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December 13, 2012
The Honorable Mayor and City Council Members
City of Dubuque
City Hall — 50 W. 13th Street
Dubuque IA 52001
Housing and Community Development
350 West 6th Street Suite 312
Dubuque Iowa 52001
(563) 589 -4212 office
atauke @cityofdubuque.org
RE: Revised FY14 Purchase of Services Grant Recommendations
Dear Mayor and City Council Members:
The City of Dubuque Community Development Advisory Commission has reviewed the
Council's request to reconsider the funding recommendations for the Purchase of Services
Grant (POSG) applications for the Fiscal Year 2014 budget.
Discussion
The Council reviewed the Commission's funding recommendations for the FY14 Purchase
of Services Grants at your December 3rd meeting. At that time, the Council's heard
concerns from Operation: New View regarding the process of funding their public agency
through the POSG application process since they were established in 1974 to provide
services to citizens of the City of Dubuque and Dubuque, Delaware and Jackson Counties
through a 28E agreement:
The Agreement forming Operation: New View created a public agency to undertake
programs and activities which would improve economic and social conditions of low and
moderate income citizens as a community action agency as defined by Iowa Code
Chapter 28E. The agency has a governing board of twenty -seven members, three of
which are members of, or appointed by the City Council. The original agreement was
replaced in 1985 and does not require the City to fund Operation: New View; however, the
Council has provided the Agency funding since 1987.
The City defines purchase of service activities in the FY13 budget as "services that the
City feels fit the goals and priorities of the City and are not required to be provided or
would not be provided in the normal course of City business." Contracted services are
defined as "services that the City would have within its organization regardless of who
provides the service. Contracted services in many cases leverage other resources that
would not normally be available to the City." Operation: New View was placed in the
purchase of services category in the FY13 budget and therefore was required to apply for
FY14 funding through the new Purchase of Services Grant (POSG) Application process.
Recommendation
The Commission voted to recommend that Operation: New View be removed from the
Purchases of Services Grant funding process and be defined as a "contracted service"
thereby applying for funding through the City's budget process. We also recommend that
the funding previously applied to Operation: New View be awarded to the Riverview
Center, "Dubuque Sexual Assault Therapist" application. The revised funding for the
agencies is summarized below:
REVISED - FY 2014 Purchase of Services Grant Application - Funding Recommendation -
APPLICANT
PROJECT
AMOUNT
REQUESTED
Total
'Ranking
CDAC
Recommendation -,
Revised
A B
Concern
Foster Grandparent Program
$6,113
73
$6,113
$6,113
Retired and Senior
Volunteer Program
(sponsor Finley
Hospital)
Retired and Senior Volunteer
Program
$7,500
71
I
$7,500
$7,500
Dubuque Community Y
New Beginnings Shelter
$20,000
70
$8,000
$10,000
Bell Tower Productions
Youth Theater Program
$6,345
69
$6,345
$6,345
St John's Lutheran
Church
Guest House at St John's
Lutheran Church
$21,000
67
$8,400
$10,500
Dubuque Visiting Nurse
Assoc.
My Healthy Pathway
$18,059
60
$7,224
$9,030
Lutheran Services in
Iowa
Dubuque Community Wrap
Around Services
$25,000
il
53
II
$10,000
$12,500
Project Concern
2 -1 -1 Information and
Referral
$25,000
52
$10,000
$12,500
Riverview Center
Dubuque Sexual Assault
Therapist
$25,000
51
$10,000
$12,500
Clarke University
PALS and PLUS Programs
$11,325
50
Consumer Credit
Counseling Service of
Greater Dubuque
Counseling and Education
Services
$3,750
39
POSG Requests only
$194,092
$73,582
1$86,986
Previously Awarded Funding for FY13, FY14 and
FY15
Four Mounds
Matter (Formerly
Dubuque Art Center)
Opening Doors
HEART
Part Time Development
Director
Opening Doors- Program
Staff
$5,000
$15,000
$15,000
NA
NA
NA
$5,000
$15,000
$15,000
$5,000
$15,000
$15,000
`.: .:
G. -
otal_.FY4 GranFun_ i.,gr.. =.$22
,092
w<,
10'8 5821
$ 121i09-0:91
Action Step
The Commission recommends approval of either Recommendation A or B above for the
FY 2014 Purchase of Service Grant funding and requests the Council include the funding
in the FY 2014 budget process.
Respectfully submitted,
Ann Michalski, Chairperson
Community Development Advisory Commission