I 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2969 
To establish the GothamCorps program. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 10, 2007 
Mr. WEINER introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Education and Labor 
A BILL 
To establish the GothamCorps program. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘GothamCorps Author-
ization Act of 2007’’. 
SEC. 2. GOTHAMCORPS. 
(a) PROGRAM ESTABLISHED.—From amounts made 
available in the National Service Trust to carry out this 
section, the Corporation for National and Community 
Service shall carry out a program, to be known as the 
GothamCorps program, under which the Corporation 
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makes grants to units of local government for use by the 
unit of local government to carry out volunteer projects. 
(b) SELECTION CRITERIA AND VOLUNTEER BENE-
FITS.—The program shall use the same selection criteria 
and provide the same volunteer benefits as under the 
AmeriCorps State and National program. 
(c) FUNDING.—There are authorized to be appro-
priated to the National Service Trust to carry out this 
section $260,000,000 for each fiscal year. 
(d) ALLOCATION OF GRANTS.—For each fiscal year, 
amounts under the program shall be allocated as follows: 
(1) The first $150,000,000 shall be divided 
equally into six grants, to be made on a competitive 
basis to units of local government with populations 
of more than 100,000. 
(2) The remaining amounts shall be divided 
into other grants as the Corporation considers ap-
propriate, to be made on a competitive basis to units 
of local government with populations of not more 
than 100,000. 
(e) LOCAL FUNDING.—A unit of local government 
shall provide to each participant in the volunteer project, 
in addition to the benefit provided to the participant from 
grant funds, an amount equal to the cost of one year’s 
tuition at a local public college. Amounts so provided may 
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be derived from the unit of local government itself or from 
third-party funds. 
(f) FOCUS.—A unit of local government shall des-
ignate an issue of primary focus for the volunteer project 
and shall dedicate the efforts of the project to addressing 
that issue. 
(g) NON-DISPLACEMENT.—A unit of local govern-
ment shall ensure that the participants in the project do 
not perform jobs that would otherwise be performed by 
full-time employees. 
(h) ADMINISTRATION.—A unit of local government 
may use one or more outside persons or entities to admin-
ister the volunteer project. In such a case, the unit of local 
government shall designate a single person to serve as the 
head of administration. 
(i) ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS.—The grant amounts 
provided under the program shall include amounts to pro-
vide benefits to participants and amounts for the adminis-
tration of the volunteer project. 
(j) ACCOUNTABILITY.—A unit of local government 
shall institute explicit, measurable goals for assessing 
whether the volunteer project is successful. 
(k) SCHOLARSHIP LIMITATION.—Scholarships to in-
stitutions of higher education to which the unit of local 
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government does not contribute funds shall not exceed 50 
percent of the scholarship funds disbursed in a given year. 
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