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<h2 id="c5">5.0 Economic Resilience</h2>
<em>What is the region's ability to avoid, withstand, and recover from economic shocks?</em>
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The EDA defines economic resilience as <em>positive adaptability</em> to disruptions and change, with slight long-term loss of function or growth potential. The challenges to our Region’s economic sustainability and resiliency are related to its geographic location, development patterns, and demographic profile.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Our <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/rural?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#rural</a> communities should <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/forwardplan?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#forwardplan</a> for coming <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/drought?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#drought</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/climate?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#climate</a> emergencies due to <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/climateimpact?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#climateimpact</a> and plan in terms of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/community?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#community</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/economicresilience?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#economicresilience</a> - we cover this in our <a href="https://twitter.com/US_EDA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@US_EDA</a> approved <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CEDS?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CEDS</a> at <a href="https://t.co/9W2XuDt0Xy">https://t.co/9W2XuDt0Xy</a> <a href="https://t.co/ZxMRKp8MG8">https://t.co/ZxMRKp8MG8</a></p>— Western Arizona EDD (@westernazedd) <a href="https://twitter.com/westernazedd/status/1387602549184684036?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 29, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
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The <a href="swot-analysis.html">SWOT analysis</a> conducted by our Region CEDS committee identified various vulnerabilities that have caused or could potentially cause major economic problems, both locally and regionally. According to EDA,
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<q>In the context of economic development, economic resilience becomes inclusive of three primary attributes: the ability to recover quickly from shock, the ability to withstand a shock, and the ability to avoid the shock altogether.</q>
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<p>
EDA further states that these shocks or disruptions can often be categorized in the following ways:
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Downturns or other significant events in the national or International economy which impact demand or for locally produced goods and consumer spending;
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Declines in a particular industry that constitute a critical component of the activity, and/or;
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Other external shocks (a natural or man-made disaster, closure of a military base, exit of a major employer, the impacts of climate change, etc.)
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<p>
Economic resiliency is not only discussed in this section of our CEDS but it is woven throughout the entire document. The purpose of this chapter is to discuss resiliency efforts already underway and discuss how resilience is a multi-faceted issue with many different components.
<p>
However, the overall purpose of economic resilience is <strong>to save and create as many jobs as possible</strong>. When a shock occurs, which is inevitable, our community, Region, and people have options.
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Our Region is an active Community Support Partner in the <a href="https://www.gyerp.org/">Greater Yuma Economic Resource Portal</a> and provides <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/141ZngloWVQdzu12auzQzNYhXy8vNuESQ/view?usp=sharing">Business Continuity Plan Templates</a> for regional small business owners to download and practice active economic resilience measures.
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Our Executive Director is also a long-time member of the Yuma County Office of Emergency Management Local Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC) and a FEMA-qualified Incident Command System (ICS) watchstander.
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Learn how to build a <a href="https://files.hudexchange.info/resources/documents/HUD-Community-Resilient-Toolkit.pdf" target="_blank">Community Resilience Toolkit</a>
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<h3 id="c51">5.1 Planning for and implementing resilience</h3>
<h4 id="c511">5.1.1 <em>Steady State</em> Initiatives</h4>
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<em>"Grass tops without grass roots get blown away in the wind. Sustenance comes from the roots."</em>
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These are pre-incident initiatives that focus on long-term efforts to improve our ability to withstand or avoid shocks. Some examples include:
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<li>Comprehensive planning efforts that incorporate a vision for resiliency;</li>
<li>Implement efforts to diversify the industrial base;</li>
<li>Adapt business retention programs to assist firms with recovery following a shock;</li>
<li>Understand that local business ownership is the <strong>anchor</strong> that ensures assets/capital are available for resilience;</li>
<li>Develop a workforce that can shift between jobs and industries;</li>
<li>Improve worker skills to qualify for higher-paying jobs and to build their careers;</li>
<li>Encourage local business ownership to increase chances of preserving local jobs;</li>
<li>Use geographic information systems (GIS) to map business establishment data and available development sites, integrated with hazard information to allow for rapid post-incident impact assessments;</li>
<li>Ensure redundancy in communication networks to protect commerce and public safety;</li>
<li>Promote business continuity by ensuring businesses understand their vulnerabilities, such as their supply chains, in the face of disruptions; and</li>
<li>Employ safe development practices, such as locating structures outside of known floodplains, liquefaction zones, seismically active areas, preserving natural lands as buffers, and protecting existing development from extreme weather.</li>
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<h3 id="c52">5.2 Establishing Information Networks</h3>
<h4 id="c521">5.2.1 <em>Responsive</em> Initiatives</h4>
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These are pre-incident initiatives that focus on a our ability to react in the short-term to shocks and recovery needs. Some examples include:
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<li>Conduct pre-disaster recovery planning that defines critical stakeholders, roles, responsibilities, and actions;</li>
<li>Develop a system for active and regular communication, monitoring, and updating business community needs for use after or during an incident. This includes public, private, education, and non-profit sectors;</li>
<li>Establish our capability to rapidly contact key officials (local, regional, state, and federal) to relate business sector needs and impact assessments; and</li>
<li>Create coordination mechanisms and leadership succession plans for short, middle, and long-term recovery needs.</li>
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<h3 id="c53">5.3 Economic vs. Physical Shocks</h3>
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When examining the types of shocks that a community needs to plan for, most can be categorized in two ways, economic shocks, and physical shocks. <strong>Economic shocks</strong> are caused primarily by economic forces such as closing a significant factory that results in a substantial loss in employment, a national recession, or changes in regulations that affect importing and exporting. The COVID-19 pandemic is a type of economic shock.
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<strong>Physical shocks</strong> harm either the built or natural environment or both, such as a hurricane or an oil spill. Physical shocks are economical as well. So, the issue is repairing physical damage and restoring economic damage and loss of income and businesses. Whether the shock comes as a financial shock or physical shock, all aspects of our community must be resilient: people, built environment, and industries.
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<h3 id="c54">5.4 Pre-Disaster Recovery Planning</h3>
<h5 id="c541">5.4.1 Hazard Mitigation</h5>
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Economic resilience is essential for both economic shocks and physical shocks, but hazard mitigation is a tool that is mainly focused on physical shocks. Hazard mitigation planning is often focused primarily on natural disasters in which we usually have some warning. But hazard mitigation should also focus on physical shocks that come along with no indication.
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Each County in our Region has adopted a hazard mitigation plan that outlines how to prepare for and react to hazards and resources available in a disaster.
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The Arizona Department of Emergency and Military Affairs website <a href="https://dema.az.gov/emergency-management" rel="noopener">(Emergency Management | Department of Emergency and Military Affairs)</a>, and also <a href="https://www.ready.gov" rel="noopener">Ready.gov</a> offers information about planning for and responding to many different types of disasters.
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There is sweltering weather and massive dust storms in our Region during Arizona's summer months and monsoon season. The monsoon season begins on June 15 and ends on September 30, but the monsoon storm peak is between mid-July and mid-August. On average, about half of Arizona receives nearly half of its annual rainfall during the monsoon.
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<h3 id="c542">5.4.2 Measuring Resilience</h3>
<h5>Creating Resilient People</h5>
<p>
Community resilience is a measure of the sustained ability of a community to utilize available resources to respond to, withstand, and recover from adverse situations.
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<strong>Education</strong>: To have a resilient workforce, training and education should support local industry and be adaptable and flexible enough to change as new sectors emerge or as existing industries grow and evolve.
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<strong>Communication</strong>: Our region should strive for excellent communication, including discussing jobs and training opportunities or warning for storms and disaster preparedness.
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<strong>Quality of life</strong>: Healthy and happy people tend to be more able and resilient in times of hardship. Excellent quality of life can make an area marketable and appealing to a new industry.
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<strong>Safety</strong>: Providing a safe environment, either daily through good building and infrastructure or during a time of real crisis, such as availability of shelters and evacuation routes during a storm.
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<p>Creating Resilient Environment</p>
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Communities strive to be stronger and more resilient after the recovery, than they were before. (a spiral effect!)
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<strong>Structures</strong>: Implementing building construction codes that result in sturdy construction creates a built environment that is less vulnerable to natural disasters and will sustain the test of time.
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<strong>Infrastructure</strong>: A new and up-to-date infrastructure that is stronger and more resilient can withstand a natural disaster is a marketable feature for recruiting new industry.
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<strong>Land suitability</strong>: Building on land suitable for development reduces vulnerability to natural disasters.
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<strong>Site Redevelopment</strong>: Redevelopment of an existing or underutilized site is often more efficient and cost-effective than developing a new size.
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<p>Creating Resilient Industry</p>
<p>
A community’s resilience depends on the reservoir of all healthy assets, or capitals, that can contribute to the well being of people, places, and economies.
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<strong>Diversity</strong>: Industry in the region. The old saying, <em>don't put all of your eggs in one basket,</em> apply. For example, a chemical plant closing does not impact our tourism industry.
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<strong>Adaptability</strong>: As technologies change, an economy waxes and wanes, industry needs to adapt to current markets, and our workforce should be adapted to meet those changing needs. Initiative and adaptability often occur.
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<p>
<strong>Innovation</strong>: Industry innovation often goes hand-in-hand with diversity and adaptability and usually occurs due to a physical or economic shock.
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<p>Source: U.S. Department of Homeland Security (May 2019)</p>
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<h3 id="c55">5.5 Specific Economic Resilience Measures</h3>
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Work closely with counties, cities, chambers of commerce, industrial development boards, tourism organizations, and other economic development entities to implement goals and objectives established within the current CEDS document.
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Collaborate with the State of Arizona and local economic development groups to recruit new investment within target industry groups such as agriculture, manufacturing, technology, and tourism.
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Create new businesses through our Arizona Small Business Development Center Network to stimulate small business development and expansion throughout our region. Continue to enhance programs <strong>focusing on equity</strong>, such as benefiting those with barriers to employment and our area’s social determinants of health.
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Provide grant application and grant administration assistance to communities wishing to apply for funding through the Economic Development Administration, USDA Grant/Loan Programs, State of Arizona Industrial Grant/Loan Funds, and other COVID-19 pandemic loans and relief funding.
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Assist local governments with acquiring grant/loan funding to expand or improve public water/wastewater infrastructure. Technical Assistance provided by our Executive Director and staff will include project review, prospect consultation, application packaging, project liaison functions, and project administration.
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Enhance our asset base to create collaboration in our Region with government, school, health, tourism, economic development leaders by identifying assets in each county, prioritizing needs, and developing plans to improve those assets.
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Promote sustainable development practices at local and regional levels.</li>
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Meet with our Region’s top 10 employers to learn past, present, and forecasted happenings.</li>
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Monitor and implement this Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) for our Region annually.</li>
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<h3 id="c551">5.5.1 "Responsive" Initiatives for COVID-19</h3>
<p>
The Western Arizona Economic Development District serves as part of a network among various stakeholders in our Region to support active and regular communications between public, private, education, and non-profit sections during economic challenges and post-disruption stages.
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Our Region’s plans to respond to any anticipated, or unanticipated negative impacts include:
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Focus on issues of economic resilience and acquire funding for a prototype recovery plan for our rural and unincorporated communities, including an EDA-supported Revolving Loan Fund.
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<li>A
ssist our local government entities with the acquisition of disaster grant funds from the U.S. EDA.
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Continue to focus on small business, microenterprise growth in our region by providing technical assistance to our Arizona Small Business Development Center Network, Economic Development Corporations, Tribal Employment and Training, and Arizona@Work.
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Stay focused on our mission of building a resilient economy and help as needed to our partners.
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Obtain funding through <a href="https://www.eda.gov/coronavirus/#:~:text=EDA%20CARES%20Act%20Recovery%20Assistance%2C%20which%20is%20being%20administered%20under,the%20impacts%20of%20the%20pandemic." target="_blank" rel="noopener">EDA CARES Act Recovery Assistance</a> and <a href="https://eda.gov/arpa/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">American Rescue Plan Act of 2021</a>(also called the <strong>COVID-19 Stimulus Package</strong> or <strong>American Rescue Plan Act</strong>) to allow <strong>OUR</strong> Region the ability to identify and support the development of resiliency moving forward with a focus on small businesses, access to broadband, travel, tourism, outdoor recreation, and creating investor-driven incentives in our two <a href="opportunity-zones.html">Opportunity Zones</a>.
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