Kentucky Council of Area Development Districts

KADD Goals for Support to the State Government

Assure local government involvement in the decision making process including the allocation and delivery of funds.

Define role or designation of local entity for block grant delivery. Give local government a major voice in allocation of funding and decision making. Create a flexible framework for policy development that allows for the integration of program operation and service delivery.

A framework that is flexible so that it will work today and in the future. Integration of program operations and service delivery systems at the state, regional, and local level to be efficient. Encourage local, regional, and state partnerships to achieve economies of scale.

Partnering at local, regional and state levels.

• Accountability, flexibility, neutrality, in partnering.
• Encouraging intergovernmental roles and achieving an economy of scale.
• Reasonable number of contact points (clearinghouse) for local governments statewide.
• Ensure the maintenance or establishment of a planning component at the regional level with funding being an outgrowth of the process.

Maintaining or establishing a planning component at the regional level with funding being an outgrowth of the process. Use the existing regional system as the administer and delivery system.

Use existing regional system as the administer of block grants.

• Tie into existing program.
• Encouraging an intergovernmental role and economy of scale.
• Additional bureaucracy should be prevented. Do not create an additional level of bureaucracy at the same level.
• Council can provide an efficient and cost effective way of delivering block grants.
• Use regional councils as the collaborative for local elected officials to implement block grant system.
• Allow local governments to deal with multi-county or regional problems at the grassroots level.
• Existing system has annual, independent audit. Full accountability.

Support to Local Government; Service to State

The ADD network is responsible for a wide variety of programs which serve local government; both through contractual arrangements with federal, state and local governments and as a designated delivery system for various activities. These programs fall under various arenas: community and economic development, health and human services, public management and administration, and technology support.

A recent review of one ADD resulted in the identification of over 75 various programs and activities undertaken in the support of local government. Examples of program areas in which Kentucky ADDs are engaged include:

Today, many of the programs in the state that are considered standards, were innovated by the ADDs. Most of the refinements in programs administered through the ADDs were recommended by the ADDs themselves. The ADDs are known as leaders in the field of technology; applications ranging from information system support of local government to daily interaction on the Internet are commonplace.

It should be noted that these programs have a direct impact on a region's quality of life. The ADD network is distinct in its role as a broad-based economic development system.