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COMMUNITY SURVEY AND HEARING ON POVERTY: CAUSES & SOLUTIONS
in support of the
COMMUNITY ACTION PLAN
Mayor
Villaraigosa and the City Council have stated their commitment to
end poverty in the City of Los Angeles. Your thoughts, comments
and recommendations are important as they make and approve plans
for the City.
More
immediately your comments are required as the City prepares its
bi-annual Community Action Plan (CAP). The CAP is the application
to the State for the Community Service Block Grant (CSBG) that compliments
our funds from the federal Community Development Block Grant (CDBG).
The plan also outlines the City's priorities for reducing and eliminating
poverty for the next two years. Resources are dwindling. The Federal
government reduces CDBG and other federal funds each year. The City
of Los Angeles has about $5.5 million/year in CSBG to spend on services.
Therefore, what should we focus on? What should we eliminate? What
has helped people the most?.
We
need input from the public. We use this information to report to
the Community Action Board, the Mayor and City Council and to make
sure that CSBG is either providing the services or nonprofit organizations
that we fund, know who provides the services and how they can be
sure low-income residents know how to get the services.
Please take a few minutes to fill out one of the surveys linked below. You may submit either form by email (provided within the forms) or print and mail to CDD 6th Floor, 1200 West 7th Street, Los Angeles CA 90017.
Poverty
Survey Press Release
Survey - 3 pages
The
City of Los Angeles invites members of the public to a hearing on
the causes and solutions of poverty in the City of Los Angeles.
The hearing will be held on Wednesday June 20, 2007 at the Community
Development Department, 1200 West 7th Street, 4th Floor, Los Angeles,
CA 90017. Two hour validated parking in the building will be provided
for those attending the hearing. For more information please call
213-744-9700, (TTY) 213-744-7290.
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