Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance authorizes the expenditure of up to $450,000.00 from the Housing Preservation Fund 7782 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 city lead hazard control projects. This legislation is submitted as an emergency to allow the program’s activities to begin immediately.
FISCAL IMPACT: Funding is available in the Housing Preservation Fund 7782 of the 2016 Capital Improvements Budget.
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To authorize the expenditure of $450,000.00 from the 2016 Housing Preservation Fund 7782 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); and to declare an emergency. ($450,000.00)
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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 for providing lead abatement activities in accordance with HUD guidelines city lead hazard control projects; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Development, Housing Division, in that it is immediately necessary to expend said funds to allow for the commencement of the project to begin immediately thereby pre...
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