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i 3 4 i 51 61 i 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 li RESOLUTION NO. R-37-94 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLTON, TO JOIN THE NATION IN OBSERVING THE WEEK OF MARCH 28 TO APRIL 1. 19949 AS "NATIONAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT WEEK '94" WHEREAS, during this time of budget difficulties, the problem of maintaining a decent standard of living in America has increased along with the task of meeting the needs of persons of low and moderate income, as evidenced by the dwindling supply of affordable housing, the massive rise in homelessness, unemployment and the resurfacing of hunger and malnutrition as measures of widening economic disparity; and, WHEREAS, the Federal Community Development Block Grant Program has operated since 1974 to provide local governments with the resources required to address pressing neighborhood and human service needs for persons of low and moderate income; and, WHEREAS, the Community Development Block Grant Program continues to assume increasing importance as an instrument for meeting pressing community development needs -in housing, economic development, human services, capital improvements, and public infrastructure; and, 18, WHEREAS, the nature of the Community Development Block IGrant program, with its diversity of program design and administration, its 19 ability to respond to locally determined priorities, and its facility for being �b last resort funding, has caused the Congress and the nation to appreciate the critical value of the program, and the significant number of 21 !' organizations and projects that rely on its funds for support; and, 91 WHEREAS the steady increase in nationwide Community Block 23 I Grant funding is a clear testimony to the value and effectiveness of the 241, program nationwide; and, 251,WHEREAS, a week recognizing national community development 26 will encourage local governments, nonprofit organizations, and community I' residents throughout the nation to reaffirm the significance and diversity of 2 ` their local community development program efforts toward meeting the 2 needs of persons of low and moderate me. 8 . P e mco 'I