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RECOFRMENDATION XI: No matter what its predominant characteristics, activity or service level, a rural center must establish a planning process that is realistically based, active, continuous, maintained by broad public support, and which utilizes the resources available to assist it in its implementation. 13. A multiplicity of resources are available to rural centers in establishing and implementing a local planning process. Among them are financial assistance and professional expertise available through county, metropolitan, state and federal programs, and private professional sources; local support from citizens, the local bank, and other institutions; as well as other rural centers with similar ex- perience, problems, and circumstances. RECOb~ENDAT!ON XiI: The State Legislature and Congress should appropriate additional monies for rural center planning efforts and their implementation by either augmenting existing funding vehicles (metropolitan planning assistance grant program, 801 assistancej Farmers Home Administration Section III program) or establishing new programs specifically for rural planning. RECOMMENDATION XI!I: The Metropolitan Council should support rural center funding applications for local planning. RECO~R4ENDATION XIV: The securing of citizen involvement in support for the goals for community development should be a major "item~r in any local planning process. Contracts with private or public planning professionals for the preparation of local plans and ordinances should include specific provision for community education in the purpose and value of the planning process and for community input. RECOMMENDATION XV: The support of the local banks for rural center planning programs is necessary. Rural centers should seek out and maintain local bank in- volvement in community affairs. RECOMMENDATION XVI: Rural centers, as unique entities among other types of Metropolitan Area communities, should establish and maintain regular association among themselves for the purpose of establishing an identity and sharing information~ support, and ideas for their future. 14. Rural centers must acknowledge that factors such as existing trends in agriculture, energy availability, population migration and other outside pressures, actions which affect their future may change. RECOb94ENDATION XVII: Rural center planning must be flexible and under- go periodic reassessment if it is to be of value to the community. When a community must rely heavily on a single variable factor in its planning, a contingency plan should be prepared that would maintain the community in the face of change. Iv~:emp 7.20.78