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Resolution to approve and adopt a City of West Allis Citizen Participation Plan for Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and HOME Programs, and to rescind Resolution No. 24499 pertaining to the Citizen Participation Plan adopted October 18, 1994.
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WHEREAS, as part of the Consolidated Plan process to receive Federal Housing and Community Development funds under the Community Development Block Grant (“CDBG”) and HOME Programs from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (“HUD”), each grantee, such as the City of West Allis (the “City”), is required to develop a Citizen Participation Plan and follow the Citizen Participation requirements; and,
WHEREAS, West Allis is a HUD Entitlement Community under the CDBG program and is a member of a HOME consortium with Milwaukee County and the City of Wauwatosa; and,
WHEREAS, the Citizen Participation Plan provides for and encourages public participation, emphasizing involvement by low and moderate-income people, especially those living in predominantly low and moderate-income neighborhoods, residents of public and assisted housing, and by other low-income residents of target areas in which public and assisted housing is located; and,
WHEREAS, the Department of Development, which administers the CDBG and HOME Programs, recommend rescinding the previously-adopted Citizen Participation Plan from October 18, 1994, and adopting the newly-proposed Citizen Participation Plan, “Exhibit A,” which is hereby attached to and made a part of; and,
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Common Council of the City of West Allis hereby approves and adopts a City of West Allis Citizen Participation Plan for Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and HOME Programs, and rescinds Resolution No. 24499 pertaining to the Citizen Participation Plan adopted on October 18, 1994.
cc: Department of Development
Chris Phinney, Grant Accounting Specialist
Dev-R-872-2-21-17