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Show ritt b. An opportunity for residents to influence the HUD Defines process by early and continuing involvement in decision-makin- g planning, monitoring and evaluation of the Model Cities Citizen's Role Introduction. Section 103 (a) (2) of the Demonstration 1. Cities and Metropolitan Development Act of 1966 requires that a Model Cities program provide for "widespread citizen participation in the instrument for carrying out the Model Cities program, will be responsible for insuring that whatever organization is adopted, it provide the means for the model neighborhood's citizens to partipate and be fully involved in , planning and the program." 2. Policy Statement on execution of all program Citizen Participation. The elements. For implementation of this statutory provision requires: (1) the constructive involvement of citizens in the model neighborhood area and the city as a whole in planning and carrying out the program, and (2) the means of introducing the views of area residents in policy making should be developed and opportunities should be afforded area residents to participate actively in planning and carrying out the demonstration. This requirement grows out of the conviction that improving the quality of life of the residents of the model neighborhood can be accomplished only by the affirmative action of the people themselves. This requires a means of building competence and self-estee- a desire to in effectively solving the social and physical problems of their community. HUD will not determine the policy-making- for citizen participation which must be achieved by each City Demonstration Agency. It is expected that patterns will vary from city to city rejecting local circumstances. The city government, as the principal of City and County To enable citizens to on the examine and comment of programs affecting the neighborhood, to inter-relationshi- identify where coordination lack of creates gaps in delivery, inconsistent approaches, or counter effects between different program program. 3. Performance Standards THE ONLY SOLUTION TO SOLVING THE BLIGHTED for Citizen Participation in Model CONDITIONS Neighborhood Programs. In order for residents to participate in employment and other economic opportunities created by Federal programs. CONFRONTING organizational structure, existing WHERE THEY EXIST. We may choose to ignore them but they won't go away. or newly established, which embodies neighborhood residents in the process of policy and program planning and program implementation and cooperation. The leadership of that structure must consist of persons whom neighborhood residents accept as representing their interests. GOALS AND OBJECTIVES OF CITIZEN PARTICIPATION Regulations under a new law that will require 1.5 million welfare recipients to sign up for work or work training were issued by Labor Secretary J. D. Hodgson and Heath, Education and Welfare Secretary Elliot L. Richardson. The new regulations take effect July 1, 1972. Affected will be persons who receive or apply for AFDC - Aid to Families with Dependent Childten. "More than eight out of ten will be mothers, because there are really few male adults in the AFDC program," Secretary receiving welfare will be signed up by the end of the year as a condition for receiving aid. The rest will be signed up as they come in to apply for aid in the next 12 months. The massive sign-u- p is an extension of the existing Work Incentive Program, actually (WIN), a joint help HEW-Labo- r plan to welfare families become g. Both Secretaries Hodgson and Richardson pointed out that there is more to getting a job than just signing up. "In order to get work or train for a job," Secretary Hodgson said, "these women will need child care services, homemaker help, and perhaps home managment, housing, family planning or other services." Federal funds will pay for 90 percent of these ment-relate- em-plo- y services, he said. The new regulations call for special units to be set up in local welfare offices to he p arrange for these services. d Comments on the HEW regulations should be sent to: SRS Administrator, HEW, Washington, D. C. 20201. Comments on Labor regulations should go to Assistant Secretary for Manpower, Department of Labor, Washington, D. C. 20210. Checklist for Going Into Business . . . build trust and To understanding among residents, citywide interest groups, and local officials regarding urban problems by providing: HOW ABOUT THE a. An opportunity for those who live and work in the neighborhood to identify problems, issues, goals, and priorities as they perceive them. Publication of the Model Neighborhood News is made possible through a grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Starting a business is risky at best. But your chances of making it go will be better if you understand the problems you will meet and work out as many of them as you can before you start. Before you start a business, you should ask some questions about yourself, about the money needed to get into business, about a possible business partner and about the customers in your community. WHAT ABOUT YOU? Commissioners with editorial offices located at 119 East 21st South, Bldg. 5, Salt Lake City, Utah 841 15. Neighborhood News.) About 800,000 persons now to provide the citizen participation called for in the Act, there must be some form of (Special to the Model Richardson said. MOST AMERICAN CITIES TODAY IS TO FIND AND CORRECT THE PROBLEMS model neighborhood news volume one News is a publication of the Salt Lake Model Cities Agency under the supervision of the Joint Board better access and respond to the needs and preferences of the community. activities. To enhance the opportunity salt lake The Model Neighborhood government, citywide interest groups, and program agencies to plan to be approved, it must provide for such an organization and spell out precisely how the participation and involvement of the residents is to be carried out throughout the life of the Model Cities a participate ideal organization! pattern designed to accomplish this objective. It will, however, outline performance standards Program. c. An opportunity for local New Law For Welfare Clients Publication of the newspaper is weekly with a distribution of 17,000 copies. Mariene Marie Young, Editor and Community Information Specialist Donetta Fluker, Editorial Assistant Distribution by Reliable Courier Kirk Terry, Staff Reporter Roger Taylor, Staff Reporter and Photographer Steve Varley, Staff Reporter and Photographer Joint Board of Commissioners Ralph Y. McClure, Chairman Phillip R. Blomquist Stephen Harmsen CoTtrad Harrison Jennings Phillips William E. Dunn Are you the kind of person who can get a business started and make it go? Think about why you want to own your own business. Do you want to badly enough to keep you working long hours without knowing how much money you will end up with? Have you worked in business like the one you want to start? Have you worked for someone else as a foreman or manager? Have you had any business training in school? MONEY? Do you know how much money you will need to get your business started? Have you counted up how much money of your own you can put into the business? Do you know how much credit you can get from your supplier - the people you will buy from? DO you know where you can borrown the rest of the money you need to start your business? Have you figured out what net income per year you expect to get from the business? Can you live on less than this so that you can use some of it to help your business grow? Have you talked to a banker about your plans? HOW PARTNER? If ABOUT you need a A partner with money or know-hothat you don t have, do you know someone who will fit - someone you can get along with? Do you know the good and bad points about going it alone, having a partner, and incorporating your business? Have you talked to a lawyer about it? HOW ABOUT YOUR CUSTOMERS? Do most businesses in your community seem to be doing well? Have you tried to find out whether stores like the one you want to open are doing well in your community and in the rest of the country? Do you know what kind of people will want to buy what you plan to sell? Do people like that live in the area where you want to open your store? Do they need a store like yours? If not, have you thought about opening a different kind of store or going to another neighborhood? |