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FY 2004-05 Community Development Block Grant Allocation for the Eastside Service-Learning Project to Serve the Homeless and Other Medically Underserved Residents (NB)
Explanation
On August 2, 2004, the City Commission approved the allocation of $7,000 in Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds in the FY 2004-05 budget for the Eastside Service-Learning Project to be administered by the University of Florida Programs for Interdisciplinary Education. The City subsequently entered into a subrecipient agreement (contract) with the University of Florida Programs for Interdisciplinary Education to initiate this project.
In February, however, the University of Florida decided that it could not accept the conditions of the contract with the City, because of liability concerns. The University of Florida's decision left this project without a responsible entity to administer it. A suitable project sponsor, the Alachua County Medical Society Foundation, Inc., has recently agreed to take over this project as an extension of its We Care Program.
It is proposed that the current contract with the University of Florida Programs for Interdisciplinary Education be cancelled and the original project, including the $7,000 CDBG allocation, be assigned to the Alachua County Medical Society Foundation, Inc. The project would continue to support efforts to provide medical and dental care for the homeless and medically underserved residents of Gainesville.
Fiscal Note
$7,000 in CDBG funds is budgeted in the current fiscal year for this project.
Recommendation
The City Commission: 1) approve the reallocation of $7,000 in FY 2004-05 Community Development Block Grant funds from the University of Florida Programs for Interdisciplinary Education to the Alachua County Medical Society Foundation, Inc.; and 2) authorize the Interim City Manager to execute a subrecipient agreement with the Alachua County Medical Society Foundation, Inc. for the Eastside Ser...
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