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ATTACHMENT K Civil Rights Compliance Assurance Fair Housing As a condition for the receipt of Small Cities Community Development Block Grant funds , each recipient must certify that it will " affirmatively further fair housing " in its community . A recipient shall demonstrate its commitment to affirmatively further fair housing by implementing the actions listed below . Each recipient shall do the following : 1 ) Have in place a fair housing resolution or ordinance that covers all federally protected classes [ race, color, familial status , handicap, national origin , religion , and sex] ; 2 ) Publish quarterly a phone number that people can call to ask fair housing questions or register a complaint; 3 ) Designate an employee who is available Monday through Friday during regular business hours to receive fair housing calls ; 4 ) Establish a system to record the following : a) The nature of the calls, b) The actions taken in response to the calls , and c) The results of the actions taken , and d) The end results of referrals to other agencies, when applicable ; 5 ) Conduct at least one fair housing activity each quarter. Identical activities shal I not be conducted in consecutive quarters . ( See examples below . ) , and 6) Display a fair housing poster in the CDBG Office . (This does not count as an activity . ) The fair housing contact person is expected to have received training so that they can handle fair housing phone inquires or to refer the inquiries to the appropriate people/agencies . Records maintained by the contact will help the community do the following : 1 ) Define where discriminatory practices are occurring, 2) Help the community measure the effectiveness of its outreach efforts, and 3 ) Provide the community with a means to gain information that can be used to design and implement strategies that will eliminate fair housing impediments . Examples of fair housing activities include the following : • Presentations at schools , civic clubs, and neighborhood associations, • Distributing fair housing materials at libraries, fairs , and businesses, • Print a fair housing notice on utility bills mailed to residents , and • Conducting fair housing workshops for city/county employees, realtors , bank and mortgage company employees, insurance agents, and apartment complex owners . Recipients shall document the fair housing activities and include information about the activities in the comment section of their quarterly report. Equal Employment Opportunity As a condition for the receipt of Small Cities Community Development Block Grant funds, each recipient must certify that it and the contractors that it hires with CDBG funds will abide by the Equal Employment Opportunity Laws of the United States . A recipient shall demonstrate its commitment to abide by the laws through the actions listed below . Each recipient shall do the following : I ) Have in place an equal employment opportunity resolution or ordinance that protects its applicants and employees and the applicants and employees of its contractors from discrimination in hiring, promotion , discharge, pay , fringe benefits , job training, classification , referral , and other aspects of employment, on the basis of race , color, religion , sex , national origin , disability , age, or genetics ; 2 ) Publish quarterly a phone number that residents can call to ask equal employment opportunity questions or register a complaint ; Rev . 3 /23 /2011 33