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HomeMy WebLinkAbout10285 RES - 06/02/19716/2/71:e A RESOLUTION WHEREAS, Section 117 of the Housing Act of 1949, as amended, authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to make grants to municipalities and counties to assist them in carrying out programs of concentrated code enforcement in deteriorated or deteriorating areas in which such enforcement, together with certain public im- provements to be provided by the locality, may be expected to arrest the "decline of the area; and WHEREAS, it has been found and determined by this body that there exists in this locality certain deteriorated or deteriorating areas for which a program of concentrated code enforcement, combined with certain public improvements, may be expected to arrest the decline of the area; and WHEREAS, it is recognized that the grant of funds pursuant to Section 117 will impose certain obligations and responsibilities upon the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, hereinafter called CITY, among which is the obligation to assure that any persons who may be displaced as a result of the code enforcement and public improvements programs are relocated into decent, safe, and sanitary housing in accordance with the regulations of the Department of Housing and Urban Development; and WHEREAS, Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, or national'origin under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance and Executive Order 11063 prohibits dis- crimination on basis of race, color, creed or national origin in sale, lease, or other disposition of residential property (including land intended for residential use) or in the use or occupancy thereof: JL0285 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS: SECTION 1. That an application be filed with the Department of Housing and Urban Development on behalf of City for a code enforcement grant under Section 117 of the Housing Act of 1949, as amended, of two- thirds of the cost of undertaking and carrying out a code enforcement program, which cost is now estimated to be $4,030,771.00, in an area or areas to be designated and specially described in such application, and that the City Manager, R. Marvin Townsend, is hereby authorized and directed to execute and file such application, to provide such additional information and furnish such documents as may be required by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, to execute such contract or contracts as may be necessary for the grant applied for, to execute and file requisition for funds, and to act as the authorized representative of the City in the accomplishment of the code enforcement program. SECTION 2. That during the period of the contract for the code enforcement grant the City will maintain a level of expenditures for code enforcement activities, exclusive of expenditures in any federally assisted code enforcement or Title I urban renewal project areas, that is not less than the average yearly expenditure for such activities throughout the locality for the two full fiscal years immediately pre- ceding the filing of the application. SECTION 3. That the locality has a program for and will provide in a timely manner all necessary public improve- ments for the code enforcement area. SECTION 4. That there exists in the locality an adequate amount of decent, safe, and sanitary housing which is available to persons displaced as a result of the code enforcement and related public improvements programs, at prices which are within their financial means and which are not generally less desirable in regard to public utilities and public and commercial facilities than the dwellings of -2- + the displaced individuals and families, and it is the sense of this body that such dosplacees, if any, will be relocated in accordance with applicable regulations of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. SECTION 5. That the United States of America and the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development be, and they hereby are, assured of full compliance by the City with regulations of the Department of Housing and Urban Development effectuating Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and applicable Executive Orders. ,f PASSED AND APPROVED this the J klL day of June, 1971. ATTE City Se r ary MAYOR THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS APPROVED: 2ND AY Z�" E, 71: ,/ 9 -4 ty Attorney -t CORPUS CHRISTI] TEXAS 7LLL DAY OF / p 19 71 TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS FOR THE REASONS SET FORTH IN THE EMERGENCY CLAUSE OF THE FOREGOING ORDINANCE, A PUBLIC EMERGENCY AND IMPERATIVE NECESSITY EXIST FOR THE SUSPEN- SION OF THE CHARTER RULE OR REQUIREMENT THAT NO ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION SHALL BE PASSED FINALLY ON THE DATE IT 15 INTRODUCED1 AND THAT SUCH ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION SHALL BE READ AT THREE MEETINGS OF THE CITY COUNCIL; I, THEREFORE REQUEST THAT YOU SUSPEND SAID CHARTER RULE OR REQUIREMENT AND PASS THIS ORDI- NANCE FINALLY ON THE DATE IT IS INTRODUCED/ OR AT THE PRESENT MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL. ECTFULLY, e 14AYOR THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS THE CHARTER RULE WAS SUSPENDED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE: RONNIE SIZEMORE �/Jy /.'r CHARLES A. BONNIWELL Wel dC/ ROBERTO BOSQUEZ REV. HAROLD T. BRANCH Cd_L GP i THOMAS V. GONZALES�/' . GABE LOZANO, SR. J.-HOWARD STARK s THE ABOVE ORDINANCE WAS PASSED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE' RONNIE SIZEMORE CHARLES A. BONNIWELL ROBERTO BOSQUEZ LL C/--L- REV. HAROLD T. BRANCH THOMAS V. GONZALES GABE LOZANO, SR. J. HOWARD STARK