One
of the program initiatives in the President's Management Agenda
that the Office of Community Planning and Development is implementing
is the Consolidated Plan Improvement Initiative. The Office of Management
and Budget asked that HUD work with local stakeholders to streamline
the Consolidated Plan, making it more results-oriented and useful
to communities in assessing their own progress toward addressing
the problems of low-income areas.
This
initiative is designed to:
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reduce
meaningless compliance burdens
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streamline
the plan into a concise, readable document that is easy to understand |
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make
plan more useful and results oriented, linking the plan to performance
reporting |
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make
better use of technology to make the process less burdensome
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promote
use of the plan a management tool for tracking results |
Tasks
we expect to implement:
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identify
burdensome aspects of the planning process
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identify
aspects of the planning process that are useful, not useful, and
solicit
suggestions for improvement
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work
with stakeholders to define alternative planning requirements
that would be more useful to communities and States
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identify
areas for streamlining and explore alternative planning procedures
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define
grants management system requirements to support local goal setting
and tracking of performance relative to national program goals
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design
and carry out pilots of alternative planning procedures
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propose
legislative and/or regulatory changes to implement reformed, results-oriented
planning and reporting system nationally |
A
number of working groups reviewed the current process and recommended
that HUD provide suggested templates or formats for reporting information
regarding progress toward meeting multi-year goals and objectives.
The following templates are based on useful formats that a number
of jurisdictions have provided to HUD.
We also welcome written correspondence to the Office of Community
Planning and Development via regular mail at 451 7th Street SW,
Room 7154, Washington, DC 20410 as well. Please contact Salvatore
Sclafani at (202) 708-1283 ext. 4364 if you have any questions
or comments.
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