A plan to reallocate $400,000 from the Park Drive Neighborhood Revitalization project to the Friends of Yates Domestic Violence shelter repair moved ahead at Monday night’s Unified Government Administration and Human Services Committee meeting.
Wilba Miller, director of Community Development, said $570,000 had been set aside last year for the Park Drive revitalization effort.
However, she said she received word from the domestic violence shelter that they needed a roof badly. It is the only domestic violence shelter located in Kansas City, Kansas, according to the UG authorities.
Miller recommended reallocating the Park Drive funding to the life-saving services of the domestic violence shelter emergency repair project. Currently, the UG is the only funding source for the roof repair, according to Miller.
The remaining $170,000 left in the fund would go to the Neighborhood Revitalization project to install a new disc golf course at City Park, she said.
A public hearing may be held March 31, with a 30-day comment period, she said.
If approved, this change in the plans for the funding would have to be submitted to the Housing and Urban Development Department for approval, she said. The category for funding would be the same, a public facility improvement, she said.
If the roof repair did not require the entire $400,000, the leftover funds would be redirected back to the City Park project, according to Miller.
The motion passed the UG Committee unanimously and will go to the full UG Commission for approval.