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Appointment of Advisory & Recommendation Committee (ARC) members
Staff Summary
• Application Review Committees (ARCs) are responsible for reviewing applications or requests for funding; making recommendations of projects to be funded to the Executive Committee; and providing feedback to Community Development staff on scoring and ranking decisions in order for appropriate technical assistance to be provided to applicants.
• There are four standing ARC’s: 1) Public Improvement ARC; 2) Affordable Housing ARC; 3) Public Services ARC; and 4) Homeless Assistance ARC.
• The HCDC by-laws recently increased the membership of the HCDC from 15 to 17 people; with four ARCs of four members each there will be 16 ARC members.
• According to the HCDC by-laws, the HCDC Chair will no longer serves on an ARC when the HCDC has full membership, but there are currently three HCDC vacancies. This action both appoints the newest Commissioner, Mayor Stephen Henley, to the Public Improvements ARC and shifts Commissioner Michael Meehan from the Public Improvements ARC to the Affordable Housing ARC.