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FROM: JAMES KENNEDY
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DATE: March 19, 1991
SUBJECT: Opposition to Federal Administrations Proposal to Combine CDBG with
other Federal Programs into a Single Block Grant to States.
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATIONS) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATIONS
Authorize the chair to sign letters to our Congressional
Representatives expressing the County's displeasure with the
Administration's proposal to incorporate the CDBG program in a
block grant to the State.
FISCAL IMPACT
A loss of $3 million a year targeted for housing and other projects
serving low income people.
BACKGROUND/REASONS FOR RECOMMENDATIONS
Congress enacted CDBG in 1974 as an entitlement to Metropolitan
Cities and Urban Counties to meet local needs, not only in public
works improvements and housing rehabilitation, but also in critical
social services, such as day care centers, job training, and
homeless services.
CDBG has provided support, care, decent housing and hope to those
most in need.
CDBG has operated without undue administrative costs, placing the
resources where most needed = in our low and moderate income
neighborhoods.
The administration's FY92 budget proposal attacks the more than a
decade and one-half federal-local partnership established under the
CDBG program by proposing the transfer of the entitlement program
to the states with no strings - thereby severing the federal
commitment to the national objectives of the program.
The administration's FY92 budget proposal would divert those funds
to a level of government farther from the people, the $3 millio
per year will not come to us through the state.
CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: YES SIGNATURE
RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMEND OF BO D COMMIT EE
APPROVE OTHER
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SIGNATURE(S) :
ACTION OF BOARD ON APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED OTHER
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A
UNANIMOUS (ABSENT �� TRUE AND CORRECT COPY OF AN
AYES: NOES: ACTION TAKEN AND ENTERED ON THE
ABSENT: ABSTAIN: MINUTES OF THE BOARD OF
SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN.
Orig: Community Development Department ATTESTED MAR 19 1991
cc: PHIL BATCHELOR, CLERK OF .
THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
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