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84-933 WM17E - C�7V CLERK PINK ��- FINANCE GITY OF SAINT PAITL Council ��//�` �CANARV - DEPARTMENT File NO. -�/ � �� BI.UE - MAVOR � � Council Resolution Presented By Referred To Committee: Date Out of Committee By Date WHEREAS, more than half of the single parent families with at least two children have incomes below the poverty line; and WHEREAS, many of these single parents are unempioyed or underemployed and lack the resources to enable them to acquire skilts to obtain empioyment; and, WHEREAS, the local , State, and Federal programs that have been established to deal with the needs of lower income families are generally administered separately by different agencies at various levets of government. In addition,private charitable organizations that provide assistance to needy families are rarely coordinated with the public sector programs. Because of such administration within public and private programs, there is often no effective mechanism established within the coRxnunity to integrate the services and programs; and, WHEREAS, the Department of Housing and Urban Development is soliciting proposals from local governments to participate in Project Self-Sufficiency, an effort to encourage communities to devetop mechanisms for integrating public and private support services for low-income singte parent famities; and, WHEREAS, Project Self-Sufficiency operates on the assumption that once people have a place to live, they wilt have more time to search for a job. Therefore, the goal of Project Seif- Sufficiency is to enable very low-income single parents to become sociatly and economically self-sufficient by aliowing communities to use a special allocation of Section 8 existing housing certificates to obtain safe, sanitary and affordable housing. Other objectives of the program include: To make local COUNCILMEN Requested by Department of: Yeas Nays Fletcher °rB1N [n Favor Masanz Nicosla Scheibel __ Against BY Tedesco Wflson Form Approved by City Attorney Adopted by Council: Date Certified Vassed by Council Secretary BY By, A►pproved by lVlavor: Date Approved by Mayor for Submission to Council BY - — BY WMITE - C�7V CLERK PINK . - FINANCE GITY OF SAINT PALTL Council '- CAIVARV - DEPARTMENT File NO. �r� 933 BLUE - MAVOR � Council Resolution Presented By Referred To Committee: Date Out of Committee By Date communities aware of the problems faced by single parent, low- income families and to mobilize the community to help these people become seif-sufficient; To demonstrate the capacity of local communities to assist low income singie parents; To develop a range of strategies for generating private sector involvement and integrating those private resources with public assistance programs; and To document the implementation of successful Self- Sufficiency programs. Therefore, BE IT RESOLVED that the City of Saint Paul does encourage and support the devetopment of Project Self-Sufficiency. COUIVCILMEN Requested by Department of: Yeas Nays Fletcher � Drew In Favor Masanz Nicosia Scheibel � __ Against BY Tedesco Wilson Adopted by Council: Date JUL 17 198� Form Approved by City Attorney Certified P s-e b unc.il cr BY By Approved by 1+I or: te ��t�_�19 1984 Approved by Mayor for Submission to Council BY PUBLISNED JUL 2 8 i984 .