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When the FBI and other federal agencies seized records from the Flint department of Community and Economic Development (DCED) the city hall grapevine says the contracts and related documents of Community Improvement Group (CIG) were among the documents under review.
It will not be the first time CIG has come under scrutiny by the Office of Inspector general (OIG) for HUD. On January 12, 2010, Heath Wolfe, the Regional Inspector General for this region (5AGA) sent Memorandum NO 2010-CH-1801 to Jeanette Harris, the Director of HUD's Community and Planning and Development prior to her retirement. The memorandum concerned Wayne County and the need for the county to improve its ability to administer the Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP). This program provided grants to communities to help them purchase and rehabilitate homes that were foreclosed or abandoned in order to stabilize neighborhoods and sten the decline in home values.
Hud rules for procurement of services requires full and open competition. The federal Register, dated October 6, 2008, stated the HUD regulations at 24 CFR Part 570 applied to the Neighborhood Stabilization Program. Regulations within this segment (24 CFR 570.502 (a) says that governmental entities that are recipients or subrecipients must comply with 24 CFR 85.36. These regulations require full and open competition and any action to the contrary is considered to restrict competition.
Key to the process is regulation section 85.36 (d)(3)(iv) which says the process must base awardsof contracts through competitive proposals and award the contract to a responsible firm with the proposal that is the most advantageous to the program, with Price and other factors considered. There must be a cost or price analysis with every procurement action.
When Wayne County entered into a subrecipient agreement with the Wayne County Land Bank (Corporation) to assist in the procurement of management services to help with the NSP grant, the Corporation was required to also comply with the HUD rules.
The County did not ensure that the Corporation fully complied with the regulations when they selected Community Improvement Group (CIG) for management services for the NSP program. The Corporation did not consider price when they selected CIG and this was contrary to HUD's rules.
The county as of December 16, 2009 had failed to provide HUD with a complete policies and procedures manual for the NSP program. The draft lacked a section on policies and procedures for monitoring to ensure that the funds were used in an appropriate manner. It also failed to amend the section of the manual that applied to land banks and had several omissions.
The Corporation initially planned on the provider of management services, CIG, to develop the policies and procedures manual. The delay in contracting caused the County to begin the process. O October 13, 2009, the senior executive project manager stated the manual would not be finalized until it was reviewed by CIG and the document would be completed by November 1, 2009. The document was not completed until December 16,2009 and was failed to provide the monitoring procedures and the amendment regarding land banks and appraisals.
The recommendations to HUD was a cost analysis of the CIG contract and if the county did not perform the cost analysis, it should use funds other than HUD funds for these services. Other options included amending the CIG contract and/or voiding the contract.
Now, I am not sure what the OIG is looking at specifically in regards to Flint's contract with CIG , but i am aware that there have been problems with contracting services in a full ond open competive manner. |
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July 18, 2010 8:00 PM
Communities race to commit HUD grants for neighborhoods
Wayne, Oakland counties well ahead
By Nancy Kaffer
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Developer finds new opportunity offering housing grant assistance
For developer Mark DeMaria, the federal Neighborhood Stabilization Program couldn't have happened at a better time.
By the fall of 2008, the private development market had come to a standstill and the downtown loft market in which DeMaria had worked extensively had all but disappeared.
But development dollars were beginning to flow through the stabilization program, which has sent billions into communities around the country.
So DeMaria, along with partner Jason Strayhorn, started the Detroit-based Community Improvement Group,a company whose sole purpose is to administer federal housing grant programs for municipal and county governments.
To date, DeMaria said, the company has scored stabilization program contracts to administer Wayne County's $25.9 million allotment, the Detroit Land Bank Authority's $6.2 million and the city of Flint's $4.2 million.
DeMaria and Strayhorn — Douglass Diggs, former city of Detroit director of planning and development, is also a company leader — hope to expand the business around the country by year's end.
The Community Improvement Group won a contract to administer Wayne County's stabilization program in more than a dozen communities, and it is looking for business around the country.
“We went as far as San Bernardino County,” Strayhorn said. “We went on the road with this real heavy ... and we're starting to get more interest from communities outside of the area ... because they have funds they have to get out the door” by a September deadline.
Spending HUD dollars requires rigorous review and documentation, DeMaria said, a process that's sometimes beyond the capacity of local governments to administer.
For DeMaria, it's all about opportunity.
“We're looking at $100 million in new contracts for the year, that's our target,” he said. “We're getting close. I think we can reach it.”
Nancy KafferWhen Wayne County earmarked the last of its federal Neighborhood Stabilization Program dollars, it marked a milestone for Wayne County Chief Development Officer Turkia Mullin.
After a January U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development audit critical of the county's ability to handle stabilization funds, the county designated its entire $25.9 million allotment in June, well before a September deadline to determine how program funds would be spent.
But as that deadline nears, other communities are still working to get money out the door.
Approved in 2008, the first round of neighborhood stabilization funding distributed $3.92 billion to state and local governments, with the largest sums targeted to communities with high foreclosure rates.
Money must be obligated to specific projects by September and spent by 2012.
Some communities have struggled to earmark neighborhood stabilization dollars, said Brian Sullivan, a public affairs specialist in HUD's Washington, D.C., headquarters. He noted that the capacity to handle the large sums has been a challenge for communities used to seeing the same amounts of federal money each year through programs like Community Development Block Grants.
“Then bam, they get $25 million and they have three people, and they don't have ... the capacity to go into, let's say, looking at buying, rehabbing and re-selling 200 homes,” he said. “And they just don't have the local contracting capacity to act in a timely fashion.”
A second round of stabilization funding was approved earlier this year.
And this fall, the federal government will begin the process of taking back unspent funds from the program's first round — which could supply a third round of funding.
Nationally, 40 percent of the program's funds have not been obligated, according to HUD data.
For the state, the city of Detroit and Macomb County, the amounts not obligated are higher. As of June 14, 61.8 percent of Michigan's $98.6 million isn't earmarked, according to HUD data; in Macomb County, 47 percent isn't obligated. The city of Detroit, said a communications manager, has 41.8 percent left to earmark.
Sullivan said HUD hasn't yet determined how it will take back unspent funds.
In Wayne County, officials paired stabilization funds with other federal program dollars, Mullin said, to green-light even more projects.
The county's projects include:
• $750,000 to help construct a new YMCA in Inkster.
• $2 million for an athletic center in Melvindale.
• $1.2 million to rehabilitate homes in Grosse Pointe Park.
• $800,000 for a recreation center in northwest Detroit.
• $8.5 million in total earmarked for Detroit projects.
“One of those things is doing 450 demolitions in the city of Detroit within 45 business days, and we're on target to meet that deadline,” Mullin said.
Wayne County has contracted with the Community Improvement Group (See related story at right.) to manage its stabilization program.
The county was able to satisfy HUD's objections, and Mullin said that the county's results show it was up to the task.
“The proof's in the pudding,” she said. “If we obligate all this money by September, it's hard to debate the issue of do we have capacity.”
Detroit will obligate its entire $47 million in stabilization program funding by Aug. 30, Detroit Planning and Development Director Warren Palmer wrote in an e-mail to Crain's.
For the first round of stabilization program funding, the city targeted nine neighborhoods: Brightmoor, Far East/East English Village, Grand River/Greenfield, Herman Gardens, Kettering, North Central, North End, Osborn and Southwest Detroit.
Detroit plans to spend at least $14 million on both demolition and rehabilitation. It costs roughly $10,000 to demolish a house.
The remainder of the $27 million that's been earmarked so far will be used for clearance, new construction, reconstruction and administration, Dan Lijana, a communications manager in Detroit Mayor Dave Bing's office, wrote in an e-mail to Crain's.
Macomb County Commissioner Ed Bruley, chairman of that county's Planning and Economic Development Committee, called Macomb's 53 percent obligation rate “a slow start,” but he was optimistic that Macomb was on its way to closing the funding gap. Macomb had obligated just over $3.5 million as of June 14 from the $9.7 million awarded under NSP legislation in 2008, according to HUD data.
All money that remains unobligated after the current federal fiscal year ends Sept. 30 can be recaptured by the federal government.
“I'm concerned about it also, but I think that we will have that fully allotted by the due date,” Bruley said. “We're looking at a number of projects right now; and if any one of them went through, we'd be looking at tackling a lot more of that.”
To date, the state of Michigan has obligated some 38.2 percent of the more than $98.6 million it received in the first round of stabilization program funding.
Martha Baumgart, a planner at the Michigan State Housing Development Authority, said the state expects to have its entire $98.6 million fully committed by mid-September.
Out of the funds, the state plans to earmark $41 million for multifamily housing projects. The state also plans to allocate• $21.7 million to 17 urban communities around the state that have areas hard hit by foreclosures and could quickly put the federal assistance to use, Baumgart said.
Those cities are: Ann Arbor, Battle Creek, Bay City, Benton Harbor, Dearborn Heights, Farmington Hills, Jackson, Kalamazoo, Livonia, Muskegon, Muskegon Heights, Port Huron, Roseville, Royal Oak, Saginaw, St. Clair Shores and Wyoming.
Nearly $13.6 million has gone to the Michigan Land Bank Fast Track Authority “to do demolition, and acquisition for redevelopment, on properties they have owned throughout the state,” mostly in Southeast Michigan, Baumgart said.
Another $6.1 million has gone to six distressed cities — Highland Park, Hamtramck, Detroit, Flint, Saginaw, Benton Harbor — to assist with removal of blighted buildings in neighborhoods.
Baumgart said MSHDA is assessing its allocations every two weeks to monitor progress and expects to have all the funds obligated by Sept. 19, which is Michigan's deadline.
In Oakland County, it's a different story. Gordon Lambert, chief of operations for the Oakland County Community and Home Improvement Division, said as of last week the county had obligated 98.3 percent of its $17.3 million funding grant and expects to reach full obligation of the funding by the end of July.
“When we knew we were getting money, we spent a lot of staff time developing the specific programs that could use it, going over what would or would not work, and going over various what-ifs. There's been an awful lot of communication with communities about it,” he said.
“That (full obligation) was a goal we established early on, and Oakland County will not turn back one red cent of recaptured money to the feds.”
About $5 million of the grant funds has gone toward a county-operated homebuyer program to assist qualifying residents with secondary financing for up to 49 percent of the purchase price and necessary improvements for a home that needs rehabilitation. Homebuyers must obtain the other 51 percent from a private lender, who becomes the primary lien holder.
Another $10 million or so will pass on to 10 local communities for various programs that acquire and rehabilitate homes, improve neighborhoods or make a few limited infrastructure improvements, Lambert said.
Those are under way in Ferndale, Madison Heights, Oak Park, Royal Oak Township, Holly, Lake Orion, Ortonville, Keego Harbor, Rose Township and Hazel Park.
Reporters Chad Halcom and Amy Lane contributed to this story.
Nancy Kaffer: (313) 446-0412, nkaffer@crain.com |
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Fri Jun 10, 2011 6:50 pm |
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| While Crain's states Wayne County was able to satisfy the OIG findings, I believe Flint will be hard pressed to measure up. HUD monitored Flint in late march and April 1 and the monitoring report is said to be extremely critical of the city and their staff in DCED. |
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Fri Jun 10, 2011 6:53 pm |
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Jason Strayhorn
Chairman of CIG Group Inc.
Location
Greater Detroit Area
Industry
Real Estate
Jason Strayhorn's Overview
Current •Chairman at Community Improvement Group, LLC DBA - CIG Group
•President at MAJK Investments LLC
•Sideline Reporter at WJR/Spartan Sports Network
Past •Executive Banker, Presidents Club at Quicken Loans/Rock Financial
Education •Michigan State University
Jason Strayhorn's Experience
Chairman Community Improvement Group, LLC DBA - CIG Group
Construction industry
September 2008 – Present (2 years 10 months)
CIG Group Inc. endeavors to provide sustainability and economic growth to communities in need through the implementation of viable, quality, adaptive development and rehabilitation projects.
President MAJK Investments LLC
Real Estate industry
February 2007 – Present (4 years 5 months)
Full service real estate firm in Metro Detroit. Specializing in;
-Residential sales and listings.
-Raising capital to fund both short and long term real estate investments.
-Identifying markets that have the largest profit potential.
Sideline Reporter WJR/Spartan Sports Network
Public Company; 51-200 employees; Broadcast Media industry
April 2006 – Present (5 years 3 months)
Broadcasts all Michigan State University football games with fellow radio personalities George Blaha and Jim Miller. Jason uses his knowledge as a former all Big Ten center to give sideline and play by play analysis.
Executive Banker, Presidents Club Quicken Loans/Rock Financial
Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Financial Services industry
January 2004 – September 2008 (4 years 9 months)
Top saleman in lead conversion and closing volume of conventional and government loan products. Jason has won several awards for production and customer service excellence.
Jason Strayhorn's Education
Michigan State University Bachelor of Science in Business Management, Business
1994 – 1999
Activities and Societies: Captain of the football team. A native of Indianapolis, Ind., Strayhorn started 24 consecutive games at center for Coach Nick Saban in 1997-98. As a senior, he earned first-team All-Big Ten honors from the coaches and media. He also received the Up Front Award as the team's outstanding interior lineman in 1998 along with the Iron Man award for his acheivement in the Spartan strength and conditioning program. |
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Fri Jun 10, 2011 6:56 pm |
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About CIG - Community Improvement Group
Jason Strayhorn - Chairman
Strayhorn – As Co-Founder of CIG Group Jason has solid relationships with several of the nation’s business and government leaders including the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
In 2010, Jason led his team in securing over $38 million in contracts in for the Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP). Most recently CIG Group answered the call to successfully obligate the Detroit Land Bank Authority’s $6.2 million NSP grant within 30 days.
A graduate of Michigan State University with a degree in Business Management, Jason’s background includes financial management and urban area real estate development. He has developed strong relationships with the nation’s largest lending institutions as well as REO/Bank asset managers. Jason has worked with local partners at MSHDA and HUD to place low income residents into qualified homes.
A former Michigan State University All-Big Ten center, Professional Athlete and current MSU Spartan Football Broadcast Sideline Reporter – Jason really knows how to move obstacles from his path.
Email: jason@cigamerica.com
Mark DeMaria - Chief Executive Officer
Mark DeMaria – Co-Founder and CEO for CIG, is an award-winning developer with over 15 years experience in construction and development. Mark has a proven track-record in the development; execution; management and successful completion of large development projects.
Mark has successfully managed more than $250 million worth of major public and private sector construction projects. As a real estate Developer Mark has built more than $50 million of award-winning Urban Infill projects from the ground-up.
Mark has developed and implemented proven processes and management systems which has led CIG to successfully implement and obligate $38 million in U.S. Federal Housing and Urban Development NSP project funds.
Mark is committed to improving communities by providing excellence in project delivery and reliability.
He was selected for the prestigious Crain's Detroit 40 under 40 for his industry excellence.
Email: mark@cigamerica.com
Copyright © 2010 CIG Group. All Rights Reserved | Ford Building | 615 Griswold Street Detroit, MI 48226-3900 | (313) 483-3292 | info@cigamerica.com |
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Originally Published: October 22, 2009 2:27 PM Modified: October 22, 2009 3:56 PM
Douglass Diggs appointed interim director of Detroit's Land Bank Authority
By Nancy Kaffer
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Former Detroit Planning and Development Director Douglass Diggs will serve as interim director of the city's new Land Bank Authority, Charlie Beckham, chief administrator for Detroit Mayor Dave Bing, said this week.
Diggs was appointed director of planning and development by disgraced former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, but was initially left in place by Detroit City Council President Ken Cockrel Jr., who served as mayor after Kilpatrick stepped down last year.
Diggs left the city in March. |
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Fri Jun 10, 2011 7:04 pm |
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This won't be the first time the current DCED has had issues with the bidding process.
Some time ago after the city bid for services, only John Carpenter and Greg Averyhardt sent in responses to a Request for Proposals. Capenter's proposal was the only one that was complete. Greg Eason told council they had decided not to use that bid because the cost exceeded what they had budgeted. Isn't this where an independent prior cost analysis would have come in?
Some think it was because Carpenter was not in good graces with the administration or because he was not a minority. However, word around town was that Averyhardt had been promised the contract by Eason. |
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Fri Jun 10, 2011 7:21 pm |
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| And you have to remember that Kate fields and her newly formed company, Advanced Solutions, was not the initial selection for the Department of Energy grant. |
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Fri Jun 10, 2011 7:23 pm |
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Check # Check Date Name Amount Voided
A0000003957 5/2/2011 COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT GROUP, LLC $15,052.50
A0000003670 4/4/2011 COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT GROUP, LLC $15,002.50
A0000003502 3/14/2011 COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT GROUP, LLC $15,002.50
A0000003124 2/1/2011 COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT GROUP, LLC $27,002.50
A0000002839 12/27/2010 COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT GROUP, LLC $27,001.25
A0000002483 11/15/2010 COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT GROUP, LLC $27,008.75
162134 10/21/2010 COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT GROUP, LLC $27,013.75
161408 9/16/2010 COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT GROUP, LLC $58,085.00 |
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Fri Jun 10, 2011 7:26 pm |
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This article raises issues. There is no discussion of any Request for Proposal or bid process. Without this process, HUD would have violated their own process. HUD is not allowed to make recommendations. To me this press release implies that HUD did so
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06/14/2010 - City of Flint moves forward on $4M NSP grant06/14/2010 - City of Flint moves forward on $4M neighborhood stabilization grant under threat from feds – Flint Journal
Earlier this month, The Journal reported that federal officials wrote a letter to Flint Mayor Dayne Walling to express its concerns that Flint is at risk of not meeting the deadline for committing the neighborhood stabilization funds, which are federal grant dollars awarded to fight foreclosures and redevelop housing.
Flint contracted with Detroit-based Community Improvement Group for Program Management for the city of Flint.
Eason said HUD approved and said Community Improvement Group will be hired by the city to manage the grant funds because the city doesn’t have the internal capacity to do it on its own.
“For what we’re getting from them (CIG), we’re getting more than our money’s worth,” Eason said.
“This is a company HUD has 100 percent confidence in.”
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Fri Jun 10, 2011 7:35 pm |
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Because some NSP funds come through the State of michigan, MSHDA has contracted with Capital Access to provide management services to their sub-recipients. Flint does not have the staff with sufficient expertise or training to manage the program, so MSHDA has a capital Access staff person embedded within the department. Capital access made presentations to the City Council and recently advertised for more staff.
[PDF] MICHIGAN NSP2 PROJECTS AND GRANTS PROCESSOR - CAPITAL ACCESSFile Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Quick View
May 9, 2011 ... documented compliance with MSHDA and HUD NSP2 regulations. ... Caitlin Sharp, Capital Access, Inc., 421 Garland, Suite B, Flint, ...
capitalaccessinc.com/MI%20NSP2%20Project%20%20Grant%20Processor%20Job%20Descripti...►[PDF] MICHIGAN NSP2 PROJECT MANAGER - CAPITAL ACCESS File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Quick View
May 9, 2011 ... hard copy back-ups consistent with MSHDA NSP2 Policies and ...
capitalaccessinc.com/MI%20NSP2%20Project%20Manager%20Job%20Description%205-9-201...[PDF] MI NSP2 EMBEDDED STAFF POSITIONS AVAILABLE MAY 9 ... - CAPITAL ACCESS File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Quick View
May 9, 2011 ... Michigan State Housing Development Authority (MSHDA), ...
capitalaccessinc.com/MI%20NSP2%20Embedded%20Staff%20Positions%20Notice%205-9-11.pdfShow more results from capitalaccessinc.comCapital Access, Inc. - Project Manager (1); Projects and Grants ... Capital Access, Inc. seeks to hire highly motivated Project Managers and Project ... within HUD deadlines and; in compliance with HUD and MSHDA regulations. ... Capital Access, Inc. 421 Garland, Suite B Flint, Michigan 48503 or email to ...
www.sas.upenn.edu/.../capital-access-inc-project-manager-4-projects-and-grants-processors - CachedEmployment Opportunities: Administer Michigan NSP2 Funds May 10, 2011 ... Capital Access, Inc. 421 Garland, Suite B Flint, Michigan 48503 or email to csharp@capitalaccessinc.com. Download(s): MI NSP2 Embedded Staff ...
www.housingalliancepa.org/news/view.php?news_id=972 - Cached[PDF] Smith Village Redevelopment Plan File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Quick View
the Flint Housing Commission,. Capital Access, Inc. and the. Genesee County Land Bank with ... City seeks to prove to HUD and MSHDA that it is ...
www.flinthud.org/HUD%20presentation-redevelopment2.pdf[PDF] MSHDA FY 2010 Production Goals Report - State of Michigan File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Quick View
Capital Access, Inc. MSHDA (Land Bank). Capacity Building/In- direct TA. $92817. Capital Access, Inc. People's Community. Services. HOME ADMIN - ...
www.michigan.gov/.../mshda/PROD_REPORT__FY10_337126_7.pdf[DOC] Request for Proposal for Implementation Management Consultant File Format: Microsoft Word - Quick View
Aug 23, 2010 ... Flint, MI 48503. A pre-submittal meeting (non-mandatory) will be held ... staff and facilitated by Capital Access, Inc., a MSHDA technical ...
xa.yimg.com/kq/groups/19418070/720751235/name/RFP+IMC.doc[PDF] MICHIGAN NSP2 PROJECT MANAGER File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Quick View
Capital Access, Inc. (CAI) seeks to hire Project Managers for Neighborhood Stabilization ... Flint. In January 2010, HUD awarded $223875399 in Neighborhood ... MSHDA, through CAI, and Field Support Directors will hold the Project ...
www.mcgregorlibrary.com/Services/Jobs/ProjectManager101510.pdf[PDF] |
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Fri Jun 10, 2011 7:50 pm |
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When you review the credentials of th principals of CIG there is no mention of HUD training or the implementation of HUD or federal programs. Douglas Diggs is barely mentioned and he may be the only one with training.
In my opinion one of the biggest problems with all of the stimulus programs is individuals failing or facing a weakened business climate suddenly reinvent themselves to try to get a piece of the stimulus pie. That is why all of the fraud materials put out by the federal government are warning to look out for newly formed comapnies that bid on these federal progams. Did some of these individuals have advance notice about where stimulus monies would be directed and have they reinvented themselves in an attempt to obtain contracts.
The Crain's Detroit story emphasized that CIG was created for just that reason-to capitalize on the money flowing from the NSP stimulus package.
"Developer finds new opportunity offering housing grant assistance
For developer Mark DeMaria, the federal Neighborhood Stabilization Program couldn't have happened at a better time.
By the fall of 2008, the private development market had come to a standstill and the downtown loft market in which DeMaria had worked extensively had all but disappeared.
But development dollars were beginning to flow through the stabilization program, which has sent billions into communities around the country.
So DeMaria, along with partner Jason Strayhorn, started the Detroit-based Community Improvement Group,a company whose sole purpose is to administer federal housing grant programs for municipal and county governments"
CIG does however contract with some individuals who do have the expertise. Flint's own Michael Freeman and Amy Hovey (now lansing) are known to HUD as among the most knowledgeable in HUD regulations around the state. Dan Kildee a;lways did try to get some of the brightest and the best for his newest venture. These two both work with him.
The question is why isn't Flint's staff performing better with both CIG and the embedded Capital Access personnel helping the staff run this program? The newest monitoring report and the one soon to come indicate a high level of incompetance and possible corruption.
It is in the best interest of government agencies to help gloss over the warts and blemishes of the failed public programs because they don't want these programs to be viewed as failures. To do so reflects badly on the government agencies that create these sonmetimes misguided programs. |
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Sat Jun 11, 2011 4:38 pm |
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| See thread on whether Smith Village is stalled as CIG is involved in a lawsuit against the city, Greg Eason and Charles Young. |
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