Every year, around the time when the cherry blossoms up and down Tama County’s streets start blooming is when we visit with each of the twelve city councils and county supervisors that make up Tama County Economic Development Commission for the annual report. This year we also left a present at each city hall: a [...]
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Financing Resources Update: USDA has record high funding available for rural counties
“We don’t want Tama County to miss this window of opportunity,” that was the bottom line of the message Brandon Shaw, Tama County’s USDA Community Development Specialist, shared with a group of Tama County leaders last night. He explained that USDA currently has a record high amount of funding to allocate for grants and loans [...]
Industry Update: a decade of retail & service sector growth
Over the past decade, Tama County businesses have produced a 28% growth in taxable retail and service sales, from $83 million to $106 million annually. This number is especially important to combat assumptions that the economy is contracting when it is in fact changing and adapting into a new economy: Toledo contributed the lion’s share to the taxable [...]
Great Places Update: $2M appropriated
Thank you to the Iowa Legislators for appropriating $2M towards Iowa Great Places for the next fiscal year. In order to gain access to the funds, Iowa Attorney General’s grant agreement outlines a legal need for increased governmental collaboration (an economic principle also critical in rural Iowa long-term capacity building.) For Tama County that means that [...]
Our towns: the musical
Welcome to Tama County Economic Development’s new dynamic interactive site! If you have not had a chance to take a road trip through all twelve the Tama County towns, don’t fret. Click on the video tour for a crash course…there are no toll roads in Iowa…and of cause, in Tama County, parking is always free…
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Heath Kellogg is named Tama County Economic Development Director
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And the Tama County EDIE Award Winners are…
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2011 EDIES Story 24 of 24: Response to the once in a 1,000 Year Wind Storm
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2011 EDIES Story 23 of 24: Groundbreaking Utilities Partnership Still Tastes Great in Lincoln
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2011 EDIES Story 22 of 24: Many Hands Make Emergency Generator Work in Garwin
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Executive Director moves forward
- Entrepreneurship Update: Empowering our young people
- Garwin Update: Boil advisory in effect due to water main break in construction zone
- Late Summer Fun!
- General Update: Annual Report to the 28E public partners have been completed
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