21st Century Housing & Community
Development
Randolph County Housing Authority
Contact Name:
Dave Clark (formerly Willis McCollam)
Final
Report – Feb. 28, 2009
Final Outcomes
This project is really at a mid-point
rather than concluding phase. The contact
person for the project is now on a medical leave of absence, following an
illness that contributed to a slow-down on this project. However, we have accomplished the following
in terms of implementation:
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Conducted strategic review—worked
with project members, staff and clients to define the objectives of our web
site initiative.
·
Defined specifications and solicited
bids for project design and development.
The bids are due next week, March 5th.
Prior to our celebration on April 4th,
we anticipate accomplishing the following:
·
Project leaders will work with the
selected web site developers on a cycle of design-builds and reviews.
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A plan for content integration,
management and maintenance will be developed
·
A design prototype will be ready to
share at the celebration.
By May 15th, we will “go live”
with the website. The launch will
include local publicity and materials distributed to clients and
customers. The feedback and evaluation
loop will begin at launch and go on indefinitely. Specifically, we will measure numbers of
users and where users are going on the web, and we will survey staff regarding
efficiencies gained in their work and lessons learned regarding the use of
website in disseminating and collecting information vital to our work.
Key Questions
I propose answering these questions in
writing at the celebration event. At
this point, we are very excited about what we’ve learned regarding the
potential for the website. More clients
and customers than we thought have web access and would use it to communicate
with us. And, our staff
have generated some great ideas for improving our programs, such as
creating a social networking site along with the website for our YouthBuild
members.
Financial Report
Attached.
News Release Format
I would like to bring this to the event on
the 4th, so that it can include references to some of the specific
features of the website.
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RCHA Project Budget |
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Revenue |
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Budget |
Actual Through
February 28 |
Difference |
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Mini-Grant Program |
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$5,000 |
$3,500 |
$1,500 |
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RCHA RCDI Grant |
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$3,500 |
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$3,500 |
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RCHa Project Leader |
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$2,630 |
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$2,630 |
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Americorps VISTA |
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$1,425 |
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$1,425 |
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RCHA (Web hosting) |
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$200 |
$- 0.0E+01 |
$200 |
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RCHA/HCB/WDG (in-kind planning) |
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$2,500 |
$2,000 |
$500 |
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Total |
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$15,255 |
$5,500 |
$9,755 |
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Expense |
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Site Design & Development |
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$8,500 |
$- 0.0E+01 |
$8,500 |
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Web Hosting |
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$200 |
$- 0.0E+01 |
$200 |
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Project Leader |
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$2,630 |
$1,500 |
$1,130 |
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Outreach |
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$1,425 |
$725 |
$700 |
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Project Planning (Staff In-kind) |
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$2,500 |
$2,000 |
$500 |
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Total |
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$15,255 |
$4,225 |
$11,030 |
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Surplus(Deficit) |
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$- 0.0E+01 |
$1,275 |
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