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TO: Mayor Thomas J. Weisner
FROM: Daniel Barreiro, Chief Community Services Officer
DATE: May 18, 2016
SUBJECT:
A Resolution Authorizing Renewal of the Neighborhood Revitalization Strategy Area (NRSA) Strategy as identified in the City of Aurora's 2015-2019 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Consolidated Plan for the 2016 CDBG Program Year and Establishing Efforts to Pursue an Amendment to the NRSA Strategy.
PURPOSE:
Staff requests approval to renew the City of Aurora's 2015-2019 Community Development Block Grant Consolidated Plan's use of the 2011 Neighborhood Revitalization Strategy Area (NRSA) and to launch efforts to amend the City's NRSA Strategy.
BACKGROUND:
In 1999, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) approved the creation of the Neighborhood Revitalization Strategy Area (NRSA) for the City of Aurora, as an element of the City's Consolidated Plan. The Neighborhood Revitalization Strategy Area (NRSA) was originally created to provide enhanced flexibility for economic development, housing, and public service activities using Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funding within the NRSA boundaries.
The reason for pursuing an amendment to the City's NRSA Strategy is for the City to make a determination as to its effectiveness. Additionally, the timeliness of updates to an NRSA Strategy generally result as per one of the following two reasons: 1) upon the expiration of a CDBG community's pre-determined timeframe or 2) simultaneous to the submission of a new Consolidated Plan. For the City of Aurora, an Amendment to the City's NRSA Strategy was undertaken in late 2009 with the intent to include the updated Strategy in the City's 2010-2014 Consolidated Plan. The amended NRSA was subsequently adopted and incorporated into the City's 2010-2014 Consolidated Plan on March 22, 2011, following the close of an extensive 16-month community consultation and outreach process. (Please see Attachment A, "NRSA Amendm...
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