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Committee approves contracts for green-space restoration and moves VAPAC to Fair Housing Center
Summary
Council committee approved an emergency professional-services contract with Western Reserve Land Conservancy to plan and restore vacant parcels and a separate contract moving VAPAC work to the Fair Housing Center; Western Reserve outlined past investments and neighborhood work.
The Finance, Diversity & Inclusion Committee on Nov. 17 approved emergency ordinances to engage Western Reserve Land Conservancy for signature green-space creation and to authorize a contract routing VAPAC (Vacant and Abandoned Property Action Council) work to the Fair Housing Center for Rights and Research.
Matt, a Western Reserve representative, told the committee his organization has leveraged more than $30,000,000 in green-space improvements and planted roughly 2,500 trees in formerly vacant land,…
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