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Recommendation to approve Community Development Advisory Commission’s funding recommendations for the Neighborhood Partners Program, which supports eleven neighborhood beautification and improvement projects, in the amount of $50,819.17 for Fiscal Year 2010 (FY 10). (Districts 1,2,6,7)
DISCUSSION
The Neighborhood Partners Program (NPP) is offered by the Department of Community Development's Neighborhood Services Bureau to assist neighborhood and community groups with neighborhood beautification and improvement projects. Eligible groups must be formally established organizations with designated officers, membership rosters, and a history of neighborhood involvement. The NPP provides matching grants of up to $5,000 in goods and services to accomplish approved neighborhood improvement projects within Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) eligible neighborhoods. The match provided by the applicant must be equal to at least 50 percent of the total project cost and may be supplied in the form of cash, goods and services, and volunteer work hours. (Volunteer work hours may not be the sole match.)
Notices of funding availability were sent to over 1,400 community groups and neighborhood associations within CDBG eligible neighborhoods on January 11, 2010. Eleven completed proposals were received in the competition for funds.
A Community Development Advisory Commission (CDAC) committee reviewed and ranked each application based upon pre-established criteria that emphasized positive neighborhood improvement projects and recommended funding for all eleven proposals.
At the CDAC meeting on March 17, 2010, the board approved the committee's recommendation. A list of the eleven recommended projects totaling $50,819.17 is attached.
This item was reviewed by Deputy City Attorney Richard Anthony on March 25, 2010 and Budget Performance Management Bureau Manager David Wodynski on March 31, 2010.
TIMING CONSIDERATIONS
Council action on this matter is not time cri...
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