Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance authorizes the transfer within the Housing Preservation Fund and the expenditure of up to $250,000 from the Housing Preservation Fund 782 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 can continue without interruption.
FISCAL IMPACT: Funding is available in the Housing Preservation Fund 782 of the 2015 Capital Improvements Budget. An amendment to the 2015 Capital Improvements Budget is necessary for the purpose of providing sufficient spending authority for the aforementioned project.
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To amend the 2015 Capital Improvement Budget; to authorize and direct the transfer of $250,000.00 within the Housing Preservation Fund; to authorize the expenditure of $250,000.00 from the 2015 Housing Preservation Fund for the purpose of implementing city lead hazard control projects and healthy homes interventions under the Lead Safe Columbus Program in accordance with HUD guidelines; and to declare an emergency. ($250,000.00)
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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 healthy and 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 providing lead abatement activities and healthy homes interventions in accordance with HUD guidelines for city lead hazard control projects; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to authorize an amendment to the 2015 Capital Improvements Budget for the purpose of providing sufficient spending authority for the aforementioned project expenditure; and
WHEREAS, emergency action is necessary to allow for the commencement of the project to begin immediately, 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 thereby preserving the public health, peace, property, safety, and welfare; and NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the 2015 Capital Improvements Budget authorized by ordinance 0557-2015 be and is hereby amended to provide sufficient budget authority for the appropriate projects authorized within this ordinance as follows:
Fund/Project/Project Name/CIB/Change/CIB as Amended
782 / 782001-100004 / Home Again - Old Oaks / $276,100 / $250,000 / $526,100
782 / 782001-100004 / Home Again - Old Oaks / $526,100 / ($250,000) / $276,100
782 / 782001-100000 / Housing Preservation / $509,806 / $250,000 / $759,806
SECTION 2. That the City Auditor be and is hereby authorized and directed to transfer $250,000.00 within the Housing Preservation Fund as follows:
Transfer from:
Fund/Project/Project Name/O.L. 01-03 Codes/OCA/Amount
782 / 782001-100004 / Home Again - Old Oaks / 06-6617 / 782104 / $250,000
Transfer to:
Fund/Project/Project Name/O.L. 01-03 Codes/OCA/Amount
782 / 782001-100000 / Housing Preservation / 06-6617 / 782001 / $250,000
SECTION 3. That the Director of Development is hereby authorized to make financial assistance available from Housing Preservation Fund 782 for the provision of grants for the purpose of implementing city lead hazard control projects and healthy homes interventions under the Lead Safe Columbus Program in accordance with HUD guidelines.
SECTION 4. That for the purpose as stated in Section 3, the expenditure of $250,000.00 or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby authorized from the Housing Preservation Fund as follows:
Fund/Project/Project Name/O.L. 01-03 Codes/OCA/Amount
782 / 782001-100000 / Housing Preservation / 06-6617 / 782001 / $250,000
SECTION 5. That the funds necessary to carry out the purpose of this ordinance are hereby deemed appropriated, and the City Auditor shall establish such accounting codes as necessary.
SECTION 6. That the City Auditor is authorized to make any accounting changes to revise the funding source for all contracts or contract modifications associated with this ordinance.
SECTION 7. 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 8. 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 passage and approval by the Mayor, or ten days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.