MA0601-CS060310March 10, 2006
Mr Jim Witt
City Manager
City of Coppell
P.O Box 9478
Coppell, TX 75019
Dear Mr Witt:
DALLAS COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS COURT ADMINISTRATION
DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
Please be advised that, on October 1, the City of Coppell will be able to receive $59,284 in FY2006 CDBCr
funding from Dallas County
If the City would like to utilize its new FY2006 funding 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 FIoor, Dallas, Texas 75202 by 4:00 pm.,
Friday, May 26. Please note that if we do not receive tlus 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. In considering how to
utilize your City's CDBG funds, please carefully select your projects. If you have previously begun providing
funding for a project that still needs additional money, we strongly encourage you to use your FY2006
allocation to complete this project before using it to fund new activities. Similarly, rather than allocating
your funding among a wide variety of projects, 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 after they have been submitted to HUD Because changing projects makes it very difficult for the
program to complete its 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
As before, cities that anticipate using their CDBG allocation must hold at least one public heanng 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
April 11 and May 1 I This notice will include the times, dates, and locations for all known public hearings.
411 Elm Street, 3r Floor, Room 313 Dallas, Texas 75202 -3301 Telephone (214) 653 -7601
Dallas County Administration Building e-mail rloessberg @dallascounty.org Telecopier (214) 653 -6517
To be included in this notice please contact Kim Nobles at (214) 653 -6368 by March 27, 2006.
We are available to assist your City in anyway that we can during this allocation process. If we can either
answer any questions that you might have or review any possible projects that are under consideration, please
do not hesitate to contact us.
Sincerely,
r
Rick Loessberg
Director of Planning & Development
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