Explanation
BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the Director of Development to modify a grant agreement with Community Development for All People in an amount up to $411,491.00 to continue to provide rental and utility assistance using federal Emergency Rental Assistance 1 funds.
Original grant amount $ 335,000.00 Ord. 1818-2021 PO290454
Mod. 1 grant amount $ 411,491.00
Total grant amount $746,491.00
Ordinance 0284-2021 authorized the City of Columbus to accept and appropriate $26,822,803.20 of federal Emergency Rental Assistance 1 program funds, as passed by the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021. Of this amount, $300,000 ($111,491.00 Emergency Rental Assistance 2) will be used to modify an agreement with Community Development for All People to provide rental and utility assistance (as defined by U. S. Treasury) to qualifying residents of the local community to ensure housing stability. To date, approximately $26M of ERA1 funds have been allocated.
In July 2021, the Department of Development issued a Notice of Award (NOFA) to solicit responses from community organization who could provide these federal grant funds to hard to reach communities. Twenty-six organizations were selected to receive these funds. Of the 26, 23 were be funded with ERA 1 funds under the authority of Ordinance 1818-2021 and three were funded with ERA 2 funds under Ordinance 2306-2021. Community Development for All People was one of the ERA1 funded agencies.
Advertising for these services again would interrupt the program and possibly result a delay in providing these services. The terms of the grant agreement modification shall be the same as that of the original grant agreement.
Emergency action is requested in order to continue to services without interruption.
FISCAL IMPACT: $300,000.00 is available from ACPO006746 (ERA1) and $111,491.00 is available from ERA2.
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