CDBG, HOME, and Affordable Housing Program's Upcoming News and Events

Last Updated: May 9, 2012

Longmont Employee Survey - Need Your Input
Circles Presents - Bridges Out of Poverty Training
2011 CDBG/HOME Consolidated Annual Performance Report - Available for Review
Digital Divide Program - Offers Free Internet to Qualified Families
Community Cares Packets - available for purchase

Homeownership Training Schedule - go to Homeownership Training Classes page
Midtown Neighborhood Revitalization Program- Information

Community Cares Packets

Community Cares packets are available for purchase for $20.00 by residents, church groups or other organizations to give to the homeless throughout the year.

Each packet includes:

$5.00 gift card for McDonald's or Wendy's
125 minute At & T phone card
2 RTD bus passes
"How to Get Help" information card

You may purchase the packets at any of the following locations

City of Longmont, CDBG/Affordable Housing Office, 350 Kimbark Street, Longmont, CO
Habitat for Humanity's ReStore, 455 Weaver Park Road, Longmont, CO
OUR Center, 303 Atwood Street, Longmont, CO

Digital Divide Program - Offers Free Internet to Qualified Families

As part of the installation of a citywide wireless internet infrastructure, the City of Longmont received free internet service accounts to help bridge the digital divide for families that cannot afford to purchase this service. These free accounts are now being offered to low and moderate-income households in Longmont with children in middle school or high school.

In addition to the free Internet service some families may receive help to purchase the scrambler units needed to receive the wireless service in the home. There also may be help available for families that don’t have a computer through a partnership with the Jared Polis Foundation. For more information and to find out how to qualify, contact Tracy Defrancesco at 303-774-4445.

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Circles Presents: Bridges Out of Poverty Training

Learn how you can become an ally. Please join us on:

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

6:00 pm to 8:00 pm

Lafayette Public Library

775 W. Baseline Road

Lafayette, CO

RSVP by May 21 to emendoza@bouldercounty.org or 303-441-1503.

The Circle ally has three primary goals:

Build an intentional friendship that is friendly, safe, and supportive with a family in poverty (Circle Leader
family) and join them in their quest to increase their resources.
Be willing to look at your own hidden rules and how they affect your relationships with people from different
economic backgrounds.
Use the experience of friendship with a family in poverty to advocate within the community for changes in
the systems barriers that keep poverty in place

The Circle ally commitment:

6-12 hours per month and commit to be a Circle ally for 18 months

For more information and how you can help, contact Eliberto Mendoza at emendoza@bouldcounty.org. Also, please visit www.BoulderCountyCircles.org.

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Longmont Employee Survey

The City of Longmont is conducting a survey of Longmont employees and commuters to determine where Longmont employees live, how they commute to Longmont, and their desire to live in the City of Longmont. We encourage all Longmont employees to complete the survey. Your input is important to the City and will help shape planning efforts for future housing units within the City.

It only takes a few minutes to complete the survey, and all responses remain anonymous. We greatly appreciate your assistance. To complete the survey, click on the link below. All responses are due by June 8th.

www.surveymonkey.com/s/LongmontCommuterSurvey

If you have any questions, please contact Kathy Fedler, CDBG/Affordable Housing Coordinator via e-mail: kathy.fedler@ci.longmont.co.us, or by phone 303-651-8736.