Fiscal Note
Approval will provide $21,800 in Federal ESG funds to three projects. Expenses will not be counted toward the State expenditure control limits.
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Approving additional Federal ESG funds to assist CAC, Porchlight, and Tenant Resource Center with activities to prevent homelessness, and authorizing the Mayor and City Clerk to sign agreements to implement the projects.
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BACKGROUND:
The Community Action Coalition of South Central Wisconsin was founded as part of the Federal anti-poverty efforts during the 1960's. The organization has grown to sponsor and administer a range of self-help, financial assistance, food/gardening, and advocacy programs in Dane and Jefferson Counties. Porchlight evolved as the merger of two Madison-based organizations, Transitional Housing, Inc., and Community Housing and Services, into a larger organization focused on the provision of housing and support services for very low-income people. The Tenant Resource Center was established to provide advice and assistance to residents of rental housing, and now provides a wide range of counseling, training and tenant-landlord mediation services.
PROJECT:
Due to $140,086 in cuts by the State of Wisconsin in the amount of Federal and State funds allocated to the Dane County area through the CD Office and a consortium of agencies working together to prevent and reduce homelessness, the CD Office worked with the Consortium to revise the State allocations and seek other available Federal funds to provide a more effective but interim package of prevention programs. CAC seeks additional Federal ESG funds to provide some additional counseling and administration of direct financial assistance for the RENT-ABLE program.
ACTION:
Whereas, the Common Council has adopted a five-year Community and Neighborhood Development Plan which identifies homelessness as a critical issue within the community, and outlines a set of strategies and priorities to address those problems using c...
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