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Session 1846 July 22, 2002 Sutter project, because it is a gateway to the northeast part of University City. She believes that more money should be allocated to the northeast quadrant. There are four vacant, derelict buildings that need to be taken care of. They attract crime. The 700- 900 block of Leland is scheduled to receive funds - she believes that some of this money should be used to improve curbs and sidewalks in the northeast quadrant as well. Nova Felton, 8031 Noel Ct., is speaking tonight as a thirty-one year homeowner and a representative of her block unit. They agree with Joan Botwinick's proposal to redirect some of the CDBG funds to allocate funding for $30,000 emergency home repair funds for Iow and moderate income families and $20,000 to maintain and repair alleys in the northeast section of U. City. U. City is the only municipality that runs its own home repair program, There is nothing in our CDBG proposal that provides assistance to Iow and moderate income families as required by law. These funds should benefit more Iow and moderate income families and be more uniform to other municipalities. We need to table this approval tonight. Responding to Ms. Welsch, Ms. Felton replied that the County runs the program for the other municipalities. Mr. Ollendorff said that he told the County that U. City wanted to run our own program. We do not run our program like the other municipalities do. Mr. Wagner said that he believes that we participate in the County program, but that we also run our own separate program. Ms. Felton said that she had talked to the County today and they told her that the City has their own program. The funds are kept by the County and the County disperses the funds, but we have our own program. The County Home Improvement program that the City participates in has a two year wait list. We have people that need help now. Ms. Felton has asked at the CDBG public hearing to receive some information on the source of the $80,000 we have stockpiled for home improvement. Mr. Ollendorff said that there are two home improvement programs - one is run by the County with our money. They have $70,000 of our money and they are administering it under their rules. We don't like some of their rules and think that they are much too restrictive. We want to be more helpful to our residents, so we set up our own administration and found funds in a variety of old programs that had been closed out which were eligible to be used for home improvement programs. 100% of the money is spent for home improvement with our own administrators and inspectors for our own residents. We spend much more than $30,000 for emergency repairs and we do it ourselves. The citizens have a choice - they can go to the County where they have $70,000 of our money or they come to the City where we have $80,000 to help them repair their homes. Mr. Ollendorff said that citizens would need to go to the fourth floor for a list of organizations that can provide assistance for home repairs. There are many other organizations besides the County and U. City's programs.