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TO: BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
FROM: Robert McEwan, Executive Director
DATE: September 27, 2005
SUBJECT: ACCEPT NOTIFICATION THAT THE CONTRA COSTA HOUSING AUTHORITY'S
DE ANZA GARDENS PROJECT WILL RECEIVE A NATIONAL ASSOCATION OF
HOUSING AND REDEVELOPMENT OFFICIALS AWARD OF EXCELLENCE
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RE MM N ATI N(S) & BACK ROUND AND JU TIFICA I N
I. RECOMMENDED ACTION:
ACCEPT notification from the National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials that
the Housing Authority's De Anza Gardens Project was named as one of just 21 programs nationally that
will receive an Award of Excellence.
11. FINANCIAL IMPACT:
None.
Ill. REASONS FOR RECOMMENDATION/BACKGROUND
Like nearly all agencies, the Contra Costa Housing Authority faces sharply declining resources to
maintain, modernize, and build affordable apartments to keep pace with a growing population in perhaps
the country's tightest high housing cost market. We look for ways to better meet our charge of creating
high quality affordable housing for low-income families, seniors and disabled people. It is our belief that
public housing does not receive adequate financial support from HUD and projections indicate that this is
not about to change.
A sixty year-old public housing site that became De Anza Gardens apartments was ranked highest
for redevelopment. From this site a fifteen-minute walk to the local rapid transit station gives easy access
to the wide selection of urban bay-area employment, education, recreation, and cultural resources. Next
door is a hiking trail and recreation center. Schools and daily shopping resources are close too. Since
this site had been part of our inventory, we had historic information on many property aspects that would
be difficult to discover on a newly purchased site.
For this first project, we received strong support from the local community advisory boards and
commissions as well as from the immediate neighborhood. They all encouraged transformation of a
deteriorating public housing development to affordable mixed-income new apartments as soon as it could
be done.
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RECOMMENDATION OF EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD
COMMITTEE
APPROVE OTHER
SIGNATURE(S):
ACTION OF BOARD ON APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED 0 HER
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Dear Mr. McEvwars
C.'ongratulations!
I=pleased to inform you that your 2005 NAHRO Agency Award of
Merit: DeAnza Gardens,A C onmumky Partnership
leas also won a National NAHRO Agency A%vard of Excellence.
The Awards of Excellence will be pmsented duriniz the NAHRO National Confer,ence in Chicago,IL,at
tae.General Session,on Tu esdav,October 11, startm' g at 830 am. A special sec tion)"Ti the front of the,
-umotion brochue is enclosed for your
room will be reserved for Award recipients. A conference pi
information
Lvcn though there are only a tual of 21 Award of Excellence winners, there will not be time for you to
say wiyth' in accepting yout award. The presentadon W"11 hnclude a Power Point presewation,Mich
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w include ph otos of your program. The specifics of what we need from you-to put i t together are
i ncludcdm' this letter.
Bel`Ore the aii-ca o Confemnee.,a foal notification will be sent to your local media. That should give
teem byre to ask you any questions they have Wfore you leave.for the conference. We will send you a
copy of the news release. News releases will also be sent to the national media, the housing and
conunu ruty development press,and to your members of Congress.
Thej e are several iters that req uire our immediate attention.All i-equested ddommtion is needed no later
the n September 2,2005.
(1) Please fill out the Award of Excellence Attendance.Form to indicate. who Will accept the award at the
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awards ceremony- Mie names of up to tbree persons will be included in the presentation.) Also let the
know of any other staff,comaussioners or spouses who will be attending the ceremony so that I will
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Award of Excellence Winner
(2) Submit photographs of your-award-wenn n-b-program for use in the award
presentation power point,- the JOHCD article; and perhaps in other NASO
promotions. You may subnyt either glossies or e-pictures that have a resolution of at
least 300 DPI. The preferred format is tif, or jgeg. If the file size is nreater than 4
mb, please send on a disk_ Identify all pictures by the name of the authority and the
award. All photographs submitted become the property of NARRO, My email
address is MP1*,ke@,n:ahro.oKg. These photographs are needed by Friday,
September 2nd.
(3) Include contacts for your local media to whom we should send the press release. If
you prefer them mailed, please include the addresses on peel and stick labels.
(4) If you did not prepare a display board for the SaTiFrancisco Conference,you may do
so for the Chicago COnfeTence. (please contact Tawanna Barnes-Jackson for the
display board criteria, if you no longer have it. Her email address is
TJackson@nahroorg). You may pickup your display board after the National
Conference, or we will send i t back to you upon our return from Chicaluo.
(5) Other award winners have asked about the availability of duplicate plaques for
architects, develOpeTS, coixunissioners, additional locations, etc. You may purchase
addi�iona� cvpics viitc i�iuunted cerii�e�tes for$30, (you have a choice on whether
OF not they say Meritor excellence)or the brass ones like the one you will receive in
Chicago for$75. Use the enclosed form(if you order the brass plaques they will be
sent to you after the Chicago conference).
once again, congratulations on your achievement. I look forward to seeing you in
Chicago. I hope that you will also paTticipatein the awards program in 2006.
Sincerely'.
Mary L. Pike
Director of MemberServices
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