Community Development Block Grant Funds Comment Period is now CLOSED!

Moorhead's 2004 Draft Plan

(What Can CDBG Funds Be used For?)

*Public Comment Period is from September 19th to October 20th

*Public Hearing with the City Council is on Monday, October 6th

*Final Consideration of the Council will be on Monday, October 20th

*CDBG Proposal Due to HUD November 15th

Proposed Budget $525,000

$179,500 – Single Family Home Rehabilitation
$108,000 – Rental Housing Rehab Program
$40,000 – Code Enforcement/Rental Registration


PUBLIC SERVICES:
$19,000 – Community Policing
$12,000 – Recreation Programs
$9,000 – Home Buyer Education
$3,000 – Tenant Education
$8,000 – Cultural Diversity Resources
$10,000 – Family Health care
$13,000 – Moorhead Healthy Community Initiative


$15,500 - Human Rights Commission
$90,000 – Program Administration
$18,000 – Contingency

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*Any Written Testimony will be included in the plan as it goes to Council
*Send written Comments to the Moorhead Community Services Department at
  PO Box 779 Moorhead, MN 56561


*Better Yet, come to the Public Hearing on October 6th at 7:30 PM at City
  Council and present your testimony.
*Talk to Council Members

*Write Letter to the Editor to the Forum and HPR

*Put on the Pressure!

Some Early comments:

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This Plan does not include any NEW Housing. The $179,500 – Single Family
Home Rehabilitation allocation should be for put into new housing
initiatives. Let the Rehab program go, or look for other funds for it.
It's a loan program, raise money elsewhere. Put CDBG into NEW housing for
people who do not have housing.

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Churches United Funding or any attention to Homeless issues is absent from
this Budget. Put $100,000 into Churches United.

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Get rid of the Community Policing allocation, The Tenant Education Project and re-allocate the amounts ($21,000) to Cultural Diversity Resources, Family Health care, Moorhead Healthy Community Initiative.

Increase each $7,000. their work is more necessary, immediate and will be a better use of the Funds.

Community Policing activities are more beneficial to middle class neighborhoods and the current efforts in low income neighborhoods have been in question by the US Commission on Civil Rights, the Moorhead Justice Circle, PEPP, Students and Moorhead Residents.

The Tenant Education Project is run by the village and puts the burden of blame on tenants for the housing problems in this community. It re-educates people, yet does nothing to increase housing numbers of options for people. Relocate funding from these categories to the ones who work directly with people in Moorhead.

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Support the Funding of the Human Rights Commission


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Put Funding into CDBG Education. Bring in HUD to do a community training for Council Members and the Community

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Get rid of the $9,000 for Home buyer education and put it into Down Payment assistance. At least a few families would get a home then.

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With respect to homeowner education, don't the CAP agencies already do this or do they get funded by the city? With repect to renters' education, they should educate the land"lords" instead.

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Watch for meeting dates, strategy sessions and listening sessions hosted by PEPP in the Next 4 weeks, Contact Duke
at 218-236-5434, or duke@pepp.org

Updated 9-22-2003
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