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          Date of Hearing:   January 19, 2012

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
                                Felipe Fuentes, Chair

                    AB 737 (Huber) - As Amended:  January 4, 2012 

          Policy Committee:                             Local 
          GovernmentVote:9-0

          Urgency:     No                   State Mandated Local Program: 
          No     Reimbursable:              

           SUMMARY  

          Deletes obsolete code sections relating to the Model Cities 
          program.  

           FISCAL EFFECT  

          This bill does not have a fiscal impact.

           COMMENTS  

           1)Purpose  .  Because this program is no longer in existence the 
            author would like to remove the section of the Health & Safety 
            Code related to Model Cities in order to ensure that 
            government is streamlined, efficient and effective.  

           2)Background.   In October 1965, President Johnson appointed a 
            task force on urban problems to find a solution to the issue 
            of urban violence and blight.  The task force came back with a 
            report recommending that the government create a five-year 
            experimental program that would concentrate and coordinate 
            existing government activities on the most blighted 
            neighborhoods of urban areas.  The program, commonly known as 
            the "Model Cities" program, eventually provided demonstration 
            efforts in 150 cities throughout the United States.  In 1974 
            the Model Cities program consolidated in to what is now the 
            Community Block Development Grant Program administered by the  
            Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). 


           Analysis Prepared by  :    Roger Dunstan / APPR. / (916) 319-2081 









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