{"id":25073,"date":"2019-06-08T18:48:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-09T00:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/usda-to-help-summit-county-develop-economic-development-plan\/"},"modified":"2019-06-08T18:48:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-09T00:48:00","slug":"usda-to-help-summit-county-develop-economic-development-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/local-news\/usda-to-help-summit-county-develop-economic-development-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"USDA to help Summit County develop economic development plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"387\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/Brf-USDA-SDN-060919-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/Brf-USDA-SDN-060919-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/Brf-USDA-SDN-060919-1-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption><strong>The USDA has selected the Summit Chamber of Commerce&#8217;s Summit Prosperity Initiative as one of 47 rural community projects to receive technical assistance for developing a long-term economic development plan for the county.<\/strong><br \/><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Acting Assistant to the Secretary for Rural Development Joel Baxley announced on Thursday the selection of 47 rural communities and regions that will receive technical assistance to help create and implement long-term economic development plans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The United States Department of Agriculture is providing the assistance through an initiative called Rural Economic Development Innovation. Each of the 47 communities and regions will be paired with one of four partner organizations that will provide free technical assistance for up to two years to help rural towns and regions create and implement economic development plans. USDA awarded $1.2 million in cooperative agreements to these partners in September 2018. The agreements will help the partners finance the free technical assistance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">McClure Engineering Company, in partnership with CO.STARTERS, will work with the Summit County Chamber of Commerce\u2019s Summit Prosperity Initiative. The assistance is meant to help to create jobs and identify alternative solutions to traditional child and health care services, along with supporting infrastructure improvements, business development, housing and community facilities. For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rd.usda.gov\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.rd.usda.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/local\/usda-to-help-summit-county-develop-economic-development-plan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The USDA has selected the Summit Chamber of Commerce&#8217;s Summit Prosperity Initiative as one of 47 rural community projects to receive technical assistance for developing a long-term economic development plan for the county. Acting Assistant to the Secretary for Rural Development Joel Baxley announced on Thursday the selection of 47 rural communities and regions that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25073","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 20:29:26","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}