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<br />The meeting was October 1"at 9:00am in the Caucus Room at City Hall <br />Attending were Mayor Musial, Director of Finance Copfer, Safety Director <br />Jesse, City Engineer Durbin, Building Commissioner Conway, Assistant. _ <br />Building Commissioner Rymarczyk, Hunan Resources Director Copeland <br />and myself as a Land Marks representa.tive and Chairman of tl,e Community <br />Development Block Grant, Citizen Advisory Committee. Our guest was <br />Cuyahoga County, Housing Division Manager Mr. Pau1 Herdeg. <br />The CDBG CAC has suggested to City Council and the Administration to <br />apply for $75,000.00 for an Exterior Ma.intenance Program. Seventeen out of <br />Forty Seven communities in the County apply for this money. <br />The Exterior Maintenance Program is an opportunity for seniors and <br />residents to apply for grants to help fix up their homes. The City has done an <br />extensive survey of the housing stock in 1Vorth Olmsted and has targeted <br />approx. 250 homes that could use some form of Exterior Maintenance. The <br />repairs include roofs, gutters and pa.int. <br />The feeling is that some of the Homeowners may be on a fixed or limited <br />income status and may qua.lify for these grants through the County. <br />If successful in the application, the City would help arrange through <br />screening of individual residents, grants for said repairs. Repairs would be <br />completed and the City would pay the contractors and then be reimbursed <br />from the County. <br />If individuals do not qualify through this program, other programs are <br />ava.ilable through the County, such as moderate to low interest loans <br />depending on income, <br />The CDBG CAC feels this is a good program and is happy to see the City of <br />North Olmsted attempt to get this grant. <br />The feeling is that when one house on a street "spruces up" it sparks other <br />Homeowmers to do the same and revitalizes the whole neighborhood.