HomeMy WebLinkAbout1972-11-27 24-AA RESOLVE24 -AA Introduced by Councilor Erasures, Nov, 27, 1972 CITY OF BANGOR (TUTEE.) NQ$�ITjQ,3 ApprRvng_Rpggynet f FS„�,a. nc 1assistance £or a Cade By Goa City Couwif of t Llty o(Bangor. RESOLVED, WHExEAE Section 117 of the Housing But of 1949, as amended, authorizes the Secretary of Housing and urban Development to melee grants to municipalities and counties to assist them In carrying Out programs of concentrated entrated code areas enforcement in deteriorated Or deteriorating s in which such enforcement, together with contain public improvements to he promised by the locality, may be expected to unrest the decline of the area; and WHEREAS it has been found and dete[mdned by this body that there exists n this Locality certain deteriorated or deteriorating areas for which a program of ccancerecrated code enforcement, comainod with certain public improvements, may be expected to parent 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 Hanger, amorg; which is the Obligation to ensure that any persons who may be displaced as a cult of the code enforcement and public improvements program are relocated into decant, safe, and sanitary housing in accordance with the regulations of the Department of Housing and urban Development; end WHEREAS Title VI of the Civil Rights, Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of r color, o national Origin under any program activity receiving Bedevil financial assistance and Executive Order 11063 prohibits discrimination on basis of race, color, creed or natlonal Origin in sale, lee or Other disposition of residential proparty (including land intended for resi- dential use) or in the use of occupancy thereof; HOW, THEREpORE, HE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OB THE CITY OF BANGOR: 1. That as application be filed with the Department of Housing and urban velopment on behalf Of the City Of Burger for a code enforcement grant under Section lip of the Housing But of 1949, as amended, of three-fourths of the est of undertaking and carrying out a code enforcement program which cast i desestimated t0 be $404,318 in an area or areas to be designated and specially cribed in such application, and that the City Manager is hereby authorized and directed to emecute, and file such application, to provide such additional informative and furnish such documents as may be required by the Department of Housing and urban Development, to execute such contract or contracts as may b, IN CITY Cd IL Nw. 27, 1972 PASS® C C R 2o -M SE SBLtE App. Request for Ffx Wn l usist ce for a Ca a Rfece nt Gent A neoessary for the grant applied for, to execute and file requisition for funds, and to act as the authorised representative of the City of Bangor in the accomplishment of the code enforcement program. 2. Mat during the period of the contract for the code enforcement grant the City of Bangor will maintain a level of expenditures for code enforce,e,t activities, exclusive of expenditures in any federally assisted code enforcement or Title I urban renewal project areas, that is not less than the average yearly expenditure for such activities throughout the locality for the two full fiscal years iamsdiately preceding the filing of the application. 3. That the locality has a program far and will- provide in a timely manner all necessary public improvements far the code enforcement area. 4. That there exists in the locality an adequate except of decent, safe, and sanitary housing which is available to persons displaced as sulk of the code enforcement and related public improvements progress,at prices which are within their financial mans and which are not generally less deairable in regard to public utilities and public and ccapearcial facilities than the dwellings of the displaced individuals and families, and it is the sense of this body that such displaces$, if any, will be relocated i accordance with applicable regulations of the Department of HOUSing aml D[ban Development. 5. That the tnited states of America and the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development be, and they hereby are, Assured of full compliance by the City of Bangor with regulations of the Department of Housing and Urban .Development effectuating Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and applicable dxecutive orders. BREWER I® existing pvoj. _ 40 O p[oposed pioj. 4t / CITY OF BANGOR T' WESTS IDE CODE ENFORCEMENT J/