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0511 4 � RESOLUTION No Cf In 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 SIXTEENTH YEAR ENTITLEMENT INCREMENT OF THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT PROGRAM MAKING CERTAIN REQUIRED CERTIFICATIONS TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, AND AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR TO SUBMIT THE PROGRAM MATERIALS TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT. WIIEREAS, the City of Jacksonville is desirous of undertaking a variety of Community Development activities with funds available under the provisions of Title I of 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 Sixteenth Year Program, the City has prepared a statement of Community Development Objectives and Projected Use of Funds for the Sixteenth Year Entitlement increment of the Community Development Block Grant Program, which document is included in the Consolidated Plan Action Plan for 1999 and dated November 5, 1998; and WHEREAS, the City Council has reviewed in full and discussed at length the contents of the November 5, 1998 Statement of Community Development Objectives and Projected Use of Funds for the Sixteenth 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 Sixteenth Year Program which involved two public hearings and various publications of the Sixteenth Year Statement and making available to interested citizens information in various office in City Hall; and WHEREAS, the City is required to submit to the Department of Housing and Urban Development certain certifications of compliance with applicable statutes and executive orders associated with the Community Development Block Grant Program. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF JACKSONVILLE, ARKANSAS: A: Statement of Communes Development Objectives Through the implementation of the Sixteenth Year Program as described below, the City intends to achieve the following Community Development Objectives: 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. 1 1 • 3. To provide assistance to businesses for job creation among moderate to low income groups. 4. To provide down payment assistance to low- income home buyers, who would otherwise not be able to afford home ownership. 5. To provide technical and financial assistance to homeowners for the repair, rehabilitation and conservation of their homes with special emphasis on the needs of the lower- income homeowners. 6. To provide for street paving and installation of curbs, gutters and sidewalks to meet the City's standards for width, design and construction_ 7. 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 displaced in replacement housing. Among the many available community development objectives, these are the ones that the City will strive to satisfy by carrying out the Sixteenth 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 displaced 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 stipulations of the Uniform Real Property Acquisition and Relocation Policies Act of March 2, 1989. B. Projected 1 Jse of Funds The City anticipates that it will receive approximately $300,000.00 of entitlement Grant Funds for the Sixteenth 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. Moreover, if the City received more than $300,000.00, it proposes to distribute the additional funds between proposed projects. Any unspent funds will be carried over for the Seventeenth Year Program. Consequently, the City proposes to undertake and complete the following projects and activities during the Fifteenth year of the CDBG Program: 10,000.00 - Neighborhood Revitalization (Playground equipment) 20,000.00 - Stanphill Street Sidewalks 50,000.00 - Sage Street Reconstruction 20,000.00 - Home buyers Assistance Grants 90,000.00 - Homeowner Rehabilitation 50,000.00 - Business Incubator - Operating Costs 60.000.00 - Program Administration $300,000.00 - Total Sixteenth Year Program This is the proposed use of Sixteenth Year funds as of the date written above. In submitting this statement to the Department of Housing and 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 Home buyers Assistance program will be from low - and 2 / 08 moderate - income persons owing to the income limits that will be established for eligibility. The other project activities are located in geographic areas that are comprised of residents predominately low - and moderate - income. Thus, all of the Sixteenth Year Entitlement expenditures will be directed toward benefiting persons of low- and moderate - income. 2. That the Mayor be, and hereby is authorized to submit to the Little Rock Department of Housing and Urban Development, the final statement of Conununity Development Objectives and Projected Use of Funds as approved by the City Council at its regularly scheduled meeting November 5, 1998 and make this same final statement available to the public for review in the Office of Economic /Community Development at 109 South 2nd Street. 3. That the Mayor be, and hereby is, authorized to act as the City's official correspondent with the Department of Housing and 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, with the requirement that the projected use of funds has been developed so as to provide maximum feasible priority to activities which will benefit low- and moderate- income persons or aid in the prevention of slums or blight and with other applicable laws. 4. That the City Council acknowledges that the City has submitted its Consolidated Plan for the Program including five year and annual goals and that the Department of Housing and Urban Development has approved the plan. 5. That this resolution shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage and approval. DATE PASSED: litilteAll.hen) S ric ATTES f R . A * cia APPROVED( — Mayor City of Jacksonville At.ro'edas`ole�1f. -: f /J ,. City A omey 3