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RESOLUTION WHEREAS, The week of April 1 - 7, 1991 has been designated as National • Community Development Week; and WHEREAS, the City of Charlottesville is a participant in the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program which funds a myriad of physical programs such as sidewalk improvements, drainage improvements, handicapped access improvements, street improvements, and housing programs including the Homeowner Rehabilitation Program, the Weatherization Program, the Downpayment and Closing Cost Assistance Program and the Housebank Program; and WHEREAS, the City through the CDBG Program funds economic development programs such as the Minority Business Program; and social service programs such as the Monticello Area Action Agency's Housing Counseling Program, Health Department's Resource Mothers Program, and Piedmont Council of the Arts' Arts Live Theatre, and the Fifeville Summer Reading Program; and WHEREAS, the City of Charlottesville has six CDBG Target Neighborhoods. Three of which, the Starr Hill Neighborhood; the Belmont Neighborhood; and currently the Fifeville Neighborhood, have been the focus of a comprehensive revitalization. WHEREAS, in Charlottesville and in communities throughout the nation, seventeen years of Community Development Block Grant funding has developed a strong working network of relationships between our. local government, residents of Community Development target neighborhoods, and the many nonprofit agencies which provide services and help make possible our commitment to those • neighborhoods; and WHEREAS, the City of Charlottesville recognizes that the Community Development Block Grant Program is a partnership of federal and local governments as well as nonprofit and community efforts, and the services funded by the CDBG Program rely heavily on the dedication and goodwill of our combined efforts; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that during National Community Development Week 1991, the City of Charlottesville will give special thanks and recognition to all participants whose hard work and devotion to the neighborhoods and their low and moderate income residents help insure the quality and effectiveness of the Community Development Block Grant Program; and • BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City of Charlottesville hereby joins the service providers and others in petitioning the U.S. Congress and administration to recognize the outstanding work being done locally and nationally by the Community Development Block Grant Program, and its vital importance to the community and to the people who live in its low income neighborhoods; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this resolution be conveyed to the appropriate elected and appointed officials in the federal government and that this community's name and the names of its nonprofit service providers be added to the roll of those committed to the preservation and full funding of the Community Block Grant and maintenance of its essential features over the course of the next Congress. Rev. Alvin Edwards Mayor Approved by Council April 1, 1991 011,rk of City Council -6-14