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Council Members
Meeting Schedule
Region 9
Staff
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Council Information:
Region 9
is a council, set up by the state of West Virginia, comprising of
representatives (both elected and appointed) from three counties: Jefferson, Berkeley, & Morgan County
and the municipalities of Berkeley Springs (Bath), Bolivar, Charles Town,
Harpers Ferry, Hedgesville, Martinsburg, Paw Paw, Ranson and Shepherdstown.
Region 9 has been designated by:
- The Appalachian
Regional Commission (ARC) as a Local Development District (LDD)
- The Economic
Development Administration (EDA) as an Economic Development District
(EDD)
- The Federal Highway
Administration (FHA) and the State of West
Virginia as the West
Virginia counterpart for the
Hagerstown/Eastern Panhandle Metropolitan Planning Organization
(HEPMPO)
- The State of West Virginia
as a Planning and Development Council (PDC)
- The Bureau of Census
as an Affiliate
Census Data
Center, for
statistical and applied research purposes
- Berkeley, Jefferson and Morgan Counties and the municipalities
of this region to serve as the Comprehensive Economic Development
Strategy (CEDS) Committee and is charged with the responsibility of
developing the CEDS for this region.
The
Regional Council is the only organization in the Eastern Panhandle that
provides a place where every community with the region comes together to
address issues that are common and important to each unit of government.
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