled Workers: Improve the quantity and quality of the region’s workforce to Skilled Workers: Improve the quantity and quality of the region’s workforce to Skilled Workers: Improve the quantity and quality of the region’s workforce to address the employer demands in the areas of Ad dM f i

IowaWORKS/WIA Youth Program IowaWORKS/WIA Dislocated Worker Program IowaWORKS

Both

Both

Both

Both

Both

Connecting workforce development efforts in the area; IowaWORKS - Meet with businesses individually

Assist low-income or at-risk youth obtain employment or Assist unemployed workers obtain re-employment; in FY14, 66.6% of participants Facilitate industry requested for joint training of multiple employers for specific IowaWORKS/ECIA/NIC Coordinate with high schools C and employers to privide work-based learning activities through the DOL Youth CareerConnect Grant

PEI Region

$0

Ongoing

2016-2018

$0

$1,200,000

2009-2017

$0

Technical Assistance

Ongoing

$0

Technical Assistance Other

Ongoing

$0

Ongoing

$0

2014

$0

number of staff hours?

Technical Assistance

2015-2016

$0

number of staff hours?

Vital

Technical Assistance

2015-2016

$0

number of staff hours?

In Progress

Vital

Planning

Ongoing

$0

In Progress

Vital

$0

Vital

Technical Assistance Planning

Ongoing

In Progress

Ongoing

$0

In Progress

Vital

Planning

Ongoing

$0

In Progress

Vital

Planning

Ongoing

$0

Both

Both

Both

Skilled Workers: Improve the quantity and quality of the region’s workforce to address the employer demands in the areas of Advanced Manufacturing; Healthcare; and Professional, Scientific Technical Services Skilled Workers: Improve the quantity and quality of the region’s workforce to address the employer demands in the areas of Advanced Manufacturing; Healthcare; and Professional, Scientific, Technical Services by expanding the number of participants in the regional training programs by 10% Community Development: Enhance community and public facility infrastructure and increase access to community services and amenities to meet the demands of regional employers and their employees by increasing the number of public and private funds to the region by 20% and completing 15 projects

by January 2020.

Manchester

Delaware County Economic Development

Region 1 In Progress Employment and Training in Delaware and Dubuque Counties

Vital

Planning

Ongoing

$0

Assist low-income adults obtain Region 1 employment or better employment; Number of clients obtaining employment was 64.8%; in FY14 the average six months earnings was $11,042

Region 1

IowaWORKS

Region 1 Employment and Training

In Progress

Vital

Technical Assistance

Ongoing

$0

Wastewater system; Cost: $500,000

Sunbury

Sunbury

Community Development

Seeking Funding

Vital

Infrastructure

Ongoing

$0

Labor Tool Guide

Assist potential employers, develop and distribute to area guidance counselors a labor tool guide; Labor tool guide completed

IowaWORKS/WIA Adult Program

Wastewater System

Region 1