HomeMy WebLinkAbout1972-03-13 116-Z RESOLVE116-2 lntuodumed. by councilor Emanates, MazCh 13, 1972 CITY OF BANGOR (TITLE.) PDX,111PsApp oving.Request t Financial Assistance fora Cod Enforcement Grant BY µe City Couwil of Ike City ofBanw.- MEOLVBD, WHEREAS Section 119 of the Housing Act of 1949, as amended, authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to mate 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 improvements 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 Bangor, among which is the obligation to assure that any persons who may be displaced as a result of the code enforcement and public improvements program 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 discrimination on basis of race, color, creed or national origin in sale, lease, or other dispo- sition of residential property (including land Intended for residential use) or in the use or occupancy thereof; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BANGOR: 1. That an application be filed with the Department of Housing and Urban Development on behalf of the City of Bangor for a code enforcement grant under Section 117 of the Housing Act of 1949, as amended, of three-fourths of the cost of undertaking and carrying out a code enforcement program, which cost is now estimated to be $995, 56Q in an area or areas to be designated and specially described in such application, and that the City Manager 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 of Bangor in the accomplishment of the code enforcement program. 2. That during the period of the contract for the code enforcement grant the City of Bangor will maintain a level of expenditures for code enforcement activities, exclusive of expenditures In any federally esistetl 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 preceding the filing of the application. 3. That the locality has a program for and wll: provide in a timely manner all necessary public improvements for the code enforcement area. 9. That there exists in the locality an adequase 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 to regard to public utilities and public and commercial facilities than the dwellings of the displaced individuals and families, and it is the sense of this body that such displacees, H any, will be relocated in accordance with applicable regulations of the Department of Housing and Urban Development S. That the United States of America and the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development be, and they hereby are, assured of full compliance by tie City of Bangor with regulations of the Department of Housing and Urban Development effectuating Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1969 and applicable Executive Orders. 1-%--CEIVEE) 1972 UR -9 1r 4:17 CITY Cl ERR'S OFFICE IN CIW COUNCIL Mach 13, 1972 PASSED TY CLEIIlC 116-Z RESOLVE App. Request for Finvmial Assistance for Code Enforcement Gzant BREWER 4� ® existing pxoj. 4 a proposed pxoj. Q CITY OF BANGOR WESTSInE CODE ENFORCEMENT