Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance authorizes the expenditure of up to $450,000.00 from the Housing Preservation Fund 7782 as match funds for the City’s grant through the Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Reduction Demonstration program of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The funds will allow the Lead Safe Columbus Program to provide property owners with grants for lead safe, affordable housing for families with low and moderate income under HUD guidelines by providing lead abatement activities in accordance with HUD guidelines city lead hazard control projects. This legislation is submitted as an emergency to allow the program’s activities to begin immediately.
FISCAL IMPACT: Funding is available in the Housing Preservation Fund 7782 of the 2016 Capital Improvements Budget.
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To authorize the expenditure of $450,000.00 from the 2016 Housing Preservation Fund 7782 as match funds for the City’s grant through the Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Reduction Demonstration program of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD); and to declare an emergency. ($450,000.00)
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WHEREAS, the Department of Development has entered into an agreement with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) under the Lead Hazard Reduction Demonstration program. HUD funding will provide grants for property owners for lead safe, affordable housing for families with low and moderate income under HUD guidelines; and
WHEREAS, the agreement with HUD requires a local city match of funds; and
WHEREAS, monies from the Housing Preservation Fund will be used for providing lead abatement activities in accordance with HUD guidelines city lead hazard control projects; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Development, Housing Division, in that it is immediately necessary to expend said funds to allow for the commencement of the project to begin immediately thereby preserving the public health, peace, property, safety, and welfare; NOW, THEREFORE:
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the expenditure of capital improvement budget funds from this authorization will be for the provision of grants for the purpose of implementing city lead hazard control projects under the Lead Safe Columbus in accordance with HUD guidelines.
SECTION 2. That for the purpose as stated in Section 1, the expenditure of $450,000 or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby authorized from the Department of Development, Division 44-10, Fund 7782, Lead Safe Columbus Matching Funds, Project Number 782001-100020, Object Level 06, Capital Outlay per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 3. That the City Auditor is authorized to make any accounting changes to revise the funding source for any contract or contract modification associated with the expenditure of the funds in Section 2 above.
SECTION 4. That the City Auditor is hereby authorized to transfer the unencumbered balance in a project account to the unallocated balance account within the same fund upon receipt of certification by the Director of the Department administering said project that the project has been completed and the monies are no longer required for said project.
SECTION 5. That for the reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is hereby made a part hereof, this Ordinance is hereby declared to be an emergency measure and shall take effect and be in force from and after its approval by the Mayor, or ten days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.