Transcript Web Site for LLMA Enterprise Zone Applications

DCEO Enterprise Zone Data Assistance Program
Presented by
Sherrie Taylor and Melissa Henriksen
to
Online Webinar Audience
October 9, 2014
Enterprise Zone Data Assistance Program
Purpose of EZ Data Assistance Program
Purpose
• The program can identify the Local Labor Market Area (LLMA) for each Enterprise Zone (EZ)
applicant using a methodology approved by DCEO, but it is not necessary to use this approach if
another more suitable approach is available.
• Based on the LLMA selected, the program identifies and organizes the data and materials needed
for 7 of the 10 qualifying criteria for EZ applications.
– Optional support offered for Employment Opportunities & Tax Base Improvement Plan data on cost recovery basis.
• Applicants are NOT required to use this web site. It is designed to simplify data collection and
tabulation. A frequently asked questions section is used to guide users in the application process.
• This program only provides data needed for the ten eligibility criteria. No scoring is done.
Applicants must submit the materials on paper copy to DCEO by December 31, 2014.
Application Requirement
(based on administrative rules)
#11) A specific definition of the applicant’s Local Labor Market
Area along with a statement explaining why the Local Labor
Market Area used is appropriate for the Enterprise Zone to which
it relates; applicants are encouraged to include data on
commuting patterns and public transportation or other
information demonstrating that residents in the Local Labor
Market Area used can reside find employment within a
reasonable distance or can readily change jobs without changing
their place of residence.
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Bypass or Not to Bypass?
• DCEO rules allow that if you use the NIU-CGS Methodology to
calculate the Local Labor Market Area a write-up is not
necessary.
• The NIU-CGS method may not be appropriate for all areas!!
• The methodology for creating your LLMA is not a test to pass!!
• Requirements:
– Contiguous Area
– Maximum Area
– Meet Three Criteria
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Geography Jargon
Three Geographies:
1) Enterprise Zone
2) Intersecting Tracts
3) Local Labor Market Area (LLMA)
NIU-CGS Methodology for selection of the LLMA:
1) Census Tracts in which the Enterprise Zone resides.
2) A Census Tract provides 10% of its commuting
workforce to the Enterprise Zone to qualify as part of
the LLMA.
3) Applicants can include additional Tracts that do not
send 10% or more of their workforce to the Enterprise
Zone tracts, or can remove tracts.
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Create an Account
1. Create an account using Email
and Password
2. Check Email account for link to
verify
3. Click on link which brings you
back to the login
4. Log back in….
All created LLMAs are saved.
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Create a New Local Labor Market Area
The name provides identification for you to return
and edit that particular data run or to delete it and
start over. All information is maintained.
Enterprise Zone Upload
.shp, .prj, .dbf, .shx, .cpg, sbx, and .sbn
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STEP 1: Select Counties, then Tracts Where the Enterprise
Zone Resides, or Select the LLMA
Local Labor Market Area Calculation
Skip this step if you
already selected all of the
tracts you want in your
LLMA. This methodology
is not preferred, it is not
required, it was an option
provided so that you do
not have to provide the
methodology write-up. If
you skip this step you will
need to provide the
methodology in creating
your LLMA.
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NIU-CGS Methodology
Data source is the
LODES Version 7
Origin-Destination
commuter data
from the U.S.
Census Bureau and
the Bureau of
Labor Statistics.
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Results!
Here the LLMA was calculated using
the NIU-CGS methodology. If the
LLMA calculation was bypassed, no
Census Tracts would be listed under
Labor Market (Blue).
The data will then still be populated
throughout the site!
All of the pages can be accessed for each of the
criteria listed in the application. Some, such as the
Public Infrastructure Plan, do not produce data.
Suggestions are made on the pages for additional
resources and/or analyses to help improve or justify
sections of your application.
The last link is for “View Report” which provides a
map and data tables for all of the criteria that
produce data.
Next Steps
• Web site located at www.enterprisezonesillinois.com
• This Webinar is being recorded and will be posted on the web site along
with other information under Resources.
• Presentations are being given by DCEO on October 21, 23 and 24.
Information is on the web site.
• For technical assistance on web site usage, contact:
Sherrie Taylor, ([email protected]) or 815-753-0925.
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For Additional Information, Contact:
Sherrie Taylor
Norman Walzer
Research Associate
Senior Research Scholar
[email protected]
815-753-0925
[email protected]
815-753-0933
Center for Governmental Studies
148 North Third Street
DeKalb, IL 60115
www.NIUCGS.org
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