TO: Mayor and City Council
FROM: Dustin Anderson, Director of Community Development
SUBJECT:
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Award of Contract for the Choice Neighborhoods Initiative Planning Coordinator to Borderless Studios in the Amount of $308,880.00
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BACKGROUND:
At the October 15, 2024 Regular Meeting, the City Council voted to authorize the acceptance and implementation of a 2024 Choice Neighborhoods Initiative (CNI) Planning Grant in the amount of $500,000 from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
The CNI program leverages significant public and private dollars to support locally driven strategies that address struggling neighborhoods with severely distressed public housing and/or HUD-assisted housing through a comprehensive approach to neighborhood transformation. The program helps communities transform neighborhoods by redeveloping severely distressed public and/or HUD-assisted housing and catalyzing critical improvements in the neighborhood. To this end, CNI is focused on three core goals:
1. Housing: Replace severely distressed public and HUD-assisted housing with high-quality mixed-income housing that is well-managed and responsive to the needs of the surrounding neighborhood.
2. People: Improve outcomes of households living in the target housing related to income and employment, health, and education; and
3. Neighborhood: Create the conditions necessary for public and private investment in distressed neighborhoods to offer the kinds of amenities and assets, including safety, good schools, and commercial activity, that are important to families' choices about their community.
Once the Transformation Plan is formed, the CNI Team can apply for Choice Neighborhoods Implementation Grant, which is between $25 million and $50 million.
CONCLUSION:
To facilitate the creation of the Transformation Plan, the City of Joliet issued a request for proposals (RFP) for planning coordinator services on January 17, 2025.
This RFP sought partners that would ...
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