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FY 1998 SuperNOFA 1
Drug Elimination Grants for
Federally Assisted Low-income Housing
(Multifamily Housing Drug Elimination)
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION: Approximately $16,250,000 in funding is available for Federally Assisted Low Income Housing Drug Elimination Grants. This Multifamily Housing Drug Elimination Program section of the SuperNOFA does not apply to the funding available under Public and Indian Housing.
APPLICATION DUE DATES: Completed applications (an original and two copies) must be received no later than 6:00 pm local time in the HUD Office with jurisdiction over the applicant project June 15, 1998. See the General Section of this SuperNOFA for specific procedures governing the form of application submission (e.g., mailed applications, express mail, overnight delivery, or hand carried).
ADDRESS FOR SUBMITTING APPLICATIONS: Completed applications (an original and two copies) must be submitted no later than close of business to the HUD Office with jurisdiction over the applicant project. The application kit contains a list of the HUD Offices to which applications must be sent.
FOR APPLICATION KITS, FURTHER INFORMATION, AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE:
For Application Kits. For an application kit and any supplemental information, please call the SuperNOFA Information Center at 1-800-HUD-8929. Persons with hearing or speech impairments, may call the Center's TTY number at 1-800-843-2209. An application kit also will be available on the Internet through the HUD web site. When requesting an application kit, please refer to Multifamily Housing Drug Elimination Grants, and provide your name, address (including zip code) and telephone number (including area code).
For Further Information and Technical Assistance. Policy questions of a general nature may be referred to Carissa Janis, Housing Project Manager, Office of Portfolio Management, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 Seventh Street, SW, Washington, DC 20410; (202) 708-3291, extension 2487. (This number is not toll free). Hearing or speech impaired persons may access this number via TTY by calling the Federal Information Relay Service at 1-800-877-8339. HUD will notify all applicants whether or not they were selected for funding.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
I. Authority; Purpose; Amounts Allocated; and Eligibility.
(A) Authority. This program is authorized under Chapter 2, subtitle C, title V of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 (42 U.S.C. 11901 et. seq.), as amended by section 581 of the National Affordable Housing Act of 1990 (Pub.L. 102-550, approved October 28, 1992). The regulations for the program are found in 24 CFR part 761, Drug Elimination Programs.
(B) Purpose. The purpose of this Multifamily Housing Drug Elimination Grant Program is to:
- (1) Enable owners of federally assisted low-income housing projects to deal effectively with drug-related criminal activity in and around the project.
- (2) Improve the physical structure and the surrounding environment to enhance security designed to discourage drug-related criminal activity.
- (3) Develop programs and security measures designed to reduce the use of drugs in and around federally assisted low-income housing projects, including drug-abuse prevention, intervention, referral, and treatment programs.
(C) Amounts Allocated. The maximum grant award amount is limited to $125,000 per project. Any grant funds under this Multifamily Drug Elimination Grant Program of the SuperNOFA that are allocated, but that are not reserved for grantees, must be released to HUD Headquarters for reallocation. If the Award Office determines that an application cannot be partially funded and there are insufficient funds to fund the application fully, any remaining funds after all other applications have been selected will be released to HUD Headquarters for reallocation. Amounts that may become available due to deobligation will also be reallocated to Headquarters.
All reallocated funds will be awarded in the following manner: HUD Award Office will submit to Headquarters a list of applications, with their scores and amount of funding requested, that would have been funded had there been sufficient funds in the appropriate allocation to do so. Headquarters will select applications from those submitted by the HUD Award Offices, using a random number lottery overseen by the Offices of Housing, General Counsel, and Inspector General, and make awards from any available reallocated funds.
Distribution of Funds. Each Award Office may recommend a total number of awards up to the amount allocated for the area covered by the Award Office. The Award Offices will receive the scores from each HUD Office which has received, rated, ranked, and scored its applications. The Award Offices will, in turn, request Headquarters to fund those properties with the highest score from each HUD Office. If sufficient funds remain, the next highest scored applications, regardless of HUD Office, will be awarded funds. HUD is allocating grant funds under this Multifamily Drug Elimination Grant Program section of the SuperNOFA to the four Award Offices, in accordance with the following schedule:
AWARD OFFICE |
COVERED |
ALLOCATION |
Buffalo |
Vermont |
$4,015,000 |
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Massachusetts
Connecticut
Rhode Island
Maine
New Hampshire
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Delaware
Maryland
District of Columbia
West Virginia
Virginia |
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Knoxville |
Kentucky |
$4,110,000 |
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Tennessee
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Alabama
Puerto Rico
Mississippi
Florida
Iowa
Kansas
Missouri
Nebraska |
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Minneapolis |
Illinois |
$3,919,000 |
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Minnesota
Indiana
Wisconsin
Michigan
Ohio |
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Little Rock |
Arkansas |
$4,206,000 |
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Louisiana
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Texas
Colorado
Montana
North Dakota
South Dakota
Utah
Wyoming
Arizona
California
Hawaii
Nevada
Alaska
Idaho
Oregon
Washington |
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(D) Eligible Applicants. Eligible applicants include owners of the following low-income housing projects: Section 221(d)(3), Section 221(d)(4), or Section 236 of the National Housing Act with project-based assistance. (Note: Section 221(d)(3) and Section 221(d)(4) market rate projects with tenant-based assistance are not eligible for funding); Section 101 of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965; or Section 8 of the United States Act of 1937. This includes State Housing Agency projects, Rural Housing and Community Development projects, and Moderate Rehabilitation projects with project-based Section 8 assistance. This does not include Section 8 tenant-based assistance). Owners of Section 8 tenant-based projects are also ineligible.
(E) Eligible Activities. Programs which foster interrelationships among the residents, the housing owner and management, the local law enforcement agencies, and other community groups impacting on the housing are greatly desired and encouraged. Resident participation in the determination of programs and activities to be undertaken is critical to the success of all aspects of the program. Working jointly with community groups, the neighborhood law enforcement precinct, residents of adjacent properties and the community as a whole can enhance and magnify the effect of specific program activities and should be the goal of all applicants.
- (1) Physical improvements to enhance security. The improvement may include but are not limited to systems designed to limit building access to project residents, the installation of barriers, lighting systems, fences, bolts, locks; the landscaping or reconfiguration of common areas to discourage drug-related crime; and other physical improvements designed to enhance security and discourage drug-related activities. In particular, HUD is seeking plans that provide successful, proven, and cost-effective deterrents to drug-related crime that are designed to address the realities of federally assisted low-income housing environments. All physical improvements must also be accessible to persons with disabilities. For example, some types of locks or buzzer systems are not accessible to persons with limited strength, or mobility, or to persons who have hearing impairments and should not be utilized. Accessible alternatives should be utilities. All physical improvements must meet the accessibility requirements of 24 CFR part 8, Nondiscrimination Based on Handicap in Federally Assisted Programs and Activities of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
- (2) Programs to Reduce the Use of Drugs. Programs to reduce the use of drugs in and around the project, including drug-abuse prevention, intervention, referral, and treatment programs are eligible for funding under this program. The program should facilitate drug prevention, intervention, and treatment efforts, to include outreach to community resources and youth activities, and facilitate bringing these resources onto the premises, or provide resident referrals to treatment programs or transportation to out-patient treatment programs away from the premises. Funding is permitted for reasonable, necessary, and justified leasing of vehicles for resident youth and adult education and training activities directly related to "Programs to reduce the use of drugs" under this section. Alcohol-related activities and programs are not eligible for funding under this Multifamily Housing Drug Elimination Grant Program section of the SuperNOFA.
- (3) Drug Prevention. Drug prevention programs that will be considered for funding under this Multifamily Housing Drug Elimination Grant Program section of the SuperNOFA must provide a comprehensive drug prevention approach for residents that will address the individual resident and his or her relationship to family, peers, and the community. Prevention programs must include activities designed to identify and change the factors present in federally assisted low-income housing that lead to drug-related problems, and thereby lower the risk of drug usage. Many components of a comprehensive approach, such as refusal and restraint skills training programs or drug-related family counseling, may already be available in the community of the applicant's housing projects, and the applicant must act to bring those available program components onto the premises. Activities that should be included in these programs are:
- (a) Drug Education Opportunities for Residents. The causes and effects of illegal drug usage must be discussed in a formal setting to provide both young people and adults the working knowledge and skills they need to make informed decisions to confront the potential and immediate dangers of illegal drugs. Grantees may contract (in accordance with 24 CFR Part 85.36) with drug education professionals to provide training or workshops. The drug education professional contracted to provide these services shall be required to base their services upon the program plan of the grantee. These educational opportunities may be a part of resident meetings, youth activities, or other gatherings of residents.
- (b) Family and Other Support Services. Drug prevention programs must demonstrate that they will provide directly or otherwise make available services designed to distribute drug education information, to foster effective parenting skills, and to provide referrals for treatment and other available support services in the project or the community for federally-assisted low-income housing families.
- (c) Youth Services. Drug prevention programs must demonstrate that they have included groups composed of young people as a part of their prevention programs. These groups must be coordinated by adults with the active participation of youth to organize youth leadership, sports, recreational, cultural and other activities involving housing youth. The dissemination of drug education information, the development of peer leadership skills and other drug prevention activities must be a component of youth services.
- (4) Economic/Educational Opportunities for Resident Youth. Drug prevention programs should demonstrate a capacity to provide residents the opportunity for referral to established higher education or vocational institutions with the goal of developing or building on the resident's skills to pursue educational, vocational, and economic goals. The program must also demonstrate the ability to provide residents the opportunity to interact with private sector businesses in their immediate community for the same desired goals.
- (5) Intervention. The aim of intervention is to identify federally-assisted low-income housing resident drug users and assist them in modifying their behavior and in obtaining early treatment, if necessary. The applicant must establish a program with the goal of preventing drug problems from continuing once detected.
- (6) Drug Treatment. Treatment funded under this program shall be in or around the premises of the project. Funds awarded under this program shall be targeted towards the development and implementation of new drug referral treatment services and/or aftercare, or the improvement of, or expansion of such program services for residents. Each proposed drug treatment program should address the following goals:
- (a) Increase resident accessibility to drug treatment services;
- (b) Decrease criminal activity in and around the project by reducing illicit drug use among residents;
- (c) Provide services designed for youth and/or maternal drug abusers, e.g., prenatal/postpartum care, specialized counseling in women's issues; parenting classes, or other drug treatment supportive services. Approaches that have proven effective with similar populations will be considered for funding. Programs should meet the following criteria:
- (i) Applicants may provide the service of formal referral arrangements to other treatment programs not in or around the project when the resident is able to obtain treatment costs from sources other than this program. Applicants may also provide transportation for residents to out-patient treatment and/or support programs.
- (ii) Provide family/collateral counseling.
- (iii) Provide linkages to educational/vocational counseling.
- (iv) Provide coordination of services to appropriate local drug agencies, HIV-related service agencies, and mental health and public health programs.
- (7) Working Partnerships. Applicants must demonstrate a working partnership with the Single State Agency or State license provider or authority with drug program coordination responsibilities to coordinate, develop and implement the drug treatment proposal. In particular, applicants must review and determine with the Single State Agency or State license provider or authority with drug program coordination responsibilities whether: A) the drug treatment provider(s) has provided drug treatment services to similar populations, identified in the application, for two prior years; and B) the drug treatment proposal is consistent with the State treatment plan and the treatment service meets all State licensing requirements.
- (8) Resident Councils. Providing funding to resident councils to develop security and drug abuse programs.
(E) Ineligible Activities. The following activities are not eligible for funding:
- (1) Any activity or improvement that is normally funded from project operating revenues for routine maintenance or repairs, or those activities or improvements that may be funded through reasonable and affordable rent increases;
- (2) The acquisition of real property or physical improvements that involve the demolition of any units in the project or displacement of tenants;
- (3) Costs incurred prior to the effective date of the grant agreement, including, but not limited to, consultant fees for surveys related to the application or its preparation;
- (4) Reimbursement of local law enforcement agencies for additional security and protective services;
- (5) The employment of one or more individuals to investigate drug-related crime on or about the real property comprising any federally-assisted low-income project and/or to provide evidence relating to such crime in any administrative or judicial proceeding;
- (6) The provision of training, communications equipment and other related equipment for use by voluntary tenant patrols acting in cooperation with local law enforcement officials;
- (7) Treatment of residents at any in-patient medical treatment programs or facilities;
- (8) Detoxification procedures, short term or long term, designed to reduce or eliminate the presence of toxic substances in the body tissues of a patient;
- (9) Maintenance drug programs. [Maintenance drugs are medications that are prescribed regularly for a long period of supportive therapy (e.g., methadone maintenance), rather than for immediate control of a disorder.]
II. Program Requirements.
In addition to the program requirements listed in the General Section of this SuperNOFA, applicants are subject to the additional requirements in this Section II. These requirements apply to all activities, programs, and functions used to plan, budget, and evaluate the work funded under this program. After applications have been ranked and selected, HUD and the applicant shall enter into a grant agreement setting forth the amount of the grant, the physical improvements or other eligible activities to be undertaken, financial controls, and special conditions, including sanctions for violation of the agreement.
(A) General. The policies, guidelines, and requirements of this NOFA, along with applicable HUD program regulations, HUD Handbooks, and the terms of grant/special conditions and subgrant agreements apply to the acceptance and use of assistance by grantees and will be followed in determining the reasonableness and allocability or costs. All costs must be reasonable and necessary.
(B) Term of Funded Activities. The term of funded activities may not exceed 12 months. Owners must ensure that any funds received under this program are not commingled with other HUD or project operating funds. To avoid duplicate funding, owners must establish controls to assure that any funds from other sources, such as Reserve for Replacement, Rent increases, etc., are not used to fund the physical improvements to be undertaken under this program.
HUD may terminate funding if the grantee fails to undertake the approved program activities on a timely basis in accordance with the grant agreement. Grantees must adhere to grant agreement requirements and/or special conditions, and must submit timely and accurate reports.
(C) Subgrants - Subcontracting. A grantee may directly undertake any of the eligible activities under this Multifamily Drug Elimination Program section of the SuperNOFA or it may contract with a qualified third party, including incorporated Resident Councils. Resident groups that are not incorporated may share with the grantee in the implementation of the program, but may not receive funds as subgrantees. Subgrants to incorporated Resident Councils may be made only for eligible statutory activities and only under a written agreement executed between the grantee and the Resident Council. The agreement must include a program budget that is acceptable to the grantee, and that is otherwise consistent with the grant application budget. The agreement must obligate the incorporated Resident Council to permit the grantee to inspect and audit the Resident Council's financial records related to the agreement, and to account to the grantee on the use of grant funds, and on the implementation of program activities. In addition, the agreement must describe the nature of the activities to be undertaken by the subgrantee, the scope of the subgrantee's authority, and the amount of insurance to be obtained by the grantee and the subgrantee to protect their respective interests.
The grantee shall be responsible for monitoring and for providing technical assistance to any subgrantee to ensure compliance with HUD program requirements, including the regulations at 24 CFR part 84, Grants and Agreements with Institutions of Higher Education, Hospitals, and Other Non-Profit Organizations. The procurement requirements of Part 84 also apply to Resident Councils. The grantee must also ensure that subgrantees have appropriate insurance.
(D) Section 3 Economic Opportunity. Please see Section II(E) of the General Section of this SuperNOFA. The requirements of Section 3 are applicable to funding under this program.
(E) Forms, Certifications and Assurances. See General Section of the SuperNOFA for the applicable forms, certifications and assurances to be submitted.
(F) Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing. The first two sentences of the requirement of Section II(D) of the General Section of the SuperNOFA do not apply to this program.
III. Application Selection Process.
(A) Rating and Ranking. Applications will be evaluated competitively and ranked against all other applicants that have applied for these Drug Elimination Grants.
The maximum number of points for this program is 102. This includes two EZ/EC bonus points, as described in the General Section of the SuperNOFA.
(B) Factors for Award Used to Evaluate and Rate Applications. The five factors in this section total 100 points. An application must receive a score of at least 51 points out of the total of 100 points provided for the five factors to be eligible for funding under this competition. The Award Office will select the highest ranking application from each HUD Office whose eligible activities can be fully funded. The Award Office will then select the highest scored unfunded application submitted to it regardless of Field Office and continue the process until all funds allocated to it have been awarded or to the point where there are insufficient acceptable applications for which to award funds. Each application submitted will be evaluated on the basis of the selection criteria set forth below.
Rating Factor 1: Capacity of the Applicant and Relevant Organizational Experience (20 Points).
This factor addresses the extent to which the applicant has proper organizational resources necessary to successfully implement the proposed activities in a timely manner. In rating this factor, HUD will consider the extent to which the application demonstrates the capabilities described below. In rating this factor, HUD will consider the following:
(1) The knowledge and experience of the staff and administrative capability to manage grants, including administrative support functions, procurement, lines of authority, and fiscal management capacity.
- (a) For PHAs (and TDHEs that had previously applied as IHAs), HUD will consider such measurement tools as PHMAP, uniform crime index, physical inspections, agency monitoring of records, Line of Credit Control System Reports (LOCCS), audits and such other relevant information available to HUD on the capacity of the owner or manager to undertake the grant.
- (b) For owners of multifamily housing, HUD will consider the most recent Management Review (including Rural Development Management Review), HQS review, State Agency review and such other relevant information available to HUD on the capacity of the owner or manager to undertake the grant.
- (c) A description of established performance goals to define the results expected to be achieved by all major grant activities proposed in the grant application, and a description of the goals expressed in an objective, quantifiable, and measurable form. The goals must be outcome or result-oriented and not out-put related. Outcomes include accomplishments, results, impact and the ultimate effects of the program on the drug or crime problem in the target/project area.
(2) The applicant's performance in administering Drug Elimination funding in the previous 5 years.
- (a) For PHAs the applicant's past experience will be evaluated in terms of their ability to attain demonstrated measurable progress in tracking drug related crime, enforcement of screening and lease procedures in implementation of the "One Strike and You're Out Initiative" (as applicable), the extent to which the applicant has formed a collaboration with Tribal, State and local law enforcement agencies and courts to gain access to criminal conviction records of applicants to determine their suitability for residence in public housing. Such data will be measured and evaluated based on the Public Housing Management Assessment Program at 24 CFR part 901.
- (b) The applicant must identify their participation in HUD grant programs within the preceding three years and discuss the degree of the applicant's success in implementing and managing (program implementation, timely drawdown of funds, timely submission of required reports with satisfactory outcomes related to the plan and timetable, audit compliance, whether there are any unresolved findings from prior HUD reports (.e.g. performance or finance) reviews of audits undertaken by HUD, the Office of Inspector General, the General Accounting Office or independent public accountants.
(3) Submission of evidence that applicants have initiated other efforts to reduce drug-related crime by working with Operation Safe Home, SNAP, Weed and Seed, or tenant and/or law enforcement groups.
(4) The applicant's performance in administering other Federal, State or local grant programs.
Rating Factor 2: Need/Extent of the Problem (25 Points)
This factor addresses the extent to which there is a need for funding the proposed program activities to address a documented problem in the target area (i.e., the degree of the severity of the drug-related crime problem in the project proposed for funding). In responding to this factor, applicants will be evaluated on the extent to which a critical level of need for the proposed activities is explained and an indication of the urgency of meeting the need in the target area. Applicants must include a description of the extent and nature of drug-related crime "in or around" the housing units or developments proposed for funding.
Applicants will be evaluated on the following:
(1) (15 points) "Objective Crime Data" relevant to the target area. For objective crime data, an applicant can be awarded up to 15 points. Such data should consist of verifiable records and not anecdotal reports. Where appropriate, the statistics should be reported both in real numbers and as an annual percentage of the residents in each development (e.g., 20 arrests in a two-year period for distribution of heroin in a development with 100 residents reflects a 20% occurrence rate). Such data may include:
- (a) Police records or other verifiable information from records on the types or sources of drug related crime in the targeted developments and surrounding area;
- (b) The number of lease terminations or evictions for drug-related crime at the targeted developments; and
- (c) The number of emergency room admissions for drug use or that result from drug-related crime. Such information may be obtained from police Departments and/or fire departments, emergency medical service agencies and hospitals. The number of police calls for service from housing authorities developments that include resident initiated calls, officer-initiated calls, domestic violence calls, drug distribution complaints, found drug paraphernalia, gang activity, graffiti that reflects drugs or gang-related activity, vandalism, drug arrests, and abandoned vehicles.
- For PHAs, such data should include housing authority police records on the types and sources on drug related crime "in or around" developments as reflected in crime statistics or other supporting data from Federal, State, Tribal or local law enforcement agencies.
(2) (10 Points) Other Crime Data: Other supporting data on the extent of drug-related crime. For this section, an applicant can received up to 10 points. To the extent that objective data as described above may not be available, or to complement that data, the assessment must use data from other verifiable sources that have a direct bearing on drug-related crime in the developments proposed for assistance under this program. However, if other relevant information is to be used in place of objective data, the application must indicate the reasons why objective data could not be obtained and what efforts were made to obtain it and what efforts will be made during the grant period to begin obtaining the data. Examples of the data should include (but are not necessarily limited to):
- (a) Surveys of residents and staff in the targeted developments surveyed on drug-related crime or on-site reviews to determine drug/crime activity; and government or scholarly studies or other research in the past year that analyze drug-related crime activity in the targeted developments.
- (b) Vandalism cost at the targeted developments, to include elevator vandalism (where appropriate) and other vandalism attributable to drug-related crime.
- (c) Information from schools, health service providers, residents and Federal, State, local, and Tribal officials, and the verifiable opinions and observations of individuals having direct knowledge of drug-related crime and the nature and frequency of these problems in developments proposed for assistance. (These individuals may include Federal, State, Tribal, and local government law enforcement officials, resident or community leaders, school officials, community medical officials, substance abuse, treatment (dependency/remission) or counseling professionals, or other social service providers.)
- (d) The school dropout rate and level of absenteeism for youth that the applicant can relate to drug-related crime. If crime or other statistics are not available at the development or precinct level the applicant must use other verifiable, reliable and objective data.
- (e) To the extent that the applicant's community's Consolidated Plan identifies the level of the problem and the urgency in meeting the need, references to these documents should be included in the response. The Department will review more favorably those applicants who used these documents to identify need, when applicable.
Rating Factor 3: Soundness of Approach - (Quality of the Plan) (35 Points)
This factor addresses the quality and effectiveness of the applicant's proposed work plan. In rating this factor, HUD will consider the impact of the activity; if there are tangible benefits that can be attained by the community and by the target population.
An application must include a detailed narrative describing each proposed activity for crime reduction and elimination efforts for each development proposed for assistance, the amount and extent of resources committed to each activity or service proposed, and process used to collect, maintain, analyze and report Part I and II crimes as defined by the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR System), as well as police workload data. The process must include the collection of police workload data such as, but not limited to, all calls for service at the housing authority by individual development, pattern over a period of time, type of crime, and plans to improve data collection and reporting.
In evaluating this factor, HUD will consider the following:
(1) The quality of the applicant's plan to address the drug- related crime problem, and the problems associated with drug-related crime in the developments proposed for funding, the resources allocated, and how well the proposed activities fit with the plan.
(2) The anticipated effectiveness of the plan and proposed activities in reducing or eliminating drug-related crime problems immediately and over an extended period, including whether the proposed activities enhance and are coordinated with on going or proposed programs sponsored by HUD such as Neighborhood Networks, Campus of Learners, Computerized Community Connections, Operation Safe Home, "One Strike and You're Out," Department of Justice Weed and Seed Efforts, or any other prevention intervention treatment activities.
(3) The rational for the proposed activities and methods used including evidence that proposed activities have been effective in similar circumstances in controlling drug-related crime. Applicants that are proposing new methods for which there is limited knowledge of the effectiveness, should provide the basis for modifying past practices and rationale for why they believe the modification will yield more effective results.
(4) The process it will use to collect, maintain, analyze and report Part I and II crimes as defined by the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR System), as well as police workload data. The applicant's proposed analysis of the data collected should include a method for assessing the impact of activities on the collected crime statistics on an on-going basis during the award period.
(5) Specific steps the applicant will take to share and coordinate information on solutions and outcomes with other law-enforcement and governmental agencies, and a description of any written agreements in place or that will be put in place.
(6) The extent to which the applicant's elimination of crime in a development or neighborhood will expand fair housing choice and will affirmatively further fair housing.
Rating Factor 4 -- Leveraging Resources (10 Points)
In assessing this factor, HUD will consider the following:
(1) The extent to which the owner is participating in programs that are available from local governments or law enforcement agencies
(2) The level of participation and support by the local government or law enforcement agency for the applicant's proposed activities. This may include letters of support to the owner, documentation that the owner participates in town hall type meetings to develop strategies to combat crime, or any other form of partnership with local government or law enforcement agencies.
(3) The level of assistance received from local government and/or law enforcement agencies.
(4) The extent to which an applicant has sought the support of residents in planning and implementing the proposed activities.
- Evidence that comments and suggestions have been sought from residents to the proposed plan for this program and the degree to which residents will be involved in implementation.
- Evidence of resident support for the proposed plan.
Rating Factor 5 -- Comprehensiveness and Coordination (10 Points)
This factor addresses the extent to which the applicant coordinated its activities with other known organizations, participates or promotes participation in a community's Consolidated Planning process, and is working towards addressing a need in a holistic and comprehensive manner through linkages with other activities in the community.
In evaluating this factor, HUD will consider the extent to which the applicant demonstrates it has:
(1) Coordinated its proposed activities with those of other groups or organizations prior to submission in order to best complement, support and coordinate all know activities and if funded, the specific steps it will take to share information on solutions and outcomes with others. Any written agreements, memoranda of understanding in place, or that will be in place after award should be described.
(2) Taken or will take specific steps to become active in the community's Consolidated Planning process (including the Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice) established to identify and address a need/problem that is related to the activities the applicant proposes.
(3) Taken or will take specific steps to develop linkages to coordinate comprehensive solutions through meetings, information networks, planning processes or other mechanisms with:
- (a) Other HUD-funded projects/activities outside the scope of those covered by the Consolidated Plan; and
- (b) Other Federal, State, or locally funded activities, including those proposed or on-going in the community.
IV. Application Submission Requirements.
An applicant is allowed to submit only one application for funding under this program. A separate application must be submitted for each project. If the grant is to serve connecting or adjacent properties, an applicant may submit one application that will serve all properties. In such a case, the applicant must describe in detail in its application how the grant will serve the properties. Only one project would receive the funding even though the grant would be serving several properties. The application includes the forms, certifications and assurances listed in the General Section of the SuperNOFA.
V. Corrections to Deficient Applications.
The General Section of the SuperNOFA provides the procedures for corrections to deficient applications.
VI. Environmental Requirements.
It is anticipated that activities under this program are categorically excluded under 24 CFR 50.19(b)(4), (b)(12), or (b)(13). If grant funds will be used to cover the cost of any non-exempt activities, HUD will perform an environmental review to the extent required by 24 CFR part 50, prior to grant award.
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