SIERRA VISTA — The City of Sierra Vista, working together with the Southeastern Arizona Governments Organization (SEAGO), successfully secured a competitive grant to provide low-income residents with home rehabilitation. The $300,000 grant will pay for homes to be brought to current building code standards and will focus on increasing energy efficiency. Energy efficiency modifications...
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Economic Development in Southeastern Arizona
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City secures grant for home rehabilitation
Tribal communities get a digital super highway communications boost under proposed Arizona law
By Mark Lewus Phoenix, AZ: Tribal leaders in Arizona took a step to the digital future of rural high speed digital communications today with their support of committee passage of SB 1402 & SB 1403 the Digital Arizona Highways Bills. The Digital Arizona Highways Bills pass out of the AZ senate committees on a...
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Join “Team Viral”
By A’kos Kovach We have all heard or read about the term — “gone viral.” Essentially this can be a news item, photo, video, or blog that is so compelling — so revealing — or otherwise so fascinating that the link (the web/blog page address, You Tube video link, Facebook page, etc.) is shared....
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NADO legislative update
NADO EDA Legislative Fact Sheet, Pompeo Bill NADO Legislative Fact Sheet, RTPO and MPO This was prepared by Deborah Cox, Director of Government Relations and Legislative Affairs, The National Association of Development Organizations. 1. Action Needed: Rep. Pompeo Bill to Eliminate EDA: On Oct. 4, Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-KS) introduced legislation (H.R. 3090) in the...
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Safford, Graham County team up to get grant for Solomon
Graham County and the City of Safford have received notification from the State of Arizona Department of Housing that the state have reserved $1,989,972 to be used to replace the water infrastructure in Solomon. The funding comes from CDBG Colonias Set-aside Funding to be used in Colonias Designated Communities, of which Solomon qualifies. The...
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Grijalva unveils bill to benefit Arizona’s border communities
By Austin Counts, Nogales International Congressman Raúl Grijalva announced a new bill on Aug. 18 featuring a five-point plan that he says will help stimulate border commerce in Arizona while facilitating safe and secure travel between the U.S. and Mexico. The Border Infrastructure and Jobs Act of 2011, introduced at a press conference in...
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Nogales renovation plan gets $2 million grant
By Austin Counts, Nogales International, Aug. 26 U.S. housing officials have awarded the largest competitive grant Nogales Community Development has ever received to help it begin renovating a historic downtown Nogales property. Mercedes Marquez, assistant secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), announced at a ceremony Thursday on Morley Avenue...
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Bioconversion: an alternative to landfills
While the title implies a connection to chapter 5 of George Orwell’s “1984,” bioconversion is actually an organic process that breaks down solid waste into reusable components. With area landfills approaching capacity, bioconversion is just one of several alternatives being reviewed to ease the burden of solid waste disposal. While solid waste management issues...
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