TO: Mayor and Commissioners
FROM: Michael Coleman, Director of Community Improvement
THROUGH: Donald B. Cooper, City Manager
DATE: February 16, 2016
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FY15-16 CDBG SUB-RECIPIENT FUNDING AGREEMENT/ achievement centers for children and families (ACCF)
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Recommended Action:
Recommendation
Motion to Approve and execute the attached agreement, in order that funding in the amount of Fifty-Five Thousand Dollars and 00/100 ($55,000.00) to ACCF may proceed in accordance with the Commission-approved Action Plan for fiscal year 2015-2016.
Motion to Approve funding retroactive to October 2015.
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Background:
In accordance with 24 CFR 570.301, a Public Hearing was held before the City Commission on August 11, 2015, to obtain public comment on the proposed budget for the approval of the Community Development Block Grant Consolidated Action Plan for fiscal year 2015-2016. The Action Plan contains an appropriation of fifteen (15%) percent or a maximum of $61,218 for public service activity which was approved by the Commission. Three (3) agency grant applications were received and include Legal Aid Society of Palm Beach County, Inc., the Achievement Center for Children and Families, and Urban League of Palm Beach County, Inc. A steering committee reviewed the applications in January 2016 and determined the grant allocations to each agency based on services to be provided. Each grant agreement is to be approved under separate agenda items.
The major focus of funding to the ACCF under this Agreement will be providing after-school care and related services to eligible children. At least 51% of the beneficiaries of a project funded under this Agreement must be low- and moderate-income persons (as determined annually by HUD for the area). CDBG funds may be used for programmatic costs including, but not limited to, salaries of direct service personnel, training, insurance, office supplies and expenses, education supplie...
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