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PROPOSED RESOLUTION
HONORARY RESOLUTION FOR THE US DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT AND ICF INTERNATIONAL
WHEREAS, Cook County is an entitlement community and receives Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), HOME Investment Partnerships Program (HOME), and Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) funding on an annual basis from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) that are administered by the Department of Planning and Development within the Bureau of Economic Development; and
WHEREAS, Cook County received two allocations of Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP) funding in accordance with economic stimulus initiatives from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) which were administered by the Department of Planning and Development within the Bureau of Economic Development; and
WHEREAS, in 2010, HUD launched the OneCPD Integrated Practitioner Assistance System (OneCPD) under its Transformation Initiative to provide technical assistance for HUD's Community Planning and Development grantees that is comprehensive, assessment-based and focused on measurable outcomes; and
WHEREAS, OneCPD technical assistance seeks to build sustainable grantee management systems and organizational capacity through a cross program approach; and
WHEREAS, with HUD funding and support, ICF International, the selected technical assistance provider chosen through a competitive federal procurement, has provided targeted technical assistance to Cook County's affordable housing and community development programming including but not limited to CDBG, HOME, and NSP programming as well as the Integrated Disbursement Information System (IDIS) and Disaster Recovery Grant Reporting (DRGR) system since 2010; and
WHEREAS, the County was selected by HUD to receive additional technical assistance under the OneCPD initiative beginning in 2013; ICF International was chosen to be Cook County's Technical Assistance provider through a ...
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