Qualified low and moderate-income homeowners may receive up to $7500 for the rehabilitation of single-family owner-occupied homes through the Arcadia Planning Dept.'s Housing Rehabilitation Program. This program is financed with Community Development Block Grant Funds, and monies are available on a first-come first-served basis through June 30, 1990.
Arcadia City Council has approved setting aside $270,094 in Community Development Block Grant funds for fiscal year 1984-85 to be used in a continuation of the 1983-84 business revitalization project.
The Arcadia City Council approved 12 goals of revitalization of the downtown area. The approval came following a public hearing intended to solicit input on the matter from merchants, owners and the public on the issue.
The first phase of the Downtown Arcadia Revitalization Study has been completed by Willdan Associates, engineers, architects and planners. A public meeting has been scheduled for Tuesday at 8:30 A.M. in the council chambers at City Hall to present to Arcadians in general and downtown merchants and property owners in particular the consultants' preliminary findings.
Olympics may stimulate downtown revitalization, said Mayor pro-tem Dennis Lojeski at Arcadia Business Association meeting last week. He urged ABA to get feedback to council.
A call for comments on the proposed Downtown Revitalization Plan brought several suggestions and a few complaints at the Arcadia Planning Commission meeting.
The Arcadia Business Association held a meeting August 22, 1984, to inform 36 Arcadia business owners of the city's downtown revitalization plan. Unattractive storefronts were cited as a key problem to be solved. In order to ameliorate the situation the city might exercise eminent domain and relocation of certain businesses that fail to voluntarily cooperate with the city plan.
Instead of spending $300,000 to put an addition on the Arcadia Police Department building, the Arcadia City Council has adopted a plan to spend 1/3 as much to provide temporary office space.
Members of the Arcadia Business Association were briefed on the downtown revitalization study at the monthly dinner meeting by Al Warot, project manager for Willdan and Associates, which is conducting the study.
Council sets hearing on block grants. City of Arcadia is eligible for close to $260,000 in Community Development Block Grant funds for 1983-84. Funds are administered by county and intended for community improvement in various categories.
City of Arcadia has budgeted $55,000 for a downtown revitalization study, City Manager George Watts told members of the Arcadia Business Association at their monthly dinner meeting. See hard copy in Box 51.
Between August 11 and September 30, the city will install brick sidewalks on Huntington Drive between 2nd Avenue and Santa Clara Street as the first major phase of Arcadia's downtown revitalization project.
Methodist Hospital of Southern California, Arcadia, has received a $95,000 grant from the Atlantic Richfield Foundation to fund a mobile community health program.
A report on the Advanced Placement Examinations Program, particularly local student test scores, received a pleased response from the Arcadia School Board at a recent meeting.
Though Arcadia Unified School District has had to cut back on employees due to lack of money from the state, it will soon hire and elementary school counselor thanks to some imaginative use of state grant money.
A series of spending cuts totaling nearly $190,000 have been approved by the Board of Education in an effort to balance the School district's $28 million 1988-89 budget.