The Council will vote on this tomorrow night. It’s in the one year plan for federal funding. You get the feeling they just wrote something on paper to meet a requirement. Too bad there aren’t sincere efforts being made to have a comprehensive strategy with resources behind it.
2012 Action Plan Antipoverty Strategy response:
The Antipoverty strategy of the City is to promote the accessibility and availability of employment, education, health care and family support services to lower income households to help them develop greater family independence and to promote neighborhood involvement, steps which will eventually lead to the reduction of poverty throughout the City.The City has adopted five major strategies to achieve these goals of poverty reduction:
1. Market information about resources to poverty level households;2. Refine housing assistance programs to better link such housing assistance to other helping resources, including self-help activities, such as community gardening and employment efforts;
3. Improve City service delivery systems to become more responsive to neighborhoods where poverty-level families tend to reside and encourage goals, policies and practices which tend to involve these neighborhoods in the City’s decision processes and revitalization efforts.
4. Increase economic development and employment and training opportunities.
5. Improve collaborative efforts between local governments, non-profits, schools and businesses.
In 2012, the City will continue efforts begun earlier to work closely with residents, owners and community groups to address some of the emerging revitalization issues in the Southwest area, Leopold School area and the Northport/Warner/Sherman areas, as well as continue to support revitalization efforts in the Allied-Dunn’s Marsh area. These efforts will continue to:
– Improve the public infrastructure within the areas.
– Continue to support the 5 Neighborhood Resource Staff Teams (including representatives from CDBG, EOC, Public Health, Police, Community Services and Building Inspection).
– Increase effectiveness of the overall police law enforcement efforts to reduce criminal activity.
– Stabilize the management of rental housing and the Meadowood neighborhood center in the southwest area.
– Assess and refine the City’s efforts to support resident involvement and empowerment in the community.
– Support efforts of owners and residents to reduce energy consumption through partnership efforts with the State of Wisconsin and Madison Gas and Electric.
– Coordinate and collaborate programs and services with other funders, agencies, businesses, and neighborhood organizations.The City’s efforts will assist in reducing poverty by addressing emerging neighborhood needs. These efforts will bring additional services and opportunities to residents that may have been previously underserved or isolated.
Feel like this is satisfactory?
