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122873 1 (1983-10-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacxwb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO U nited States General Accounting Office Field Operations 10 W. Jackson Blvd. Division 5th Floor Chicago, IL 60604 OCTOBER 28, 1983 The Honorable Terry Branstad Governor of Iowa State House Des Moines, Iowa 50319 122873 Dear Governor Branstad: Subject: Iowa's Early Implementation of the Small Cities Community Development Block Grant Program Enclosed is our final report which describes Iowa's deci- sionmaking process in implementing the Small Cities Community Development Block Grant Program as authorized by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981. It also provides a comparison of 1982 State-funded activities and populations targeted with those of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in 1981 and provides local communities' and others' perceptions of the success of Iowa's program. Iowa was one of seven States we visited in order to provide the Congress with up-to-date informa- tion on States' progress in implementing their Small Cities Pro- gram. We previously sent you a copy of our overall report to the Congress, States Are Making Good Progress in Implementing the Small Cities Community Development Block Grant Program (GAO/RCED-83-186, Sept. 8, 1983), which incorporated the results of our work in seven States. The enclosed report details the results of our review in lowa. Essentially, we found that the State's 1982 program primar- ily funded public facilities projects, whereas funding from HUD's 1981 program was split mainly between public facilities and housing rehabilitation projects. The greater emphasis on public facilities projects reflected local communities' funding prior- ities. The State also had a higher number of applications and grant awards, reflecting its objective to increase program parti- cipation and fund more communities. In addition, State- administered program grants were supplemented with almost twice the funds of the HUD-administered program--$6,490,068 versus $3,671,011, respectively. (See enc. III.) Under the 1982 State program, 76 percent of the benefici- aries are expected to be low- and moderate-income persons, com- pared with 91 percent under the HUD-administered program in (384 07)

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