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1. A regular and fixed amount of Federal funds. A ~onirrogramapproach, making ~tpossible for localities to use these funds to deal withurban problems in a systematic and strategic way. $. Eliminationof requirements for submission of detailed project plans and budgets. The City will have to determine what its o~n comprehensive local community-development goals are and'establis~ its o~n strategies in carrying them out. It must build a new capacity for planning, managing and evaluating. Because of'these demands, it is important that preparations be made to be able.to take early 'advantage e£ the community development block grants." On motion o/Mr; ~ith and seconded by,fr.-Early, the following ordinance was approved on first reading, and by-the following vote: "AN ORDINANCE TO APPROPRIATE $118,500 FRO}/TNE FEDERAL GRANTS FUND FOR PHABE II OF THE COMPREHENSIVE PLANNING MANAGF~ENT PROGIL~q." Ayes: Early, Holley,Johnson, £ing, ~mith, Wentz, Barnes Nays: None 73-104 - "I submit the attached ordinance and recommend itbe placed on first reading. Thi-s appropriates'$8,$22 as~the City's.contribution to STOP for fiscal year 1971-72. We are in receipt of a letter from the Southeastern Tidewater Opportunity Project requesting 'payment of these funds. Ihave beenadvised that STOP provided the following services in the City during the past year: 1. Field O//ices A. Child Development Centers Neighborhood Facility 900 Elm Avenue Zi~n~ Baptist Church 527 Green Street (85 pre-schoolers). This program is similar to the kindergarten program. 2. Staffint Of the S21 persons employed by'STOP, 67 are Portsmouth residents. They assisted in the offering o£ about $668,000 in Federally-funded activities to_Portsmouth. Other Activities Tidewater Legal Aid Society operates from the Portsmouth Neighborhood Facility. A fUll-time la,er.and supportive staff registered approxi- mately 1,O00 cases last year; STOP is a financial supporter ofthis function along with the ~ni:ted'Co~mun~ties Fund and Model Cities. The Tidewater Residential Support Center, located at 2107 Liberty S~reet, Chesapeake, serves 35 young women, 5 are residents of Portsmouth. This is a job training effort. C~ Neighborhood Services Component provides outreach capability - to include recruitment and £ield assistance to area residents of Manpower Component, which operates;as a job development; counseling, and job placement group, ties in with the community'workers who perform much of the recruitment. ~uring the past summer, 245 Portsmouth youth worked in STeP's Summer Neighborhood ~ Youth Corps Program, These enrollees were assigned to a number o£ non-profit public agencieg where they worked a maximum of ~6 hours a week. Also, during last summer, for a 9-week period, approximately3,000 Portsmouth youngsters between the ages of 8 and 13 participated in day camp programs, fishing .expeditions, swimming programs, baseball games, family cookouts and cultural enrichment tours.~! On motion of MrJ/~ie~'and seconded by~lr. F~ii~, the following ordinancewas approved on first reading, and-by the following vote: 'AN ORDINANCE TO APPROPRIATE $8,322 FROI~',THE GENERAL FUND FOR AN ANNUAL EONTRIBUTION TO THESOUTHEASTERN TIDEWATER OPPORTUNITY PROJECT." Ayes: EarT~, Holley, Johnson, [ing, Smith, Wentz, Barnes Nays: None