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HomeMy WebLinkAbout86771 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 RESOLUTION NO. 8,677 A RESOLUTION APPROVING THE VARIOUS PROJECTS AND ALLOCATIONS OF FUNDS AS PROVIDED FOR IN THE CITY OF LITTLE ROCK'S COM4UNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT (CDBG) PROGRAM FOR THE 18TH YEAR (FY 1992); REVISING THE CDBG CITIZEN PARTICIPATION PLAN; ESTABLISHING GUIDELINES FOR THE CITY'S OWNER- OCCUPIED HOUSING REHABILITATION PROGRAM; AND APPROVING THE CDBG APPLICATION AND AUTHORIZING THE FILING OF THE APPLICATION FOR SUCH FUNDS. 152 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE CITY OF LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS: SECTION 1. The various projects and allocations of the funds provided to the City under the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program for fiscal year 1992 -93, as set forth in the attached program proposal (Exhibit A) and application for such funds are hereby approved. SECTION 2: The adoption of a revision of the CDBG Citizen Participation Plan as set forth in Exhibit "B" is hereby approved. SECTION 3: That the guidelines established for the City's Owner - Occupied Housing Rehabilitation Program to implement "targeting" of available resources and establish categories and limits of assistance per the attached policy statement (Exhibit C) are hereby approved. SECTION 4: The City Manager, on behalf of the City, is hereby authorized to complete and file the application with the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for the grant of funds so specified. ADOPTED: March 17, 1992 �7_ _ 1•!!i.__� APPROVED AS TO FORM: � = c APPROVED: Z �/ -SHARON •• P 5� F/ EXHIBIT A PROPOSED USE OF FUNDS 18th Year CDBG Program 153 Rehabilitation Loans & Grants $ 340,000 HOPE 1, 2, & 3 Matching Fund 105,000 Housing Programs Administration 185,000 Code Enforcement 50,000 Public Services (ELRCC) 600,000 Street & Drainage Construction 400,000 28th Street, Phase 2 Maple Street, 25th to Roosevelt 26th Street, Pine to Maple Construction Projects Administration 35,000 General Administration 205,000 Planning (Pankey) 25,000 Section 108 Loan Service 14,000 Save -A -Home Program 50,000 Lewis Street Model Block 100,000 Central High Area CHEER Program 100,000 Gillam Park Road Drainage Improvements 210.000 Total $2,419,000 Resources FY 1992 Entitlement $2,219,000 Estimated Program Income 200.000 Total $2,419,000 Rev. 2/24/92 >. � t •= • t �ta n Pankey Neighborhood Gateway Design Pankey has never been fully developed. There has been little investment of private capital in the infrastructure of Pankey. To date, the only substantial community development investment in Pankey has been made by the City through its CDBG program. The CDBG Planning Committee of the Pankey Neighborhood area strongly feel that a design method needs to be created now to induce further residential development and redevelopment of existing residential properties and other structures. They are requesting to earmark the $25,000 for the staff - proposed and Coordinating Committee - endorsed Pankey planning study to the " Pankey Neighborhood Gateway Design" project. The design project will consist of the following and be primarily located on the Ives Street entrance off of Highway 10 on the south side of the highway. • A landscaped neighborhood entrance that would give a positive image to the neighborhood area; • A model block design that would include landscape treatment around new homes, as well as, rehabed homes in the Ives Street blocks. • A design strategy for the relocation of properties that currently violate the City's Subdivision Ordinance; • A design strategy that would include signage and lighting as part of the landscape plan; • A design strategy that would give design alternatives to the Wells Street Bridge over Ison Creek that constantly floods during heavy rains. 154 IBIT B CITY OF LITTLE ROCK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT PROGRAM CITIZEN PARTICIPATION PLAN 155 SECTION I: OVERVIEW The legislation which created the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program and regulations implementing it require citizen participation in planning, carrying out, and evaluating local CDBG activities. The legislation requires maximum feasible priority to activities which benefit low and moderate income persons. This citizen participation plan especially provides for and encourages participation by members of low and moderate income families and residents in low and moderate income areas of the City of Little Rock. The plan provides for designation of defined low- and moderate- income areas as "CDBG areas" and for residents of those areas to elect a CDBG Are« Coordinator to serve on the CDBG Citywide Coordinating Committee. It provides for neighborhood meetings in each designated area every other year for the purposes of a hearing on community development and housing needs in the specific area and election of an Area Coordinator. Area meetings are followed in the planning season by a citywide hearing on community development and housing needs. The Citywide Coordinating Committee then acts on staff planners' analyses of the community development and housing needs to prepare and recommend to the Little Rock Board of Directors projected uses of the City's annual CDBG entitlement. Rev. 02/26/92 Page 1 of 12 SECTION II: THE PLANNING SEASON M M M M Little Rock's CDBG Program year runs from July 1 through June 30. The citizen participation planning process begins in 156 October, approximately nine months before the start of the program year to be planned. It begins with the series of staff - conducted neighborhood meetings to elicit comment on community development and housing needs and elect a CDBG area coordinator. It culminates in a public hearing by the City's Board of Directors before the Board votes on the uses of CDBG funds, which is normally in March. (See Section IV below). SECTION III: CITIZEN PARTICIPATION PLANNING PROCESS A. Designated CDBG Areas In order to assure participation in CDBG Planning by low and moderate income persons, maximum feasible priority for activities benefiting low and moderate income areas and citizens, and compliance with statutory targeting requirements, the Board of Directors of the City of Little Rock designates defined areas (or neighborhoods) , as CDBG areas. CDBG activities are not limited to designated CDBG areas, but all activities must be shown to benefit principally lower income persons or to meet another of the three national CDBG objectives. The Board may designate a Rev. 02/26/92 Page 2 of 12 new CDBG area effective at the beginning of any CDBG program 157 year, provided the following conditions have been met: 1. At least fifty -one percent (51 %) of residents of the area defined are lower income persons according to the latest Census data and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. 2. At least thirty -six adults representing at least thirty households in the area have signed a petition to the Board of Directors to designate the area defined as a CDBG area. 3. The petition has been submitted to the CDBG Citywide Coordinating Committee for review and comment. 4. Opportunity for public comment on the proposed additional CDBG area has been provided in connection with the Board's annual hearing on the projected use of CDBG funds. Currently there are ten CDBG areas, described as follows: Granite Mountain. The residential area bounded on the west by the west boundary of Booker Homes Public Housing Project, on the east by the City Limits, on the north by the Missouri Pacific Railroad tracks, and on the south by extension of the north boundary of Gillam Park. East Little Rock. The area east of I -30, south of the Arkansas River, and north and west of Adams Field, except that the south boundary of the area is 14th Street from Bond Street west to Last Street and 17th Street from Last west to I -30. Central Little Rock. The area bounded by Martin Luther King Drive on the west, I -630 on the north, I -30 on the east and Roosevelt Road on the south. Central High School. The area bounded on the west by the CRI &P Railroad right -of -way, on the east by Martin Luther King Drive, on the north by I -630, and on the south by Roosevelt Road. South Little Rock. The area bounded by Schiller Street on the west, by I -30 on the east, by Roosevelt Road on the north, and by the CRI &P and Missouri Pacific Railroads on the south. Stephens School. The area bounded on the west by Elm Street, on the east by the CRI &P Railroad, on the north by I -630, and on the south by Asher Avenue. Rev. 02/26/92 Page 3 of 12 158 Oak Forest. The residential area bounded on the west by University Avenue, on the east by Elm Street, on the north by I- 630, and on the south by Asher Avenue. Woodruff School. The area bounded on the west by Elm Street on the east by the Missouri Pacific Railroad right -of -way and the curve of Third Street north to Markham, on the north by Markham, and on the south by I -630. John Barrow. The area bounded by a line running from the Rock Creek crossing of Asher Avenue westerly along Asher to Colonel Glenn Road, thence westerly along Colonel Glenn to a point due south of the intersection of Weldon and 40th Street; thence north along Weldon to 40th, east to Hold Street, and north to 28th; thence east to John Barrow Road, north along John Barrow Road to the north boundary of the Parkview High School campus; thence east to Walker Street; thence south to 28th Street, east to Gilman, south to 32nd, east to Whitfield, and south along Whitfield to 36th Street; thence eastward along Rock Creek to the Asher Avenue crossing, which was the point of beginning. Pankev. The residential area along Arkansas Highway 10 from Crockett Street to Black Road, and extending northward on block north of Dunbar Street and southward one block south of Piggee Street. A map of each area indicating its boundaries is attached to this plan. B. Area Meetings Area meetings are held each year in one -half of the designated CDBG areas (or as nearly one -half as possible). A meeting is held in each area every other year. These meetings are for the purposes of an area - specific staff hearing on community development and housing needs and election of an Area Coordinator who will serve for two years on the Citywide Coordinating Committee and serve as area convenor and coordinator for CDBG matters during that term. A member of the staff of the City's Department of Neighborhoods and Planning is designated as staff representative for each area. Rev. 02/26/92 Page 4 of 12 r r r r� e r r rr r r r■ r 159 Area meetings are held at the start of the planning season, generally in October and the first two weeks of November each year. The schedule of area meetings is published in one or more newspapers of general circulation and is sent by mail to all interested persons who have asked to be notified, as well as to mailing lists of officers and members of various neighborhood and community organizations and helping agencies. It is posted on the government access and Black access channels of the cable television system. The information is made available to radio and television stations for public service announcements. Other means of notification, such as distribution of handbills and announcements through schools and churches are used when appropriate. At each area meeting information is provided concerning the CDBG program, eligible and ineligible activities, the kinds of activities carried out in previous years, the amount of the entitlement grant anticipated for the ensuing year, and the planning process. Those present are given opportunity to speak to community development needs of the area and information is provided on the procedure for developing proposals for CDBG activities and projects to get them duly considered. The staff representative for the area makes provision for technical assistance with proposal development. A quorum of area residents is defined as eighteen (18) adult residents from at least twelve (12) different households, regardless of area population. If a quorum is present at the area meeting, the staff representative will proceed to conduct an Rev. 02/26/92 Page 5 of 12 election of an Area Coordinator to serve a term of two years. If 1 so a quorum is not present, no attempt will be made to reconvene an area meeting for the purpose, but an area coordinator may be elected at an area caucus following the citywide hearing on community development and housing needs, provided the area has a quorum in attendance at that hearing. Failing that, the area must remain without an Area Coordinator until the next biennial area meeting. C. Citywide Hearing on Community Development and Housing Needs On or about the third Monday of November a staff - conducted hearing is held at City Hall to summarize results of the area meetings and give opportunity for additional citizen comment on community development and housing needs. At this hearing the staff reviews accomplishments and developments in the CDBG program during the past year and invites comment. Information is made available, for the benefit of those who have not attended an area meeting, concerning anticipated funding, eligible and ineligible uses of CDBG funds, activities funded in previous years, and the planning process. D. CDBG Coordinating Committee After the citywide hearing on community development needs the CDBG planning staff analyses needs and suggestions as to eligibility for funding, cost reasonableness, feasibility, cost - benefit value, and low /mod benefit. The staff analysis and recommendations go to the Citywide CDBG Coordinating Committee along with copies of all written proposals from citizens, Rev. 02/26/92 Page 6 of 12 organizations, and helping agencies and institutions. The 1�1 Coordinating Committee develops the projected use of funds it will recommend to the Board of Directors. SECTION IV: PUBLIC HEARINGS As described in the foregoing Section III, staff conduct a public hearing for citizens, views on community development and A housing needs and for assessment of CDBG program performance during the past year. At this meeting, as well as the area meetings, staff review accomplishments and developments in the CDBG Program Year and invite comment. They also distribute printed information and provide explanation on the expected amount of the entitlement grant for the next year, estimates of total resources to be available, the planning schedule, the kinds of activities that are eligible and ineligible, and the kinds carried out in previous years. A second public hearing is conducted by the Little Rock Board of Directors to hear comment on the uses of funds proposed by staff and the CDBG Coordinating Committee before the Board votes on the recommendations. Rev. 02/26/92 Page 7 of 12 • SECTION V: ACCESS TO PARTICIPATION 162 A. Publication 1. Proposed Activities, as recommended to the Board of Directors by the Coordinating Committee and staff, are published annually in a newspaper of general circulation as part of the notice of the Board's public hearing on them. They are also mailed to CDBG Area Coordinators. 2. The Proposed Statement of Community Development Objectives and Proiected Use of Funds (CDO /PUF) is published annually in a newspaper of general circulation not less than 30 days before it is to be submitted to the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The Proposed Statement includes descriptions of proposed activities in sufficient detail, including location, to enable citizens to determine the degree to which they may be affected. It also includes an estimate of the amount of CDBG funds to be used for activities benefiting low and moderate income persons. 3. Proposed amendments to the Final Statement of CDO /PUF are published for comment not less than 15 days before they are submitted to HUD and are mailed to the Area Coordinators simultaneously with publication. Rev. 02/26/92 Page 8 of 12 s � B. Notices 163 1. Notices of public hearings are published in at least one newspaper of general circulation and one minority oriented newspaper, in easily readable type and a nonlegal advertising format, not less than five days in advance of the hearing date. Notice of public hearings is also mailed to all persons who have asked to be placed on the citizen participation mailing list. It is posted on the government access and Black access channels of the cable television system. The information is made available to radio and television stations for public service announcements. 2. Notices of document availability are published on the following schedule: a. Final Statement of CDO /PUF: Annually, upon its submittal to HUD, as a legal advertisement of general circulation in the area and by mail to the Coordinating Committee (Area Coordinators). b. Grantee Performance Report (GPR): Annually for comment, not less than ten days before its submittal to HUD, in a newspaper of general circulation in the area and by mail to the CDBG Coordinating Committee. C. Plan to Minimize Displacement and to Assist Persons Displaced: Annually, as part of the Proposed Statement of CDO /PUF. d. Records Regarding Past Use of Funds: Annually, as part of the published Proposed Statement of CDO /PUF. Rev. 02/26/92 Page 9 of 12 Mb C. Access to Records 164 All documents and records pertaining to the CDBG program are available for inspection at the CDBG Administrative Offices, 615 West Markham, the CDBG Finance Office in City Hall, 500 West Markham, or (for public services activities) at the East Little Rock Community Complex, 2500 East 6th Street, during normal office hours, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. D. Architectural Barriers Public hearing are held in the Board Room at City Hall or in other locations accessible to the handicapped. Neighborhood meetings are sometimes held in churches or schools not readily accessible. Anyone who wants to participate in CDBG planning and is hindered by architectural barriers may call the CDBG Office, 371 -6825, to secure better arrangements. E. Language Barriers Whenever CDBG administrators know that persons lacking facility in the English language desire or are likely to desire information pertaining to the CDBG program or desire to participate in public hearings or other citizen participation meetings, they will make available adequate interpretation to such persons. Rev. 02/26/92 Page 10 of 12 SECTION VI: COMPLAINTS 165 A written response to any written complaint concerning the CDBG program will be mailed by the CDBG program administrators (Department of Neighborhoods and Planning) within 15 working days of receipt of the complaint. Complaints may be addressed to CDBG Program Administrator, 615 West Markham, Room 106, Little Rock, AR 72201. Complaints may also be addressed to the City Manager, City Hall, or the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Little Rock Area Office, 523 Louisiana Street, Suite 200, Little Rock, AR 72201. These complaints will normally be referred to the City's Department of Neighborhoods and Planning for an initial response. SECTION VII: AREA MEETING POLICIES A. Area Meeting Participation and Voting Persons who are not residents of the CDBG area in which an area meeting is being conducted may participate in the meeting and have the privilege of the floor to speak, but may not vote on issues or to elect the Area Coordinator and may not serve as Area Coordinator. For purposes of determining the presence of a quorum, the term "adult" as used herein means a person eighteen (18) years of age or older. Rev. 02/26/92 Page 11 of 12 166 B. Replacement of Area Coordinators Should a duly elected Area Coordinator resign, remove, or become incapacitated before or during a planning season for which he or she was elected to serve, the staff representative may call and conduct an area meeting to elect a resident to fill the unexpired term. Rev. 02/26/92 Page 12 of 12 M mom MM M � EXHIBIT C ry CITY OF LITTLE ROCK Ira / OWNER- OCCUPIED HOME REPAIR ASSISTANCE POLICIES The purposes of the Owner - Occupied Home Repair Assistance Program are to preserve sound housing stock, prevent and impede the decline of developed neighborhoods, and promote homeownership by households of moderate income. It is intended to assist low and moderate income homeowners whose dwellings are substandard to restore those dwellings fully to standard condition; it is not intended to effect partial repairs or normal maintenance. In keeping with these goals the Board of Directors of the City of Little Rock has promulgated the following policies. PROPERTY ELIGIBILITY 1. Except for emergency repairs, assisted property must be located within the area bounded on the north by Interstate 630 from University Avenue eastward to Interstate 30 and by the Arkansas River from Interstate 30 eastward to Interstate 440; on the east and southeast by Interstate 440 westward to Lindsey Road and by East Roosevelt Road from Lindsey Road westward to Interstate 30; on the south by Fourche Bottoms from Interstate 30 to University Avenue; and on the west by University Avenue. Within that area priority is to be given to properties located in the designated Neighborhood Revitalization Area bounded on the west by Elm Street, w� w w w: w w��� w �■ �w w on the east by Interstate 30, on the north by Interstate 630, and on the south by Roosevelt Road. Within the Neighborhood Revitalization Area priority is to be given to two defined target areas in the vicinities of Central High School and Rockefeller Elementary School. 2. The property must be substandard, i.e. it must have before rehabilitation a magnitude of City Housing Code deficiencies estimated by the City Staff to cost at least $3,000 to remedy. 3. The property must be a single - family, detached structure with no more than four living units. 4. The property must be economically reasonable to rehabilitate, meaning that any existing indebtedness secured by the property, plus the projected cost of rehabilitation may not exceed 80% of the estimated after- rehabilitation market value of the property. 5. The property must be structurally feasible to rehabilitate, meaning that the foundation and basic framework must be sound. OWNER ELIGIBILITY 1. The applicant owner must document that his or her household income (adjusted gross) does not exceed the current limits established by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for lower income households in the Little Rock /North Little Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area. These limits are, in general, 80% of the median income for the SMSA, adjusted for family size. 2. The applicant must own and occupy his or her home, meaning that he or she must hold title to the property by warranty deed and, specifically, not under a contract for sale or by quitclaim deed. PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS AND LIMITATIONS 1. Program funds may be used only to assist in the correction of code violations and to make improvements for energy efficiency in eligible properties. General property improvements are not allowed. 2. A City Housing Codes inspection report is to be obtained as a part of the application process and the Description of Work must project remedy of all known code deficiencies. This means that, except for interim assistance and emergency repairs, partial repairs to properties will not be undertaken. 3. The maximum assistance for any one project is $15,000.00 plus a 10% contingency. repairs exceeds $15,000 option of providing the provided that he or she indebtedness secured by City's forgivable loan, market value. If the projected cost of .00, the owner will have the costs in excess of $15,000.00, can do so without causing total the property, including the to exceed 80% of its after -rehab 169 170 FORMS OF ASSISTANCE 1. The basic form of assistance is an interest -free loan secured by a mortgage lien on the property. The loan is to be forgiven by the City on a five -year amortization schedule, on condition that the applicant continues to occupy the property and hold title to it. If the borrower ceases to occupy the dwelling or if title to it is transferred, the balance of the mortgage becomes due and payable. 2. In order to arrest deterioration of apparently eligible properties while an application is in process or funding is delayed, interim assistance may be provided to eligible applicant owners. If, on the basis of the Housing Rehabilitation Staff's preliminary assessments and cost estimates, both applicant and property appear to be eligible, repairs necessary to preserve the property and prevent rapid deterioration thereof may be made at a cost not to exceed $5,000.00. The cost of this interim assistance is to be incorporated into any eventual rehabilitation loan and the total may not exceed the allowable maximum. 3. Any owner - occupant within the City of Little Rock whose household income does not exceed the lower income guidelines is eligible for an Emergency Home Repair Grant not to exceed $1,500.00. An Emergency Home Repair Grant may be made oniy to remedy an emergency when the owner - applicant cannot otherwise effect the needed 171 repairs. An emergency condition is damage or failure of structure or infrastructure which has occurred or appeared suddenly and unpredictably and so threatens health and safety of the occupants or the public that it cannot be left to the owner's future resources and normal maintenance schedule, but must be remedied immediately. The grant is limited to the repairs necessary to remedy that threat. LL 0 a W. 172 4) L a� E L 0 LL 0 a W. 172 F@ �a tt3 L a E m L CD 0 L 0 ■� CLf ■N a L 0 m s ■ Z ;aaJ3S w13 173 L Q O � O Q .0 v � � L L � u �F+ i � O ' O O " � s w � Y ++ V C O d DC U r N