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  

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