A group, made up of six residents, formed the Priorities and Strategies Committee. Committee members attended the public meetings and discussed the community's needs with many organizations. These priorities will then be used by the HCDC and staff to rank proposed projects and make funding recommendations to the City Council. These priority rankings are not absolute and are subject to change upon presentation of evidence that a need does exist and the level of that need is well documented. It is also important to remember that these are not the needs of the City as a whole, but those of its low-income residents only.
Available funding is the most apparent obstacle.
A second, less apparent, obstacle to meeting lower income residents' needs has to do with community attitudes. The activities and estimates of expenditures shown in the table are based upon the past uses of these funds and the strategies highlighted in this plan.