Explanation
BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the Director of the Department of Development to accept a $16,875 Scrap Tire Recycling Grant from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources to benefit the North of Broad (NOBO) affordable housing project located on North Twenty-First Street between Long Street and Mount Vernon Avenue. This legislation also authorizes the appropriation of these funds to the Department of Development for administration of the grant and for construction.
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources awarded the City a Scrap Tire Recycling Grant for the NOBO project to utilize ground scrap tires in the repaving of Twenty-First Street. North Twenty-First Street has two "green" built affordable homes one new and one rehab, with a total of eight other new and rehabbed homes on the street and plans to build three more as a part of the restoration of the King-Lincoln-Bronzeville neighborhood. The grant will pay for 50% of the cost of repaving North Twenty-First Street.
The invitation from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources to apply for the scrap tire grant was received by the Columbus Department of Development in January 2007.
Emergency action is requested in order to facilitate construction under the grant as soon as possible.
FISCAL IMPACT: A Scrap Tire Recycling Grant from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources in the amount of $16,875.00 provides funding for this legislation.
Title
To authorize the Director of the Department of Development to accept an Ohio Department of Natural Resources Scrap Tire Recycling Grant in the amount of $16,875; to authorize the appropriation of $16,875 from the General Government Grant Fund to the Department of Development; to authorize the Director of the Department of Development to expend said funds to benefit the North of Broad affordable housing project; to authorize the expenditure of $16,875 from the General Government Grant Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($16,875) ...
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