Miami Mayor
Tomas Regalado Meets With Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa To
Discuss CDBG Legislation to Make Available Nearly $400 Million for
Social Services Nationwide.
Mayor Tomas Regalado and Los
Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa met on to discuss legislation
introduced in Congress by City of Miami to increase the CDBG cap to
fund social services
(Miami, FL
May 24, 2011)—
City of Miami Mayor Tomas
Regalado met with City of Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa in
Miami on May 21, 2011 to discuss pending legislation in the U.S.
Congress to increase the cap
on Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Public Service
Expenditures from 15% to 25% to adequately fund programs and
services meant to help the most vulnerable persons in the country.
Mayor
Villaraigosa, the next President of the U.S. Conference of Mayors
(USCM), the official nonpartisan organization of cities with
populations of 30,000 or more, agreed to co-sponsor a resolution at
the USCM’s Annual Meeting in June 2011 in support of the federal
legislation to increase the cap on CDBG Public Services
Expenditures.
The CDBG
legislation spearheaded by the City of Miami and introduced by
Senator Bill Nelson in the U.S. Senate and by Congresswoman Ileana
Ros-Lehtinen, Congressman Mario Diaz Balart, Congressman David
Rivera, Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz and Congresswoman
Frederica Wilson in the U.S. House of Representatives would make
permanent the increase in the CDBG Public Service Expenditures Cap
from 15% to 25% and make available nearly $400 million for social
services to local governments across the nation.