The East Texas Council of Governments is partnering with AmeriCorps VISTA for Advocate for Economic Development. The Agent for Economic Development-VISTA will review our region wide CEDS, compare it to other CEDS identified through research by the VISTA as “best practice” CEDS and make recommendations for modifications to improve EDD reach and effectiveness throughout our 14-County region. The VISTA will also help establish a new regional Brownfields Program by identifying brownfield sites, catalog them, assess them, and ultimately, once the Brownfields Program has been established, restore them to the point where these sites can be redeployed for local businesses use. Our VISTA will also work directly with the Executive Director, the Division Director and other EDD staff to conduct background research on a new program designed for Texas to help address infrastructure “capacity gaps” between urban and rural communities through the implementation and strategic use of economic development grant programs.
3800 Stone Road
Kilgore, Texas 75662
903-218-6400
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