CDBG - Your Dollars - LEARN ABOUT THE PROCESS for Neighborhood-Control Implementations and Accountability

A simple story that explains how CDBG funding works. What are Big City and Small Town going to do about crumbling infrastructure and joblessness?

Do you know who/what organization provides the ENTITLEMENT FUNDING for your neighborhood?  You should.

To make the above information work, YOU MUST WORK - STEWARDSHIP.  
Yes.  You need to know what is out there.  

Why it is there.  

Who/What is required for participation?  

Who is empowered at the city level to coordinate the dollars for Milwaukee?

What role you can and must accept for commitment to ensure due process, compliance and ongoing services needed.

The process is NOT as easy as said; however, it is often filled with "CRONYISM" competitiveness that must be dealt with on a SMACK-DOWN level. 

Your success has a lot to do with "what you know" and "what you and your neighborhood" will help to enforce.  Therefore, you MUST organize with "commitment" of time involved - start with at least ONE YEAR and a HALF.

Here are 4 steps to start with.

1. First of all, you must organize by selecting a neighborhood oversight committee, note and enforce the Oath of Office of your Alderperson, the mayor, and the FULL common council.
2. Secondly, enforce accountability of the HUD/CDBG office, by meeting on a regular basis for appropriate Introductions (HUD field staff and city staff), ongoing planning, training, federal updates, communication with HUD/CDBG city director and staff members.
3. Thirdly, Outreach to others - city HUD offices, city elected official of your district, city hired staffers for HUD/CDBG, fellow stakeholders, recipients within your neighborhood, donors of all kind, and the staff selected to run your Neighborhood Strategic Planning group.   
4. Fourthly, Check to see if you are located in a "special zone", i.e., Empowerment Zone.  If so, invest time in reviewing each zone's prerequisites, benefits, and mandates.

Yeah.  Stewardship, Leadership, and Citizenship.

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