The Business Journal takes a look at the challenges the Heart of Triad’s new strategic planning committee faces. A major challenge — you guessed it — is funding:
The newly seated groups will have no funding to move forward. They can still meet — but they can’t dedicate staff to turning the conceptual plan they have in hand into a working document that details where infrastructure and development will go and how expenses and revenues will be equitably shared.
The recourse right now is for in-house staffs of the respective planning departments to add Heart of the Triad to the other projects on their desks, said Lee Burnette, High Point planning director. It’s not the ideal situation, though planners say they are willing to pitch in staff time to keep the project going.
….Brent McKinney, executive director of the Piedmont Authority for Regional Transportation (PART), said the lack of funding makes each jurisdiction’s dedication of staff time and resources to the project critical.
Whatever comes from the process, he said, “if everyone has an attitude of working for a greater good, then I think we will have accomplished some measure of success.”
It’s not as if those jurisdictions have issues of their own to deal with, is it?
