CC MEETING: April 7, 2015
DATE: March 26, 2015
TO: Leonard Martin, City Manager
FROM: Scott Hudson, Environmental Services Director
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Present A Proclamation Declaring April 6-11, 2015 As National Community Development Week.
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BACKGROUND:
This year marks the 41st anniversary of the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program. Enacted into law in 1974, the CDBG Program is the principal federal program providing grants to states, cities, and counties to devise neighborhood approaches that improve the physical, economic, and social conditions in communities.
IMPACT ON COMMUNITY SUSTAINABILITY:
The CDBG Program provides annual funding to support decent, safe, and sanitary housing and a suitable living environment. Carrollton focuses these funds on infrastructure improvements through the NOTICE program, on minor housing repairs and on code enforcement in low and moderate income areas of the city.