Explanation
BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the Director of the Department of Development to modify to extend the term of the agreement from December 31, 2024 until December 31, 2025, with R J Peters Company Inc. dba Radon Pros to continue to provide radon testing services.
Original $ 14,612.40 Ord. 1115-2022 PO379808
Mod 1 $ 0.00 Ord. 2868-2023 PO379808
Mod 2 $ 0.00 Ord. 3124-2024
Total $ 14,612.40
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development awarded nearly $104.7 million to 60 non-profit organizations, and state and local government agencies located in 29 states to protect children and families from home health hazards. HUD is providing these grants through its Healthy Homes Production Grant Program which will help grantees identify health and safety hazards in low-income families’ homes. The grants will protect children and families with incomes at or below eighty percent of the area median income level by targeting significant lead and health hazards in over 7,400 low-income homes for which other resources are not available. The Healthy Homes Production Grant Program takes a comprehensive approach to addressing multiple childhood diseases and injuries in the home by focusing on housing-related hazards in a coordinated fashion, rather than addressing a single hazard at a time. The program builds upon HUD’s successful Lead Hazard Control programs to expand the Department’s efforts to holistically address a variety of high-priority housing-based health and safety hazards, such as mold and moisture, poor indoor air quality, pests, carbon monoxide, injury and safety hazards, in addition to lead-based paint.
This is a planned modification to continue to provide the services needed for the term of the grant. When the contract is initially entered into we do not know exactly how many homes at the time will require radon mitigation versus other Healthy Homes services and thus we know there will be additional legislation th...
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