Explanation
Background: This legislation authorizes the amendment of the scope of prior ordinances approved to allow the Director of the Department of Development to appropriate and expend 2016 and 2017 HOME monies within the HOME Investment Partnerships Program for Tenant Based Rental Assistance (TBRA).
These funds assist 1st time homebuyers, for-profit and non-profit organizations with grants and no or low interest loans for projects designed to increase and preserve the local supply of decent, safe, sanitary, and affordable housing for low and moderate income families and it is proposed that the scope be expanded to provide funding for the Tenant Based Rental Assistance Program (TBRA).
Ordinances 2192-2016 and 2423-2017 are separate ordinances that were passed to allocate funding for the 2016 and 2017 HOME Investment Partnerships monies received from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). By expanding the scope of these ordinances, the Department of Development can enter into to contract with the Community Shelter Board. The Community Shelter Board subcontracts with a qualified nonprofit organization to implement TBRA in accordance with HOME Fund regulations for TBRA. The subcontractor leases housing units for the Rebuilding Lives program. They maintain and operate the housing units and related facilities to provide decent, safe and sanitary housing in accordance with the HUD Housing Quality Standards. The City's Consolidated Action Plan for 2015-2019 contains TBRA housing preference priorities for chronically homeless persons.
This legislation amends prior ordinances 2192-2016 and 2423-2017 to allow previous year funds from the HOME Investment Partnership Program to be allocated for Tenant Based Rental Assistance.
Emergency action is requested to prevent disruption in services.
Fiscal Impact: None. The existing Auditor’s Certificates will remain in place and funds will be encumbered from the oldest Auditor’s Certificate first.
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To amend ordinances 2192-2016 and 2423-2017 to allow the Director of the Department of Development to expend 2016 and 2017 HOME monies within the HOME Investment Partnerships Program for the Tenant Based Rental Assistance (TBRA) Program; to authorize the Director to enter into contract with the Community Shelter Board to administer the TBRA Program; and to declare an emergency.
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WHEREAS, the Department of Development to wishes to provide funding to The Community Shelter Board to implement Tenant Based Rental Assistance; and
WHEREAS, Ordinances 2192-2016 and 2423-2017 are separate ordinances that were passed to allocate funding for the 2016 and 2017 HOME Investment Partnerships monies received from the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
WHEREAS, by expanding the scope of these ordinances, the Department of Development can enter into contract with The Community Shelter Board to administer the Tenant Based Rental Assistance Program; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Development in that it is immediately necessary to amend the ordinances in order to authorize the changes in scope of existing Auditor’s Certificates be used for Tenant Based Rental Assistance in order to house chronically homeless individuals, for the immediate preservation of 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 following ordinances are hereby amended as follows in order to allow the funds to be used for Tenant Based Rental Assistance:
Ordinance No. 2192-2016
SECTION 4. That the Director of the Department of Development is hereby authorized to assist first time homebuyers, for-profit and non-profit organizations with tenant based rental assistance, grants and no or low interest loans for projects designed to increase and preserve the local supply of decent, safe, sanitary, and affordable housing for low income families.
Ordinance No.2423-2017
SECTION 4. : That the Director of the Department of Development is hereby authorized to assist first time homebuyers, for-profit and non-profit organizations with tenant based rental assistance, grants and no or low interest loans for projects designed to increase and preserve the local supply of decent, safe, sanitary, and affordable housing for low income families.
SECTION 2. That the Director of the Department of Development is authorized to enter into contract with the Community Shelter Board to administer the Tenant Based Rental Assistance Program in the amount of Three Hundred Twenty Five Thousand and No/100 Dollars ($325,000.00).
SECTION 3. That for the purposes as stated in Section 2, the expenditure of $325,000.00 from the HOME Program Entitlement ACPO000836 and ACPO002259 or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby authorized from the HOME Program Entitlement, Fund 2201, Object Class 03, Contractual Services,
SECTION 4. 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.