Fiscal Note
The City of Madison Common Council approved the reservation of up to $125,000 in federal Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) grant funds for high priority projects emanating from the Northeast Area Plan as part of the adopted 2025 Operating Budget of the Community Development Division (CDD). The funds will remain within CDD's Community Development Multiyear Grants Fund with an individual project established for Traffic Engineering for this project. Traffic Engineering's 2025 Adopted Capital Budget has sufficient budget authority available within the Street Light Installation program (program #10418, sub-project #16016) for costs exceeding $125,000. No additional appropriation is required.
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Authorizing the Community Development Division to enter into an agreement with the Traffic Engineering Division, and to use up to $125,000 in federal Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds, to implement a neighborhood improvement project identified in the Northeast Area Plan (District 3, District 12, District 17, District 18).
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BACKGROUND
The City’s Planning Division, in cooperation with the Community Development Division (CDD) and Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Committee, undertook a planning effort in the Northeast Area of Madison, within the established 12 Area Plans Planning Framework. The resulting Plan, adopted by the Common Council in September 2024, identified implementation priorities designed to address specific objectives. While engaging in the planning process, neighborhood residents selected fifteen potential projects to utilize the CDBG funds as part of three identified Community Action Strategy Areas (Sandburg, Burke Heights, and Hawthorne-Truax). The CDD's Adopted 2025 Operating Budget authorized up to $125,000 of CDBG funds to be used to implement eligible projects in the Northeast Area plan.
Staff have reviewed the list of potential projects and recommend CDBG funds be allocated for shovel-ready projects intend...
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