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05/03/95 15:13 NW YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES 4 612 784 3462 N0.886 ®03 <br /> **DRAFT LETTER** <br /> Commissioner Dick Wedell <br /> Ramsey County Board of Commissioners <br /> 15 West Kellogg Boulevard <br /> City Hall - Courthouse - Room 220 <br /> St. Paul, MN 55102 <br /> Commissioner Wedell: <br /> to express our concern about this year's <br /> We are writing _ <br /> distribution of CDBG funds. As you know, the process forof city was changed this year from a group <br /> representatives deciding the fate of individual projects to cities <br /> voting on common priorities. While eandraccountablesee tdistribugion <br /> he potential <br /> of this new method for moreequitable <br /> quitable <br /> in the future, we are concerned by an unforeseen problem created by <br /> the process this year. <br /> It is difficult to argue with the priorities set for CDBG funds; <br /> low-cost housing construction and rehabilitation is a clear need. <br /> However, the process has put our desire to meet the housing needs <br /> of our low income constituents <br /> in competition with our ability to <br /> meet their social servie <br /> Northwest Youth & Family Services, an agency whose work you know <br /> well, has applied for CDBG funds as an integral <br /> site that part of their <br /> ir <br /> capital campaign to secure a reliable, permanent <br /> ensure the agency' s ability to meet the needs of our constituenn s. <br /> ill <br /> Predictably, the availabilityincreased <br /> seLyices Yet because of the priority <br /> increase the needs for these <br /> rankings, we are being told funds will not be available for NYFS' <br /> capital campaign because they are Through andirected oversight tno attention was <br /> increasing the <br /> availability of housing. <br /> given to funding for public facilities. <br /> To alleviate the obvious counterproductivity of this approach, we <br /> request that the Ramsey the listed prioritiesmissionto be eapplied to <br /> rs act to <br /> reallocate $100, 000 from <br /> NYFS ' capital request. In addition, we askth t $50, 000 <br /> 5G , 0 si of the <br /> e <br /> contingency amount set aside by RamseyCountye <br /> granted to NYFS. Because this <br /> would <br /> lev iensure <br /> constituents our the believey to meet t�t <br /> needs of low and moderate income <br /> is well within the intent of the priorities already established in <br /> this year's process. <br /> Thank you for considering this request. <br /> Sincerely, <br />