Today in the Federal Register
A doozy of a Federal Register item today for recipients of HUD community development grants, specifically Community Development Block Grants (CDBGs), HOME funds, HOPWA, and the Emergency Shelter Grants flavor of McKinney-Vento funding.
It's a notice setting out a draft "performance outcome" grading system for recipients of all these grants -- part of HUD's long-running effort to judge the quality of grant-funded projects using measurable data.
At the start of the grant, each recipient would choose from a list which "objective" and "outcomes" to be graded on. These, and the purpose of the grant, would determine the "output indicators" for HUD to use in judging if the money was well spent.
The new draft standards -- phrased in general form, not as a proposed regulation -- are described as the result of a 2004 agreement among HUD and OMB officials and community development trade groups, including the National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials and the National Council of State Housing Agencies.
I'll link to the Federal Register PDF here because the proposal draft doesn't show in the HTML version. The announcement includes dates, beginning June 30, for "five facilitation sessions and one satellite broadcast to explain the importance of measuring performance and the use of the proposed outcome performance measurement system to capture those results." Here's their link for more information on same.
Comments on the proposal have a generous 90-day deadline -- it's September 8, 2005 -- and this time the comments don't have to be snail-mailed: electronic submission is permitted through either Regulatons.gov or HUD's section of EDOCKET at EPA.
It's a notice setting out a draft "performance outcome" grading system for recipients of all these grants -- part of HUD's long-running effort to judge the quality of grant-funded projects using measurable data.
At the start of the grant, each recipient would choose from a list which "objective" and "outcomes" to be graded on. These, and the purpose of the grant, would determine the "output indicators" for HUD to use in judging if the money was well spent.
The new draft standards -- phrased in general form, not as a proposed regulation -- are described as the result of a 2004 agreement among HUD and OMB officials and community development trade groups, including the National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials and the National Council of State Housing Agencies.
I'll link to the Federal Register PDF here because the proposal draft doesn't show in the HTML version. The announcement includes dates, beginning June 30, for "five facilitation sessions and one satellite broadcast to explain the importance of measuring performance and the use of the proposed outcome performance measurement system to capture those results." Here's their link for more information on same.
Comments on the proposal have a generous 90-day deadline -- it's September 8, 2005 -- and this time the comments don't have to be snail-mailed: electronic submission is permitted through either Regulatons.gov or HUD's section of EDOCKET at EPA.
posted by Martha Bridegam at 10:56 AM
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