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, Single Family Program funds. To date, the contract has been amended four times.
The Housing and Community Development Department (HCDD) proposes a fifth amendment to move $400,000.00 from the HCDD Project Delivery line item to the Horne Project Delivery line item. This will ensure consistency and completion of services for all single family homes assisted with the Hurricane Ike Round 2 funding.
In addition, GLO has requested that all HCDD Administration and Project Delivery draws be approved in conjunction with achievements for the Activity costs. This benchmark is as follows:
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Benchmark
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Incremental Cap for Charges by Benchmark for Administration and Project Delivery Funds
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Cumulative Billing Cap by Benchmark for Administration and Project Delivery Funds
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Approval of Housing Guidelines
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25%
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25%
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10% of Project Funds drawn by Subrecipient
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25%
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50%
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25% of Project Funds drawn by Subrecipient
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20%
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70%
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75% of Project Funds drawn by Subrecipient
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15%
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85%
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Closeout of grant accepted
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15%
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100%
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In addition, HCDD proposes that the end date of the Single Family contract with GLO be extended for 1 year to December 31, 2017, in order to complete work on up to 30 more projects that will help low-income homeowners improve the quality of their housing.
HCDD published a 15-day public notice for Amendment #5 in the Houston Chronicle on Tuesday, May 10, 2016. To date, no comments have been received.
The Housing and Community Affairs Committee reviewed this item on May 24, 2016.
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Neal Rackleff, Director