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• RESOLUTION No. 466 (1i8 -93)
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 ELEVENTH YEAR ENTITLEMENT INCRE-
MENT OF THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT
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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 avail-
able 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 Eleventh Year
Program, the City has prepared a statement of Community Develop-
ment Objectives and Projected Use of Funds for the Eleventh Year
Entitlement increment of the Community Development Block Grant
Program, which document is dated November 4, 1993; and
WHEREAS, the City Council has reviewed in full and discussed
at length the contents of the December 2, 1993 Statement of
Community Development Objectives and Projected Use of Funds for
the Eleventh 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 Eleventh Year Program which involved a public
hearing and various publications of the Eleventh Year Statement
and making available to interested citizens of 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 com-
pliance with applicable statutes and executive orders associated
with the Community Development Block Grant Program.
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NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF JACKSONVILLE, ARKANSAS:
and Projected Use of Funds for the Elevnth Year Commun-
ity Development Block Grant Program is hereby approved
in all respects to serve as the guiding instrument for
the implementation of the Eleventh Year Program insofar
as its two major components read as follows:
A: Statement of Commmunit,y, Development Objectives.
Through the implementation of the Eleventh Year Pro-
gram as described below, the City ,intends to achieve the follow-
ing Community Development Objectives:
1. To design and carry out a Community Development Block
Grant Program annual increment with maximum feasible
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• benefit to persons of low- and moderate- income.
2. To eliminate slums and blight and to prevent the recur-
rence of blighting conditions wherever they persist
within the City.
3. To provide water supply improvements to alleviate
problem's stemming from inadequate water facilities.
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 home-
owners 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, recogniz-
ing 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 carry-
ing out the Eleventh Year program as described herein:
The City intends to design and conduct its activities in a
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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 Proper-
ty Acquisition and Relocation Policies Act of March 2, 1989.
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B. prOj ted Use of Funds
The City anticipates that it will receive approximately
$339,000.00 of entitlement Grant Funds for the Eleventh 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.
Moreov*r, if the City received mere than $339,000.00, it proposes
to distribute the additional funds between the Graham Road Drain-
age project and the Johnson Park Project.
Any unspent funds will be carried over for the Twelth Year
Program- Consequently, the City proposes to undertake and com-
plete the following projects and activities during the Eleventh
Year of the CoB6 Program:
• $86.000.00 - Owner-occupied rehabilitation on a
Citywide basia.
40,000.00 - Sunnyside Water Project(Phase VI)
35,000.00 - Street Improvement-Ray Road (Phase I)
15,000.00 - Homehuyera Assistance Grants
20,000.00 - Johnson Park Project-Parking Lot
Reconstruction and Bike Trail
64,000.00 - Graham Road Drainage Project
20,000.00 - King Street Sidewalk Project
59,000.00 - Program Administration
$339,000.00 Total Eleventh Year Program
This is the proposed use of Eleventh Year funds aS of the
date written above. In submitting this statement to the Depart-
ment of Housing and Urban Development, the City will be certify-
ing that it has designed a program of activities with maximum
feasible benefit to persons of low- and modernte-inoom*. Partic-
ipation 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 Elev-
enth Year Entitlement expenditures Will be directed toward bene-
fiting persons of low- and moderate-income.
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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 Community Development Objectives and
Projected Use of Funds as approved by the City Council at its
regularly scheduled meeting December 2, 1993 and make this same
• final statement available to the public for review in the Office
of Community Development in City Hall,.
3. That the Maymr he, 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 Comprehensive Housing Assistance Strategy for the
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Eleventh Year 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.
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