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1 <br />2 <br />3 <br />4 <br />5 <br />6 <br />7 <br />8 <br />9 <br />10 <br />11 <br />12 <br />13 <br />14 <br />15 <br />16 <br />17 <br />18 <br />19 <br />20 <br />21 <br />22 <br />23 <br />24 <br />25 <br />26 <br />27 <br />28 <br />RESOLUTION NO. R -28-9i <br />A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY <br />OF COLTON TO JOIN THE NATION IN OBSERVING THE <br />WEER OF APRIL 1 - 7, 1991 AS "NATIONAL COMMUNITY <br />DEVELOPMENT WEER 191". <br />WHEREAS, the Federal Community Development Block Grant <br />Program has operated since 1974 to provide local governments with <br />the resources required to meet the needs of persons of low and <br />moderate income; and <br />WHEREAS, Community Development Block Grant funds are <br />channeled to thousands of neighborhood -based nonprofit <br />organizations and public agencies throughout the nation to <br />address pressing neighborhood and human service needs; and <br />WHEREAS, the fiscal policies of the Federal Government for <br />the last several years have been designed to reduce the federal <br />assistance provided to local governments and nonprofit <br />organizations vested with the responsibility of meeting the needs <br />of persons of low and moderate income; and <br />WHEREAS, during this time of constricted federal <br />contribution to the task of meeting the needs of persons of low <br />and moderate income, the problem of maintaining a decent standard <br />of living in urban America has increased, as evidenced by the <br />dwindling supply of affordable housing, the massive rise in <br />homelessness,and the resurfacing of hunger and malnutrition as <br />measures of widening economic disparity; and <br />WHEREAS, during this time of federal withdrawal from <br />responsibility, the Community Development Block Grant Program has <br />assumed increasing importance as an instrument for meeting <br />pressing community problems; and <br />WHEREAS, the nature of the Community Development Block Grant <br />Program with its diversity of program design and administration <br />