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CITY OF HOUSTON - CITY COUNCIL

Meeting Date: 2/6/2018
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Item Creation Date: 1/8/2018

HCD18-1 Contractor Pool for Home Repair Program

Agenda Item#: 11.


 
                               
Summary:

ORDINANCE authorizing an amendment to Ordinance No. 2018-56, passed and adopted by City Council on January 24, 2018, to provide for an additional allocation of $8,200,000 in Community Development Block Grant Funds and $10,800,000 in Community Development Block Grant-Disaster Recovery Funds to the Master Contractor Agreements, thereby increasing the maximum amount of each Master Contractor Agreement, and to allow the master contractor agreements to be used in connection with both the Home Repair Program (Repair/Construction/Reconstruction) and Single-Family Home Development (New Construction)

Background:

On January 24, 2018, City Council approved Ordinance No. 2018-56, authorizing the use of a “Master Contractor Agreement” for the City of Houston Home Repair Program and authorizing the Mayor to execute a Master Contractor Agreement with each of the following contractors: SLSCO, LTD.; PMG CONSTRUCTION, INC; THE BAPTISTE GROUP LLC; DSW HOMES, LLC; HOUSTON HABITAT FOR HUMANITY, INC; CROWN RIDGE BUILDERS, LLC; THOMPSON CONSTRUCTION GROUP, INC; BURGHLI INVESTMENTS INC dba BURGHLI HOMES; MAYBERRY HOMES, INC; REBUILDING TOGETHER - HOUSTON; JAMES W. TURNER CONSTRUCTION, LTD.; and BYRDSON SERVICES LLC dba EXCELLO HOMES. Agreements were authorized for $833,333.33 each, in TIRZ Affordable Housing Set-Aside funds.

HCDD is requesting approval of an Ordinance amending Ordinance No. 2018-56 to increase the amount of each Master Contractor Agreement from $833,333.33 to up to $2,416,666.67, through the additional allocation of $8,200,000 in CDBG funds and $10,800,000 in CDBG-DR funds, for the work to be performed by the contractors named in Ordinance No. 2018-56.

HCDD is also requesting approval of an amendment to Ordinance No. 2018-56 to allow the Master Contractor Agreements to be used for both the Home Repair Program (repair/reconstruction) and Single-Family Home Development (new construction).

The additional allocations referenced above were previously appropriated for the Home Repair Program and/or Single-Family Home Development and no additional appropriations are being requested at this time. Details on these prior appropriations are provided in the table below.

 

 

Appropriation/Budget Source Document

Funding Source

Amount

Ordinance

Budget Appropriation

TIRZ

$10,000,000.00

2017-759

Action Plan for Disaster Recovery 2015 Flood Events

CDBG-DR

$10,800,000.00

2016-705

Amendment #2 to Program Year 2016 Annual Action Plan

CDBG

$5,999,055.43

2017-286

HCDD Internal Administrative Transfer/Program Income Allocation (Program Year 2016 Action Plan)

CDBG

$753,175.96

N/A

Program Year 2017 Annual Action Plan

CDBG

$1,447,768.61

2017-516

Total

$29,000,000.00

 

 

_______________________________

Tom McCasland, Director

Prior Council Action:
(O) 2018-56
Amount and Source of Funding:

$8,200,000.00

Community Development Block Grant Funds

Fund 5000

 

$10,800,000.00

Community Development Block Grant-Disaster Recovery(CDBG-DR) Funds

Fund 5000
Contact Information:

Roxanne Lawson

Phone: (832) 394-6307

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