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RESOLUTION NO. 3 1 7 (#4 -84)
RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF JACKSONVILLE,
ARKANSAS, APPROVING THE STATEMENT OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT,
OBJECTIVES AND PROJECTED USE OF FUNDS FOR THE FIRST YEAR
ENTITLEMENT INCREMENT OF THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK
GRANT PROGRAM, MAKING CERTAIN REQUIRED CERTIFICATIONS TO THE
DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING & URBAN DEVELOPMENT, AND AUTHORIZING THE
MAYOR TO SUBMIT THE PROGRAM MATERIALS TO THE DEPARTMENT OF
HOUSING & URBAN DEVELOPMENT.
WHEREAS, the City of Jacksonville is desirous of undertaking a variety of
community improvement activities with funds available under the provisions of
Title I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, as amended through
the Housing and Community Development Amendment of 1981; and
WHEREAS in accordance with the provisions of the 1981 Amendment and the
Housing and Urban -Rural Recovery Act of 1983, and in order to design the content
of the proposed First Year Program, the City has prepared a Statment of
Community Development Objectives and Projected Use of Funds for the First Year
Entitlement increment of the Community Development Block Grant Program, which
document is dated March 6, 1984; and
WHEREAS,the City Council has reviewed in full and discussed at length the
contents of the March 6, 1984 Statment of Community Development Objectives and
Projected Use of Funds for the First Year, recognizing that it may make changes
during the present meeting; and
WHEREAS, the City Council determines that a suitable level of public
accountability has been achieved through the planning process for the First
Year program which involved a public hearing and various publications in a
newspaper of general local coverage and specifically the publication of the
First Year Statement, and the making available to interested citizens of infor-
mation in various offices in City Hall; and
THEREAS the City is required to submit to the Department of Housing & Urban
Development certain certifications of compliance with applicable statutes and
executive orders associated with the Community Development Block Grant Program.
NOt, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF JACKSONVILLE,
ARKANSAS:
1. That the Statment of Community Development Objectives and Projected
Use of Funds for the First Year Community Development Block Grant Program is
hereby approved in all respects to serve as the guiding instrument for the imple-
mentation of the First Year Program insofar as its two major components read as
follows:
A. Statement of Community Development Objectives
"Through the implementation of the First Year Program as described
below, the City intends to achieve the following community Development
objectives:
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1. To design and carry out a Community Development Block Grant
Program annual increment with maximum feasible benefit to
persons of low and moderate income.
2. To eliminate slums and blight and to prevent the recurrence
of blighting conditions wherever they persist within the City.
3. To improve parks and recreation opportunities through the
acquisition of various site improvements or facilities within
existing or proposed parks.
4. To provide storm drainage improvements to alleviate flooding,
ponding, and hazardous conditions stemming from storm water
runoff into inadequate drainage facilities.
S. To provide for street paving and installation of curb and gutters
in connection with storm drainage projects, or as discrete pro-
jects; and to meet the City's standards for width, design and
construction.
6. To provide technical and financial assistance to homeowners for
the repair, rehabilitation and conservation of their homes with
special emphasis upon the needs of lower- income homeowners.
7. To enter HUD's Demonstration program for the rehabilitation of
tenant occupied housing units through the provision of technical
and financial assistance to owners of such property who will
rehabilitate their property to meet appropriate City Standards
for the benefit of lower - income renters.
8. To minimize displacement of site occupants through the carrying
out of the projects and activities, recognizing that should
displacement occur, the City will provide technical and financial
assistance to relocate the displacee in replacement housing
within his /her economic means.
Amoung the many available community Development objectives, these are the
ones that the City will strive to satisfy by carrying out the First Year Program
as described herein.
The City intends to design and conduct its activities in a manner designed to
minimize displacement of site occupants. However, should displacement become
necessary, the City will provide technical and financial assistance to the dis-
placee in the provision of rental assistance payments and /or replacement housing.
All activities in this regard will be carried out under the auspices of the
City's adopted Relocation Plan which has been prepared in light of the stipula-
tions of the Uniform Real Estate Acquisition and Relocation Policies Act of 1970.
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B. Projected Use of Funds
The City anticipates that it will receive $289,000 of Entitlement
Grant for the First Year CDBG Program. If the City receives less
than this amount, it proposes to pare down the costs and scope of
the projects described below. A second choice would be to eliminate
one project from the proposed program. Moreover, if the City receives
more than $289,000, it proposes to add the additional funds to the
line item titled "Administration" where they will remain until or
unless they are required for another project activity. Any unspent
funds will be carried over to the Second Year. Consequently, the
City proposes to undertake and complete the following projects and
activities during the First Year of the CDBG Program:
$ 30,000 - Acquisition of ro ert
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P Y s n Park
in the Henry Estates Addition area
137,000 - 14 units of owner - occupied housing reha-
bilitation on a community-wide basis
54,000 - Street improvements in Henry Estates
Addition
20,000 - Drainage improvements in Henry Estates
Addition
48,000 - Program Administration
$289,000 - TOTAL - First Year Program
"This is the proposed use of First Year funds as of the date written above.
In submitting this Statment to the Department of Housing & Urban Development,
The City will be certifying that it has designed a program of activities with
maximum feasible benefit to persons of low and moderate income. Participation
in the rehabilitation program will be from low - and moderate- income persons
owing to the income limits that will be established for eligibility. The other
project activities are located in a geographic area that is comprised of residents
predominantly low- and moderate - income. This, all the First Year Entitlement
expenditure will be directed toward benefitting persons of low and moderate income"
2. That the Mayor be and hereby is authorized to publish in a newspaper of
local general coverage the final statement as a Statement of Community Development
Objectives and Projected Use of Funds insofar as its content wholly agrees with
the content of Paragraph 1 immediately above; and to submit to the Little Rock
area Office of the Department of Housing & Urban Development said final statement
of Community Development Objectives and Projected Use of Funds.
3. That the Mayor be and hereby is authorized to act as the City's official
correspondent with the Department of Housing & Urban Development and to provide
additional information as may be requested; and to certify to DHUD the City's
compliance with current requirements for citizen participation and public
accountability in developing the annual entitlement increment, with the requirements
of the applicable civil rights laws and Executive Orders pertaining thereto,
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with the requirement that the projected use of funds has been developed so as to
give maximum feasible priority to activities which will benefit low -and moderate -
income persons or aid in the prevention or elimination of slumbs or blight, and
with other applicable laws.
4. That the City Council acknowledges that the City submitted in December,
1983, its proposed Housing Assistance Plan for the First Year Program including
three -year and annual goals for housing assistnace, and that the Department of
Housing & Urban Development has approved this Plan.
5. That this resolution shall be in full force and effect from and after
its passage and approval.
DATE PASSED: MARCH 15th, 1984
ATTEST:,
City Clerk
APPROVED: f
Mayor
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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Attorney
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