Panhandle Area Council, Inc.
208.772.0584
 fax 208.620.2313
11100 N Airport Drive
Hayden ID 83835
  • HOME
  • SERVICES
  • LOANS
    • SBA 504 Loan
    • Micro Loan Program
    • Intermediary Re-lending Loan
    • Revolving Loan Funds
  • INCUBATOR
  • RESOURCES
  • CONTACT

Business Development


Business Counseling
  • small business counseling
  • business development ideas 
  • entrepreneurial training 

Business Incubator Center
  • assists start-up companies involved in light industrial manufacturing during the first two years of operation. 

Commercial Loans 
Administers: 
  • Small Business Administration 504 
  • Revolving Loan Fund
  • USDA/IRP

Industrial Revenue Bonds
  • provides grant administration and fiscal management of project

International Trade and Procurement
  • clearinghouse for the processing of appropriate export documentation of goods
  • provides assistance in securing government contracts for the purchase of goods and services

Industrial Revenue Bonds
  • provide financing for large for-profit commercial projects requiring industrial revenue bonding

Revitalization and Redevelopment 
  • Planning, grant writing and administration assistance to develop, improve or expand business infrastructure.

Community Development


Environmental Reviews 
Coordinates: 
  • environmental reviews
  • archaeological surveys 
  • biological assessments 

Grant Administration and Management
  • Technical assistance is available to communities preparing state and federal grant applications for local projects.

Grant Writing for Infrastructure
Grant writing assistance:
  • senior/community facilities
  • water and sewer systems
  • imminent threat 
  • recreation
  • special districts 
  • revitalization of business  
        redevelopment areas   
           (e.g.downtown corridors/business 

            parks)

Preparation of Grant Applications
Technical assistance:
  • state and federal local project applications

Project Development Support
  • needs analysis 
  • service area determination 
  • community/income surveys 
  • fund source analysis

Planning


Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS)
  • prepares the CEDS, a cooperative venture of each of the counties, tribes, and Panhandle cities 

Comprehensive Plans
  • city and county assistance to   review and to update comprehensive plans.

Emergency Planning and Preparedness
  • planning assistance
  • grant writing 
  • grant administration 

Public Transportation
  • planning and administration of Kootenai County public transportation  


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Municipal Support


Facility Leasing
  • PAC can purchase or build public use facilities and lease to counties, cities 
  • Lease terms are one year and may be renewed annually  (thirty year limit)
  • If the public unit leases the property continually for a term, which equals the time to fully amortize a commercial loan by PAC, property can be offered to the public unit for $1.00.

Technical Assistance
  • PAC assists municipalities with services such as research, surveys grant writing and urban renewal planning.

Urban Renewal Districts


Agency Creation and Administration
  • assistance to form city/county districts 
  • prepare resolutions and ordinances for creation, development of the urban renewal plan, and feasibility study
  • staff district meetings, develop capital improvement plans and help to provide funding via tax increment financing
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