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Don’t Wait Until Tomorrow: Plan for an Emergency Today!
Older and disabled adults are especially vulnerable during extreme weather events and to emergencies that often come without warning, such heatwaves, major flooding, electric outages and pandemics like COVID-19. While emergencies are out of our control, there are a number of things to do ahead of time to get and stay ready. In honor of Emergency Prepardness Month, Centralina Area Agency on Aging have prepared a checklist of things you can do to stay safe before, during and after an emergency or natural disaster.
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Capitol Corner February 2021
Centralina launched a new initiative called Raleigh Relations in the fall of 2020. This effort is designed to expand our engagement with the state government in three ways.
The Impact of Federal Funding in Our Region
The American Recovery Plan Act and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law are recent Congressional Acts that distributed a number of grants and program funding to local and state governments throughout the United States. Centralina Regional Council has assisted several of our member governments in securing these funds and helping with follow-up reporting. Our collaborative work has allowed us to observe and analyze patterns in our region and opportunities to address gaps and discrepancies going forward.
The Importance of a Grants Strategy
Three major pieces of recently-passed legislation, theâŊBipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and theâŊCreating Helpful Incentives to Produce SemiconductorsâŊ(CHIPS) Act, together provided more than $2 trillion in new federal spending. With so many funding streams available, and some only for a limited time, it is critical to develop a grants strategy. A thoughtful strategy will maximize your ability to apply for relevant grants, while preventing squandering resources on less pertinent programs.
SCRCâs Commitment to Regional Economic Growth and SustainabilityÂ
Southeast Crescent Regional Commission (SCRC) is an economic development partnership agency whose mission is âto build sustainable communities and strengthen economic growth across the Southeast Region.â Member governments across the Centralina region are some of the hundreds of counties and municipalities who can benefit from grant opportunities offered through the commission. Â
Capitol Corner January 2022
If there was ever a good time to focus on federal competitive grants, it is now. Federal grants to states and local governments have risen 37%, outpacing the average annual increase of 4% in the prior half-decade. Relative to 2008, grants have increased 93% accounting for inflation. In the recently passed Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), almost 80% of the $550 billion in new spending the law provides will go to projects funded entirely or primarily by grants. As a result, federal agencies are staffing up and on the same day President Biden signed the IIJA into law (now called the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) by the Administration), he also released an Executive Order creating an Infrastructure Implementation Task Force and named Mitch Landrieu to serve as Infrastructure Implementation Coordinator.
Local Election Reflections on the Centralina Region
Most of our attention may have been on the presidential or even state elections this year, but we should also look at what happened in our local elections. In the nine-county Centralina region, 51 total member seats were on the ballot in the 2020 local government general election.
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