Economic Development Financing Update

• Overview

Get on the right track to economic improvement in your community.

Learn how you can drive growth with a lesson on economic development plans. State and local governments that have not planned for dealing with economic changes are not recovering as well as those that developed and implemented an economic development plan. Generally, such plans are intended to create jobs and encourage capital investment, as well as generate tax revenue for government operations and infrastructure improvements. The subject of this ondemand course will be on defining and describing effective economic development plans. While this ondemand course will cover the drivers of economic growth, our focus will be on a number of generally applicable and practical ideas to assist state and local governments as well as businesses.

Authors

Agenda

Economic Development Plans

• Benefits of a Master Plan

• What Should Go Into the Plan?

Funding the Plan

• Taxes

• Auditing the Revenue Allocation

• Alternatives to Direct Taxation

Criteria for Successful Execution of the Plan

• Process Consulting

• Creating the Mandate

• Change Management