Hidalgo County ASSET MAPPING AND Strategic planning Project

HIDALGO COUNTY ASSET MAPPING AND STRATEGIC PLANNING PROJECT

Asset Mapping Subcommittee Meeting 7-16-09

Agenda Welcome and Overview Update on Asset Mapping Data

Collection Working Lunch

Organization and Presentation of Data Mexican Data Collection One-one-one Interviews

Update on Project Schedule

Welcome and OverviewSofia Hernandez, Economic Development Director, Hidalgo County Judge’s Office

Project Background Hidalgo County wants to strengthen

competitive position within state, national, and global markets

Hidalgo County received a EDA grant to develop a Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy

County put out Request for Proposals UTPA awarded contract to develop:

1) asset map 2) comprehensive economic development strategy

Asset Map Identifies assets a region has that can be

leveraged for workforce and economic development What assets (human, intellectual, financial,

physical, institutional capital) do we have? Where are the gaps? Provides understanding of networks and

attitudes Provides baseline to judge future progress Base for economic development strategic

planning

CEDS Presents a 5-year plan and goals and

objectives necessary to solve the economic problems, or capitalize on the resources, of the region

Provides County’s leadership with an economic development strategy for improving the County’s overall competitive position

Michael Uhrbrock, UTPA, Project Manager

Asset Mapping Update

Project Update 12 month project started in April 2009

Create Asset Map (April 2009 – September 2009)

Create CEDS (October 2009 – March 2010) Asset Mapping Status

Project team created Project scoping done Committees created Kickoff meeting held Wiki created

Level 1 Asset Identification Gather and review existing studies, reports,

media stories, and economic development marketing materials for the county Economic Studies and Reports compiled (http

://hidalgocountyceds.wikispaces.com/Industry+%26+Economy)

Conducted media story search Marketing materials collected

Collect asset mapping data from data sources Identified data to collect (subcommittee) Collected data (75%). See progress spreadsheet.

http://hidalgocountyceds.wikispaces.com/Background.

Level 2 Evaluation of Assets Continue collecting, analyzing, and

evaluating data Collecting remaining data Reviewing data for completeness Analyzing and evaluating data

Conduct one-on-one interviews to fill in gaps Drafted survey questions

Working Lunch

Working Lunch Agenda Organization and Presentation of Data Mexican Data Collection One-one-one Interviews

Organize and Present DataBrian Kelsey, President, Civic Analytics

Organization of Data Wiki:

http://hidalgocountyceds.wikispaces.com/

Organized under “Asset Map” on menu By major area and sub areas

Human Capital K-12 Education Systems Community Colleges Four Year Colleges/Universities

Includes data files, web links, and articles

Presentation of Data What do we do with data? How do we present it?

Maps Charts Tables

Human Capital

Financial Capital

Quality of Life

McAllen TX

El Paso TX

Atlanta GA

Indianapolis IN

St. Louis MO

Las Vegas NV

New York NY

0 50 100 150 200 250

84.488.4

93.791.895.6

108.397.6

102.598

103.4109.4

172.9214.7

Cost of Living Index for United States MSAs

Physical Infrastructure

Cris Trevino, UTPA, Strategic Planner

Mexico Data Collection

Items Select geographic area to collect data on

Tamaulipas Nuevo Leon

Review key data to be collected Review timeframe Assignments

Regional Geographic Area

Mexico Data Collection

Key Data to Collect Demographics Highways Angel Investors

and Venture Capital Firms

Medical-related manufacturing companies

Banks

Population Airports Industrial Parks Universities Industry

Associations Labor Force Maquiladoras

Time Frame to Collect 6 weeks to gather information

July-August 2009

Assignments Who is going to gather what? What format

Excel, Word, PDF, web links To:

Sai Mullapudi, smullapudi@utpa.edu

Michael Uhrbrock, UTPA Project Manager

One-on-One Interviews

Items Survey

Review questions Suggest 1 to 2 persons to interview for

areas Business leaders University leaders Government officials Venture Capitalist, Angel Investors, Bankers

Project Schedule Update

Schedule UpdateACTIVITY START END

Asset Mapping 4/1/2009 9/30/2009-Create Project Team 4/1/2009 4/17/2009

-Project Scoping and Goal Setting 4/20/2009 4/30/2009

-Level 1 Asset Identification 5/1/2009 6/30/2009

-Level 2 Evaluation of Assets 7/1/2009 7/31/2009

-Level 3 Comprehensive Assessment of Health Care Industry 8/1/2009 8/30/2009

-Review and Dissemination of Asset Map 9/1/2009 9/30/2009

Strategic Plan 10/1/2009 3/31/2010

-Review Asset Map Results and Visioning 10/1/2009 11/15/2009

-Goal and Objectives 1/1/2010 1/31/2010

-Action Plan 2/1/2010 2/28/2010

-Write Strategic Plan 3/1/2010 3/31/2010

-Presentation and Dissemination of Strategic Plan 3/31/2010