The DOLA Field Services Team, with eight Regional Managers and four Regional Assistants, housed in the Division of Local Government provides a unique national model of excellence for State and Local Government relations and services. This team of former city and county managers, elected officials and department directors are embedded into communities to provide real time, hands-on support for approximately 330 general purpose local governments and hundreds of special districts.
The Regional Team's Impact on Colorado Communities
A Regional Manager can help develop your projects with careful consideration of the mixture of available funding from a wide variety of sources. Each Regional Manager has extensive experience at the local, county, and state levels in project development and funding. In addition to project planning, Regional Managers have the skill and resources to assist in budgeting, facilitation and strategic planning.
A Regional Assistant can help you manage your contract requirements and the financial obligations to your grant. They can provide training and resources for using the portal, filling out requests for reimbursement forms and reports, and finalizing documentation for your project.
The Regional Manager Teams
In order to provide the best possible service throughout the state, the Department of Local Affairs has a Regional Manager and a Regional Assistant to serve each county and the local governments within those counties.
The Field Services Team, led by the Regional Managers are able to help local governments and community agencies do the following:
- Define issues
- Evaluate options
- Identify solutions
- Conduct management training
- Facilitate planning
- Provide community development and technical assistance
- Teach good governance practices
- Support your capital improvement planning
- Provide board training, visioning and goal setting
Programs and Tools
Programs
- Best and Brightest
- Community Development Block Grant Program
- Community Services Block Grant Program
- Disaster Recovery Program
- Energy/Mineral Impact Assistance Fund Program
- Main Street
- Rural Economic Development Initiative
- Stimulus Funding
- University Technical Assistance Program
Tools
Energy/Mineral Impact Grant Training Video Series
Colorado Community Resources
- Colorado Broadband Office (CBO)
- Colorado Department of Education - BEST program
- Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) - grant assistance
- Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT)
- Colorado Energy Office (CEO)
- Colorado Rural Water Association (CRWA)
- Colorado Water Conservation Board (CWCB)
- Colorado Water Resources Power Development Authority (CWRPDA)
- Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management (DHSEM)
- Great Outdoors Colorado (GOCO)
- Office of Economic Development and International Trade (OEDIT)
- State Auditor’s Office
- State Historical Fund (SHF)/Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation (OAHP)
- State Revolving Fund (SRF)
- USDA Rural Development (RD)
- United States Economic Development Administration (EDA)