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City tweaks community development oversight
By: Joshua Sabatini
Examiner Staff Writer
09/14/09 12:54 PM PDT
Douglas Shoemaker, director of the Mayor’s Office of Housing, praised the efforts of supervisors Chris Daly and John Avalos on Monday in helping to propose changes to the current citizens’ community development advisory committee -- and in putting the changes in stone by making them city law.
The committee proposal came on the heels of a consolidation between the Mayor’s Office of Housing and the city’s community development. It cuts the existing community development advisory committee from 17 members to nine, each of which will be appointed by the mayor, subject to the approval of the Board of Supervisors.
Shoemaker noted that a June 2009 study recommended the consolidation and that so far it’s going well.
“We were always on the same floor and we shared a similar back office but now we are actually doing a great deal of work together,” Shoemaker said during Monday’s Board of Supervisors City Operations and Neighborhood Services Committee hearing. “It’s been a real good synergy."
He said recommendations on the use of federal stimulus dollars for community development are being finalized.
Among the major undertakings is putting together a five-year plan on how to spend $200 million in federal funding during the next five years.
“It would be incredibly helpful for us to have a new citizens' committee in place to help guide that process,” Shoemaker said.
The committee forwarded the legislation to the full board for a vote.
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