The Texas General Land Office (GLO) has a contract with the City of Houston for Hurricane Ike Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Disaster Recovery (DR) Round 2, Phase 2, Infrastructure funds. To date, the contract has been amended once.
The Housing and Community Development Department (HCDD) proposes a second amendment to extend the end date to 12/31/2018 and to make minor adjustments to budgets of particular projects.
Project Status for CDBG-DR Round 2 Infrastructure Contract (14-236-000-8329) with GLO:
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Project
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Status
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Near Northside Infrastructure Project
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Phase I Construction completed
Phase II Hernandez Tunnel, construction start date anticipated ~ May 31, 2017 and construction end date expected ~ June 2018
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Open Ditch Construction
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Greater Fifth Ward – Nichols, Environmental Request completed
Near Northside – Gano, Environmental Request completed
Greater Fifth Ward – Coke, Environmental Request completed
OST / South Union – Calhoun, Phase II Environmental Requested
Office of the City Engineer completed the review of the engineering plans. GLO approved the plans on 2/13/2017. Construction start date anticipated ~ May 31, 2017 and construction end date expected ~ June 2018.
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Bringhurst Infrastructure Project
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Need decisions on scope as well as agreements with TIRZ 18 to be finalized. Need agreement with Union Pacific Railroad for crossing. Need update for Bayou North Street, for eventual connection through Clinton Street.
Construction end date expected ~ September 2018.
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HCDD published a 15-day public notice for Amendment #2 in the Houston Chronicle on Thursday, February 23, 2017. To date, no comments have been received.
The Housing and Community Affairs Committee reviewed this item on March 21, 2017.