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(~' A (,') II $113,000 CDBG Kainos Home and Training Center Kainos Vocational Services Rehab Project, 2555 Middlefield Road. Funds will be used to make improvements to a vocational work activity center that employs adults with developmental disabilities. PRIORITY # 3: Expand Economic Development Opportunities for Iow and moderate-income persons through job creation, small business creation and expansion and opportunities created by activities selected for funding $107,0005 CDBG Canada College Small Business Center Microbusiness Enterprise Technical Assistance Program Canada College, 950 Main Street, Redwood City. This program provides assessment, intake, counseling, and intensive, technical assistance to persons starting small businesses including a business incubator program on a citywide basis. $20,000 CDBG Greer Gardens Landscape Job Training & Creation Greer Gardens, 86 Canada Road, Redwood City. These funds will be used citywide to assist a small business to hire and train Iow income persons for landscape careers. $25,000 CDBG Legal Aid FIRST STOP Program Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County, 521 East 5th Avenue, San Mateo. FIRST STOP is a citywide program that provides technical assistance and legal advice to Iow income people seeking to establish their own business. The above priorities are listed by rank order. Redwood City has developed its statement of projected use of funds based on comments from service providers during the Annual Action Plan goal setting meeting held in December 2001. The funding recommendations attempt to give maximum feasible priority to activities that benefit Iow and very Iow-income families who are homeless or at-risk of becoming homeless. These funds also assist individual households to become self sufficient and reduce the level of poverty, or aid in the prevention or elimination of slums or blight. During year three of the five year period of the Consolidated Plan, the City will continue to carry out activities that meet the objectives specified in the Community Development Plan and will minimize displacement of Iow-income households. Community Development Block Grant regulations require that participating communities consult with citizens and various providers to create a Consolidated Plan, a unified vision for delivery of services with CDBG and other federal funds. The City has developed its Consolidated Planning Strategy to maximize resources for Iow-income residents and to require collaboration between service providers in an attempt to reduce poverty and improve the standard of living for Iow-income households. 5 This recommendation for funding includes $7,000 from the 2002-2003 entitlement grant and $100,000 reallocated from prior year funding (previously allocated to the City Center water feature Project).