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The City of Urbana and Urbana HOME Consortium are seeking citizen input regarding community needs for the preparation of the City of Urbana and Urbana HOME Consortium Annual Action Plan (AAP) for Fiscal Year (FY) 2013-2014. The Annual Action Plan is the City's budget for Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Programs. The Plan also includes budgets for HOME Investment Partnerships Program (HOME) funding by the City of Urbana, City of Champaign, and Champaign County.

The ribbon has been cut for UC2B, but much work remains to be done before the digital divide ends in Champaign-Urbana. How will this new digital capacity benefit the community? Money? Programs? Education? Representation? Health? Everyone is needed to join in the process of transforming Champaign-Urbana into a digital community.

Hear from UC2B decision-makers, learn new skills and share your perspectives December 1, 2012, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Douglass Annex, 804 North Fifth Street, in Champaign, Illinois, at the forum “High Speed Internet (UC2B): How will the community benefit?” This event is an open, independent event. Citizens and groups in the local area can come to hear about and discuss the current state and future directions of community use of high-speed internet.

The event’s schedule will be: