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Annual Awards Program for Innovations in Intergovernmental Relations PURPOSE This Awards Program is designed: to identify outstanding cooperative efforts between local governments and actions to improve State-local relations, which too often go unobserved; and to provide for these efforts a measure of the publicity which they rightly deserve, and to make available through publication, a selected number of the outstanding actions reported each year under the program. WHO IS ELIGIBLE TO PARTICIPATE? Any local governme ntal body , organization of elected off icials, units of governments acti ng Joi ntly, school distri ct s in cooperatio n with gener al unit s of gover nment, regional bodies, or State governments , may participate . JUDGMENT CRITERIA I. The "improved i ntergovernment al effort i n urban developme nt" should invol ve areas of interes t t o the Department of Housing a nd Ur ban Development and organizations of publ i c offi cials (e. g., meet i ng slum probl ems , encouraging orderl y ·urban development, rel ating physi cal development needs t o s ocial, educational and economic needs in an area, reducing the cos t of providing publ i c services , etc.). II . The activity should be i nnovative or precedent-making and mus t have t aken pla ce in the peri od from January, 1965 t o the present. III . The activit y should be appl i cabl e in other communit i es , regions , or Stat es . Examples mi ght i ncl ude such developments as these : the est abl ishment , in many Cali f or nia counties , of local area formation commissions , with regulatory power over t he creation ~r new municipalities, annexations, and special dist r icts ; �-2- • legislation authorizing local governments to cooperate in the collection of local taxes in Michigan; · • the establishment of a State-authorized metropolitan area study ccrnmission in Portland, Oregon; • studies initiated by the State of California, designed to apply aero-space technology to urban problems; • the proposed vesting of regional planning and continuing transportation planning process responsibilities in the Washington Regional Council of Governments; the proposed agreement by 13 municipalities in Nortlu~rn New Jersey, to establish a single regional urban renewal agency, and to share property taxes resulting fran new industrial development within the entire region. WHO WILL JUOOE? Distinguished persons in the field of intergovernmental relations, including representatives of the various levels of government, will be invited by the Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development to evaluate entries and recommend awards. �