The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) has awarded $50,000 to the Mid-Missouri Regional Planning Commission (MMRPC), Congressman Kenny Hulshof announced today. The money is part of EDA’s Partnership Planning Investment program.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - - The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) has awarded $50,000 to the Mid-Missouri Regional Planning Commission (MMRPC), Congressman Kenny Hulshof announced today. The money is part of EDA’s Partnership Planning Investment program.
EDA’s program helps support planning organizations in the implementation of comprehensive economic development strategies, and for related short-term planning investments to create and retain higher-skill, higher-wage jobs. The money awarded to MMRPC will be used to update the Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy of the Mid-Missouri Region, and provide assistance for community and economic development projects.
“This is a great example of what the federal government can do to assist those agencies responsible for enhancing the local job climate,” Hulshof said. “As communities grow and demonstrate need, groups like the MMRPC can work with those towns and, through cooperation and coordination, provide the necessary resources for planned, orderly economic development.”
The MMRPC is an organization comprised of local units of governments within its six-county region. Counties within the MMRPC region are: Boone, Callaway, Cole, Cooper, Howard and Moniteau. Membership is voluntary, with members assessed a membership fee based on population. The present membership includes all six counties and 34 cities within the region.
EDA certified the MMRPC as an Economic Development District area in August 2004. This designation allows county and local governments to be eligible for technical and public works assistance from EDA. MMRPC will match EDA’s $50,000 investment.
“We appreciate and are excited about the development of our planning partnership and funding support with the Economic Development Administration,” said MMRPC executive director Ed Siegmund. “Our organization has worked toward this goal for several years and the relationship gives MMRPC the opportunity to continue to enhance and promote community and economic development for the region and our membership.”
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