Safe Neighborhood Grants; Notice of Funding AvailabilityFiscal Year 1997

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR-4212-N-01]

Safe Neighborhood Grants; Notice of Funding Availability--Fiscal

Year 1997

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Housing-Federal Housing

Commissioner, HUD.

ACTION: Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) for Fiscal Year (FY)

1997.

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SUMMARY: This NOFA announces the availability of $20,000,000 in FY 1997

funds for Safe Neighborhood Grants. The purpose of the Safe

Neighborhood Grants Program is to eliminate drug-related and other

crime problems on the premises and in the vicinity of low-income

housing, which may be privately or publicly owned and is financially

assisted or supported by public or nonprofit private entities. This

NOFA describes the purpose of the program, applicant eligibility,

maximum grant amount, application threshold and ranking criteria, HUD

application processing, and postaward financial and management

requirements. This NOFA provides information on how to apply, how HUD

will make selections, and how HUD will notify applicants of results.

DATES: Applications must be received at the local HUD field office on

or before August 21, 1997 at 3 p.m., local time. THIS APPLICATION

DEADLINE IS FIRM AS TO DATE AND HOUR. In the interest of fairness to

all competing applicants, HUD will treat as ineligible for

consideration any application that is received after the deadline.

Applicants should take this practice into account and submit materials

early to avoid risking loss of eligibility brought about by

unanticipated delivery-related problems. A facsimile transmission (FAX)

will not constitute delivery.

ADDRESSES: (a) APPLICATION KIT: An application kit is required to

prepare an application successfully. Applicants may obtain the

application from the HUD field office having jurisdiction over the

location of the applicant project. A list of HUD field offices is

attached to this NOFA as Appendix A. The HUD field office will be

available to provide technical assistance in the preparation of

applications during the application period. In addition, applications

may be obtained from the Multifamily Housing Clearinghouse by calling

(800) 685-8470.

(b) APPLICATION SUBMISSION: Applications (original and two copies)

must be received by the deadline at the appropriate HUD field office

with jurisdiction over the applicant project, Attention: Director of

Multifamily Housing. It is not sufficient for the application to bear a

postage date within the submission time period. Applications submitted

by facsimile are not acceptable. HUD will not consider applications

received after the deadline.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For application materials, please

contact the Office of the Director of Multifamily Housing in the HUD

field office having jurisdiction over the project(s) in question. A

list of HUD field offices is attached to this NOFA as Appendix A.

For program, policy, and other guidance, contact Henry Colonna,

Department of Housing and Urban Development, Virginia State Office,

3600 West Broad Street, Richmond, VA 23230-4920, telephone (804) 278-

4505, extension 3027 (or (804) 278-4501 TTY).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Purpose and Substantive Description

A. Authority

This grant funding was authorized and appropriated by the

Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and

Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1997 (Pub. L. No. 104-204,

approved September 26, 1996; 110 Stat. 2874, 2888) (HUD FY 1997

Appropriations Act).

B. Background

The HUD 1997 Appropriations Act made $20,000,000 available for

grants to benefit public housing developments, federally-assisted

multifamily, or other multifamily-housing developments for low-income

families supported by non-Federal governmental housing entities or

similar developments supported by nonprofit private sources, to

reimburse local law enforcement entities for additional police presence

in and around such housing developments. These funds may also be used

to provide or augment such security services by other entities or

employees of the recipient agency, to assist in the investigation and/

or prosecution of drug related criminal activity in and around such

developments, and to provide assistance for the development of capital

improvements at such developments directly relating to the security of

such developments.

In implementing this grant program, HUD is applying lessons learned

from other anticrime efforts in public and assisted housing including

the following HUD programs: Drug Elimination Grants for Public and

Indian Housing and for other federally-assisted housing; Operation Safe

Home; and the Safe Neighborhood Action Program (SNAP) demonstration.

Federal programs also include several Department of Justice (DOJ) law

enforcement programs and various programs operated by HUD and other

agencies which promote socio-economic lift, drug treatment, and other

support for at-risk populations to remove underlying causes of crime

and the need for law enforcement.

The following specific guiding principles and concerns are derived

from this experience, and HUD is incorporating them in its plan for

implementing these Safe Neighborhood Grants:

(1) Drug- and crime-fighting activities, if only directed to a

single assisted housing development, may have the unfortunate effect of

simply moving the problem to nearby housing and businesses. With these

grants, HUD is taking a comprehensive neighborhood/community-based

approach to crime. Applicant owners/operators of eligible housing will

be required to partner with the unit of general local government (city

or county) with jurisdiction and other stakeholders to address crime in

an entire neighborhood that may include more than one Assisted Housing

development. Application scoring will favor proposals that target

neighborhoods with large concentrations of Assisted Housing that are,

in many cases, distributed among multiple Assisted Housing

developments. Application scoring will also favor proposals that

maximize the role of units of general local governments, and especially

their police departments and/or prosecuting offices, in administering

grant funds. (Units of local government that are owners/operators of

eligible housing may also be designated grantees whether or not the

neighborhood designated for assistance includes housing that they own).

(2) Crime fighting efforts are most effective when partnering law-

enforcement agencies at various levels with one another and with a full

range of community stakeholders. As indicated above owner applicants

will be required to demonstrate that they have formed a partnership

with units of general local government, preferably with the police

department and prosecutor's office playing key roles in this

partnership. In addition, members of the grant partnership must also

include: At least one law enforcement agency at a Federal level (such

as the HUD Office of Inspector General (OIG), U.S. Attorney, FBI, Drug

Enforcement Administration (DEA), and U.S. Marshals); all owners of

Assisted

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Housing developments in the targeted neighborhood; and residents of

these Assisted Housing developments. Applicants will also position

themselves to score more points in the competition by including the

following in the partnership: (a) Community residents; (b) neighborhood

businesses; (c) nonprofit providers of support services, including

spiritually-based organizations and their affiliates; (d) State law

enforcement agencies; and (e) more than one Federal law enforcement

agency.

In stressing partnerships, HUD is drawing from successes of its

Operation Safe Home program and the SNAP Demonstration Initiative. Safe

Neighborhood Grants will be administered by HUD's Richmond Office,

which also administers the SNAP demonstration sites, and will include

implementation plans called ``Safe Neighborhood Action Plans.'' (The

SNAP program will also continue to include projects not funded by Safe

Neighborhood Grants, such as current demonstration SNAP initiatives.)

In addition, the HUD Office of Inspector General will make several Safe

Neighborhood Grant sites Operation Safe Home sites as well, giving

awardees of such grants the added benefit of Office of Inspector

General assistance in crime fighting activities.

(3) Law enforcement strategies, however effective in the short run,

need to be combined with efforts to address the underlying causes of

crime and deter its reappearance. The long term solution to the crime

problems of Assisted Housing developments and their surrounding

neighborhoods rest in changing the conditions--and the culture--within

these places. Although Safe Neighborhood Grants are statutorily

restricted to law enforcement activity and to physical barriers against

criminal penetration, the ranking will favor comprehensive strategies

that match Safe Neighborhood Grant funds with local, State, or Federal

resources committed to ``welfare-to-work,'' family self-sufficiency,

youth development and the like, as well as other law enforcement

resources.

(4) Actions speak louder than words. HUD is aware that competitive

grant selections can be as much affected by the writing skills applied

in preparing applications as by the applicant organization's ability to

achieve program goals with grant funds. Although HUD will award 10

points based on the logical soundness of a proposed plan, HUD also

knows that excellent plans on paper do not always translate to

excellent results. For maximum program impact, HUD intends to fund

existing crime-fighting partnerships with good track records to extend

their activities in new locations. Forty out of 100 points will be

awarded based on lead applicant's and partnership's capacity to

implement the Safe Neighborhood Action Plan. Of these 40 points, 15

will be based on the prior experience of an applicant or its partners

in eliminating crime in other projects and neighborhoods, with the

remaining 25 based on the overall strength of the partnership and

administrative mechanisms established to implement the grant.

As a prime example of the need to use effective working

partnerships in new locations, many Federal resources have been applied

to eliminate crime in and around public and assisted housing

developments through the Drug Elimination Grant, Operation Safe Home,

and Weed and Seed programs. HUD now wishes to encourage these

successful partnerships to address similar problems in and around

privately-owned federally-assisted housing. In addition to rewarding

partnerships with good track records, HUD is requiring that at least

one project in each targeted neighborhood be multifamily housing with

either: (1) A HUD-insured, held, or direct mortgage and Rental

Assistance Payments (RAP), Rent Supplement, or interest reduction

payments; or (2) Section 8 project-based assistance with or without HUD

interest in the project mortgage.

This emphasis on HUD assisted privately-owned housing does not

negate the eligibility of other low-income housing developments

assisted by Federal, State, and local government, and not-for-profit

sources to apply or benefit from Safe Neighborhood Grant funds. By

awarding points for neighborhoods with high concentrations of Assisted

Housing, HUD is encouraging applicants to address the needs of multiple

Assisted Housing developments which may feature a mix of ownership

types and subsidy sources.

(5) Complying with civil rights requirements. With the very real

need to protect occupants of HUD-sponsored housing and the areas around

the housing, the civil rights of all citizens must be protected.

Proposed strategies should be developed to ensure that crime-fighting

and drug prevention activities are not undertaken in such a manner that

civil rights or fair housing statutes are violated. Profiling on any

prohibited bases may not be allowed. In addition, all segments of the

population should be represented in developing and implementing these

crime-fighting strategies.

(6) Coordination with other law enforcement efforts. In addition to

working closely with residents and local governing bodies, it is

critically important that owners establish ongoing working

relationships with Federal, State, and local law enforcement agencies

in their efforts to address crime and violence in and around their

housing developments. HUD firmly believes that the war on crime and

violence in assisted housing can only be won through the concerted and

cooperative efforts of owners and law enforcement agencies working

together in cooperation with residents and local governing bodies. As

such, HUD encourages owners to participate in Departmental and other

Federal law enforcement agencies' programs, as described below:

Safe Neighborhood Action Program (SNAP)

The Safe Neighborhood Action Program (SNAP) initiative, announced

June 12, 1994 by HUD, the National Assisted Housing Management

Association (NAHMA), and the U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM), is an

anticrime and empowerment strategies initiative in HUD-assisted housing

neighborhoods in 14 SNAP cities. The major thrust of SNAP is the

formation of local partnerships in 14 targeted cities where ideas and

resources from government, owners and managers of assisted housing,

residents, service providers, law enforcement officials, and other

community groups meet to work on innovative, neighborhood anticrime

strategies. There is no funding associated with SNAP, which relies on

existing ideas and resources of the participants. Some common

initiatives from these SNAP teams have included the following:

Community policing, crime watch programs, tenant selection policies,

leadership training, individual development or job skills training,

expansion of youth activities, police tip line or form, community

centers, antigang initiatives, police training for security officers,

environmental improvements, and a needs assessment survey to determine

community needs. In addition, a HUD-sponsored initiative to increase

the presence of AmeriCorps' VISTAs in assisted housing units has led to

the placement of 25 VISTAs on 12 SNAP teams. The AmeriCorps VISTA

program, which incorporates a theme of working within the community to

find solutions to community needs, has provided additional technical

assistance to the SNAP teams. The cities participating in the SNAP

initiative include: Atlanta, GA; Boston, Mass; Denver, CO; Houston, TX;

Newark, NJ;

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Philadelphia, PA; Baltimore, MD; Columbus, OH; Detroit, MI; Los

Angeles, CA; New Orleans, LA; Little Rock, AR; Richmond, VA; and

Washington, DC.

For more information on SNAP, contact Henry Colonna, National SNAP

Coordinator, Virginia State Office, 3600 West Broad Street, Richmond,

VA 23230-4920; telephone (804) 278-4505, extension 3027; or (804) 278-

4501 TTY. For more information on AmeriCorps' VISTAs in Assisted

Housing, contact Deanna E. Beaudoin, National VISTAs in Assisted

Housing Coordinator, Colorado State Office, First Interstate Tower

North, 633 17th Street, Denver, CO 80202; telephone (303) 672-5291,

extension 1068.

Operation Safe Home

Operation Safe Home was announced jointly by Vice President Albert

Gore, former HUD Secretary Henry G. Cisneros, former Treasury Secretary

Lloyd Bentsen, Attorney General Janet Reno, and representatives of the

Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) at a White House

briefing on February 4, 1994. Operation Safe Home is a major HUD

initiative focusing on violent and drug-related crime within public

housing authorities. As such, it is a holistic enforcement approach

which combines aggressive law enforcement interdiction efforts with a

housing authority's crime prevention and intervention initiatives.

Operation Safe Home is structured to combat the level of violent crime

activities occurring within public and assisted housing, and enhance

the quality of life within such complexes through three simultaneous

approaches:

--Strong, collaborative law enforcement efforts focused on reducing the

level of violent crime activities occurring within public and assisted

housing;

--Collaboration between law enforcement agencies and public housing

managers and residents in devising methods to prevent violent crime;

and

--The introduction of HUD, DOJ, and other agency initiatives

specifically geared to preventing crime.

For more information on Operation Safe Home, contact Lee Isdell,

Office of the Inspector General, Department of Housing and Urban

Development, Room 8256, 451 Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC. 20410;

telephone (202) 708-0430, fax number (202) 401-2505; Internet E:mail

www.hud.gov./oig/oigindex.html. A telecommunications device for hearing

or speech impaired persons (TTY) is available at (202) 708-0850. (These

are not toll-free telephone numbers.)

Operation Weed and Seed

Operation Weed and Seed, conducted through the Department of

Justice, is a comprehensive, multiagency approach to combatting violent

crime, drug use, and gang activity in high-crime neighborhoods. The

goal is to ``weed out'' crime from targeted neighborhoods, and then to

``seed'' the targeted sites with a wide range of crime and drug

prevention programs and human services agency resources to prevent

crime from reoccurring. Operation Weed and Seed further emphasizes the

importance of community involvement in combatting drugs and violent

crime. Community residents need to be empowered to assist in solving

crime-related problems in their neighborhoods. In addition, the private

sector needs to get involved in reducing crime. All of these entities--

Federal, State, and local government, the community, and the private

sector--should work together in partnership to create a safer, drug-

free environment.

The Weed and Seed strategy involves four basic elements:

--Law enforcement must ``weed out'' the most violent offenders by

coordinating and integrating the efforts of Federal, State, and local

law enforcement agencies in targeted high-crime neighborhoods. No

social program or community activity can flourish in an atmosphere

poisoned by violent crime and drug abuse.

--Local municipal police departments should implement community

policing in each of the targeted sites. Under community policing, law

enforcement should work closely with the housing authority and

residents of the community to develop solutions to the problems of

violent and drug-related crime. Community policing serves as a

``bridge'' between the weeding (law enforcement) and seeding

(neighborhood revitalization) components.

--After the weeding takes place, law enforcement and social services

agencies, the private sector, and the community must work to prevent

crime and violence from reoccurring by concentrating a broad array of

human services--drug and crime prevention programs, drug treatment,

educational opportunities, family services, and recreational

activities--in the targeted sites to create an environment where crime

cannot thrive.

--Federal, State, local, and private sector resources must focus on

revitalizing distressed neighborhoods through economic development and

must provide economic opportunities for residents.

For further information on Operation Weed and Seed, contact the

Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, 366 Indiana Avenue,

Room 304S, NW, Washington, DC, 20531; telephone (202) 616-1152, FAX

number (202) 616-1159; or Internet E:mail: [email protected].

Specific activities undertaken pursuant to SNAP, Operation Safe

Home, and Operation Weed and Seed may be eligible for funding if they

meet the criteria outlined in this NOFA.

Promoting Comprehensive Approaches to Housing and Community Development

HUD is interested in promoting comprehensive, coordinated

approaches to housing and community development. Economic development,

community development, public housing revitalization, homeownership,

assisted housing for special needs populations, supportive services,

and welfare-to-work initiatives can work better if linked at the local

level. Toward this end, HUD in recent years has developed the

Consolidated Planning process designed to help communities undertake

such approaches.

In this spirit, it may be helpful for applicants under this NOFA to

be aware of other related HUD NOFAs that have recently been published

or are expected to be published in the near future. By reviewing these

NOFAs with respect to their program purposes and the eligibility of

applicants and activities, applicants may be able to relate the

activities proposed for funding under this NOFA to the recent and

upcoming NOFAs and to the community's Consolidated Plan.

The related NOFAs that HUD is publishing elsewhere in this issue of

the Federal Register are the NOFA for Public Housing Drug Elimination,

the NOFA for Public Housing Drug Elimination Technical Assistance, and

the NOFA for Federally Assisted Low Income Housing Drug Elimination

Grants.

To foster comprehensive, coordinated approaches by communities, HUD

intends for the remainder of FY 1997 to continue to alert applicants to

upcoming and recent NOFAs as each NOFA is published. In addition, a

complete schedule of NOFAs to be published during the fiscal year and

those already published appears under the HUD Homepage on the Internet,

which can be accessed at http://www.hud.gov/nofas.html. HUD may

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additional steps on NOFA coordination for FY 1998.

For help in obtaining a copy of your community's Consolidated Plan,

please contact the community development office of your municipal

government.

C. Funding Amounts and Term

(1) Federal Fiscal Year (FY) 1997 Funding. This NOFA announces the

availability of $20,000,000 in FY 1997 funds.

(2) Maximum Grant Award Amounts. The maximum grant award amount is

limited to $250,000 per application/neighborhood.

(3) Term of Grant. Grant funds must be expended within 24 months

after HUD executes a Grant Agreement; however, one extension of up to 6

months may be granted at HUD's option.

(4) Reduction of Requested Grant Amounts. HUD may award an amount

less than requested if:

(a) HUD determines the amount requested for an eligible activity

and/or any budget line item is unreasonable;

(b) Insufficient amounts remain under the allocation to fund the

full amount requested by the applicant, and HUD determines that partial

funding is a viable option;

(c) HUD determines that some elements of the proposed plan are

suitable for funding and others are not; or

(d) HUD determines that a reduced grant would prevent duplicative

Federal funding.

(5) Distribution of Funds. HUD is allocating funds to the highest

scoring applications that have met all program threshold requirements

and have been ranked using ratings by a team of expert HUD staff from

throughout the country. Only applications which have the threshold

score of 70 points out of a total 100 will be funded. There will be no

geographic ``fair sharing'' or targeting of funds.

(6) Grant Reductions After Award. HUD may rescind and/or recapture

grant funds based on the grantee's and or partners' failure to perform

in accordance with the Grant Agreement, including the project

application that will be incorporated in the Grant Agreement by

reference. In addition, grant funds not expended for eligible purposes

and in accordance with OMB cost principles by the end of the grant term

will be recaptured by HUD and are governed by section 218 of the HUD FY

1997 Appropriations Act.

D. Eligibility of Grant Activities and Applicants

The following is a listing of eligible activities, ineligible

activities, eligible applicants, and general grant requirements under

this NOFA:

(1) Eligible Activities are the following:

(a) Increased Law Enforcement. Subject to a Cost Reimbursement

Agreement, the reimbursement of local law enforcement entities for the

costs of additional police presence (police salaries and other expenses

directly related to such presence) in and around Assisted Housing

developments in the neighborhood over and above: (i) What the law

enforcement agency incurring such costs had incurred for such purposes

within the same geographic area during the period equal in length and

immediately prior to the period of reimbursement, and (ii) What the

agency planned to incur for such purposes in the same geographic area

during the period of reimbursement prior to publication of the NOFA.

For any grant, at least 70 percent of such reimbursed costs must be for

police presence in or immediately adjacent to the premises of Assisted

Housing developments and the remainder of such reimbursed costs must be

for police presence within the project area.

In its criteria for awarding points in the funding competition, HUD

is strongly encouraging that additional law enforcement in the Assisted

Housing developments and surrounding neighborhoods be targeted to

implementing an overall crime fighting strategy, rather than merely

responding to crime emergencies. Two potentially effective anticrime

strategies that can benefit from additional police presence are: (1)

Combined multiagency task force initiatives, such as Operation Safe

Home, in which local and Federal law enforcement agencies pool

resources, first, to infiltrate organizations that promote violent and/

or drug-related crime in the neighborhood and, second, to initiate

strategic and coordinated mass arrests to break up these organizations;

and (2) Community policing, i.e., sustained proactive police presence

in the development or neighborhood, often conducted from an onsite

substation or ministation, that involves crime prevention, citizen

involvement, and other community service activities, as well as

traditional law enforcement.

Because of the desperate gang-related crime problems facing many

Assisted Housing developments and their neighborhoods and HUD's desire

for maximum immediate impact early in the program, the competition

favors proposals in which additional police presence will be used for a

multiagency task force to fight crime, although points will also be

awarded based on the extent to which the strategy fits the documented

crime problem.

If reimbursement is provided for community policing activities that

are committed to occur over a period of at least 3 years and/or are

conducted from a police substation or ministation within the

neighborhood, the costs during the grant period of constructing such a

station or of equipping the substation with communications and security

equipment to improve the collection, analysis and use of information

about criminal activities in the properties and the neighborhood may be

reimbursed. Federal law enforcement activities may not be funded by the

Safe Neighborhood Grant. That is, grant funds cannot be directly

transferred to Federal agencies for their use in funding law

enforcement activities at the target sites. However, activities that

support or further the objectives of Federal law enforcement activities

at the targeted site may be funded with the Safe Neighborhood Grant.

(b) Security Services Provided by Other Entities Such As The Owner

of an Assisted Housing Development. The activities of any contract

security personnel funded under this grant must be coordinated with

other law enforcement and crime prevention efforts under the Safe

Neighborhood Action Plan approved by HUD. Efforts to achieve such

coordination, as described in the plan, must include frequent periodic

scheduled meetings of security personnel with housing project

management and residents, local police and, as appropriate, with other

public law enforcement personnel, neighboring residents, landlords, and

other neighborhood stakeholders.

HUD is inclined, as stated elsewhere in this NOFA, to reward

applicants that partner with entities that have a proven ability to

address crime problems, and is therefore strongly inclined to provide

more points under ``Quality of Plan'' and ``Strength of Partnerships''

to applications that propose reimbursing municipal police departments

than those reimbursing private operators, for security services.

(c) To Assist in the Investigation and/or Prosecution of Drug-

Related Criminal Activity in and Around Assisted Housing Developments.

(i) Subject to a Cost Reimbursement Agreement, reimburse local or State

prosecuting offices and related public agencies for the prosecution or

investigation of crime committed in the neighborhood related to the

Safe Neighborhood Action Plan. Such reimbursement must be for costs

over and above what the office or agency incurred for such purposes for

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crimes committed in the same geographic area during the period equal in

length and immediately prior to the period of reimbursement. For any

grant, at least 70 percent of such reimbursed costs must be in

connection with crimes committed in or immediately adjacent to the

premises of Assisted Housing developments and the remainder of such

reimbursed costs directly related to crime committed elsewhere in the

neighborhood; (ii) Subject to appropriate justification and advance HUD

approval, funding of private investigator services hired by the grantee

or any coapplicant/subgrantees to investigate crime in and around the

premises of Assisted Housing development and/or the surrounding

neighborhood development; (iii) Training and evaluation by security/

criminal education professionals for property owners, management agents

and resident groups to identify and combat criminal activity in

assisted housing properties and surrounding neighborhood.

Based on HUD's inclination to reward applicants that partner with

entities that have a proven ability to address crime problems, HUD is

strongly inclined to provide more points under ``Quality of Plan'' and

``Strength of Partnerships'' to applications that propose reimbursing

municipal police departments or prosecutor offices than those

reimbursing private operators, for investigative or prosecutorial

services.

(d) Capital Improvements to Enhance Security. These improvements

may include, but are not limited to: the new construction or

rehabilitation of structures housing police substations or

ministations; neighborhood barriers, such as street closures at the

boundaries to limit criminal access to the neighborhood; or any of the

following improvements to limit criminal intrusions in an Assisted

Housing development: the installation of fences, barriers, or

territorial identification; lighting systems and other improvements to

property visibility; appropriate use of CCTV (close circuit TV

systems); improved door or window security such as locks, bolts, or

bars; and the landscaping or other reconfiguration of common areas to

discourage criminal activities. All such improvements must be

accessible to persons with disabilities. For example, locks or buzzer

systems that are not accessible to people with restricted or impaired

strength, mobility, or hearing may not be funded by the grant.

Under ``Quality of Plan,'' HUD is generally inclined to reward

capital improvements to enhance the security of an entire neighborhood

(such as the building of a ministation or closure of a street that

serves as a neighborhood boundary over capital improvements to an

Assisted Housing development that may enhance the security of a

specific project at the expense of other dwellings in the neighborhood

that might then serve as alternative crime victims.

(2) Eligible Applicants.--(a) Lead Applicant. The lead applicant,

which if the application is selected for funding will be designated

grantee, must be an owner/operator of one or more housing developments

that has received some form of financial support from a unit of

government or from a private nonprofit entity. Such support must be

designated and assigned by the funding source specifically for the

housing rather than for any specific resident household which may,

however, benefit from the support in the form of reduced rent. The

housing support may be provided on a one-time or periodic basis to pay

for or waive project development costs, costs of financing, operating

costs, owner taxes, unit rent levels, or tenant rent payments. Project

operating costs include but are not limited to: Utilities, taxes, fees,

and debt service payments. Unless the lead applicant is a unit of

general local government which owns the assisted project, the lead

applicant must also own an Assisted Housing development (as defined in

section I.D.(4) below) in the neighborhood to be assisted. The lead

applicant may not have any outstanding findings of civil rights

violations.

(b) Coapplicants. The application must include a number of

coapplicants, each of whose chief executive officer or empowered

designee shall provide a letter, as part of the application, of their

commitment to serve as project partners. The letter must specify the

expertise and/or resources that the coapplicant will contribute towards

the success of the grant activity. Also, coapplicants may not have any

outstanding civil rights violations. Coapplicants must include all of

the following (except for the lead applicant):

(i) The unit of general local government(s) with primary law

enforcement and community development jurisdiction over the project--

letter(s) from this entity must commit the police department,

prosecutor's office and community development office to work actively

in partnership with the grantee to support the grant project in their

respective functions;

(ii) The owners of Assisted Housing developments in the

neighborhood that will benefit from grant funding. The selection factor

``Concentration of Assisted Housing'' will favor applications in

neighborhoods which have more than one Assisted Housing Development

that will benefit and those in which owners have agreed to participate

in the SNG activities;

(iii) Residents of each assisted low income project in the

neighborhood that will benefit from grant funding. The residents'

commitment may be signed either by individuals from a majority of

project resident households or by one or more organized resident groups

that, combined, have been endorsed by a majority of project resident

households or recognized by a governmental entity as representing a

majority of project residents;

(iv) At least one Federal law enforcement entity. The most likely

Federal law enforcement entities to join this partnership are the HUD

OIG, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Drug Enforcement

Administration (DEA), the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms

(ATF), and the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). Applicants

are encouraged to partner with as many Federal law enforcement entities

as possible;

(v) In addition to the required coapplicants, specified above, lead

applicants are encouraged to partner with other appropriate

neighborhood and community stakeholders including neighborhood

businesses and business associations, nonprofit service providers,

neighborhood resident associations, and civic oriented neighborhood

religious congregations.

(3) Eligible Project Areas. (a) The project area must be a

``neighborhood,'' which shall be defined as follows: A geographic area

within a jurisdiction of a unit of general local government (but not

the entire jurisdiction unless the population of the unit of general

local government is less than 25,000) designated in comprehensive

plans, ordinances, or other local documents as a neighborhood, village,

or similar geographical designation; or the entire jurisdiction of a

unit of general local government which is under 25,000 population.

(b) The project area must include at least one assisted low-income

housing project under:

(i) Section 221(d)(3), section 221(d)(4), or section 236 of the

National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1715l, 1715z-1), provided that such

project has been provided a Below Market Interest Rate mortgage,

interest reduction payments, or project-based assistance under Rent

Supplement, Rental Assistance Payments (RAP) or Section 8 programs.

FHA-insured projects which have no project-based subsidy but have

tenants receiving housing vouchers or Section 8

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tenant certificates are not considered Federally assisted housing and

would not qualify an area for eligibility;

(ii) Section 101 of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965

(12 U.S.C. 1701s); or

(iii) Section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C.

1437f). This includes housing with project-based Section 8 assistance,

whether or not the mortgage was insured by HUD-FHA, but does not

include projects which receive only Section 8 tenant-based assistance

(i.e., certificates or vouchers).

(c) HUD will award only one grant per project area.

(4) Eligible Assisted Housing. In addition to the requirement

described above that each neighborhood consist of at least one housing

development assisted under one of the specified subsidy mechanisms,

points will be awarded in the competition based on the concentration of

``Assisted Housing'' in the neighborhood, and based on extent of crime

in and quality of crime reduction strategies for ``Assisted Housing''

developments, as well as the neighborhood. Moreover, many of the

eligible activities described above must be substantially targeted to

``Assisted Housing developments.'' The following definitions apply:

(a) Assisted Housing developments are defined as four or more

adjoining, adjacent, or scattered site (within a single neighborhood)

housing units, developed simultaneously or in stages, having common

ownership and project identity, and receiving a project-based financial

subsidy from a unit of government at the Federal, State, or local

level, or from a private nonprofit entity. Such subsidy must be

associated with a requirement and/or contractual agreement that all or

a portion of the units be occupied by households with incomes at or

below those of families at the ``low income'' limit as defined by the

U.S. Housing Act of 1937, or at households at or below an alternative

limit that falls below the U.S. Housing Act's ``low income'' limit, at

rents which the public or nonprofit entity determines to be

``affordable.''

(b) Assisted Housing units are defined as units within Assisted

Housing developments for which occupancy is restricted to households

with incomes at or below that of ``low income families'' as defined by

the U.S. Housing Act or to households meeting an income standard below

that defined as ``low income;'' and rents are restricted to amounts

that the public or nonprofit entity determines to be ``affordable.''

(c) Project based subsidies are defined as financial assistance,

initially designated and assigned by the funding source specifically

for the project rather than to eligible assisted resident households

which might also benefit from these subsidies, which is provided on a

one time up-front or on a periodic basis to the project or its owner to

write down, subsidize, or waive project development costs, costs of

financing, project operating costs, owner taxes, unit rent levels, or

tenant rent payments. Project operating costs include but are not

limited to: Utilities, taxes, fees, maintenance and debt service

payments.

E. Selection Criteria and Ranking Factors

HUD field offices will conduct a threshold review of each

application to determine that it meets the submission requirements of

this NOFA. All applications which meet the threshold requirements of

this NOFA will be submitted by the HUD field office to an Application

Rating Committee of HUD experts to be convened at and under the

direction of the SNAP Program Administering Unit at the HUD Virginia

State Office, which will rate applications in accordance with the

selection criteria. A total of 100 points is the maximum score

available under the selection criteria. At a minimum, an application

must receive 70 points. After assigning points to each application, HUD

will rank the applications in order of points scored, and select the

highest ranking applications for funding until the $20,000,000

available have been awarded. If there are insufficient applications

meeting all NOFA threshold requirements and scoring at least 70 points

for which to award funds, HUD will devise a competitive procedure by

which the additional funds will be awarded and advertise such

competitive procedure in the Federal Register.

Each application submitted will be evaluated on the basis of the

selection criteria described below. The first criterion deals with the

extent of the crime problem. The next three criteria deal with various

factors that impact the likelihood that the proposed grant would have a

significant short and long term positive impact in eliminating the

crime problem in the area. These criteria include the quality of the

plan, the capacity of the lead applicant and its partnership to

successfully implement the plan, and the quality and scale of crime

prevention measures. The last criterion, concentration of low income

Assisted Housing in the area, indicates ``bang for the buck'' with

respect to Assisted Housing, i.e., the number of families in Assisted

Housing that would receive crime elimination benefits from the grant

dollars compared to the families living in the neighborhood as a whole.

(1) The Extent of the Crime Problem in the Neighborhood and/or

Location of Housing Development Proposed for Assistance. (Maximum

Points: 25)

A. Extent of Crime Problem (maximum points: 20). In assessing this

criterion, HUD will consider the severity of the crime problem in the

neighborhood proposed for funding, as demonstrated by data described

below. HUD will evaluate the nature and extent of crime indicated by

the statistical data and anecdotal information provided, the strength

of such documentation, and the extent to which the applicant has

analyzed the data sufficiently to articulate crime elimination needs

clearly and to develop strategies, programs, and performance measures

tailored to achieve and assess the result of eliminating the crime on a

short and long term basis. The type of data to be provided is as

follows:

(1) Official data on the Incidence of Part I and Part II Crimes for

the Neighborhood AND, more specifically, the Assisted Housing Projects

in the Neighborhood. Such crime is reported under the FBI's Uniform

Crime Reporting Program (UCR). Part I crimes are felonies such as

criminal homicide, forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault

(including domestic violence by means likely to produce great bodily

harm), burglary-breaking or entering, larceny-theft, motor vehicle

theft, and arson. Part II crimes are misdemeanor assaults, forgery,

counterfeiting, fraud, embezzlement, vandalism, weapons (carrying,

possessing, etc.), prostitution and commercialized vice, sex offenses

other than forcible rape, prostitution and commercialized vice, drug

abuse violations, gambling offenses against the family and children,

driving under the influence, liquor laws, drunkenness, disorderly

conduct, vagrancy, curfew, and loitering and runaways.

If official data is provided only at the neighborhood level and not

at the Assisted Housing project level or vice versa, the data should be

supplemented by other data (see subparagraph b below) for the level not

covered by the official data. HUD will evaluate this data based on the

incidence of crime in Assisted Housing and the neighborhood relative to

the number of residents within those geographic areas. For example, 20

arrests in an area with 100 residents is a 20 percent occurrence rate.

The data and accompanying narrative must describe the nature and

frequency

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of Part I and II crimes as reflected by the most recent crime

statistics and other supporting data from Federal, State, Tribal, or

local law enforcement agencies. The data must address the types of

offenders committing Part I and Part II crime and any indications as to

the extent to which such crime is organized, such as gang-related

crime, and the nature of such organization.

Supporting data from official sources may include, but is not

limited to the number of lease terminations or evictions due to

criminal activity in Assisted Housing projects in the neighborhood; the

number of emergency room admissions for drug use or victims of violence

as maintained by police, fire department, emergency medical service

agencies, and hospitals; the number of police calls from all sources

for various Part I and Part II crimes; numbers of and types of crimes

referred to and handled by local, State, and Federal prosecutors; and

numbers of residents placed in drug treatment and aftercare program (as

a measure, specifically, of drug related crime).

(2) Other Data. This data, which must be the most recent available,

should be provided either to supplement official data described above

in subparagraph (1) if the applicant believes such supporting data

would strengthen its case or supplement its description as to the

extent of crime, or if official data is unavailable at either the

neighborhood and/or Assisted Housing project level. If official data is

unavailable at both the neighborhood and the Assisted Housing project

level, the application must so demonstrate in addition to providing the

data described below. If no official data is provided for either the

neighborhood or the Assisted Housing projects, the application will

only be eligible for a maximum of 12 points on ``Extent of Crime.''

Other data, as described here, may include but is not limited to:

(i) Surveys of Assisted Housing or neighborhood residents, Assisted

Housing staff, neighborhood businesspeople, etc., on the nature and

extent of crime;

(ii) Governmental and scholarly studies on the nature and extent of

crime;

(iii) Vandalism costs in the neighborhood and at Assisted Housing

developments;

(iv) Information from schools, health service providers, residents,

and State and local government officials, and the opinions of

individuals having direct knowledge of Part I and Part II crimes

concerning the nature and frequency of crimes in the neighborhood and

at the Assisted Housing developments, including the possible

involvement of organized crime such as gangs;

(v) The school dropout rate and rate of absenteeism to the extent

that these can be related through statistical data and/or anecdotal

information to the incidence of drug abuse or other crime in the

neighborhood/Assisted Housing developments;

(vi) Information from a jurisdiction's Analysis of Impediments (AI)

to Fair Housing Choice which includes crime statistics in and around

residential areas. If the impediments are crime and drugs, a strategy

to deal with these impediments could provide additional information.

If any data provided under this section is more than 1 year old,

the applicant must justify that this is the most recent available data.

HUD may check with data sources to determine the validity of such

claims and may severely mark down applications that are misleading on

this matter.

B. Empowerment Zone/Enterprise Community (EZ/EC) Preference

(maximum points: 5). If the Assisted Housing development is located in

an designated EZ/EC, the applicant will receive a maximum of 5 points.

The applicant should illustrate a tie-in between the NOFA and the

approved Strategic Plan. ``Designated Empowerment Zone or Enterprise

Community'' means an urban area designated as an Empowerment Zone,

Supplemental Empowerment Zone, an Enhanced Enterprise Community, or an

Enterprise Community by the Secretary of HUD on December 21, 1994. An

``Empowerment Zone Strategic Plan'' means a strategy developed and

agreed to by the nominating local government(s) and State(s) and

submitted in partial fulfillment of the application requirements for

designation as an Empowerment Zone or Enterprise Community pursuant to

24 CFR part 597. Applicants must provide evidence in the form of a

letter that the assisted housing development is in a EZ/EC area. See

Appendix B to this NOFA for a listing of EZ/EC contacts from whom such

a letter may be obtained.

(2) The Quality of the Plan. (Maximum Points: 15)

In assessing this criterion, HUD will review the strategies

outlined in the applicant's Safe Neighborhood Action Plan to eliminate

the crime problem described in Selection Factor 1, and any other

problems associated with such crime, in the neighborhood and projects

proposed for funding, and how the activities proposed for funding fit

in with the overall plan. The long term as well as immediate

anticipated crime reduction impact will be considered. If the crime

problem is related to gang activity or other organized crime, maximum

points will be provided only if the proposed activity involves

initiatives, which HUD considers likely to succeed, that coordinate the

efforts of Federal and local law enforcement personnel to eradicate

criminal gang activity based on models such as HUD's Operation Safe

Home and SNAP programs, the Justice Department's Weed and Seed program,

or other law enforcement models.

(3) The Capacity of the Lead Applicant and Partnership Capacity to

Implement the Plan. (Maximum points: 40)

(a) The applicants' successful experience combined with its

coapplicants' successful experience in utilizing similar strategies to

alleviate crime for other neighborhoods, projects, or developments. To

receive maximum points under this section, the applicant must have

worked in partnership with one or more of its coapplicants (or, under

some circumstances, two or more of the coapplicants may have worked

together in partnership) using a similar strategy that reduced crime in

and/or around Assisted Housing developments. The applicant must

demonstrate the reduction in the occurrence of crime as indicated above

in Selection Factor (1)A. of this NOFA. Among other Federal programs

which promote such partnerships are HUD's Operation Safe Home Program,

Safe Neighborhood Action Program and, to some extent, the Drug

Elimination Grant program. In the absence of previous partnerships, the

experience of the applicant will weigh more heavily than the experience

of any single coapplicant in HUD's assignment of partial points under

this subfactor. Of the points assigned in this subfactor, 5 points will

be awarded using the rating assigned by the Secretary's Representative,

and the remaining 10 points will be awarded using the rating of the

Rating Committee in Richmond. (Maximum points: 15)

(b) The strength of the applicants' partnership as it relates to

eliminating the crime problem identified above in Selection Factor

(1)A. Points for this category will be awarded based on the strength of

resource commitments by coapplicants (both in terms of the amount of

resources committed and the firmness of the commitments); evidence of

the coapplicants' (including project tenants') preapplication role in

the development of the Safe Neighborhood Action Plan and prospective

role in program implementation; indications of the capacity of the

Assisted Housing developments' ownership and

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management (based on available management reviews by governing public

entities) to undertake their share of responsibilities in the

partnership (including evidence of whether project management carefully

screens applicants for units and takes appropriate steps to deal with

known or suspected tenants exhibiting criminal behavior) and to

cooperate with law enforcement actions by other partners on their

project premises; the willingness of the unit of general local

government (lead applicant) to use its prosecutor's office as its lead

agency in implementing the grant; utilization of additional partners

other than those required under the heading ``Eligible Applicants''

(for example, multiple Federal law enforcement agency coapplicants and/

or a coapplicant neighborhood business organization); and the

effectiveness of the partnership structure (synergistic arrangements

for collective action will receive more points than a simple advisory

committee of coapplicants). (Maximum points: 15)

(c) The applicants' administrative capacity to implement the grant.

Points will awarded based on the quality and amount of staff allocated

to the grant activity by the grantee; the anticipated effectiveness of

the grantee's systems for budgeting, procurement, drawdown, allocation,

and accounting for grant funds and matching resources in accordance

with OMB administrative requirements; and the lines of accountability

for implementing the grant activity, coordinating the partnership, and

assuring that the applicant's and coapplicants' commitments will be

met. (Maximum points: 10)

(4) The Scale and Effectiveness of Crime Prevention/Socio-economic

Lift Programs Operating in Association with the Law Enforcement Plan.

(Maximum Points: 10)

HUD will award points to applicants who have in operation programs

such as Neighborhood Networks (NN), Campus of Learners (COL), or other

computer learning centers; other educational, life skills, and job

training opportunities, including scholarships; mentoring, counseling,

and recreational activities for at-risk youth; parental training and

family counseling; alcohol or drug abuse prevention, treatment, and

aftercare programs; homebuyers clubs and other homeownership

activities; economic development activities such as programs for

employing Assisted Housing residents, job placement and employer

linkage programs, micro-loan programs, community credit unions, or

other entrepreneurial opportunities; and supportive services for

educational and economic development such as day care, transportation,

health care, and the salary of service coordinators or caseworkers. The

importance of these types of programs is underscored by the imperatives

of welfare reform. (Maximum Points: 10)

(5) The Concentratoin of Assisted Low Income Housing in the

Neighborhood. (Maximum Points: 10)

HUD will award points based on the percentage of housing units in

the neighborhood that qualify under the Safe Neighborhood Grant program

definition of ``Assisted Housing units'' within any Assisted Housing

development, regardless of subsidy source and whether or not the units

are concentrated in one or two large projects or are distributed among

several projects of whatever size. HUD will assign points by a computer

in this category based on the distribution of percentages among

projects that are determined fundable after screening by HUD field

offices. The top 10 percent of all fundable projects with respect to

the ratio of number of Assisted Housing units to the number of housing

units in the neighborhood will receive 10 points; projects falling in

the next 10 percentile will receive 9 points, etc.

II. Application Process

A. Application Package

An application package may be obtained from the HUD field office

having jurisdiction over the location of the applicant project or from

the Multifamily Clearinghouse at (800) 685-8470. The HUD field office

will be available to provide technical assistance on the preparation of

applications during the application period.

B. Application Submission

A separate application must be submitted for each neighborhood/

project area to be served. An original and one copy must be received by

the 3 p.m. deadline at the appropriate HUD field office with

jurisdiction over the applicant project, Attention: Director of

Multifamily Housing. It is not sufficient for the application to bear a

postage date within the submission time period. Applications submitted

by facsimile (FAX) are not acceptable and will not be considered.

Applications received after the 3 p.m. deadline on July 21, 1997 will

not be accepted. In the interest of fairness to all competing

applicants, HUD will treat as ineligible for consideration any

application that is received after the deadline. Applicants should take

this practice into account and make early submission of their materials

to avoid any risk of loss of eligibility brought about by unanticipated

delays or other delivery-related problems.

C. HUD Application Review

Applications will be reviewed for completeness in the HUD field

office listed in Appendix A that has been designated to receive the

application. Those applications that have been deemed by the field

office to be eligible for funding will be rated and ranked by the

Rating Team at the HUD office in Richmond, Virginia. Applications will

be funded based on the rank order of scoring.

D. Notification

HUD will notify all applicants whether or not they were selected

for funding.

III. Checklist of Application Submission Requirements

To qualify for a grant under this program, an applicant must submit

an application to HUD that contains the following:

A. Application for Federal Assistance form (Standard Form SF-424

and SF-424A). The form must be signed by chief executive officer of the

lead applicant, and applicant information in the form must be

information about the lead applicant.

B. A description of the Safe Neighborhood Partnership that has been

formed to implement this grant. The description must include the names

of the coapplicants; relative roles and contributions of each

coapplicant in implementing grant activities; structures for

partnership coordination and joint decisionmaking, e.g., form of

partnership interaction (task force, advisory group or corporate

entity), lines of accountability, degree of grant decisionmaking power

conferred by the lead applicant/grantee to its partners, frequency of

meetings, etc.; the roles, if any, of coapplicants (especially project

tenants) in designing the Safe Neighborhood Action Plan; which

coapplicants (if any) will be designated subgrantees by virtue of their

receiving and dispensing grant funds for grant activities; and how the

lead applicant (grantee) proposes to direct and monitor its partners to

account for funds received or expended and to ensure that commitments

are met; and a profile of each coapplicant, including governmental or

nonprofit status (copies of official up-to-date IRS verification of

status must be provided for all nonprofit institutions), a detailed

description of their experience and success in similar or related

anticrime initiatives, roles in

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and financial or in-kind contributions to the partnership, and the

approximate value of any in-kind contributions.

Accompanying the description must be letters from each coapplicant,

signed by their respective chief executive officers, describing their

role if any in designing the application and, especially, the Safe

Neighborhood Action Plan; detailing the amounts and types of financial

and other contributions to be made by the coapplicant; firmly

committing the coapplicant to such contributions; affirming the

specific role(s) that the coapplicant will undertake in implementing

Safe Neighborhood Action Plan activities, including its agreement to

act as subgrantee, if applicable; and summarizing the coapplicant's

experience in undertaking similar or related activities.

With respect to coapplicant owners of Assisted Housing

development(s), the application should include external assessment or

evidence of the quality of the development's ownership or management

(e.g., available management reviews by governing public entities) that

relates to the capacity of the ownership and management to undertake

their share of responsibilities in the partnership; and such related

concerns as whether project management carefully screens applicants for

units and takes appropriate steps to deal with known or suspected

tenants exhibiting criminal behavior and cooperates with law

enforcement actions by other partners on their project premises.

C. A description of the Neighborhood and the Assisted Housing

developments in the neighborhood. (1) The neighborhood description must

include a name, a basic description (e.g., boundaries and size),

population, number of housing units in the neighborhood, a map, a

population profile (e.g., relevant census data on the socio-economic,

ethnic and family makeup of neighborhood residents), and the basis on

which the area meets the definition of ``neighborhood'' as described in

section I.D.(3)(a) of this NOFA, above (i.e., describe and include a

copy of the comprehensive plan, ordinance or other official local

document which defines the area as a neighborhood, village, or similar

geographical designation). If the entire jurisdiction is defined as a

neighborhood by virtue of having a population at less than 25,000,

indicate the jurisdiction's population under the 1990 census and

describe/include more recent information which gives the best

indication as to the current population.

(2) The description of the Assisted Housing development(s) in the

neighborhood, as defined in sections I.D.(3)(b) and I.D.(4) of this

NOFA. This must include the name of the project; the name of the

project owner; the nature, sources, and program titles of all project

based subsidies or other assistance provided to the project by units of

government or private nonprofit entities (any names of public or

nonprofit programs other than programs sponsored by HUD should be

accompanied by a description of the program and the name and business

phone number of a contact person responsible for administering the

program for the subsidy provider); the number of housing units in the

project; and the number of housing units in the project that meet the

definition of ``assisted housing units'' in section I.D.(4)(b) of this

NOFA, and a description of the restrictions on rents and resident

incomes that, in combination with the subsidy provided to the project,

qualify the units as assisted/affordable in accordance with the

definition in this NOFA; and the number, geographic proximity

(adjoining, adjacent, or scattered site, and if scattered site, the

distance between the two buildings which are furthest apart), and type

(single family detached, townhouse, garden, elevator) of buildings in

the project.

D. Crime Status Report. A narrative with supporting data that

describes the type and degree of crime in the neighborhood and in the

Assisted Housing developments, as well as relevant information about

the perpetrators of such crime (e.g., whether they live inside or

outside the neighborhood and/or project(s)), the extent to which the

crime is organized (e.g., gang related), and any relevant information

on the nature of any such crime organizations. Also describe the

nature, extent, and impact of any current or recent initiatives in the

neighborhood and/or the Assisted Housing project by residents,

landlords, other businesspeople, law enforcement and/or government

community development agencies to address the current crime problem or

its causes.

This information must consist of a narrative backed up by

documented statistics. To maximize the application's probability of

being funded, the narrative must be appropriately brief and to the

point, but must be extensive and detailed enough for HUD to determine

accurately the extent of crime (Selection Factor (1)) and the degree to

which the Safe Neighborhood Action Plan described in paragraph E. below

and the partnership described in paragraphs B. and C. above will

successfully address and reduce the crime in the neighborhood and

project (Selection Factor (2)). Applicants must provide statistics to

support narrative descriptions on the extent and nature of crime, as

prescribed in section I.E.(1)A., above.

E. Applicant's Safe Neighborhood Action Plan for addressing the

problem of crime in the neighborhood and in the Assisted Housing

projects for which funding is sought, which should include the

activities to be funded under this program along with all other

initiatives being undertaken by the applicant. The plan should include

a discussion of:

(1) Law Enforcement Activities. The activities funded by the grant

and by other resources that are committed by partners for law

enforcement activities in conjunction with this grant, including a

description of the roles, resources committed by, and implementation

responsibilities of each partner and a description as to the location

and locational impact of these activities vis-a-vis each Assisted

Housing development and the surrounding area.

(2) Narrative justification that these activities address the needs

identified by the Crime Status Report, i.e., the extent and nature of

crime, profile of crime perpetrators, project resident profiles, and

other previous or existing efforts to address such crime.

(3) Goal of Law Enforcement Activities. The application must

provide one or more specific crime reduction goals that would be

achieved by the end of the 24-month grant term (e.g., 30 percent

reduction in annual/monthly reported Part I and Part II crimes; 60

percent reduction in number of police emergency calls from the

neighborhood and/or from the project).

(4) Overall budget and timetable that: (a) Also includes separate

budgets, goals, milestones, and timetable for each activity and

addresses milestones towards achieving the goals described in paragraph

E.(3) above; and, (b) Indicates the contributions and implementation

responsibilities of each partner for each activity, goal, and

milestone.

(5) Staffing. The number of staff years, the titles and

professional qualifications, and respective roles of staff assigned

full or part-time to grant implementation by the lead applicant.

(6) Coordination. The lead applicant's plan and lines of

accountability (including an organization chart) for implementing the

grant activity, coordinating the partnership, and assuring that the

lead applicant's and coapplicants' commitments will be met. There must

be a discussion of the

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various agencies of the unit of government that will participate in

grant implementation (which must include the prosecutor's office and at

least one, but preferably both, of the following: the police department

and an agency dealing with community development), their respective

roles (i.e., which has the lead), and their lines of communication.

(7) Administrative Systems. A description of the lead applicant's

systems and quality controls for budgeting, procurement, drawdown,

allocation, and accounting for grant funds and matching resources in

accordance with OMB administrative and cost requirements, including a

system for monitoring these concerns as related to governmental or

nonprofit subgrantees.

(8) Complimentary Crime Prevention Activities. A description of the

lead applicant's and coapplicants' current activities and projected

plans (with full funding committed) for crime prevention/socio-economic

lift programs which will complement the law enforcement activities

proposed in the plan. Programs considered in this category include but

are not necessarily limited to those listed under Selection Factor (3)

in section I.E. of this NOFA. The description must justify how these

activities complement the law enforcement activities in the plan

towards long term eradication and prevention of the types of crime

described in the Crime Status Report, taking into account the profiles

of crime perpetrators and resident profiles included in the

application. This description must firmly commit the lead applicant to

provide all resources and implement all activities as designated, and

must be accompanied by firm commitments by coapplicants to provide the

resources and conduct the activities designated for each party.

F. Experience. A description of the lead applicant's and

coapplicants' experiences, separately or in concert, in successfully

implementing activities or programs substantially similar to the law

enforcement activities proposed in the Safe Neighborhood Action Plan.

Such description must be specific as to the nature of the crime problem

addressed, the location and scale of the law enforcement activity

undertaken, the resources and activities undertaken by the lead

applicant or coapplicants, the resources and roles provided by any

partners involved in the same or related activities, the structure for

coordinating the partnership, and any available evidence as to the

success of these activities or programs.

G. Form 424 B Assurances signed by the lead applicant's Chief

Executive Officer or designee.

H. Other Certifications. A certification form regarding Fair

Housing and Equal Opportunity will be provided by HUD in the

Application Kit. The lead applicant may not have any outstanding

findings of civil rights violations.

I. Drug-Free Workplace. The certification with regard to the drug-

free workplace required by 24 CFR part 24, subpart F.

J. Disclosure of Lobbying Activities. If the applicant applies for

an amount greater than $100,000, the certification with regard to

lobbying required by 24 CFR part 87 must be included. See section V.H.,

below, of this NOFA. If the applicant applies for an amount greater

than $100,000, and the applicant has made or has agreed to make any

payment using nonappropriated funds for lobbying activity, as described

in 24 CFR part 87, the submission must also include the Disclosure of

Lobbying Activities Form (SF-LLL).

K. Form HUD-2880, Applicant/Recipient Disclosure/Update Report.

IV. Corrections to Deficient Applications

HUD will notify the applicant within ten (10) working days of the

receipt of the application if there are any curable technical

deficiencies in the application. Curable technical deficiencies relate

to minimum eligibility requirements (such as certifications or

signatures) that are necessary for funding approval but that do not

relate to the quality of the applicant's program proposal under the

selection criteria. The applicant must submit corrections in accordance

with the information provided by HUD within 14 calendar days of the

date of the HUD notification.

V. Other Matters

A. General Grant Requirements

The following requirements apply to all activities, programs, or

functions used to plan, budget, implement, and evaluate the work funded

under this program.

(1) Grant Agreement. After applications have been ranked and

selected, HUD and the lead applicant shall enter into a grant agreement

setting forth the amount of the grant, the physical improvements or

other eligible activities to be undertaken, financial controls, and

special conditions, including sanctions for violation of the agreement.

The Grant Agreement will incorporate the HUD approved applications, as

may be amended by any special condition in the Grant Agreement. HUD

will monitor grantees, utilizing the Grant Agreements to ensure that

grantees have achieved commitments set out in their HUD approved grant

application. Failure to honor such commitments would be the basis for

HUD determining a default of the Grant Agreement, and exercising

available sanctions, including grant suspension, termination, and/or

the recapture of grant funds.

(2) Requirements Governing Grant Administration, Audits and Cost

Principles. The policies, guidelines, and requirements of this NOFA, 48

CFR part 31, 24 CFR parts 44, 45, 84 and/or 85, OMB Circulars A-87 and/

or A-122, other applicable administrative, audit, and cost principles

and requirements, and the terms of grant/special conditions and

subgrant agreements apply to the acceptance and use of assistance by

grantees. The requirements cited above, as applicable, must be followed

in determining procedures and practices related to the separate

accounting of grant funds from other grant sources, personnel

compensation, travel, procurement, the timing of drawdowns, the

reasonableness and allocability of costs, audits, reporting and

closeout, budgeting, and preventing conflict of interests or

duplicative charging of identical costs to two different funding

sources. All costs must be reasonable and necessary.

(3) Term of Grant. The term of funded activities may not exceed 24

months; however, HUD may approve a 6-month extension to this term for

good cause.

(4) Subgrants and Subcontracting. (a) In accordance with an

approved application, a grantee may directly undertake any of the

eligible activities under this NOFA, it may contract with a qualified

third party, or it may make a subgrant to any coapplicant approved by

HUD as a member of the partnership, provided such party is a unit of

government, is incorporated as a not-for-profit organization, or is an

incorporated for-profit entity that owns and/or manages an Assisted

Housing project benefiting from the grant. Resident groups that are not

incorporated may share with the grantee in the implementation of the

program, but may not receive funds as subgrantees. For-profit

organizations other than owners or managers of an Assisted Housing

project benefiting from the grant that have been approved by HUD as

part of the partnership may only receive grant funds subject to the

applicable Federal procurement procedures (See 24 CFR part 84 or 85).

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(b) Subgrants may be made only under a written agreement executed

between the grantee and the subgrantee. The agreement must include a

program budget that is acceptable to the grantee, and that is otherwise

consistent with the grant application budget. The agreement must

require the subgrantee to permit the grantee to inspect the

subgrantee's work and to follow applicable OMB and HUD administrative

requirements, audit requirements, and cost principles, including those

related to procurement, drawdown of funds for immediate use only, and

accounting to the grantee for the use of grant funds and implementation

of program activities. In addition, the agreement must describe the

nature of the activities to be undertaken by the subgrantee, the scope

of the subgrantee's authority, and the amount of any insurance to be

obtained by the grantee and the subgrantee to protect their respective

interests.

(c) The grantee shall be responsible for monitoring, and for

providing technical assistance to, any subgrantee to ensure compliance

with applicable HUD and OMB requirements, including those cited in

sections V.A.(2) and V.A.(4)(b), above. The grantee must also ensure

that subgrantees have appropriate insurance liability coverage.

(5) Environmental Requirements. Prior to the award of grant funds

under the program, HUD will perform an environmental review to the

extent required under the provisions of 24 CFR part 50.

(6) Ineligible Contractors. The provisions of 24 CFR part 24

relating to the employment, engagement of services, awarding of

contracts or funding of any contractors or subcontractors during any

period of debarment, suspension, or placement in ineligibility status

apply to this grant.

(7) Employment preference. A grantee under this program shall give

preference to the employment of residents of Assisted Housing projects

in the neighborhood to be assisted by this grant, and shall comply with

section 3 of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968 (12 U.S.C.

1701u) and 24 CFR part 135, to carry out any of the eligible activities

under this program, so long as residents provided such preferences have

comparable qualifications and training as nonresident applicants.

(8) Nondiscrimination and Equal Opportunity. The following

nondiscrimination and equal opportunity requirements apply:

(a) The requirements of title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

(42 U.S.C. 2000d) (Nondiscrimination in Federally Assisted Programs)

and implementing regulations issued at 24 CFR part 1;

(b) The prohibitions against discrimination on the basis of age

under the Age Discrimination Act of 1975 (42 U.S.C. 6101-07) and

implementing regulations at 24 CFR part 146; prohibitions against

discrimination against handicapped individuals under section 504 of the

Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C. 794) and implementing regulations

at 24 CFR part 8;

(c) The requirements of Executive Order 11246 (Equal Employment

Opportunity) and implementing regulations issued at 41 CFR Chapter 60;

and the requirements of Executive Orders 11625, 12432, and 12138 as

well as 24 CFR 85.36(e) requiring grantee efforts to encourage the use

of minority and women business enterprises when possible in the

procurement of property and services.

(d) Grantees must maintain records of their efforts to comply with

the requirements of section 3 of the Housing and Urban Development Act

of 1968 and the requirements concerning use of minority and women

business enterprises.

(e) The requirements of title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968

(Fair Housing Act) (42 U.S.C. 3600-20) and implementing regulations

issued at 24 CFR chapter I, subchapter A; Executive Order 11063 (Equal

Opportunity in Housing) and implementing regulations at 24 CFR part 107

apply to Assisted Housing which benefits from grant funds.

(9) Drawdown of Grant Funds. All grantees will access the grant

funds through HUD's Line of Credit Control System-Voice Response System

in accordance with procedures for minimizing the time lapsing between

drawdowns and use of funds for eligible purposes as described in 24 CFR

parts 84 and/or 85, as applicable.

(10) Reports and Closeout. Each grantee receiving a grant shall

submit to HUD a semiannual progress report in a format prescribed by

HUD that indicates program expenditures and measures performance in

achieving goals. At grant completion, the grantee shall participate in

a closeout process as directed by HUD which shall include a final

report in a format prescribed by HUD that reports final program

expenditures and measures performance in achieving program goals.

Closeout will culminate in a closeout agreement between HUD and the

grantee and, when appropriate, in the return of grant funds which have

not been expended in accordance with applicable requirements.

(11) Suspension or Termination of Funding. HUD may suspend or

terminate funding if the grantee fails to undertake the approved

program activities on a timely basis in accordance with the grant

agreement, adhere to grant agreement requirements or special

conditions, or submit timely and accurate reports.

B. Paperwork Reduction Act Statement

The information collection requirements contained in this Notice of

Funding Availability (NOFA) have been approved by the Office of

Management and Budget (OMB), in accordance with the emergency

processing procedures of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C.

3501-3520) and 5 CFR 1320.13, and assigned OMB control number 2502-

0520. An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not

required to respond to, a collection of information unless the

collection displays a valid control number.

C. Environmental Impact

A Finding of No Significant Impact with respect to the environment

has been made in accordance with HUD regulations at 24 CFR part 50 that

implement section 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental Policy Act of

1969 (42 U.S.C. 4332). The Finding of No Significant Impact is

available for public inspection and copying from 7:30 to 5:30 weekdays

in the Office of the Rules Docket Clerk, Room 10276, 451 Seventh

Street, SW, Washington, DC.

D. Federalism Impact

The General Counsel, as the Designated Official under section 6(a)

of Executive Order 12612, Federalism, has determined that this NOFA

would not have substantial direct effects on States or their political

subdivisions, or the relationship between the Federal Government and

the States, or on the distribution of power and responsibilities among

the various levels of government. The grants under this NOFA will be

used to eliminate drug-related and other crime problems on the premises

and in the vicinity of low-income housing. Therefore, this NOFA is not

subject to review under the Order.

E. Section 102 HUD Reform Act Applicant/Recipient Disclosures

Section 102 of the Department of Housing and Urban Development

Reform Act of 1989 (42 U.S.C. 3545) (HUD Reform Act) and the

regulations codified in 24 CFR part 4, subpart A, contain a number of

provisions that are designed to ensure greater accountability and

integrity in the provision of certain types of assistance administered

by HUD. On January 14,

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1992 (57 FR 1942), HUD published a notice that also provides

information on the implementation of section 102. The documentation,

public access, and disclosure requirements of section 102 are

applicable to assistance awarded under this NOFA as follows:

Documentation and public access requirements. HUD will ensure that

documentation and other information regarding each application

submitted pursuant to this NOFA are sufficient to indicate the basis

upon which assistance was provided or denied. This material, including

any letters of support, will be made available for public inspection

for a 5-year period beginning not less than 30 days after the award of

the assistance. Material will be made available in accordance with the

Freedom of Information Act (5 U.S.C. 552) and HUD's implementing

regulations at 24 CFR part 15. In addition, HUD will include the

recipients of assistance pursuant to this NOFA in its Federal Register

notice of all recipients of HUD assistance awarded on a competitive

basis.

Disclosures. HUD will make available to the public for 5 years all

applicant disclosure reports (HUD Form 2880) submitted in connection

with this NOFA. Update reports (also Form 2880) will be made available

along with the applicant disclosure reports, but in no case for a

period less than 3 years. All reports--both applicant disclosures and

updates--will be made available in accordance with the Freedom of

Information Act (5 U.S.C. 552) and HUD's implementing regulations at 24

CFR part 15.

F. Section 103 HUD Reform Act

HUD's regulations implementing section 103 of the Department of

Housing and Urban Development Reform Act of 1989 (42 U.S.C. 3537a),

codified in 24 CFR part 4, applies to this funding competition. The

regulations continue to apply until the announcement of the selection

of successful applicants. HUD employees involved in the review of

applications and in the making of funding decisions are limited by the

regulations from providing advance information to any person (other

than an authorized employee of HUD) concerning funding decisions, or

from otherwise giving any applicant an unfair competitive advantage.

Persons who apply for assistance in this competition should confine

their inquiries to the subject areas permitted under 24 CFR part 4.

Applicants or employees who have ethics related questions should

contact the HUD Ethics Law Division at (202) 708-3815. (This is not a

toll-free number.) For HUD employees who have specific program

questions, such as whether particular subject matter can be discussed

with persons outside HUD, the employee should contact the appropriate

field office counsel, or Headquarters counsel for the program to which

the question pertains.

G. Prohibition Against Lobbying Activities

Applicants for funding under this NOFA are subject to the

provisions of section 319 of the Department of Interior and Related

Agencies Appropriation Act for Fiscal Year 1991, 31 U.S.C. 1352 (the

Byrd Amendment), which prohibits recipients of Federal contracts,

grants, or loans from using appropriated funds for lobbying the

executive or legislative branches of the Federal Government in

connection with a specific contract, grant, or loan. Applicants are

required to certify, using the certification found at Appendix A to 24

CFR part 87, that they will not, and have not, used appropriated funds

for any prohibited lobbying activities. In addition, applicants must

disclose, using Standard Form LLL, ``Disclosure of Lobbying

Activities,'' any funds, other than Federally appropriated funds, that

will be or have been used to influence Federal employees, members of

Congress, and congressional staff regarding specific grants or

contracts.

Dated: May 7, 1997.

Nicolas P. Retsinas,

Assistant Secretary for Housing -Federal Housing Commissioner.

Appendix A--Multifamily Division Directors

New England

Boston

Jeanne McHallam, Multifamily Housing Director, HUD Boston Office,

Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr. Federal Building, 10 Causeway Street, Room

375, Boston, Massachusetts 02222-1092 (617) 565-5101 TTY Number:

(617) 565-5453

Hartford

Robert S. Donovan, Multifamily Housing Director, HUD-Hartford

Office, 330 Main Street, Hartford, Connecticut 06106-1860 (860) 240-

4524 TTY Number: (860) 240-4665

Manchester

Loren W. Cole, Acting Multifamily Housing Director, HUD-Manchester

Office, Norris Cotton Federal Building, 275 Chestnut Street,

Manchester, New Hampshire 03101-2487 (603) 666-7755 TTY Number:

(603) 666-7518

Providence

Louisa Osbourne, Multifamily Housing Director, HUD-Providence

Office, Sixth Floor, 10 Weybosset Street, Providence, Rhode Island

02903-3234 (401) 528-5354 TTY Number: (401) 528-5403

New York/New Jersey

New York

Beryl Niewood, Multifamily Housing Director, HUD-New York Office, 26

Federal Plaza, New York, New York 10278-0068 (212) 264-07777 x3717

TTY Number: (212) 264-0927

Buffalo

Rosalinda Lamberty, Chief, Multifamily Asset Management Branch, HUD-

Buffalo Office, Lafayette Court, 465 Main Street, Fifth Floor,

Buffalo, New York 14203-1780 (716) 551-5755 x5500 TTY Number: (716)

551-5787

Newark

Encarnacion Loukatos, Multifamily Housing Director, HUD-Newark

Office, One Newark Center, 13th Floor, Newark, New Jersey 07102-5260

(201) 622-7900 x3400 TTY Number: (201) 645-3298

Mid-Atlantic

Philadelphia

Thomas Langston, Multifamily Housing Director, HUD-Philadelphia

Office, The Wanamaker Building, 100 Penn Square East, Philadelphia,

Pennsylvania 19107-3380 (215) 656-0503 x3354 TTY Number: (215) 656-

3452

Baltimore

Ina Singer, Multifamily Housing Director, HUD-Baltimore Office, City

Crescent Building, 10 South Howard Street, Fifth Floor, Baltimore,

Maryland, 21201-2505 (410) 962-2520 x3125 TTY Number: (410) 962-0106

Charleston

Peter Minter, HUD-Charleston Office, 405 Capitol Street, Suite 708,

Charleston, West Virginia 25301-1795 (304) 347-7064 TTY Number:

(304) 347-5332

Pittsburgh

Edward Palombizio, Multifamily Housing Director, HUD-Pittsburgh

Office, 339 Sixth Avenue, Sixth Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

15222-2515 (412) 644-6394 TTY Number: (412) 644-5747

Richmond

Charles Famuliner, Multifamily Housing Director, HUD-Richmond

Office, The 3600 Center, 3600 West Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia

23230-4920 (804) 278-4505 TTY Number: (804) 278-4501

District of Columbia

Felicia Williams, Multifamily Housing Director, HUD-District of

Columbia Office, 820 First Street, N.E., Suite 450, Washington, D.C.

20002-4205 (202) 275-4726 x3096 TTY Number: (202) 275-0772

Southeast/Caribbean

Atlanta

Robert W. Reavis, Multifamily Housing Director, HUD-Atlanta Office,

Richard B. Russell Federal Building, 75 Spring Street, S.W. Atlanta,

Georgia 30303-3388 404-331-4426 TTY Number: (404) 730-2654

Birmingham

Herman S. Ransom, Multifamily Housing Director, Beacon Ridge Tower,

600 Beacon

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Parkway West, Suite 300, Birmingham, Alabama 35209-3144 (205) 290-

7667 x1062 TTY Number: (205) 290-7630

Caribbean

Minerva Bravo-Perez, Multifamily Housing Director, HUD-Caribbean

Office, New San Juan Office Building, 159 Carlos E. Chardon Avenue,

San Juan, Puerto Rico 00918-1804 (787) 766-5106/5401 TTY Number:

(787) 766-5909

Columbia

Robert Ribenberick, Multifamily Housing Director, HUD-Columbia

Office, Strom Thurmond Federal Building, 1835 Assembly Street,

Columbia, South Carolina 29201-2480 (803) 253-3240 TTY Number: (803)

253-3071

Greensboro

Daniel McCanless, Multifamily Housing Director, HUD-Greensboro

Office, Koger Building, 2306 West Meadowview Road, Greensboro, North

Carolina 27407-3707 (910) 547-4020 TTY Number: (919) 547-4055

Jackson

Reba G. Cook, Multifamily Housing Director, HUD-Jackson Office,

Doctor A.H. McCoy Federal Building, 100 West Capitol Street, Room

910, Jackson, Mississippi 39269-1016 (601) 965-4700/01 TTY Number:

(601) 965-4171

Jacksonville

Ferdinand Juluke, Jr., Multifamily Housing Director, HUD-

Jacksonville Office, Southern Bell Tower, 301 West Bay Street, Suite

2200, Jacksonville, Florida 32202-5121 (904) 232-3528 TTY Number:

(904) 232-1241

Knoxville

William S. McClister, Multifamily Housing Director, HUD-Knoxville

Office, John J. Duncan Federal Building, 710 Locust Street, Third

Floor, Knoxville, Tennessee 37902-2526 (423) 545-4406 TTY Number:

(423) 545-4559

Louisville

R. Brooks Hatcher, Jr., Multifamily Housing Director, HUD-Louisville

Office, 601 West Broad Street, Post Office Box 1044, Louisville,

Kentucky 40201-1044 (502) 582-6163 x260 TTY Number: 1-800-648-6056

Nashville

Ed M. Phillips, Multifamily Housing Director, HUD-Nashville Office,

251 Cumberland Bend Drive, Suite 200, Nashville, Tennessee 37228-

1803 (615) 736-5365 TTY Number: (615) 736-2886

Mid-West

Chicago

Ed Hinsberger, Multifamily Housing Director, HUD-Chicago Office,

Ralph H. Metcalfe Federal Building, 77 West Jackson

Boulevard,Chicago, Illinois, 60604-3507 (312) 353-6236 x2152 TTY

Number: (312) 353-5944

Cincinnati

Patricia A. Knight, Multifamily Housing Director, HUD-Cincinnati

Office, 525 Vine Street, 7th Floor, Cincinnati, Ohio, 45202-3188

(513) 684-2133 TTY Number: (513) 684-6180

Cleveland

Preston A. Pace, Multifamily Housing Director, HUD-Cleveland Office,

Renaissance Building, 1350 Euclid Avenue, Suite 500, Cleveland, Ohio

44115-1815 (216) 522-4112 TTY Number: (216) 522-2261

Columbus

Don Jakob, Multifamily Housing Director, HUD-Columbus Office, 200

North High Street, Columbus, Ohio 43215-2499 (614) 469-2156 TTY

Number: (614) 469-6694

Detroit

Robert Brown, Multifamily Housing Director, HUD-Detroit

Office,Patrick V. McNamara Federal Building, 477 Michigan Avenue,

Detroit, Michigan 48226-2592 (313) 226-7107 TTY Number: (313) 226-

6899

Grand Rapids

Shirley Bryant, HUD-Grand Rapids Office, Trade Center Building, 50

Louis Street, NW, Third Floor, Grand Rapids, Michigan 49503-2648

(616) 456-2146 TTY Number: (616) 456-2159

Indianapolis

Henry Levandowski, HUD-Indianapolis Office, 151 North Delaware

Street, Indianapolis, Indiana 46204-2526 (317) 226-5575 TTY Number:

(317) 226-7081

Milwaukee

Joseph Bates, HUD-Milwaukee Office, Henry S. Reuss Federal Plaza,

310 West Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 1380, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53203-

2289 (414) 297-3156 TTY Number: (414) 297-3123

Minneapolis-St. Paul

Howard Goldman, Multifamily Housing Director, HUD-Minneapolis

Office, 220 Second Street, South, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55401-2195

(612) 370-3051 TTY Number: (612) 370-3186

Southwest

Fort Worth

Ed Ross Burton, Multifamily Housing Director, HUD-Fort Worth Office,

1600 Throckmorton Street, Fort Worth, Texas 76113-2905 (817) 978-

9295 x3214 TTY Number: (817) 978-9273

Houston

Albert Cason, Multifamily Housing Director, HUD-Houston Office,

Norfolk Tower, 2211 Norfolk, Suite 200, Houston, Texas 77098-4096

(713) 313-2274 x7063 TTY Number: (713) 834-3274

Little Rock

Elsie Whitson, Multifamily Housing Director, HUD-Little Rock Office,

TCBY Tower, 425 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 900, Little Rock,

Arkansas 72201-3488 (501) 324-5937 TTY Number: (501) 324-5931

New Orleans

Ann Kizzier, Multifamily Housing Director, HUD-New Orleans Office,

Hale Boggs Federal Building, 501 Magazine Street, 9th Floor, New

Orleans, Louisiana 70130-3099 (504) 589-7236 x3106 TTY Number: (504)

589-7279

Oklahoma City

Kevin J. McNeely, Multifamily Housing Director, HUD-Oklahoma City

Office, 500 West Main Street, Suite 400, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma,

73102 (405) 553-7440 TTY Number: (405) 553-7480

San Antonio

Elva Castillo, Multifamily Housing Director, HUD-San Antonio Office,

Washington Square, 800 Dolorosa Street, San Antonio, Texas 78207-

4563 (210) 472-4914 TTY Number: (210) 472-6885

Great Plains

Kansas City

Joan Knapp, Multifamily Housing Director, HUD-Kansas City Office,

Gateway Tower II, 400 State Avenue, Kansas City, Kansas, 66101-5462

(913) 551-5504 TTY Number: (913) 551-6972

Des Moines

Donna Davis, Multifamily Housing Director, HUD-Des Moines Office,

Federal Building, 210 Walnut Street, Room 239, Des Moines, Iowa

50309-2155 (515) 284-4375 TTY Number: (515) 284-4718

Omaha

Steven L. Gage, Multifamily Housing Director, HUD-Omaha Office,

Executive Tower Centre, 10909 Mill Valley Road, Omaha, Nebraska

68154-3955 (402) 492-4114 TTY Number: (402) 492-3183

St. Louis

Paul Dribin, Multifamily Housing Director, HUD-St. Louis Office,

Robert A. Young Federal Building, 1222 Spruce Street, Third Floor,

St. Louis, Missouri 63103-2836 (314) 539-6666 TTY Number: (314) 539-

6331

Rocky Mountains

Denver

Larry C. Sidebottom, Multifamily Housing Director, HUD-Denver

Office, First Interstate Tower North, 633-17th Street, Denver,

Colorado 80202-3607 (303) 672-5343 x1172 TTY Number: (303) 672-5248

Pacific/Hawaii

Honolulu

Michael Flores, Multifamily Housing Director, HUD-Honolulu Office,

Seven Waterfront Plaza, 500 Ala Moana Boulevard, Suite 500,

Honolulu, Hawaii 96813-4918 (808) 522-8185 x246 TTY Number: (808)

522-8193

Los Angeles

Vivian Williams, Acting Multifamily Housing Director, HUD-Los

Angeles Office, 1615 West Olympic Boulevard, Los Angeles, California

90015-3801 (213) 894-8000 x3802 TTY Number: (213) 894-8133

Phoenix

Sally Thomas, Multifamily Housing Director, HUD-Phoenix Office, Two

Arizona Center, 400 North 5th Street, Suite 1600, Phoenix, Arizona

85004 (602) 379-4667 x6236 TTY Number: (602) 379-4464

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Sacramento

William F. Bolton, Multifamily Housing Director, HUD-Sacramento

Office, 777-12th Street, Suite 200, Sacramento, California 95814-

1997 (916) 498-5220 x322 TTY Number: (916) 498-5959

San Francisco

Janet Browder, Multifamily Housing Director, HUD-San Francisco

Office, Phillip Burton Federal Building and U.S. Court House, 450

Golden Gate Avenue, PO Box 36003, San Francisco, California, 94102-

3448 (415) 436-6580 TTY Number: (415) 436-6594

Northwest/Alaska

Portland

Thomas C. Cusack, Multifamily Housing Director, HUD-Portland Office,

520 Southwest Sixth Avenue, Suite 700, Portland, Oregon, 97204-1596

(503) 326-2513 TTY Number: (503) 326-3656

Seattle

Willie Spearmon, Multifamily Housing Director, HUD-Seattle Office,

Seattle Federal Office Building, 909 1st Avenue, Suite 200, Seattle,

Washington 98104-1000 (206) 220-5207 x3249 TTY Number: (206) 220-

5185

Appendix B. Empowerment Zone/Empowerment Communities--EZ/EC Main

Contact List

Empowerment Zones

GA, Atlanta

Mr. Paul White, Atlanta EZ Corporation, 101 Marietta Street,

Eleventh Floor, Atlanta, GA 30303, 404-331-4480 (phone), 404-331-

4515 (fax)

IL, Chicago

Mr. Jose Cerda, City of Chicago, 20 North Clark Street, 28th Floor,

Chicago, IL 60602, 312-744-9623 (phone), 312-744-9696 (fax)

MD, Baltimore

Ms. Diane Bell, Empower Baltimore Management Corporation, 111 S.

Calvert Street, Suite 1550, Baltimore, MD 21202, 410-783-4400

(phone), 410-783-0526 (fax)

MI, Detroit

Ms. Gloria W. Robinson, City of Detroit Planning and Development,

2300 Cadillac Tower Building, Detroit, MI 48226, 313-224-6389

(phone), 313-224-1629 (fax)

NY, New York

Mr. Kevin Nunn, Bronx Overall Economic Development Corporation, 198

East 161st Street, Second Floor, Bronx, NY 10451, 718-590-3549

(phone), 718-590-5814 (fax)

NY, New York

Ms. Deborah Wright, Director, Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone,

Development Corporation, Powell Office Building, 163 West 125th

Street, Suite 1204, New York, NY 10027, 212-932-1902 (phone), 212-

932-1907 (fax)

PA, Philadelphia

Mr. Carlos Acosta, City of Philadelphia, 1600 Arch Street, Gallery

Level, Philadelphia, PA 19103, 215-686-9763 (phone), 215-686-9800

(fax)

NJ, Camden

Mr. Richard Cummings, Camden Empowerment Zone Corporation, 412 North

Second Street, Camden, NJ 08104, 609-541-2836 (phone), 609-541-8457

(fax)

Supplemental Empowerment Zones

CA, Los Angeles

Mr. Parker C. Anderson, City of Los Angeles, Community Development

Department, 215 West 6th Street, Third Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90014,

213-485-1617 (phone), 213-237-0551 (fax)

OH, Cleveland

India Lee, Director, Cleveland Empowerment Zone, 601 Lakeside

Avenue, City Hall, Room 335, Cleveland, OH 44114, 216-664-3803

(phone), 216-420-8522 (fax)

Enhanced Enterprise Communities

CA, Oakland

Kofe Bonner, City of Oakland, One City Hall Plaza, Third Floor,

Oakland, CA 94612, 510-238-3303 (phone), 510-238-6538 (fax)

MA, Boston

Mr. Reginald Nunnally, Boston Empowerment Center, 20 Hampden Street,

Boston, MA 02119, 617-445-3413 (phone), 617-445-5675 (fax)

KS, Kansas City and MO, Kansas City

Mr. Cal Bender, MARC, 600 Broadway, 300 Rivergate Center, Kansas

City, MO 64105-1554, 816-474-4240 (phone), 816-421-7758 (fax)

TX, Houston

Ms. Judith Butler, 900 Bagby Street, City Hall Annex, Mayor's

Office, Second Floor, Houston, TX 77002, 713-247-2666 (phone), 713-

247-3985 (fax)

Enterprise Communities

AL, Birmingham

Mr. John H. Gemmill, City of Birmingham, 710 N. 20th Street, City

Hall, Room 224, Birmingham, AL 35203, 205-254-2870 (phone), 205-254-

2541 (fax)

AR, Pulaski County

Mr. Henry McHenry, Enterprise Community Committee Board, 300 South

Spring, Suite 800, Little Rock, AR 72201-2424, 501-340-5675 (phone),

501-320-5680 (fax)

AZ, Phoenix

Mr. Ed Zuercher, City of Phoenix, 200 West Washington Street, 12th

Floor, Phoenix, AZ 85003-1611, 602-261-8532 (phone), 602-261-8327

(fax)

CA, San Diego

Ms. Bonnie Contreras, City of San Diego, 202 C Street MS 3A, San

Diego, CA 92101, 619-236-6846 (phone), 619-236-6512 (fax)

CA, San Francisco

Ms. Pamela David, City of San Francisco, San Francisco Enterprise

Community Program, 25 Van Ness Avenue, Suite 700, San Francisco, CA

94102, 415-252-3167 (phone), 415-252-3110 (fax)

CO, Denver

Ms. Cathy Chin, Community Development Agency, 216 16th Street, Suite

1400, Denver, CO 80202, 303-640-4787 (phone), 303-640-7120 (fax)

Mr. Ernest Hughes, City of Denver, 216 16th Street, Suite 1400,

Denver, CO 80202, 303-640-7128 (phone), 303-640-7120 (fax)

CT, Bridgeport

Ms. Janice Willis, City of Bridgeport Office of Grant

Administration, City Hall, Bridgeport, CT 06604, 203-332-8662

(phone), 203-332-5656 (fax)

CT, New Haven

Ms. Serena Neal-Williams, City of New Haven, 165 Church Street, New

Haven, CT 06510, 203-946-7707 (phone), 203-946-7808 (fax)

DC, Washington

Ms. Judy Cohall, District of Columbia EC Program, 51 N Street, NE,

Suite 300, Washington, DC 20001, 202-535-1366 (phone), 202-535-1559

(fax)

DE, Wilmington

Mr. James Walker, Wilmington Enterprise Community, Louis L. Redding

City/County Building, 800 French Street, 9th Floor, Wilmington, DE

19801, 302-571-4189 (phone), 302-571-4102 (fax)

FL, Miami/Dade County/Homestead

Mr. Tony E. Crapp, Sr., Office of Economic Development, 140 West

Flagler, Suite 1000, Miami, FL 33130-1561, 305-375-3431 (phone),

305-375-3428 (fax)

FL, Tampa

Mr. Benjamin Stevenson, City of Tampa, 1310 9th Avenue, Tampa, FL

33605, 813-242-5359 (phone), 813-242-5381 (fax)

GA, Albany

Mr. Anthony Cooper, Department of Community and Economic

Development, 230 South Jackson Street, Suite 315, Albany, GA 31701,

912-430-7867 (phone), 912-430-3989 (fax)

IA, Des Moines

Ms. Kathy Kafela, City of Des Moines, 602 East First Street, Des

Moines, IA 50309, 515-283-4151 (phone), 515-237-1713 (fax)

IL, East St. Louis

Mr. Percy Harris, City of East St. Louis, City of East St. Louis,

301 River Park Dr., East St. Louis, IL 62201, 618-482-6644 (phone),

618-482-6648 (fax)

IL, Springfield

Ms. Jacqueline Richie, Office of Economic Development, 231 South

Sixth St., Springfield, IL 62701, 217-789-2377 (phone), 217-789-2380

(fax)

IN, Indianapolis

Ms. Mary Kapur, 2560 City County Building, 200 East Washington St.,

Indianapolis, IN

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46204, 317-327-3601 (phone), 317-327-5271 (fax)

Mr. Mark Young, Community Development and Human Services, 1860 City

County Building, Indianapolis, IN 46204

KY, Louisville

Ms. Carolyn Gatz, Empowerment Zone Community, 601 West Jefferson

St., Louisville, KY 40202, 502-574-4210 (phone), 502-574-4201 (fax)

LA, New Orleans

Ms. Thelma H. French, Office of Federal and State Programs, 1300

Perdido Street, Room 2E10, New Orleans, LA 70112, 504-565-6414

(phone), 504-565-6976 (fax)

LA, Ouachita Parish

Mr. Ken Newman, 2115 Justice Street, Monroe, LA 71201, 318-387-2572

(phone), 318-387-9054 (fax)

MA, Lowell

Ms. Sue Beaton, City Hall, 375 Merrimack Street, City Hall, Lowell,

MA 01852, 508-970-4165 (phone), 508-970-4007 (fax)

MA, Springfield

Mr. Jim Asselin, Community Development Department, 36 Court Street,

Springfield, MA 01103, 413-787-6050 (phone), 413-787-6027 (fax)

MI, Flint

Mr. Larry Foster, Township of Mount Morris, G-5447 Bicentennial

Parkway, Mount Morris Township, MI 48458, 810-785-9138 (phone), 810-

785-7730 (fax)

Ms. Nancy Jurkiewicz, City of Flint, 1101 South Saginaw Street,

Flint, MI 48502, 810-766-7436 (phone), 810-766-7351 (fax)

MI, Muskegon

Mr. Jim Edmonson, City of Muskegon, Economic Development Department,

933 Terrace Street, Muskegon, MI 49443, 616-724-6977 (phone), 616-

724-6790 (fax)

Ms. Fleta Mitchell, Department of Planning and Community

Development, 2724 Peck, Muskegon Heights, MI 49444, 616-733-1355

(phone), 616-733-7382 (fax)

MN, Minneapolis

Mr. Ken Brunsvold, Office of Grants & Special Project, 350 South

Fifth Street, City Hall, Room 200, Minneapolis, MN 55415, 612-673-

2348 (phone), 612-673-2728 (fax)

MN, St. Paul

Mr. Jim Zdon, City of St. Paul, Planning and Economic Development,

25 West Fourth Street, St. Paul, Minnesota 55105, 612-266-6559

(phone), 612-228-3314 (fax)

MO, St. Louis

Ms. Dorothy Dailey, St. Louis Development Corp., 330 North 15th

Street, St. Louis, MO 63103, 314-622-3400 (phone), 314-622-3413

(fax)

MS, Jackson

Mr. Willie Cole, Office of City Planning/Minority Business, 218

South President Street, Jackson, MS 39205, 601-960-1055 (phone),

601-960-2403 (fax)

NC, Charlotte

Ms. Charlene Abbott, Neighborhood Development Department, 600 East

Trade Street, Charlotte, NC 28202, 704-336-5577 (phone), 704-336-

2527 (fax)

NE, Omaha

Mr. Scott Knudsen, City of Omaha, 1819 Farnum Street, Suite 1100,

Omaha, NE 68183, 402-444-5381 (phone), 402-444-6140 (fax)

NH, Manchester

Ms. Amanda Parenteau, City of Manchester, 889 Elm Street, City Hall,

Manchester, NH 03101, 603-624-2111 (phone), 603-624-6308 (fax)

NJ, Newark

Ms. Angela Corbo, Department of Administration, City Hall, Room B-

16, 920 Broad Street, Newark, NJ 07102, 201-733-4331 (phone), 201-

733-3769 (fax)

NM, Albuquerque

Ms. Sylvia Fettes, Family & Community Services Department, One Civic

Plaza, NW, Albuquerque, NM 87103, 505-768-2860 (phone), 505-768-3204

(fax)

NV, Las Vegas

Ms. Yvonne Gates, Clark County Commissioners Office, 500 South Grand

Central Parkway, P.O. Box 551601, Las Vegas, NV 89155-1601, 702-455-

3239 (phone), 702-383-6041 (fax)

Ms. Jennifer Padre, Southern Nevada Enterprise Community, 500 South

Grand Central Parkway, P.O. Box 551212, Las Vegas, NV 89155-1212,

702-455-5025 (phone), 702-455-5038 (fax)

NY, Albany/Troy/Schenectady

Mr. Kevin O'Connor, Center for Economic Growth, One Key Corp Plaza,

Suite 600, Albany, NY 12207, 518-465-8975 (phone), 518-465-6681

(fax)

NY, Buffalo

Ms. Paula Rosner, Buffalo Enterprise Development Corporation, 620

Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 716-842-6923 (phone), 716-842-1779

(fax)

NY, Newburgh/Kingston

Ms. Allison Lee, City of Newburgh, Community Development,83

Broadway, Newburgh, NY 12550, 914-569-7350 (phone), 914-569-7355

(fax)

NY, Rochester

Ms. Carolyn Argust, City of Rochester Economic Development, 30

Church Street, City Hall, Room 205A, Rochester, NY 14614, 716-428-

7207 (phone), 716-428-7069 (fax)

OH, Akron

Mr. Jerry Egan, Department of Planning & Urban Development, 166

South High Street, Akron, OH 44308-1628, 330-375-2090 (phone), 330-

375-2387 (fax)

OH, Columbus

Mr. Patrick Grady, Economic Development Administrator, 99 North

Front Street, Columbus, OH 43215, 614-645-7574 (phone), 614-645-7855

(fax)

Mr. John Beard, Columbus Compact Corporation, 815 East Mound Street,

Suite 108, Columbus, OH 43205, 614-251-0926 (phone), 614-251-2243

(fax)

OK, Oklahoma City

Mr. Carl Friend, Oklahoma City Planning Department, 420 West Main

Street, Suite 920, Oklahoma City, OK 73102, 405-297-2574 (phone),

405-297-3796 (fax)

OR, Portland

Ms. Regena S. Warren, City of Portland, 421 SW Sixth Street, Suite

700, Portland, OR 97204, 412-487-9118 (phone), 412-255-2585 (fax)

PA, Pittsburgh

Ms. Bev Gillot, City of Pittsburgh, 4433 Laurel Oak Drive, Allison

Park, PA 15105, 412-487-9118 (phone), 412-255-2585 (fax)

PA, Harrisburg

Ms. JoAnn Partridge, City of Harrisburg, Department of Building and

Housing Development, MLK City Government Center, 10 North Second

Street, Harrisburg, PA 17101-1681, 717-255-6424 (phone), 717-255-

6421 (fax)

RI, Providence

Mr. Joe Montiero, Providence Plan, 56 Pine Street, Suite 3B,

Providence, RI 02903, 401-455-8880 (phone), 401-331-6840 (fax)

Mr. Patrick McGuigan, Providence Plan, 56 Pine Street, Suite 3B,

Providence, RI 02903, 401-455-8880 (phone), 401-331-6840 (fax),

SC, Charleston

Patricia W. Crawford, Housing/Community Development, 75 Calhoun

Street, Division 615, Charleston, SC 29401-3506, 803-724-3766

(phone), 803-724-7354 (fax)

TN, Nashville

Mr. Phil Ryan, Metropolitan Development and Housing Agency, 701

South Sixth Street, Nashville, TN 37206, 615-252-8505 (phone), 615-

252-8559 (fax)

TN, Memphis

Ms. Shirley Collins, Center for Neighborhoods, 619 North Seventh

Street, Memphis, TN 38107, 901-526-6627 (phone), 901-526-6627 (fax)

TX, El Paso

Ms. Deborah G. Hamlyn, City of El Paso, #2 Civic Center Plaza, 9th

Floor, El Paso, TX 79901, 915-541-4643 (phone), 915-541-4370 (fax)

TX, Waco

Mr. Charles Daniels, City of Waco, P.O. Box 2570, Waco, TX 76702-

2570, 817-750-5690 (phone), 817-750-5880 (fax)

TX, Dallas

Mr. Mark Obeso, Empowerment Zone Manager, 1500 Marilla, 2B South,

Dallas, TX 75201, 214-670-4897 (phone), 214-670-0158 (fax)

TX, San Antonio

Mr. Curley Spears, City of San Antonio, 419 South. Main, Suite 200,

San Antonio, TX 78204, 210-220-3600 (phone), 210-220-3620 (fax)

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UT, Ogden

Ms. Karen Thurber, Ogden City Neighborhood Development, 2484

Washington Boulevard, Suite 211, Ogden, UT 84401, 801-629-8943

(phone), 801-629-8902 (fax)

VA, Norfolk

Ms. Eleanor R. Bradshaw, Norfolk Works, 201 Granby Street, Norfolk,

VA 23510, 757-624-8650 (phone), 757-622-4623 (fax)

VT, Burlington

Mr. Brian Pine, Office of Community Development, City Hall, Room 32,

Burlington, VT 05401, 802-865-7232 (phone), 802-865-7024 (fax)

WA, Seattle

Mr. Charles Depew, City of Seattle, Seattle Municipal Building,

Third Floor, Seattle, WA 98104-1826, 206-684-0208 (phone), 206-684-

0379 (fax)

WA, Tacoma

Mr. Christopher Andersen, Tacoma Empowerment Consortium, 2501 East D

Street, Suite 209, Tacoma, WA 98421, 206-572-2120 (phone), 206-572-

2625 (fax)

WI, Milwaukee

Ms. Una Vanderval, Department of City Development, 809 North

Broadway, Milwaukee, WI 53202 414-286-5900 (phone), 414-286-5467

(fax)

WV, Huntington

Ms. Cathy Burns, Community Development and Planning, 800 Fifth

Avenue, Suite 14, P.O. Box 1659, Huntington, WV 25717, 304-696-4486

(phone), 304-696-4465 (fax)

[FR Doc. 97-13517 Filed 5-22-97; 8:45 am]

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