Section
22.461 Creation of Community Development Department.
22.462 Purpose of the Department.
22.463 Community Development Department – Policy and Management.
22.464 Appointment of General Manager Community Development.
22.465 Appointment and Removal of Assistant General Manager and Deputy General Managers.
22.468 Powers and Duties of the General Manager.
22.469 Citizen Participation and Coordination.
22.471 Duties of Other Departments and Offices to Cooperate with Department.
22.471.1 Affordable Housing Credits.
There is hereby created a department of City government to be known as the Community Development Department, hereinafter referred to as the “Department.”
Said Department shall be the successor to the Community Analysis Bureau, the Office of Urban Development, the Office of Training and Job Development, and the Office for the Aged (formerly located in the Office of the Mayor), and the City Demonstration Agency all of which are hereby abolished effective at such time as resources contained in the budget for their respective operations are transferred to the new Department by Council/Mayor action. The Department is authorized to commence transaction of business and to exercise powers under this chapter on the date established in Article 2.
SECTION HISTORY
Added by Ord. No. 148,792, Eff. 10-16-76, Oper. 1-1-77.
It is deemed desirable to establish and maintain such a Department pursuant to the provisions set forth in this chapter in order to provide for the proper planning, coordination, direction and management of the City’s various community development activities to be carried out in accordance with Federal law, State law, local law, and the rules, regulations, guidelines, agreements, and policies established thereunder.
It shall be the purpose of the Community Development Department on behalf of the City:
(1) to consolidate and carry out programs previously assigned to those various City departments and agencies consolidated by this chapter;
(2) to plan, develop, propose, carry out and/or cause to be carried out by the appropriate department(s) or agency(ies) those community development programs established by the Mayor and the Council pursuant to Federal, State and local laws, rules, regulations, and guidelines, agreements and policies for eliminating, reducing and preventing obsolescence and blight in the City; providing for the rehabilitation of and for new community facilities; conducting programs designed to improve the qualification of disadvantaged and unskilled persons for regular employment in the public and private sectors; provide for community organization-operated programs in the various communities of the City; and, in general, initiate and, with the Mayor’s and Council’s approval, implement remedial programs to enhance the physical and social conditions of the communities. Responsibilities of the Department for functions shall become operative as provided in actions transferring or assigning the resources pertinent thereto, to the Community Development Department.
SECTION HISTORY
Added by Ord.. No. 148,792, Eff. 10-16-76, Oper. 1-1-77.
Amended by: Ord. No. 157,596, Eff. 5-15-83; Ord. No. 166,009, Eff. 8-2-90.
The City Council, from time to time will, upon recommendation from the appropriate Council Committee or the Mayor, or upon its own initiative, establish policies governing the activities of the Community Development Department.
The Department shall be under the administration, supervision, and management of a General Manager Community Development, who shall be the General Manager and Chief Administrative Officer of the Department.
SECTION HISTORY
Added by Ord. No. 148,792, Eff. 10-16-76, Oper. 1-1-77.
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