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CITY OF SOUTH BEND 1 OFFICE OF THE CLERK Pam Meyer, Director of Neighborhood Development for the Department of Community Investment with offices located on the 14th floor of the County-City Building, stated, These two (2)together are the total of a grant received by the City of South Bend from the State for lead work in homes in the City of South Bend. It is approximately$672,857 split by the State into these two (2) funds. Together they make one (1) grant. The resolutions are required as part of the grant agreement we are signing and giving back to the State. It says we understand that we have received the reward and we will administer this program. It will provide us funds for approximately forty (40)homes and, as a lot of the public information has covered,they are homes that have primarily been built before 1978 and the priority is for homes with children six(6) years old or under. Committee Chair Ferlic opened the floor to questions and comments from Committee and Council Members. Councilmember Karen White stated, We are really appreciative of receiving the grants and the work Community Investment has done. You mentioned you will only support forty (40) homes. Do you have a sense of the remaining homes? Those numbers, and how those may be addressed? Ms. Meyer replied, I don't know if we have that number. Suzanna Fritzberg, Deputy Chief of Staff to the Mayor with offices located on the 14th floor of the County-City Building, replied, About eighty percent (80%)of our housing was built before 1980. Maybe sixteen percent (16%) of that was built before 1960 and I want to say we have 45,000 housing units across the City. So someone could do the math but it is an excellent question raised. Truly, we may never get to the bottom with this. This is a good resource and we will make sure it has the most effect it can but really we need to be much smarter about teaching people how to live safely with lead rather than rely on funding to get it out of their homes. Councilmember Jo M. Broden arrived at the meeting at 3:34 p.m. Councilmember Tim Scott asked, Could you share the process of how someone applies to this? Ms. Meyer replied, Generally,right now, you could come to our office and get a paper application. We will then send that downstate. You could also apply directly to the State. You can get applications through the St. Joseph County Health Department and there are some community partners that have applications to assist people with applying online. The State does the applications first (Pt) and then they send them back out to the separate recipients. At that point, we are in communication to let people know we have received an application from the State but that we are preparing an actual application package that will go out to each of the applicants within the next four(4) to six (6) weeks. That will be the income qualifications and that is similar to our other Federal programs. We then send those downstate for them to approve and they then send it back to us telling us whether or not it is ok to proceed. Right now we have thirteen(13)applications and it is a combination of homeowners and renters and I told them they will get this packet sometime before the end of the year but that work and activity will not happen until 2019. EXCELLENCE 1 ACCOUNTABILITY INNOVATION INCLUSION EMPOWERMENT 455 County-City Building;227 W.Jefferson BvldSouth Bend,Indiana 46601 p 574.235.9221 f574.235.9173 TTD574.235.5567 www.southbendin.gov 2