Accomplishments 2001 - 2007
- Cooperative Land Use Intergovernmental Agreements between Partnership members.
- Cooperative work on an environmental plan based upon requirements surrounding the Prebles Jumping Mouse related to the endangered species act.
- Cooperative work on a multi-jurisdictional Housing Authority led to the creation of the Douglas County Housing Partnership. A down payment assistance program started in January 2005 and as of October 2005 nine families have been provided assistance; 90 families have attended a homebuyer’s education class; and the Partnership is working on the development of affordable rental housing that could result in nearly 600 affordable rental units.
- Common concern for our County’s youth led to a collaborative Youth Initiative. The process concluded in 2005 with the funding of a Douglas County Youth Services coordinator who will be responsible for coordinating and enhancing the outcomes of programs for all Douglas County youth.
- Program initiated between the Douglas County Housing Partnership and the Douglas County School District. School District employees now have access to a variety of resources such as flexible mortgage products, down payment assistance, and other approaches to help school district employees with home ownership in Douglas County.
- Intergovernmental Agreement between Douglas County and Douglas County School District. The IGA formalizes the long-standing relationship between Douglas County Television and the Douglas County School District for the creation of the Douglas County Television Academy. This will be a collaborative effort to foster greater student participation in the creation of broadcast quality television programming toward the creation of a dedicated Douglas County School District Television channel, which launched on the Douglas County Television Network on October 1, 2006.
- Creation of the Douglas County Communications Council in which the more than two-dozen community relations, public affairs and communications professionals working with and for Partnership members collaborate to maximize collective communications effectiveness.
2007 Annual Report