Each of six regions around the state gets $50,000 to promote its specific features, with the rest going toward a statewide effort.

Once elected, he organized state law enforcement officials into regions and led a statewide anti-crime effort.

But until recently no statewide effort was made to collect the money.

They never agreed on a single, statewide effort, so a host of groups began to work independently, often at cross purposes.

A number of towns and cities have adopted such regulations when statewide efforts failed.

He said his staff was half finished with those audits, which represent the first phase of the statewide effort.

The states could withhold a fraction of the money for statewide efforts to create new model schools and to finance programs to train teachers.

"To me, this is a statewide effort, and it invigorates all of our universities."

State officials said that they were still trying to determine how much money would be needed for a statewide effort.

The proposed zoning change is part of a statewide effort to address the homeless problem.