Fiscal Note
No fiscal impact.
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SUBSTITUTE - Declaring the week of March 23 - 29 Community Development Week in Madison, and expressing appreciation for the many groups which contribute to the housing, business, and service sectors of Madison's community.
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WHEREAS, the Community Development Block Grant Program was first funded by the Department of Housing and Urban Development in 1974 to assist cities to improve the living environment for low and moderate income families; and
WHEREAS, the City of Madison has received over $60 million in CDBG funds since the inception of the program; and
WHEREAS, without these funds, programs vital to the City's development of affordable housing, assistance to small businesses, provision of neighborhood services and general community development efforts would have languished; and
WHEREAS, the CDBG Program has provided the funds to support a number of innovative, problem-solving projects, sponsored by non-profit agencies including these organizations: Project Home, Madison Development Corporation, Porchlight, Inc., Operation Fresh Start Inc., Common Wealth Development, Wisconsin Women's Business Initiative Corporation, Urban League of Greater Madison, Habitat for Humanity, Genesis Development Corporation, the Boys and Girls Club of Dane County, Movin' Out Inc., Warner Park Community Recreation Center, Independent Living, Arboretum Co-housing, Madison Area CLT, Wisconsin Partnership for Housing Development, Community Action Coalition, Housing Initiatives, Interfaith Hospitality Network, Centro Hispano, Nehemiah, African American Black Business Association, Latino Chamber of Commerce, Vera Neighborhood Center, East Madison Community Center, Wil-Mar Neighborhood Center, Vera/Bridge Lakepoint Waunona Neighborhood Center, Wexford Neighborhood Center, Neighborhood House, Wisconsin Youth Company, Domestic Abuse Intervention Services, Dane County Parent Council, The Salvation Army, St. Vincent de Paul, YWCA, Rainbow Project, Tellurian, Youth Service, Fair Housing Council, Tenant Resource Center and many others.
WHEREAS, these programs with the assistance of Community Development Block Grant funds have provided significant and necessary services to Madison's residents;
NOW THEREFORE, David J. Cieslewicz, Mayor of the City of Madison, Wisconsin, and the Madison Common Council, do hereby proclaim March 23 through 29, 2008, as Community Development Week in Madison. We can thus join other cities across the nation to encourage the continued growth and well being of our community for all its citizens and to recognize the contribution which the Community Development Block Grant Program and its many participants and neighborhoods have made to the effort.