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B-171500 1 (1973-05-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaagfb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATE 1 WASHINGTON. D.C. 20548 LM096373 ' MAY 7 1973 _5 The Honorable Wright Patman , V,.i.>'~ze/F/< Chairman, Committee on Banking .' (( and Currency House of Representatives Dear Mr. Chairman: Your letter of September 14, 1972, requested the General Accounting Office to review the Model Cities Program in Newark, New Jersey. This program, which was to demonstratie° ith e ingnand general wel,faKe, oi _peop1e_.. .yin in s umsor blightq.p4, cnu, be improved through a compreghensive, coordinated Federal, State,_,And ,I9oal ewas initiated in Newark in 1968. At December 31, 1972, the City of Newark had been awarded about $18.3 million in Model Cities funds I from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to assist it $3 'in carrying out its Model Cities Program. The development and implementation of the Model Cities Program, at the local level, is the responsibility of a city demonstration agency (CDA) which is generally an administrative unit of the city. Pursuant to your request and in accordance with subsequent discussions with &JdZCongressman Joseph G. Minish, we reviewed the activities of certain ' organizational components of CDA. Our work included an examination of costs incurred for travel, contractual services, and salaries of CDA employees. In addition, we reviewed certain Model Cities projects. On March 15, 1973, at the request of Congressman Minish, we met with the members of the oversight subcommittee of your Housing Subcom- mittee to discuss the results of our work. At the conclusion of this meeting, the subcommittee members requested that we provide you a report on our review. The matters which we discussed during the meet- ing, together with additional data we subsequently obtained, are pre- sented as an enclosure to this letter. As requested by the members of your oversight subcommittee, HUD officials and officials of the C-ity of Newark have not been given the opportunity to formally examine and comment on the matters discussed in this report. T . %n( 'J 4l 'Q~13

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