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12650 DETROIT AVENUE * 4,4107 .... 216/521-75B0 CITIZENS ADVISORY COMMITTEE OF I.AKEWOOD, OHIO October 9, 2000 Lakewood City Council Lakewood, Ohio 44107 Re: Allocation Recommendations for Fiscal Year 2001 Federal Block Grant Dollars Dear Members of Lakewood City Council: The Citizens Advisory Committee of Lakewood, Ohio ("CAC") held its last of six (6) scheduled meetings with a second public hearing on September 21, 2000. At that last meeting, Mayor Cain and members of her Administration presenied their recommendations for allocation of Fiscal Year 2001 federal block grant funds.1 Following the public hearing portion of the September 21st meeting, the CAC discussed all funding requests in light of next year's goals and objectives, which were approved along with the FY 2001 Consolidated Plan. Our CDBG.recommendations for City Council are summarized in the attached Exhibit A. Our recommendations for the Emergency Shelter Grant Program and the HOME Program are attached in Exhibit B. Of particular importance to the CAC was providing the maximum allowable in CDBG funds for Public Services programming. Entitlement communities are only allowed to allocate and expend a maximum of fifteen percent (15%) of their total grant for Public Services. Our recommendations include funding of $384,000 for six (6) programs under the category of Public Services. This amount is at the maximum permitted. The recommendations attached were agreed to by the CAC as a whole. These recommendations were made after much review, questioning and discussion. With the assistance of the Administration, especially in providing estimates of expected year-end can'y-forward amounts for each program, we believe the allocation recommendations will greatly assist each of these worthwhile programs to serve the Lakewood community next year. This year, the CAC gave even more scrutiny to projected can'y-forward amounts that have been provided to the Committee since Mayor Cain began including this information several years ago. These carry- forward amounts are an important consideration to include in the decision making process for allocating new dollars. In response to a request from the CAC one year ago, carry-forward amounts were provided to the CAC at our very first meeting, prior to the presentation meetings. Having these estimated carry-forward amounts, prior to the presentation meetings, allowed us to review each application more carefully during the three (3) presentation meetings. The federal grant funds include Community Development Block Grant ("CDBG"), Emergency Shelter Grant ("ESG") and HOME program dollars· O Printed on rccycled paper.