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Certified Local Government (CLG)

City Hall, Northampton, Massachusetts.

Questions to consider with reference to two (2) of your "adopted" states.

First, examine examples under reading at Certified Local Governments (CLGs).

1  How many counties, cities and town governments have been designated as state CLGs by the SHPO and NPS?

• Certified Local Government database, including the participating CLGs in each State, CLG Program, NPS
• Counties — CLG Map, Iowa Certified Local Government Program,
• Cities and Townships — Certified Local Governments, New Jersey
• Counties, Cities, Towns — Certified Local Governments, Virginia

2  Does the state SHPO have a CLG advisory board? If so, what is its composition? Duties?

Note: All states have preservation advisory boards, but not all have boards for CLG-related activities. Example — Indiana Historic Preservation Review Board.

• BHAR/CLG Advisory Board (scroll down), Bureau for Historic Preservation, Pennsylvania

3  What are the various positions/titles of the CLG coordinators (viz.: town planner; town "selectman"; historic district commission staff, etc.)?

• CLG Coordinators, Division for Historic Preservation, Vermont
• Historic Preservation Planning Commissions, Office of Archives and History, North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, North Carolina

4  Does the state include additional monies in their grants-in-aid program other than funding derived from the federal minimum of ten percent (10%) of its federal annual allocation as per NHPA provisions?

What are their funding/revenue sources (viz. annual appropriation by the legislature; lottery monies, bonds, etc.)?

• Funding as per NHPA — CLG Funding, National Park Service (Note: 1977). For more recent figures, contact CLG state coordinators from NPS CLG database.

• Certified Local Governments (CLGs) • Rhode Island CLGs

Country store, Danby, Vermont.

5  What is the variety of CLG grants awarded to local governments (viz.: surveying, technical preservation services, planning, conferences, model ordinances, etc.)?

• Grant criteria — Fiscal Year 2000 Historic Preservation Fund (scroll down), Certified Local Government Program, New York
• Eligible categories — Certified Local Governments, Virginia Department of Historic Resources

6  What are any "special" state grant categories (viz.: grants for model business; barns, county courthouses, general stores, etc.)? To the applying/awarded governments have to be a designated CLG? (How are the funds appropriated?)

• Hometown Indiana, Indiana (Note: no funding!)
• Barns Restoration and Preservation Grant Programs, New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (Other state-funded programs)
• Texas Courthouse Preservation Program, Texas Historical Commission
• Michigan Lighthouse Program, Michigan Lighthouse Project, Michigan Historical Center, Department of History, Arts and Libraries
• Bridge Preservation Program, Arizona Department of Transportation
• Community Preservation Act, Massachusetts

7  How does the scope of the funded projects relate to the state's Preservation Plan?

• State and Territorial Plan Profiles, NPS