Appropriating $26,433.00 Community Development Block Grant Fund

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ATTACHMENT I Michiana Urban Observatory Project Proposal "An Information Based for Community Development Planning and Decision- Making for the City of South Bend" This proposal is for the Division of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University at South Bend under the sponsorship of the Michiana Urban Observatory to undertake a research project for the City of South Bend, Indiana, to develop and implement a planning and evaluation study of the city's community development program. The title of this project is "An Information Base for Community Development Planning and Decision - Making." The Michiana Urban Observatory proposes to undertake this project for a total cost of $40,177 of which $13,744 would be absorbed by IUSB -DPEA. The Observatory is proposing a cost to the City of South Bend at $26,433.00. The Michiana Urban Observatory further proposes that the contract period for this proposal extends from 9 /30/78 through 6/30/79, with the following target dates for the completion of various project components: 9/30/78 Final Design 10/1/78- 12/31/78 Data gathering and analysis 2/1/79 Interim report on findings 3/1/79 Final report of findings 3/1/79- 12/6/78 For extended interpretations and follow- through with planning activities. The project will be administered by a Project Director, Dr. William H ojnacki, and two co- principal investigators, Dr. Frank X. Steggert and Dr. Richard Metzcus. All three persons are faculty members with IUSB -DPEA. In addition to these three primary participants an appropriate project advisory committee composed of three to five persons will be established. The project will substantively build upon data gathered in the two previous citizen attitude surveys done by the South Bend Urban Observatory for the City of South Bend. The primary approach to be employed will be to undertake a systematic random sample of residents in four distinct geographic areas of the city. The focus