Resolution 10605CITY OF ALAMEDA RESOLUTION NO. 10605
ADOPTING STATEMENT OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT OBJECTIVES
AND PROJECTED USE OF FUNDS AND AUTHORIZING EXECUTION
OF REQUIRED CERTIFICATES AND GRANT AGREEMENT
WHEREAS, the City of Alameda is an eligible applicant
for Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Entitlement Funds
as authorized by the Housing and Community Development Act of
1974, as amended; and
WHEREAS, the City of Alameda is entitled to receive
$1,127,000 in Eleventh Year CDBG funds; and
WHEREAS, the City of Alameda also will receive $151,816
in Urban Development Action grant loan repayments; and
WHEREAS, the City of Alameda has sought and considered
citizens" comments regarding housing and community development
needs in the community; and
WHEREAS, the City has prepared a Community Development
Plan;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City of Alameda
does hereby adopt its Statement of Community Development Objectives
and Projected Use of Funds for Fiscal Year 1985-86; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the City of Alameda certifies
its compliance with Community Development Block Grant require-
ments, and authorizes the City Manager to execute certifications
that:
1. It possesses legal authority to make a grant submission
and to execute a community development and housing program;
2. Its governing body has duly adopted or passed as an
official act a resolution, motion or similar action authorizing
the person identified as the official representative of the
arantee to submit the final statement and all understandings
and assurances contained therein, and directing and authorizing
the person identified as the official representative of the
grantee to act in connection with the submission of the final
statement and to provide such additional information as may be
required;
3. Prior to submission of its final statement to HUD,
the grantee has:
(A) met the citizen participation requirements of
§570.301(a)(2) and has provided citizens with:
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(1) the estimate of the amount of CDBG funds
proposed to be used for activities that
will benefit persons of low and moderate
income; and
(2) its plan for minimizing displacement of
persons as a result of activities assisted
with CDBG funds and to assist persons
actually displaced as a result of such
activities;
(B) prepared its final statement of community develop-
ment objectives and projected use of funds in
accordance with §570.301(a)(3) and made the final
statement available to the public;
4. The grant will be conducted and administered in com-
pliance with:
(A) Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Pub.L.
88-352; 42 U.S.C. §2000d et secl.); and
(B) Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 (Pub.L.
90-284; 42 U.S.C. §3601 et seq.);
5. It will affirmatively further fair housing;
6. It has developed its final statement of projected
use of funds so as to give maximum feasible priority to activities
which benefit low and moderate income families or aid in the
prevention or elimination of slums or blight; (the final statement
of projected use of funds may also include activities which the
grantee certifies are designed to meet other community development
needs having a particular urgency because existing conditions
pose a serious and immediate threat to the health or welfare
of the community, and other financial resources are not avail-
able); except that the aggregate use of CDBG funds received under
section 106 of the Act and, if applicable, under section 108
of the Act, during the 1985-86 program year, shall principally
benefit persons of low and moderate income in a manner that ensures
that not less than 51 percent of such funds are used for activities
that benefit such persons during such period;
7. It has developed a community development plan, for
the period specified in paragraph (6) above, that identifies
community development and housing needs and specifies both short
and long-term community development objectives that have been
developed in accordance with the primary objective and require-
ments of the Act;
(8) It is following a current housing assistance plan
which has been approved by HUD pursuant to §570.306;
(9) It will not attempt to recover any capital costs
of public improvements assisted in whole or in part with funds
provided under section 106 of the Act or with amounts resulting
from a guarantee under section 108 of the Act by assessing any
amount against properties owned and occupied by persons of low
and moderate income, including any fee charged or assessment
made as a condition of obtaining access to such public improve-
ments, unless (A) funds received under section 106 of theAct
are used to pay the proportion of such fee or assessment that
relates to the capital costs of such public improvements that
are financed from revenue sources other than under Title I of
the Act; or (B) for purposes of assessing any amount against
properties owned and occupied by persons of moderate income,
the grantee certifies to the Secretary that it lacks sufficient
funds received under section 106 of the Act to comply with the
requirements of subparagraph (A); and
(10) It will comply with the other provisions of the Act
and with other applicable laws.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Manager is hereby
authorized to execute a Grant Agreement for Fiscal Year 1985-86
CDBG Entitlement Funds with the Department of Housing and Urban
Development.
I, the undersigned, hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution
was duly and regularly adopted and passed by the Council of the
City of Alameda in regular meeting assembled on the 7th of May, 1985,
by the following vote to wit:
AYES: Councilmembers Gorman, Hanna, and President Diament - 3.
NOES: Councilmembers Lucas and Monsef - 2.
ABSENT: None.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the
official seal of said City this 8th day of May, 1985.
City Clerk of the eCity of 'Alameda