Explanation
Background:
This ordinance authorizes the expenditure of up to $475,000 from the Development Taxable Bond Fund 7739 and $25,000 from the Department of Neighborhoods General Fund to continue the Healthy Neighborhoods Healthy Families Realty Collaborative (HNHF) which is a nonprofit arm of Nationwide Children’s Hospital home rehabilitation program in the Linden community. HNHF will continue to administer an exterior home rehabilitation program on behalf of the Department of Neighborhoods in alignment with the One Linden community plan.
The services included in this contract cannot be provided by existing city employees because these services are beyond the City’s current responsibility and capacity to provide.
Community Planning Area is Linden - 45
This program will assist homeowners and residents living in rental housing by providing exterior rehabilitation services that will help to boost neighborhood pride, community reinvestment and responsible homeownership. Qualification criteria for phase two of the program will be the same as for phase one. The program will continue to focus on residents at or below 65% AMI.
In phase one of the rehabilitation program, 22 owner occupied homes received much needed exterior repairs and 3 rental properties were updated.
Fiscal Impact: Funding for this agreement is budgeted within the 2019 Capital Improvement Budget within Fund 7739 Development Taxable Bonds and the Department of Neighborhoods General Fund budget within Fund 1000. An amendment and transfer of funding is required.
Emergency Justification: Emergency action is requested to allow for the immediate execution of this contract in order to advance community plan implementation and begin construction.
Title
To authorize the Director of the Department of Neighborhoods to enter into a non-profit service contract with Healthy Neighborhoods Healthy Families (HNHF) Realty Collaborative; to authorize the transfer of funding between projec...
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