Tuesday, November 09, 1999
Housing authority again tries for $30 million grant
BY TERRY FLYNN
The Cincinnati Enquirer
NEWPORT — The Newport Housing Authority is once again going after a $30 million federal grant it failed to obtain this year.
The agency's board of commissioners approved a resolution Monday to apply to the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for a second time.
The $30 million would assist the agency and city officials in relocating residents of the 202 public housing units north of Fourth Street along the floodwall.
Public housing residents are to be relocated to affordable new or rehabilitated housing throughout Newport. Where possible, the plan is for the residents to eventually become homeowners.
The Housing Authority spent nearly $500,000 — primarily from other grant programs — with consultant Jan Rubin and Associates of Philadelphia to help win the federal money.
Her firm has a record of obtaining large federal grants for cities and other local government agencies, and housing suing authority officials expect to bring her on board to revise the application for a second try.
Also Monday:
• The board discussed a plan to replace a wading pool at a park in the southern area of the public housing project with some type of updated water venue.
Board member Richard Nielson said he wasn't certain if the board should look at a shallow-water venue with fountains, a swimming pool or something in-between.
“I think we should do a poll of the (project) residents, and see what they thing would work best,” he said.
Billie Russell, chairwoman of the residents council, told Mr. Brown she would contact all the residents, pass out questionnaires and get the results back to the board so a decision could be made soon and work begun in spring.
• Mr. Brown told board members a $125,000 anti-drug grant will insure the housing authority has police patrols for 12 months.
“If we are spending some of the drug grant money for the police patrols in the projects, I hope we can start seeing foot patrols again,” Ms. Russell told the board. “We haven't seen a foot patrol or bicycle officer north of Fourth Street for months, and patrolling the project in a cruiser just isn't enough.”
Mr. Brown said he would meet with Newport police officials to discuss beefing up the foot patrols that in the past had been credited with lowering the crime rate in the housing project.
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