I know that the Community Futures organizations are successful in my community. For those people who aren't familiar with what they do, they don't only provide or give counsel as it relates to loans. They also provide counsel in terms of building business plans and the rest. They're really an exceptional organization, and this is something that I think deserves a lot of credit, especially since they are community based. They really have a connection with the community, with the directors being community members. We've certainly seen the benefit of that.
I would commend the western folks for having come under common marketing under the Community Futures banner. Up until recently, there were a number of different names for every local agency, and oftentimes that confused people, but the Community Futures common branding has been successful, and I know that it has been very helpful for the general population.
I want to move to a couple of different questions on other programs. The community adjustment fund obviously is something of interest, especially to communities that have been hit hard by the downturn of their respective economies. Maybe this is a broad question to each of the agencies that actually do take responsibility for the community adjustment fund: how is the determination made on what will be funded and what will not?
I just wondered about this in terms of the ranking. Is it first and foremost the...? I mean, do you take a map and say that this is an area has been hard hit as it relates to...? For instance, in my case, we have towns that are exclusively lumber industry towns and they've been hit hard.
Do you do that first and then pull applications out of that? How exactly does that work? What's behind the scenes?