Explanation
BACKGROUND: Ordinance 0766-2014 authorized the expenditure of $731,407 to preserve the local supply of decent, safe, sanitary and affordable housing for low-income families. Ordinance 0519-2016 expanded the scope of eligible activities for these funds to include emergency repair services. Ordinance 0097-2017 provided $300,000 to fund contracts with emergency home repair service contractors. This ordinance expands the scope of eligible activities for these funds to include providing match funds for the City’s 2014 grant through the Office of Healthy Homes and the 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 on city lead hazard control projects.
Emergency action is necessary to allow the program’s activities to begin immediately.
FISCAL IMPACT: Funding of $212,286.45 is being provided from ACPR000187.
Title
To amend Ordinance Number 0766-2014, passed April 7, 2014, to include Lead Safe Columbus as an eligible expenditure; and to declare an emergency.
Body
WHEREAS, Ordinance 0519-2016 amended both the Title and Sections of Ordinance 0766-2014 to include emergency repair activities as eligible expenses; and
WHEREAS, Ordinance 0097-2017 allocated funding to emergency repair; and
WHEREAS, since then, it has been determined that the City needs to expand the use of funds to include required match funds for the City’s 2014 grant through the Office of Healthy Homes and the Lead Hazard Reduction Demonstration program of the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the Lead Safe Columbus program; and
WHEREAS, in accordance with Funding Opportunity Number FR-5800-N-04, Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) fu...
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