Focusing upon Clinton County, New York and the numerous programs sponsored by the New York State Rural Development Advisory Council in conjunction with the New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (Cornell) via Rural Development Act Title V funds, this publication describes January 1974 through June 1976 program development in terms of county needs, program action, and program progress. The County's needs and the resulting programs addressed here include: (1) a basic skills education project to increase job opportunities (Higher Education Living Learning Opportunity); (2) inadequate housing (a project to assist residents in upgrading housing via an educational program); (3) a means by which rural people can make marginal additions to their income (development of Clinton County Farmers Market); (4) lack of a Clinton County resource inventory for development decision making (development of maps, overlays, and related natural resource data for all constituent towns); (5) community development centers to provide services and amenities to rural communities (development of a management training program, a skills index for job placement, and agency outreach days); (6) information regarding service access patterns (initiation of a crossroads survey); (7) information re the interrelationships of natural resource development (initiation of a study of 25 economic sectors in order to assess the interrelationships of major U.S. economic sectors). (JC)