For the Federal Fiscal Year 2025 (July 1, 2025 â June 30, 2026), Mecklenburg County anticipates receiving approximately $1,000,000 from HUD for the Community Development Block Grant program. Join this public meeting on February 13 to give your input.
We are asking for less than 10 minutes of your time to answer 10 questions in our Strategic Priorities Survey. Everyone is encouraged to participate in this survey, whether youâre an elected official, a Board member, a local government staff member, a participant in one of our programs, a leader in a partner organization or a friend of the organization.Â
Mecklenburg County is preparing for its fiscal year 2025-2026 Community Development Block Grant Program Annual Action Plan and funding allocation. The county anticipates receiving approximately $1,000,000 in funding that will be available for qualifying public service programs and public projects. Learn more and apply.
Centralina Regional Council seeks an energetic, self-directed individual for the position of Workforce Development Board Assistant Director to assist the department in developing, planning, administering and maintaining Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) and NCWorks Career Center programmatic standards, strategies and processes.
In early 2024, the Centralina regional AI working group pooled together expertise and research to craft the âGenerative AI Policy Guidance Document for Local Governments.â This detailed guide provides a structured framework, practical insights and policy template language to help municipalities effectively manage and implement generative AI technologies.
In bolstering pre-disaster resiliency, mitigation and post-disaster recovery efforts, local governments must be proficient in effectively managing public assistance dollars.
NC Association of Regional Councils of Governments and Centralina Regional Council offers this training package to provide the foundation of your disaster recovery training programs.
Each month, Centralina disseminates a comprehensive email newsletter detailing our ongoing projects, highlighting upcoming events and celebrating successes within our team and throughout the region. Member government staff, elected officials, working professionals and interested members of the public can sign-up to receive the monthly newsletter to stay up to date on the latest at Centralina. This page houses PDF versions of each month’s newsletter within the past fiscal year. Use the form in our website footer to sign-up to receive our newsletter each month if you are not already subscribed.
CONNECT Beyond is a bold regional mobility plan that sets the vision for how to better connect the rural, suburban, and urban communities in our 12-county region. This plan will guide and coordinate future mobility investments for the next two decades and serve as a blueprint for implementing a robust, integrated public transit network that will combine high-capacity transit lines, enhanced bus services, local mobility options and innovative transportation technologies.
The region’s Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) is a five-year strategy that guides priorities for economic development and outlines a coordinated growth approach that builds on the regionâs strengths, addresses barriers to future growth, prioritizes key regional industry clusters and emphasizes collaboration.
Centralina acts as an advocate for key issues and opportunities within our region at the state and federal levels. Each year we put together formalized actions plan that address specific needs and desired policy outcomes. Learn more about our advocacy work with policy makers in Raleigh and Washington D.C.