Planning
There are only five days left to register for the SRPC Annual Luncheon! SRPC staffers have been hard at work this week preparing for the event, which will be held on Thursday, June 28, at the Governor’s Inn, 78 Wakefield St. in Rochester, from 11:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

The luncheon program will feature insights from three panelists who have many years of experience funding, developing, identifying, promoting, and managing trails in the region. They will guide us in discovering the importance of accessibility, the steps for getting a committee started and planning for a trail, and the economic and ecological impacts of trails.

The annual luncheon will also offer guests an exciting opportunity to meet SRPC’s new executive director, Jen Czysz.


RSVP by June 20 at:


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Transportation
Strafford Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) staffers attended the Statewide Asset Data Exchange System (SADES) Road Surface Management System) (RSMS) training on Wednesday and Thursday, June 13 and 14. The training focused on data collection procedures and how to use the information to analyze current conditions and forecast future conditions. This summer data collection staffers will conduct additional assessments and forecasting analyses.
 
The SADES RSMS program aims to address the challenge of maintaining New Hampshire's local roads. The program began in the summer of 2015 when each regional planning commission completed a roadway inventory of a partner municipality. Strafford MPO completed a pilot of the SRSMS program in Rollinsford, and has completed RSMS assessments in Middleton and New Durham.
 

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Economic Development
Strafford Economic Development District (EDD) offers technical assistance to communities in the region related to economic development, in addition to other responsibilities like maintaining its Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy. This week, Kyle Pimental, principal regional planner, provided technical assistance by creating a map for the Somersworth Economic Development department.
 
The map showed the boundaries of Somersworth’s new opportunity zone, which was approved in mid-May by the Small Business/Self-Employed Division of the federal Internal Revenue Service. Gov. Chris Sununu announced his nominations for the federal opportunity zones tax incentive program, including a portion of the Hilltop City and four other tracts in the region, in early May.
 
The new Opportunity Zones program allows investors to take advantage of tax incentives when reinvesting unrealized capital gains in the designated zones. 
 

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