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DALLAS COUNTY"
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DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
April 5, 2002' 1
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Mr. Gary Sims
Director, Parks & Recreation Dept
City of Coppell
PO Box 478
Coppell, Texas 75019
Dear Gary:
Please be advised that on October 1, the City of Coppell will be able to receive $75,260 in FY2002
CDBG funding from Dallas County. The City also has $19,653 from the Coppell Senior Citizens
Center Rehabilitation Project that can be reallocated.
If the City would like to utilize its new F Y2002 funding and reallocate money remaining from
previous years, please complete the enclosed forms (which explain what activities will be undertaken
and how many people will be assisted), and return them to Kim Nobles, Community Development
Administrator, at 411 Elm Street, Third Floor, Dallas, Texas 75202 by 4:00 p. m., Friday, June 7.
Please note that if we do not receive this information by this date, then we will assume that your City
is not interested in utilizing this new funding, and it will be reallocated to the other cities in the
County's CDBG program.
This year's allocation process is generally identical to those from previous years. However, because
new HUD lead -based paint regulations (which affect homes built before 1978) became effective
January 10, 2002, the County no longer administers a Housing Rehabilitation Program. As a result,
please do not allocate CDBG funds for this purpose. The County, however, now operates a Housing
Replacement Program, and your City may wish to allocate a portion of its award to supplement the
money that has already been budgeted for this Program.
In considering how to utilize your City's CDBG funds, please carefully select your prof ects. If you
have previously begun providing funding for a project that still needs additional money, please use
your FY2002 allocation to complete this project before using it to fund new activities. Similarly,
rather than scattering your funding across a wide variety ofprojects, please concentrate your funding
on one or two projects that will have a much greater impact.
Also, we have increasingly had a number of cities that initially select projects, then change the
projects a short time later after they have been submitted to HUD. Because changing these projects
makes it very difficult for the program to complete these and other projects on schedule (which can
jeopardize the amount of CDBG funding that the County receives from HUD), the County will now
only consider changing projects when there are either extenuating circumstances or when the change
will allow CDBG funds to be expended more rapidly.
411 Elm Street, 3 Floor, Room 313 Dallas, Texas 75202 -3301 Telephone: (214) 653 -7601
Dallas County Administration Building a -mail: r(ocsc erg(@dallascountv.org Fa): (214) 653 - 6517
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As before, cities that anticipate using their CDBG allocation must hold at least one public hearing
before reaching a final decision on what projects to undertake. So as to assist the City in publicizing
any public hearing that it might hold, we will publish a newspaper notice for those hearings that will
be held between May 6 and May 30. You have stated your City is interested in being included in this
notice and that this year's public hearing will be held at your City Council Meeting scheduled for
Tuesday, May 14 at 7:00 pm; should this date and time change, please let me Ms. Nobles know by
April 26.
We are available to assist your City in any way that we can during this allocation process. If we can
answer any questions that you might have or provide any technical assistance in the development
of any proposed projects, please do not hesitate to call us.
Sincerely,
Rick Loessberg
Director of Planning & Development
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