Planning process; state agencies; duty to establish.

The state agencies enumerated in section 68-1732 shall establish a planning process to: (1) Assist communities in joining together to assess their resources and strengths; (2) Assess what services are needed in participating communities and coordinate how such services should be developed and provided; (3) Identify and support a plan for location of related human services and agencies together; (4) Identify human services that already exist and decide how to coordinate such services most efficiently; (5) Link existing planning processes; (6) Promote decategorization of selected federal and state programs to bring about greater cohesiveness and flexibility when locating services together; and (7) Cooperate and coordinate with building owners and other business owners in the community to assess the most efficient way to locate or relocate agencies.