Explanation
BACKGROUND: The Neighborhood Design Center is a non-profit, community-based corporation. The City has been providing funding to the Neighborhood Design Center since November, 1982. Since that time, the organization has undertaken work for numerous clients all within the Neighborhood Commercial Revitalization (NCR) districts. Assistance has been provided to the business associations and the various businesses with the NCR areas. The Neighborhood Design Center also provides planning services as well as assistance with financial alternatives within the CDBG service area.
In addition, the Neighborhood Design Center provides exterior design services to any commercial property owner or tenant in the NCR area. A minor amount of design assistance may well stimulate investment and create a quality business built upon good design. This legislation authorizes the expenditure of $143,161 for the above-mentioned purpose.
FISCAL IMPACT: $143,161 is allocated in the 2015 Community Development Block Grant Fund (CDBG) budget.
Title
To authorize the Director of the Department of Development to enter into a contract with the Neighborhood Design Center to provide exterior design services and planning activities within the NCR and CDBG service areas; to authorize the expenditure of $143,161.00 from the Community Development Block Grant Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($143,161.00)
Body
WHEREAS, the Neighborhood Commercial Revitalization Program encourages the aesthetic improvement of exterior building facades; and
WHEREAS, the Neighborhood Design Center has been established to promote the role of the architect in the development process to provide training for architecture students, to encourage good design in redevelopment and to generate participation in the City's commercial revitalization efforts; and
WHEREAS, the Neighborhood Design Center also provides planning activities and financial assistance to the businesses in the NCR areas and the CDBG servi...
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