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SIDEZ Strategic Plan GOAL #1
INFRASTRUCTURE – Increased numbers of residents and businesses in the zone will have clean drinking water, safe sewage disposal systems, adequate electrical and gas service, improved solid waste management systems, 24-hour emergency service, access to basic and advanced telecommunications and well-maintained roads that are adequate to support their intended use.
OBJECTIVE #1: To provide safe, affordable utility service to the residents and businesses within the Southernmost Illinois Delta Empowerment Zone.
Strategies
a. Extend water mains to provide safe, treated water to residents and businesses in unincorporated areas in
cooperation with South Water, Inc. and other regional water providers.
b. Upgrade and extend safe, treated water to residents and businesses within incorporated areas.
c. Extend utilities, including water, sewage, gas, electricity and telecommunications to industrial sites.
d. Upgrade and extend existing sewage systems within incorporated areas.
e. Support the provision of sewer service to unincorporated areas where economically feasible.
f. Improve solid waste management within the zone.
1. Establish recycling program, including education, drop-off and hauling services.
OBJECTIVE #2: Develop safe, reliable transportation systems throughout the Southernmost Illinois Delta Empowerment Zone to accommodate residents, industry and tourism in order to stimulate economic growth.
Strategies
a. Convert heavily traveled gravel-surfaced roads to an oil and chip surface.
b. Upgrade major road arteries to state/federal standards to accommodate agriculture and industrial transportation of goods and services throughout the area.
c. Employ additional people to assist the county highway departments with road upgrades.
d. Purchase needed roadway equipment for use within the Southernmost Illinois Delta Empowerment Zone by County Highway Departments.
e. Upgrade surface of roads serving municipalities, industrial sites and critical areas to benefit low-income residents.
f. Support the improvement of Cairo Regional Airport.
OBJECTIVE #3: To provide quality, efficient emergency services to residents of the Southernmost Illinois Delta Empowerment Zone.
Strategies
a. Support the improvement of fire protection services in the zone.
b. Support the improvement of 911 services in the zone.
c. Support the improvement of law enforcement equipment.
OBJECTIVE #4: To provide adequate flood protection to residents and property in the Southernmost Illinois Delta Empowerment Zone.
Strategies
a. Support the improvement of flood protection levees and drainage systems.
b. Support flood mitigation efforts to allow zone residents and businesses to get into compliance with federal
flood insurance requirements.
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