LANSING - Six local organizations have teamed up in an effort to establish a five-year economic prosperity plan after the state rewarded them a $155,000 grant.

The Six organizations include the Capitol Area Michigan Works, Lansing Economic Area Partnership, Lansing Regional Chamber of Commerce, Lansing Community College, Michigan State University, and the Tri-County Regional Planning Commission.

With this grant, the Tri-County Regional Planning Commission (TCRPC) plans to track economics, education, health, environment, culture and lifestyle.

To accomplish that goal, the TCRPC plans to create a dashboard on their website to help demonstrate the progress of certain prosperity goals in Ingham, Eaton, and Clinton counties

"What you measure, you can progress with. We can be accountable to meeting the goals of a plan as a region if we can measure progress toward those, and the dashboard will be a measurement of progress toward prosperity," said Susan Pigg, the Executive Director at the Tri-County Regional Planning Commission.

The dashboard will include a series of user-friendly interactive graphs and tables provided through Munetrix.

Munetrix has already begun the data collection process. Once completed, the TCRPC will look to develop the dashboard website itself.

The website is planned to launch mid, to late October on the Tri-County Regional Planning Commission's website at mitcrpc.org.

The Lansing Tri-County Regional Economic partnership and the Tri-County Regional Planning Commission continue to discuss regional prosperity, along with the aspects of the grant the third Thursday of every month at 3:00 p.m.

Meetings are open to the public and those that are interested are encouraged to participate.

The Tri-County Regional Planning Commission is located at 3135 Pine Tree Road Lansing, MI.