CITY DIVIDES $6.5 MILLION IN GRANTS.Byline: Helen Gao Staff Writer GLENDALE - The City Council and the Housing Authority have approved investing more than $6.5 million in housing programs, community improvement, economic development and social services social services Noun, pl welfare services provided by local authorities or a state agency for people with particular social needs social services npl → servicios mpl sociales in the 12 months that will start July 1. Most of the money will come from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, with a small portion from the city's general fund. About $4.4 million of the money will be distributed to city departments and local nonprofit A corporation or an association that conducts business for the benefit of the general public without shareholders and without a profit motive. Nonprofits are also called not-for-profit corporations. Nonprofit corporations are created according to state law. groups as community development block grants to combat blight blight, general term for any sudden and severe plant disease or for the agent that causes it. The term is now applied chiefly to diseases caused by bacteria (e.g., bean blights and fire blight of fruit trees), viruses (e.g., soybean bud blight), fungi (e.g. , economic decline and shortage of services for the disadvantaged. About $1.9 million of the money will be spent on affordable housing, home rehabilitation rehabilitation: see physical therapy. and homeowner assistance, while $141,000 will fund services for the homeless. Under the Community Request Program, $48,000 will go for social service proposals. At a public hearing last week, no one contested how the money will be divided. City officials previously had convened a citizens committee to review the funding proposals. The committee spent a year evaluating proposals based on several factors, including community need for a project and a service provider's ability to provide it. ``It is very objectively done. They put an awful lot of effort into it,'' Mayor Dave Weaver said. In response to community requests, Weaver said the city is allocating substantially more to youth programs this year than previously, but he can't say how much more. Among youth programs that will get funds are STAR, operated by Catholic Charities of Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. for at-risk youths, and the Youth at Work summer employment service sponsored by the Glendale Youth Alliance. The YMCA YMCA in full Young Men's Christian Association Nonsectarian, nonpolitical Christian lay movement that aims to develop high standards of Christian character among its members. of Glendale will get money toward renovating and converting an apartment building into a drop-in center for teens. Of the $4.4 million in block grants, the bulk will go to city programs and projects, such as the Edison School-Pacific Park project and code enforcement Code Enforcement is the act of enforcing a set of s, principles, or laws (especially written ones) and insuring observance of a system of norms or customs. An authority usually enforces a civil code, a set of rules, or a body of laws and compel those subject to their authority to . The largest grants for other agencies are $250,000 for the YMCA drop-in center, $150,000 to New Horizons Family Center to acquire a building it is leasing at 714 S. Glendale Ave., and $56,900 to The Institute for Urban Research and Development. |
|
||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion