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service providers apply directly for funding of senior programs, emergency services (ICA, 3 1 TOCP, WeCAN), housing counselling programs, domestic abuse services and youth programs, etc. Residents can access these services regardless of where they live, but the cities' participation in the urban county program provides more funding to the ConPool and more funding for these services. FYI, public service providers have consistently been telling me that the demand for emergency services have been increasing drastically over the last few months because of layoffs, foreclosures, rising food and fuel prices, etc. These clients are area residents that: have never applied for assistance in the past and are very reluctant to do so. How are ConPool funds allocated? The ConPool funds are allocated through a multi. -step process. A Consolidated Pool. Advisory Committee reviews the applications and makes funding recommendations to the County Boards of Commissioners, the official applicant for the urban county funds. The Board then approves the annual application, including the allocation recommendations of the committee. To date the Board has always approved the committees' recommendations. HUD staff then review all projects for eligibility and approves funding sometime in July or August. The Consolidated Pool Advisory Committee is made up of city administrators, city clerks or planning staff from participating ConPool cities. The committee could use additional members for the 2009 application process, so if you might be interested please contact me. ms there any cost to the City? No. The only "cost" results from not participating --not signing the agreement. Should a city not sign the agreement, your residents would no longer be el-i.g,i.bl.e for the rehabilitation program and the total. CDBG .funds available for for public services would be smaller. Even if you do not anticipate any housing projects in the near, future, signing the agreement costs nothing, but provides more funding for these other programs/services. Please also note that if the JCA is not signed, your city cannot rejoin the ConPool until the next JCA period; 2012-2019. Jim Ford Hennepin County Housing, Community Works and Transit 917 North Fifth Street, Suite 320 Minneapolis, Minnesota 55901-1362 Telephone: 612/39£3-6013 Fax: 612/398-2920 "When 7 give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist." - Dom Helder Camara Disclaimer: Information in this message or an attachment may be government data and thereby subject to the Minnesota Government Data Practices Act, Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13, may be subject to attorney-client or work product privilege, may be confidential., privileged, proprietary, or otherwise protected, and the unauthorized review, copying, retransmission, or other use or di-sclosure of the information .is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, please immediately notify the sender of: the transmission error and then promptly delete this message from your computer system. 2