HomeMy WebLinkAbout030525 RES - 06/16/2015 Resolution amending City Council Policy No. 9, entitled Community
Development Block Grant and HOME Programs by revising the language in
section f.; and reaffirming the objectives and guidelines of the policy.
Be it resolved by the City Council of the City of Corpus Christi, Texas:
Section 1. The City Council hereby amends Council Policy No. 9, adopted by
Resolution No. 21901 on March 22, 1994, and later amended by Resolution No. 026055
and 026571 on December 14, 2004 and December 20, 2005, respectively, Resolution
No. 030000 on October 29, 2013, and Resolution No. 030365 on December 16, 2014
and revising the language of section f. to read as follows:
"9. Community Development Block Grant and HOME Programs.
Through the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and HOME
Programs, the City Council provides for the development and preservation of a
viable urban community, a suitable living environment, affordable housing and
expanded economic opportunities, principally for persons of low and moderate
income, and aids in the prevention or elimination of slums and blight. The City
carries out its objectives by providing for affordable housing, appropriate streets
and drainage, recreational opportunities, neighborhood preservation, and
revitalization, and economic development as needed. To ensure that these
objectives are achieved, the following guidelines shall be as follows:
a. No CDBG Funds will be authorized to applicant agencies for the support of
operating expenses, with the exception of economic development projects
that create jobs.
b. No capital grants will be made without sufficient evidence of the financial
capacity of the applying agency to operate the program.
c. Priority will be given to those applying agencies that make substantial new
capital contributions to the project for which they are seeking funds.
d. Affordable housing shall be maintained as the top priority for the CDBG
program as well as placing greater emphasis on public infrastructure (City) in
CDBG eligible tracts.
e. External agencies awarded CDBG funds will not be eligible to apply for future
CDBG funding until two fiscal cycles have elapsed since the fiscal cycle in
which funds were granted. (For example, an external agency awarded CDBG
funding in fiscal cycle 2013-2014 will not be eligible to apply for future CDBG
funding until the 2016-2017 fiscal cycle.)
f. Program income generated from the CDBG Housing Program is a revolving
fund and will be applied toward the - - - - ' - - -• ' - - - -
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Affordable Housing Programs administered by
the Housing and Community Development Department, as mandated by the
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Program income
generated from the CDBG Demolition Program and the Clearance of Vacant
Property Program will be applied to each individual program's revolving fund.
Program income generated from the HOME Program will be applied towards
maintaining or creating affordable housing in the community.
g. Annual funding request for CDBG and HOME programs administered through
the Housing and Community Development Department shall be approved in
order to ensure that the essential operations of the department are met in
accordance with the departments Mission."
Section 2. The City Council hereby reaffirms its commitment to the objectives and
guidelines contained in Council Policy No. 9, as amended by this resolution.
ATTEST: TH C Y OF CORPUS CHRISTI
Rebecca Huerta Nelda Martin
City Secretary Mayor
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Corpus Christi, Texas
/(jdayof .i-� , 2015
The above resolution was passed by the following vote:
Nelda Martinez
(1_4_
Rudy Garza, Jr.
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Chad Magill
Colleen McIntyre
Lillian Riojas
Brian Rosas �� e
Lucy Rubio
Mark Scott
Carolyn Vaughn
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