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Choice Neighborhood Planning Grant Professional Consulting Services
Department of Housing & Community Development
Director Rosalyn Clemens, (x3647)
Revised
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Authorizing the expenditure of an amount not to exceed $150,000 from the General Fund for Choice Neighborhood Planning Grant professional consulting services; authorizing the Mayor to accept bids and award contracts; and declaring an emergency.
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SUMMARY & BACKGROUND:
The Choice Neighborhoods Program is a place-based grant program which helps communities develop and implement locally driven comprehensive neighborhood plans to transform underserved neighborhoods into thriving communities with greater economic opportunity for all residents. The Choice Neighborhoods program focuses on three key elements:
* Housing - redevelop severely distressed public housing and HUD-assisted multifamily housing projects;
* Neighborhood - invest in and catalyze economic development-related improvements meant to revitalize the surrounding neighborhood; and
* People - improve the lives of housing residents through education, employment, and health care.
The development of a Choice Neighborhood transformation plan for a targeted underserved neighborhood is the first step in this program. Funding to develop the transformation plan is awarded through a highly competitive application process. Approval of the application will result in grant funding to develop the transformation plan, which typically requires a two-year period of community engagement.
The purpose of this ordinance is to authorize the expenditure of $150,000 from the General Fund for professional consulting services to work with the City and community stakeholders to complete and submit a Choice Neighborhood Planning Grant application for the Vistula neighborhood. Funding for the Choice Neighborhood Planning Grant professional consulting services was appropriated in the approved 2025 Budget (O-32-25)
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