Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance authorizes the Finance and Management Director to amend the 2019 Action Plan Budget and the 2015 - 2019 Consolidated Plan. The amendment will add one goal to the consolidated plan “To improve public infrastructure in residential areas” and to add one project “2019 Road reconstruction.” This amendment will also reduce the amounts in other projects as outlined in the attached amended action plan. All projected outcomes will remain the same.
Emergency: This legislation is being submitted as emergency to allow for the timely expenditure of CDBG funding.
Fiscal Impact: This legislation does not appropriate or spend any funding. Subsequent legislation will be submitted to Council to appropriate grant funds for specific projects as needed.
Title
To authorize the Finance and Management Director to amend the 2019 Action Plan Budget and the 2015-2019 Consolidated Plan; and to declare an emergency. ($0.00)
Body
WHEREAS, the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) provides the City of Columbus with Funding from the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG,) Home Investments Partnerships, Housing Opportunities for Persons with HIV/AIDs, and Emergency Solutions Grant each year; and
WHEREAS, the city seeks to amend the 2019 Action Plan Budget and 2015-2019 Consolidated Plan to allow for an additional project to spend down CDBG funding; and
WHEREAS, public comment is solicited for the 2019 amended Action Plan Budget and amended Consolidated Plan; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Finance and Management Department in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the Director of Finance and Management to amend the 2019 Action Plan Budget and the 2015 - 2019 Consolidated Plan, for the preservation of the public health, peace, property, safety, and welfare; now, therefore
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the Finance and Management Director is hereby authorized to amend the 2019 Action Plan Budget and the 2015 - 2019 Consolidated Plan
SECTION 2. That for reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is hereby made a part hereof, this ordinance is hereby declared to be an emergency measure and shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval by the Mayor, or ten days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.