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AGREEMENT FOR PROGRAMS AND SERVICES WITH URBAN ENTERPRISE ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH BEND, INC. (NEIGHBORHOOD -SCALE DEVELOPMENT MATCHING GRANT PROGRAM) 2019 1 II" AGREEMENT (this "Agreement") is made effective the �4' � day of _ _- 2019 (the "Effective Date"), by and between the CITY OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, a municipal corporation organized and operating under the laws of the State of Indiana, acting by and through its Board of Public Works (the "City") and the URBAN ENTERPRISE ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH BEND, INC. (the "Organization"). RECITALS WHEREAS, the City finds that improving the business environment, aesthetic appeal, and vitality of its traditional neighborhood centers will encourage additional investment in those places, in the surrounding neighborhoods, and in the City more generally; and WHEREAS, the investment necessary to improve the business environment, aesthetic appeal, and vitality of its traditional neighborhood centers to prevent or eliminate blighted conditions and to encourage the necessary additional investment in these places could not occur through regulatory processes or the ordinary operations of private enterprise without public involvement; and WHEREAS, the City finds that the areas listed at Apll pd I (the "Neighborhood Centers") are vital to the City and its surrounding neighborhoods and that providing for additional investment in the Neighborhood Centers will serve their surrounding neighborhoods and the residents of the City; and WHEREAS, in light of the foregoing, the City desires to provide for the establishment, development, and administration of certain services and programs, commonly described as the Neighborhood -Scale Development Matching Grant Program and more particularly described at Exhibit A (the "Program") to serve the Neighborhood Centers; and WHEREAS, the Organization is an Indiana not -for -profit corporation and pursuant to its Articles and Bylaws is organized and operated exclusively to benefit, perform, and carry out the charitable, scientific, and educational purposes of the City of South Bend, Indiana, and in furtherance thereof to conduct such programs and activities in and around the City, especially within the Enterprise Zone, as will (a) relieve the poor and distressed or the underprivileged, (b) advance education or science, (c) erect or