1.) NEOM&CMA request the boards of the current regional Metropolitan Planning Organizations to assign to their directors the task of preparing a report on how to establish a planning process that coordinates the 16-county region.

The planning report will address the following goals:

• Advance the region’s economic competitiveness
• Enhance the economic stability of all jurisdictions in the region
• Minimize the cost of infrastructure and energy
• Minimize the loss of farmland, open space and natural resources
• Minimize environmental degradation
• Determine how to establish a regional database for land use planning and for monitoring development patterns, land use change and tax base change

2.) NEOM&CMA request the boards of sewer and water districts within the region to assign the following tasks to their directors:

• Jointly prepare a report on how to establish a single, integrated system that provides water and sewer services within the region and addresses the following goals:
  • Minimize the cost of providing water and sewer services
  • Maintain and expand systems as needed to support economic development
    

3) NEOM&CMA request the governor and lieutenant governor to:

• Provide policy and financial incentives to implement previously mentioned tasks
  
• Reconfigure the boundaries of state department districts to conform with the boundary of the Northeast Ohio planning

4) NEOM&CMA establish a Phase II Steering Committee to address and pursue  the following:

• New Growth Tax Base Sharing:
  
  • Review and confirm methodology with tax experts, county auditors and other officials
  • Further investigate and develop details and equity for revenue sharing of commercial and industrial property tax and income tax
  • Investigate the impact of property tax sharing on schools and school funding
  • Establish finite details of revenue sharing
  • Investigate and resolve JEDD and tax abatement agreements
• State Enabling Legislation
  • Plan and undertake the implementation process, including promulgation of state enabling legislation, as required
• Communications
  • Communicate the rationale and status of the RERS initiative to relevant state officials and officials in the metropolitan regions of the state
  • Communicate that new growth tax base sharing is not independent of land use planning
• Land Use Planning
  • Establish finite details of region-wide land use planning
• Fundraising
  • Secure resources for Phase II through fundraising and grants
• Engagement/Mobilization
  • Expand participation to involve key stakeholders and organizations impacted by regional planning and revenue sharing (business groups, community organizations, regional organizations, local and state elected and appointed officials, religious leaders, school leaders and the media)