COLLABORATIVE LEADERSHIP

Examples of potential initiatives/projects:

Increased strategic comprehensive planning and economic development planning

Increased strategic economic development project development and implementation

Encouragement of preparation and readiness on the part of economic development project sponsors so as to achieve economic development success, including the following steps to achieve readiness:

Provision of technical assistance to potential and actual project sponsors to assist them with readiness for the development and implementation of economic development projects

Achievement of consensus and agreement amongst project participants as to individual organizational roles and responsibilities and commitments

Development of financial capital resources necessary to undertake economic development projects, e.g., capital reserve accounts, grantsmanship, provision for public-private partnering, etc.

Acquisition of appropriate land control (fee simple control or options on land proposed for subsequent development) as needed

Engagement of engineering and other consultants as appropriate and necessary to prepare preliminary engineering, to study soil conditions, archeological resources, flora and fauna issues, historical preservation issues, etc.

Obtain all appropriate and required regulatory permits (e.g., SEQRA, NEPA, SHPO / OPRHP, DEC, US Army Corps, US Fish and Wildlife, etc.)

Work with prospective beneficiary businesses to achieve consensus regarding shared expectations of each other’s plans, and to obtain commitments from beneficiary businesses to implement their plans (investment, job creation, etc.) conditioned on any incentives or development initiatives promised by the project sponsor

Grantsmanship to support implementation of planned economic development initiatives

Initiatives to enhance partnership, collaboration, and coordination

Create and capitalize capital funds or other funding mechanisms to implement projects

Examples of potential initiatives/projects:

• Increased strategic comprehensive planning and economic development planning
• Increased strategic economic development project development and implementation
• Initiatives to enhance partnership, collaboration, and coordination
• Improvement, creation, and utilization of “civic spaces,” both physical and virtual, and other cornerstone community institutions
• Regionalized infrastructure services and intergovernmental shared services and promotion of centralization and regionalization of governance and municipal services as a means of reducing service delivery costs and improving services, including shared services initiatives, consolidation initiatives, multimunicipal infrastructure system initiatives, etc.
• Collaborations with the Seneca Nation of Indians to capture the potential of the Seneca Nation of Indians as a driver of economic development, and provide economic benefits to tribal members and non-tribal members
• Increased investment in business development / business assistance capacity, entrepreneurial development, and innovation
• Initiatives to enhance innovation with respect to government operations and increase operating efficiency of government operations
• Initiatives encouraging the direction of a greater percentage of anchor institutions’ and residents’ purchasing power toward local vendors based in the community
• Encourage anchor institutions to hire a greater percentage of their workforce locally
• Encourage anchor institutions to provide workforce training for people needing assistance in the community
• Encourage anchor institutions to incubate the development of new businesses, including social enterprise among nonprofits.
• Encourage anchor institutions to serve as advisors and network builders
• Leverage real estate development to promote local retail, employer-assisted housing, and community land trusts.

Examples of potential initiatives/projects:

• Leadership training and development initiatives
• Internships and mentoring programs
• Targeted technical assistance programs
• Initiatives to promote public access to and involvement in governmental and civic decision-making
• Initiatives to promote collaborative decision-making between parallel and vertical levels of government and organizations

The Seneca Nation of Indians prepares its own CEDS document containing a specification of an economic development action plan, which is comprised of the economic development objectives, and for each objective, a specification of the responsibility for accomplishment, a timetable for accomplishing the objective, and funding opportunities. A recent version of the Seneca Nation of Indians CEDS was not available at the time of preparation of this CEDS.

Examples of potential initiatives/projects:

• Create county-level networks, that integrate emergency management personnel, economic development personnel, and other key stakeholders, to actively and regularly communicate and collaborate regarding proactive mitigation and post-disruption response
• Undertake appropriate infrastructure capital investment projects to mitigate potential disruptions due to natural disasters
• Diversify economy
• Upgrade labor force skills and job transferability
• Promote innovation, adoption of new technologies and productivity enhancement, and entrepreneurship
• Target development of emerging clusters
• Establish formalized mechanisms to realign and retrain local workforces post-disruption
• Increase recruitment of fire and emergency management service volunteers