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RED-75-317 1 (1974-12-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaaant0001 and id is 1 raw text is: COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON D C 20548 B-171500 6/Z The Honorable Charles W Whalen, Jr House of Representatives Dear Mr Whalen acti v areas On May 21 and September 13, 1974, you asked us to review certain ities of the Model Cities Program in Dayton, Ohio The specific of your concern involved --payments of Model Cities funds to the consulting firm, Jon-MorP'Z and Associates, for a program to recruit and train Dayton / residents for the Dayton Police Department and --the award of contracts by the city to audit certain Model Cities projects BACKGROUND The Model Cities Program was established by Title I of the Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act of 1966 (42 U S C 3301) A local Model Cities Program consists of (1) a 5-year compre- hensive demonstration plan describing the city's needs in terms of projects required to make a noticeable impact on the social, economic, and physical problems of the city and (2) annual action plans describing projects which are to be implemented each year The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), responsible for administering the Model Cities Program at the Federal level, provides funds to the city for the Model Cities Programs The Dayton Model Cities Program began in 1967 In 1971 Dayton was selected by HUD to participate in the Model Cities Planned Variations Demonstration Program, and as a result the Dayton Model Cities target area was expanded to the entire city Through fiscal year 1974, Dayton received a total of $25 2 million in Federal funds for its Model Cities Program In April 1973 Dayton, with HUD approval, established several Model Cities projects One of these projects, the Martin Luther King Testing Academy, was designed to increase the number of Dayton resi- dents in Federal, State, and local civil service positions The project, estimateo to cost $73,000, was to be administered by the Mid-West Training Institute (MTI), a private, nonprofit corporation One of MTI's first tasis was to increase the number of minorities on [O9 4/QO(D/53l7 DC2 :31 7-1 DEC 2 3 1974 V

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