DATE: August 5, 2025
TO: Board of Supervisors
SUBMITTED BY: Steven E. White, Director
Department of Public Works and Planning
SUBJECT: Fresno County 2025-2030 Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS)
RECOMMENDED ACTION(S):
TITLE
1. Approve and adopt the Fresno County 2025-2030 Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS).
2. Authorize the submittal of the Fresno County 2025-2030 CEDS to the United States Department of Commerce, Economic Development Administration (EDA) for approval.
3. Authorize the Director of the Department of Public Works and Planning or their designee, subject to review and approval as to legal form by County Counsel, to make minor changes to the document to ensure approval by EDA.
REPORT
General Plan Policy ED-A.4 directs the County to maintain, monitor, and periodically update the County's Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS), which is used to assist in the implementation of the County's economic development goals, policies, and programs of the General Plan, as well as fulfilling the United States Department of Commerce, Economic Development Administration (EDA) CEDS requirements for Federal grant funding eligibility.
Since July 2024, a project team led by the Department of Public Works and Planning (Department) and the Fresno County Economic Development Corporation (EDC), alongside third-party consultant TIP Strategies, Inc. (TIP), has engaged in updating Fresno County's 2025-2030 CEDS. The updated CEDS is a policy and planning document that will guide the County's economic development and enable the EDA, to fund projects consistent with the County's current economic development goals, policies, and programs. This item is countywide.
ALTERNATIVE ACTION(S):
Your Board may amend the CEDS prior to submission to the EDA. If your Board does not approve this item, and the CEDS is not updated, the County would be ineligible for Federal EDA funding.
FISCAL IMPACT:
There is no Net County Cost associated...
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