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To: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Copy issio
From: Marva L. Wiley, President/CEO c,I ,
Model City Community Revitalize ion District Trus
Subject: Appropriation of U.S. Environmental Protection Agi`y Grant to
Model City Trust
Date: June 18, 2004
RECOMMENDATION:
It is respectfully requested that the City Commission approve the attached
resolution to recognize the grant funds awarded by the Environmental
Protection to the Model City Community Revitalization District Trust through
the creation of a Special Revenue Fund.
BACKGROUND:
The Model City Community Revitalization District Trust ("Model City Trust")
submitted applications for two sites located on the perimeter of the Model City
Homeownership Zone for consideration in the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency's Annual Brownfields Grant Application Process. With the Phase 1 and
Phase 2 Environmental Site Assessments already complete, Model City Trust
Staff worked with the City's Brownfields Coordinator to identify sites that would
meet the criteria for clean-up grants.
That effort was successful in that both grants were funded at $200,000 for each
site for a total award to the Model City Trust of $400,000. This agenda item has
been prepared to establish the special revenue fund necessary to administer this
grant.