The Housing and Community Development Department (HCD), recommends Council authorize and approve a First Amendment to the Community Development Block Grant-Disaster Recovery Harvey (CDBG-DR 2017) Subrecipient Agreement (#21-134-000-C788) with the Texas General Land Office (GLO). The GLO proposes to amend the Subrecipient Agreement with the City for CDBG-DR 2017 in the following ways:
- Revise the grant award by reducing funding in the amount of $30,000,000.00 to a total amount not to exceed $664,157,590.00.
- Revise contractual language, benchmarks and reallocate programmatic funding.
This Subrecipient Agreement allows the City to provide financial assistance with funds appropriated under the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2018 and Supplemental Appropriations for Disaster Relief Requirements Act, 2017 (Pub. L. No. 115-56), enacted on September 8, 2017, to facilitate disaster recovery, restoration, and economic revitalization and to affirmatively further fair housing. Specifically, this Agreement will address unmet disaster recovery needs through activities related to disaster relief, long-term recovery, restoration of infrastructure and housing, economic revitalization, and mitigation in the most impacted and distressed areas resulting from damage caused by Hurricane Harvey.
Fiscal Note:
No fiscal note is required on grant items.
This item was reviewed by the Housing and Community Affairs Committee on October 17, 2023.
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Keith W. Bynam, Director