§ 419.70. Program recommendations.

(a) The mayor and the city council will use the following criteria in considering neighborhood action or priority plan strategies for use of Phase I, Phase II and CPP funds:

(1)

Demonstrated public purpose of the strategies.

(2)

Demonstrated need for the strategies.

(3)

Short-term or long-term needs of the neighborhood.

(4)

Benefiting population.

(5)

Ability of the strategies to provide a return on the investment.

(6)

Coordination with programming elements or providers.

(7)

Availability of operating or maintenance funds.

(8)

Lack of alternative sources of revenue.

(9)

One-time or ongoing capital requirement.

(10)

Multijurisdictional benefits of the strategies.

(11)

Neighborhood revitalization benefits of the strategies.

(12)

Demonstrated ability of the neighborhood revitalization program as a whole to meet the fifty-two and one-half (52.5) percent funding requirement for housing programs and related purposes.

(13)

The extent to which the strategies leverage existing city programs and funds to accomplish city housing and development objectives in the neighborhoods that carry out the purposes of the neighborhood revitalization program.

(b)

Concurrent with approval of each neighborhood action plan, CPP submission or neighborhood priority plan, the city council will reserve Phase I, Phase II or CPP funds, as appropriate, for appropriation and expenditure consistent with such submission or plan.

(c)

Because of the acknowledged substantial unmet need and severe lack of resources available for disadvantaged youth in the City of Minneapolis, beginning in 1990 and continuing through 2003, the city council, at the request of the policy board, shall appropriate two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000.00) of the city neighborhood revitalization program funds each year to the multi-jurisdictional youth coordinating board from non-tax increment sources.

(d)

With respect to Phase I only, the amounts made available during the first phase of the neighborhood revitalization program to Special School District No. 1 and to Hennepin County for education programs and services and for social services, respectively, must be expended as part of an approved neighborhood action plan, as required by subdivision 4 of the neighborhood revitalization program law. The boards of Special School District No. 1 and Hennepin County shall each approve appropriations from the funds available to them from the neighborhood revitalization program and shall forward proposed strategies to the policy board for approval.

(e)

When program income is received from an activity that is only partially funded by NRP funds and unless otherwise contractually defined, the NRP program income shall be equal to the amount of the program income, prorated to reflect the percentage of NRP funds used.

(f)

The city shall consider program income generated within a particular NRP neighborhood to be available for future use by that same NRP neighborhood, as determined by the designated NRP neighborhood organization, subject to applicable procedures for NRP policy board review and city council approval.

(g)

NRP contractors and subcontractors shall report annually in form and detail acceptable to the city finance department and NRP on their annual program income activity and balances. City staff shall prepare an annual program income report for review by the mayor and city council that includes the above information. (90-Or-157, § 1, 6-15-90; 2001-Or-018, § 7, 3-2-01; 2003-Or-111, § 6, 8-22-03; 2006-Or-019, § 2, 2-24-06; 2011-Or-121, § 8, 12-16-11)