Our First Tool: A Self-Assessment
We have developed a secure and confidential online self-assessment tool for evaluating and interpreting a municipal jurisdiction's characteristics and processes directly linked to the factors affecting local investment. With over two hundred questions, this rigorous examination helps public officials explore their own potential "deal breakers" as well as their relative capacity to overcome them. Once the self-assessment is completed, it is analyzed by CURP staff and a comprehensive report is prepared that weighs each community's performance against the multi-jurisdictional database that CURP is continuously expanding as more jurisdictions join the partnership. Local officials receive specific feedback in each assessment category, and they can then use the results as a reality check on their community's economic development strategy.
Ten Assessment Categories
- Access to Customers/Markets
- Concentration of Businesses & Services
- Real Estate and Infrastructure
- Labor Market Factors
- Municipal Permit Processes
- Community Quality of Life
- Site Related Amenities
- Business Incentives
- Local Tax Rates
- Access to Local Information
