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HomeMy WebLinkAbout17921 ORD - 11/02/1983AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 49-21 OF THE CITY CODE TO PROVIDE FOR A NEW ASSESSMENT POLICY ON PROJECTS FUNDED BY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT FUNDS; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS: SECTION 1. That Section 49-21 of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, as amended, be amended by changing subsection (C.II) thereof to hereinafter read as follows: (C.II) Assessment policy, projects funded by community development block grant funds. The following assessment policy will apply to street assessment projects funded in part by community development block grant funds through the federal department of housing and urban development (HUD). (1) Property being used for one or two-family residential dwellings will be assessed at the special residential rate described in subsection (C.I) herein. (2) Low to moderate income residents who own and occupy property as a homestead being assessed at the special residential rate as described in subsection (C.I) herein will be eligible to receive a grant from community development block grant funds for the entire amount of such assessment. Eligibility for such a grant shall be determined by the city, upon application by the property owner, according to the following criteria: (a) Low to moderate income is defined as not exceeding one hundred twenty percent (120%) of the applicable income limitations established by HUD for programs under Section 8 of the Community Development Act of 1974, as amended. (b) In the event an application reveals extraordinary hardship expenses for items such as medical expenses, continuing care, etc., which exceed twenty percent (20%) of the total family income, the strict application of the low to moderate income definition stated above may be waived by the city. Participants who do not meet the above criteria at the time the assessments are made but who meet the 17921 SEP 2 81984 ifirafiL114_ED. (3) requirements at some time during the payment of the assessment due to declining income or other hardship shall be eligible to receive a grant for the remaining balance of such assessment. The absentee owners of residential property (one or two-family dwellings) will be offered low interest community development fund loans for the purpose of paying street assessments providing the property is occupied by low income tenants who meet the income limitations established by HUD for Section 8 programs. These loans will be administered by the city. (4) Commercially used property and property other than one or two-family residential property not qualifying for low income provisions will be assessed in accordance with the other provisions of this section. SECTION 2. That upon written request of the Mayor or five Council members, copy attached, to find and declare an emergency due to the need for immediate and effective administration of City affairs by amending the street assessment policy as aforementioned, such finding of an emergency is made and declared requiring suspension of the Charter rule as to consideration and voting upon ordinances or resolutions at three regular meetings so that this ordinance is passed and shall take effect upon first reading as an emergency measure this the 2nd day of November, 1983. ATTEST: -.‘deity Secretary APP= ROV,D: A-Ar•A- DAY OF NOVEMBER, 1983 J. BRUCE AYCOCK, CITY ATTORNEY MAYOR THE ITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS Corpus Christi, Te as arid_day of , 198 3. TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL Corpus Christi, Texas For the reasons set forth in the emergency clause of the foregoing ordinance or resolution, an emergency exists requiring suspension of the Charter rule as to consideration and voting upon ordinances or resolutions at three regular meetings; I/we, therefore, request that you suspend said Charter rule and pass this ordinance or resolution finally on the date it is introduced, or at the present meeting of the City Council. Respectfully, Respectfully, Council Members MAYOR THE ITY OF CORPUS- CHRISTI, TEXAS The above ordinance was passed . y the following vote: Luther Jones Betty N. Turner David Berlanga, Sr. Leo Guerrero Herbert L. Hawkins, Jr. Dr. Charles W. Kennedy Joe McComb Frank Mendez Mary Pat Slavik 17921 iy. -:PIC yV�Egir 8 fR ..t.ls-ZORDIN NCE ORDINANCE No 17921 AMENDING SECTION 1 49-21 OF THE CITY CODE C TO TO PROVIDE FOR A NEW 4 ASSESSMENT POLICY ON P PROJECTS FUNDED BY 11 COMMUNITY DEVELOP- Z MENT BLOCK GRANT 5 FUNDS; AND DECLAR- 1 ING AN EMERGENCY. a Was passed and approved by the City Council of the I City of Corpus Christi, Tex- 11 as on the 2nd day of N November, 1983. The full E text of said ordinance is s1 available to the public in E the Office of the City Secre= tj tary. -s-Bill G. Read City Secretary t Corpus Christi, Texas Si 74. 23f317:s. STATE OF TEXAS, �ss County of Nueces. PUBLISHER'S AFFIDA IT AD#27199 City of C.C. Before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public, this day personally came GRACIE DE LUNA , who being first duly sworn, according to law, says that he is the ADM. ASST. SECRETARY of the Corpus Christi Caller and The Corpus Christi Times, Daily Newspapers published at Corpus Christi, Texas, in said County and State, and that the publication of NOTICE OF PASU,Qb',, QZ._QBp.INANCF._ALQ..._12.921 of which the annexed is a true copy, was published in CALLER—TIMES PUBLISHING COQ._ on the.?th._ day of November consecutive One 19 8 , and once each cla.y thereafter for ron.e. day Times. 24.75 GRACIE DE LUNA — r Adm. Asst. Sec. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 10th day of Novem er 19 9.3._ Notary Public, N County, Texas EDNA KOSTER