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Home My WebLink About2113 Supplemental Budget AppropriationsORDINANCE NO. 2113 AN ORDINANCE APPROPRIATING THE SUM OF $54,716 TO THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT FUND, MAKING FINDINGS, AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PORT TOWNSEND, UPON REVIEW OF THE 1988 BUDGET FOR THE CITY, MAKES THE FOLLOWING FINDINGS OF FACT: A) Unsafe conditions exist on the sidewalks in the commercial districts of the Port Townsend National Register Historic District. B) Some downtown sidewalks do not allow accessibility for the handicapped. C) Municipal signing in the historic commercial district does not support the overall economic development strategy for the historic commercial district. D) Some historic structures are in various stages of disrepair which present a potential hazard to users and the general public. E) On February 12, 1988 the City of Port Townsend, requested its portion of accumulated repayments from loans under the housing rehabilitation program in accordance with its annual plan, to begin to address elimination of the aforementioned hazards. F) In 1987, under agreement with the City of Port Townsend, the Port Townsend Main Street Project contracted with the architectural and urban design firm of Tonkin/Koch Architects to develop municipal sign designs and sidewalk construction standards. Funds for this contract were awarded to the Main Street Project. by the Department of Community Development. In 1987 the City provided an additional $1,000.00 to the Port Townsend Main Street Project to enlarge the scope of work for the Tonkin/Koch Contract. G) Part IV of the Federal Register/Vol. 44, No. 167/dated Monday, August 27, 1979, Subpart 570.202 provides that block grant funds may be used for the rehabilitation of private properties to eliminate conditions detrimental to public health and safety provided that the rehabilitation assistance is limited to the extent necessary to correct the conditions that are detrimental to public health and safety. H) Block grant funds may be used. directly to finance rehabilitation, including settlement costs, through the direct use of block grant funds in the provision of assistance, such as grants, loans, loan guarantees, and interest supplements for costs of rehabilitation of properties, including, repair directed towards cure of an accumulation of items of deferred maintenance, replacement of principal fixtures and components of existing structures, and renovation through alteration, additions to, or enhancement of existing structures, which may be undertaken singly, or in combination; {Subpart 570.202(c) (2) (ii) (a)} I) Block grant funds may be used for rehabilitation, preservation, restoration and acquisition of historic properties, either publicly or privately owned, which are those sites or structures that are either listed in or eligible to be listed in the National Register of Historic Places, listed in a State or local Inventory of Historic Places, or designated as a State or local landmark or historic district by appropriate law or ordinance. Publicly owned historic properties may be assisted .... However, eligibility is limited only to those costs necessary for rehabilitation, preservation or restoration of the property and not for conversion or expansion of the property for an ineligible use as pursuant to Subpart 570.203(b). {Subpart 570.202(f)} J) Block grant funds may be used in prescribed areas for street improvements including the street, street lights, traffic signals, signs, street furniture, trees, bridges, culverts, alleys, causeways, curbs, gutters, sidewalks, and other normal appurtenances to streets and structure facilitating the passage on, or usage of, streets, but excluding expressways and other limited access ways and their appurtenances. {Subpart 570.201(c)} K) Block grant funds may be used for general management, oversight and coordination.. Reasonable costs of overall program management, coordination, monitoring and evaluation, and similar costs associated with carrying out multi-activity projects, related to the planning and execution of community development activities financed, are eligible administrative costs of a block grant program. {Subpart 570.206} L) On April 18, 1988, the City received $54,716 from Jefferson County for the Main Street Redevelopment Project. M) The foregoing emergencies were not reasonably foreseeable at the time of filing of the City's preliminary budget and require expenditure of money not provided for in the annual budget for 1988. THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PORT TOWNSEND, IN REGULAR SESSION ASSEMBLED, DO ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: Section 1.) The sum of FIFTY FOUR THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED SIXTEEN DOLLARS ($54,716) is hereby appropriated as a supplement to the 1988 budget for the City of Port Townsend in the Community Development Block Grant Fund to pay for sidewalk replacement THIRTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS ($13,000), Rehabilitation and Preservation activities THIRTY SEVEN THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTEEN DOLLARS ($37,216), municipal signing for the uptown commercial district ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($1,500), and administrative costs THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS ($3,000), as detailed in Exhibit A attached hereto as though fully setforth herein to be financed by Housing Rehabilitation Funds distributed to the City from Jefferson County. Section 2.) There is here and hereby found and declared to be an emergency requiring the aforegoing appropriations to the 1988 Budge~ of the City of Port Townsend. Section 3.) This ordinance shall take effect upon its passage, approval, and publication in the form and manner provided by law. Read for the first time on May 3, 1988. Read for the second and third times on May 17, 1988, passed by the council and approved by the Mayor on 'May 17 , 1988. Attest: David Grove, Appr/ved as/o form: Keith Harper, ~., City Attorney Mayor Brent Shirley EXHIBIT "A" ORDINANCE NO. 2113 RESOURCES 190.333.140.20 TOTAL RESOURCES Community Development Block Grants $54,716.00 $54,716.00 EXPENDITURES 190.36 MAINSTREET REDEVELOPMENT PROGRAM 190.36.559.100.41.411 Community Development 190.36.559.300.65.639 Community Development 190.36.541.610.65.639 Sidewalk Replacement 190.36.541.000,65.649 Street Signs TOTAL EXPENDITURES Administration Services $3,000.00 37,216.00 13,000.00 1,500.00 $54,716.00