Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance authorizes the City of Columbus to accept, appropriate and expend payments totaling up to $2,999,817.00 through the Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control Office 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, including but not limited to, lead level testing and clearance tests performed on city lead hazard control and/or home repair projects as well as outreach, education and training.
This legislation is submitted as an emergency to allow the program's activities to continue uninterrupted.
FISCAL IMPACT: This legislation requests the appropriation of $2,999,817 and the expenditure of $1,750,000 from the General Government Grant Fund.
Title
To authorize the Director of the Department of Development to accept payments totaling up to $2,999,817.00 from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD); To authorize the appropriation of $2,999,817 in several divisions and object levels of the General Government Grant Fund for the implementation of Lead Safe Columbus Program; to authorize the expenditure of $1,750,000.00 from the General Government Grant Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($2,999,817.00)
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WHEREAS, the Department of Development has entered into an agreement with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development by which HUD is providing funding 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, including but not limited to, lead level testing and lead paint clearance tests performed on city lead hazard control and/or home repair pro...
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