STRATEGIC PRIORITY: Workforce, Education and Equity
AGENDA DATE: December 11, 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 an approximately 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) TeCo Theatrical Productions, Inc. in an amount not to exceed $157,500.00; (b) Communities in Schools of the Dallas Region in an amount not to exceed $277,095.00; (c) Shared Housing Center in an amount not to exceed $484,675.00; (d) Under 1 Roof in an amount not to exceed $861,990.00; and (e) Harmony Community Development Corporation in an amount not to exceed $270,000.00 (increasing the authorized amount from $300,000.00 to $570,000.00) - Total amount not to exceed $2,051,260.00 - Financing: TWPD 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 were made available via a Notice of Funding Availability administered by the Office of Community Care and Empowerment for community organizations and nonprofit organizations to administer aligned programs and services in Dallas, Texas, Texas House District 111, and/or southern Dallas. ...
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