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RESOLUTION NO. 457(15 -92)
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 TENTH 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.
WHEREAS, the City of Jacksonville is desirous of undertaking a variety
of Community Development activities with funds available under the provisions
of Title tle 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 con -
tent of the proposed Tenth Year Program, the City has prepared a Statement of
Community Development Objectives and Projected Use of Funds for the Tenth Year
Entitlement increment of the Community Development Block Grant Program, which
document is dated November 20, 1992; and
WHEREAS, the City Council has reviewed in full and discussed at length
the contents of the November 20, 1992 Statement of Community Development
Objectives and Projected Use of Funds for the Tenth 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 Tenth
Year Program which involved a public hearing and various publications of the
Tenth Year Statement and making available to interested citizens of informa-
tion in various offices in City Hall; and
WHEREAS, the City is required to submit to the Department of Housing and
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 Statement of Community Development Objectives and
Projected Use of Funds for the Tenth Year Community Development
Block Grant Program is hereby approved in all respects to serve
as the guiding instrument for the implementation of the Tenth
Year Program insofar as its two major components read as follows:
A: Statement of Community Development Objectives
Through the implementation of the Tenth 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.
3. To provide water supply improvements to alleviate problems
stemming from inadequate water facilities.
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4. To provide for street paving and installation of curbs, gutters
and sidewalks to meet the City's standards for width, design
and construction.
5. To provide technical and financial assistance to homeowners for
the repair, rehabilitation and conservation of their homes with
special emphasis upon the needs of the lower- income homeowners
and the handicapped.
6. 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.
7. To provide assistance to first time home buyers by providing
assistance with down payments.
Among the many available community development objectives, these are the
ones that the City will strive to satisfy by carrying out the Tenth Year program
as described herein.
The City intends to design and conduct its activities in a manner designed
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.
PROJECTED USE OF FUNDS
The City anticipates that it will receive approximately $268,000.00 of
entitlement grant funds for the Tenth Year CDBG Program. If the City receives
less than this amount, it proposed to pare down the costs and scope of the
projects described below. Moreover, if the City receives more thant $268,000.00,
it proposes to distribute the additional funds between the Peach Street Project
and the Sunnyside Water Project.
Any unspent funds will be carried over for the Eleventh Year Program. Con-
sequently, the City proposes to undertake and complete the following projects
and activities during the Tenth Year of the CDBG Program:
$ 84,000.00.- Owner occupied rehabilitation on a Citywide basis
46,000.00 - Sunnyside Water Relocation Project
60,000.00 - Street Improvement -Peach Street
25,000.00 - First time homebuyers down payment assistance
53,000.00 - Program Administration
$268,000.00
This is the proposed use of Tenth 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
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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 geographic areas that are comprised
of residents predominately low- and moderate - income. Thus, all of the Tenth
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 Deaprtment of Housing and Urban Development, the final statement
of Community Development Objectives and Projected Use of Funds as approved by
the City Council at its regularly scheduled meeting December 17, 1992 and make
this same final statement available to the public for review in the Office of
Community Development in City Hall.
3. That the Mayor be, an 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
1 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
1 Housing Assistance Plan for the Tenth Year Program including five year and
annual goals for Comprehensive Housing Affordability Strategy (CHAS), 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` t /7799;
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CI CLERK- TREASU' R
Mayor, City of acksonville
Approved as to legal form:
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City 'ttorney •