Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance authorizes the expenditure of up to $400,000 from the Housing Preservation Fund 782 as match funds for the City’s grant through the Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Reduction Demonstration Program 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.
This legislation is submitted as an emergency to allow the program’s activities to continue without interruption.
FISCAL IMPACT: Funding is available in the Housing Preservation Fund 782 of the 2012 Capital Improvements Budget.
Title
To authorize the expenditure of up to $400,000.00 from the 2012 Housing Preservation Fund for the provision of grants providing lead abatement activities in accordance with HUD guidelines under the Lead Safe Columbus Program; and to declare an emergency. ($400,000.00)
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WHEREAS, the Department of Development has entered into an agreement with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) under the Lead Hazard Reduction Demonstration Program. HUD funding will provide grants for property owners for lead safe, affordable housing for families with low and moderate income under HUD guidelines; and
WHEREAS, the agreement with HUD requires a local city match of funds; and
WHEREAS, monies from the Housing Preservation Fund will be used 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; and
WHEREAS, emergency action is necessary to allow the program’s activities to con...
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