The DOLA Field Services Team, with 8 Regional Managers and 4 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
- Energy/Mineral Impact Assistance Fund Program
- Rural Economic Development Initiative
- Disaster Recovery Program
- Community Development Block Grant Program
- Community Services Block Grant Program
- Stimulus Funding
- Division of Local Government Funding Guide
- Portal
- Local Government Information Services
- Conservation Trust Fund Portal
- Division of Housing - Housing Development Specialists
- Colorado Resiliency Office
- Community Development Office
- Specials Districts/Elections
- Local Government Services
- Main Street
- Best and Brightest
- University Technical Assistance Program
Energy/Mineral Impact Grant Training Video Series
- Application How To
- Completing W-9 and Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) forms video
- How to Create an Account and Request Project Associations
- Completing a Request for Reimbursement Form
- Executed Contract Review
- Completing a Request for Reimbursement Form
- Project Monitoring and Project Closeout
- Program Overview and Application Process
Colorado Community Resources
- State Auditor’s Office
- Colorado Broadband Office (CBO)
- Colorado Energy Office (CEO)
- Great Outdoors Colorado (GOCO)
- Colorado Department of Education - BEST program
- Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT)
- State Historical Fund (SHF)/Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation (OAHP)
- State Revolving Fund (SRF)
- Colorado Water Resources Power Development Authority (CWRPDA)
- Colorado Water Conservation Board (CWCB)
- Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) - grant assistance
- Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management (DHSEM)
- Colorado Rural Water Association (CRWA)
- USDA Rural Development (RD)
- United States Economic Development Administration (EDA)
- Office of Economic Development and International Trade (OEDIT)