STRATEGIC PRIORITY: Workforce, Education and Equity
AGENDA DATE: November 13, 2024
COUNCIL DISTRICT(S): All
DEPARTMENT: Office of Community Care and Empowerment
EXECUTIVE: M. Elizabeth Cedillo-Pereira
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SUBJECT
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Authorize a fourteen-month subrecipient agreement, subject to appropriation, to provide housing support, workforce/skills training, and/or certification and job placement assistance, to eligible individuals, on behalf of the Office of Community Care and Empowerment, approved as to form by the City Attorney with: (a) Community Missionary Baptist Church in an amount not to exceed $351,436.00; (b) Family Gateway in an amount not to exceed $307,040.00; (c) Friendship West Baptist Church in an amount not to exceed $1,009,279.50; (d) Girls Incorporated of Metropolitan Dallas in an amount not to exceed $375,000.00; (e) Harmony Community Development Corporation in an amount not to exceed $300,000.00; (f) Chocolate Mint Foundation in an amount not to exceed $950,000.00; (g) Phoenix House Texas in an amount not to exceed $124,630.00; and (h) St. Phillips School and Community Center in an amount not to exceed $332,452.50 - Total not to exceed $3,749,838.00 - Financing: TPWD Coronavirus State and Fiscal Recovery Fund
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BACKGROUND
In response to the economic and human impacts of the Coronavirus pandemic, in 2021 the United States Treasury made available funding to cities, states and counties in the form of State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department was a direct recipient of funds and allocated $20,000,000.00 to the City of Dallas for housing and workforce development, parks and trails, libraries and cultural centers, and health and physical development programming.
Approximately $6,300,000.00 of these funds have been made available via a Notice of Funding Availability administered by the Office of Community Care and Empowerment for community organi...
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