Explanation
BACKGROUND: The City of Columbus is required to conduct environmental reviews for all activities that utilize funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). This includes activities undertaken by the City as well as housing projects subsidized by the Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority (CMHA). The City’s Grants Management staff, which coordinates these environmental reviews, is funded by HUD Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds. However, coordinating the environmental reviews for CMHA subsidized projects is not an eligible use of CDBG funding. Therefore, it has become necessary for the City to enter into a revenue contract with CMHA to enable CMHA to reimburse the City for expenses incurred in the coordination of environmental reviews for CMHA subsidized projects.
FISCAL IMPACT: Expenditures and revenues to provide these services are budgeted in the Community Development Block Grant Fund (2248).
Title
To authorize the Director of Finance and Management to enter into a revenue contract with the Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority for the provision of environmental review coordination services for the period of January 1, 2023 to December 31, 2027.
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WHEREAS, the Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority (CMHA) is a Public Housing Agency (PHA) that develops, rehabilitates, and acquires affordable and mixed-income housing using various sources of funding including, but not limited to, federal financial assistance under Sections 8 and 9 of the U.S. Housing Act of 1937; and
WHEREAS, such projects and activities receiving federal financial assistance are subject to the policies of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 ("NEPA") and implementing regulations of the Council on Environmental Quality, including but not limited to the regulations at 40 CFR Parts 1500-1508, and implementing regulations of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Deve...
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