HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 2017.07.19 - 23016MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION #17199 July 19, 2017
BY: Commissioner Philip J. Weipert, Chairperson, Planning and Building Committee
IN RE: DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & COMMUNITY AFFAIRS — COMMUNITY &
HOME IMPROVEMENT DIVISION — PROGRAM YEAR (PY) 2017 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
BLOCK GRANT (CDBG) ALLOCATION CHANGE
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen;
WHEREAS the County of Oakland receives U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds; and
WHEREAS CDBG funds are distributed based on an allocation methodology approved by the Oakland
County Board of Commissioners (M.R. #03239); and
WHEREAS the current allocation methodology deducts administrative funds up to twenty percent (20%)
from the grant and apportions one-third (1/3) of the grant balance to the Oakland County Home
Improvement Program (HIP) and two-thirds (2/3) of the balance to participating communities; and
WHEREAS the Oakland County HIP generates program income from loan payments and payoffs which
are maintained through a Revolving Loan Fund dedicated to a single purpose of initiating new HIP loans
in accordance with federal CDBG rules; and
WHEREAS HUD requires grantees to continuously obligate and spend funds within the Revolving Loan
Fund in a timely basis; and
WHEREAS current Revolving Loan Funds are available for Oakland County to meet the Program Year
(PY) 2017 HIP goal to improve houses without allocating one-third (1/3) of the PY 2017 CDBG grant to
the Home Improvement Program; and
WHEREAS the Community & Home Improvement Division recommends a waiver of the current CDBG
allocation methodology for PY 2017 to allow up to twenty percent (20%) to be deducted for administrative
costs and to allocate one hundred percent (100%) of the remaining balance to participating communities
based on the current Oakland County community allocation formula 'expressed as (Population of
Community) + 3(Low/Moderate Income Households in Community) + 4 = Percentile for Allocation.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners authorizes a
one year waiver to the current Oakland County CDBG allocation methodology (MR. #03239) for PY 2017
only, to provide that the Oakland County CDBG allocation methodology shall deduct administrative funds
up to twenty percent (20%) from the grant and allocate one hundred percent (100%) of the grant balance
to CDBG participating communities based on the current Oakland County community allocation formula
expressed as (Population of Community) + 3(Low/Moderate Income Households in Community) + 4 =
Percentile for Allocation.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that any future changes in the allocation methods would require approval
of the Oakland County Board of Commissioners.
Chairperson, on behalf of the Planning and Building Committee, I move the adoption of the foregoing
resolution.
LiPhilip Weipert, District #8
Chairperson, Planning and Building Committee
PLANNING AND BUILDING COMMITTEE
Motion carried unanimously on a roll call vote.
ommissioner Thomas Middleton, District #4
Chairperson, Finance Committee
FISCAL NOTE.:(MISC . #17199)
July 19, 2017
BY: Commissioner Thomas Middleton, Chairperson, Finance Committee
IN RE: DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & COMMUNITY AFFAIRS — COMMUNITY &
HOME IMPROVEMENT DIVISION — PROGRAM YEAR (PY) 2017 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
BLOCK GRANT (CDBG) ALLOCATION CHANGE
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
Pursuant to Rule XII-C of this Board, the Finance Committee has reviewed the above-referenced
resolution and finds:
1. Resolution authorizes a one year waiver of the current CDBG allocation methodology for PY
2017.
2. The current allocation methodology assigns up to twenty percent (20%) towards administrative
costs, one-third (1/3) towards the Oakland County Home Improvement Program (HIP) and two-
thirds (2/3) to participating communities.
3. The allocation methodology for PY 2017 allows up to twenty percent (20%) for administrative
costs and allocates one hundred percent (100%) of the remaining funds to CDBG participating
communities based on the current Oakland County community allocation formula expressed as
(Population of Community) + 3(Low/Moderate Income Households in Community) ÷ 4 =
Percentile for Allocation.
4. No budget amendment is required.
FINANCE COMMITTEE VOTE:
Motion carried unanimously on a roll call vote.
Resolution #17199 July 19, 2017
Moved by Crawford supported by Quarles the resolutions (with fiscal notes attached) on the Consent
Agenda be adopted (with accompanying reports being accepted).
AYES: Crawford, Dwyer, Fleming, Gingell, Hoffman, Jackson, Kochenderfer, KowaII, McGillivray,
Middleton, Quarles, Spisz, Taub, Tietz, Weipert, Woodward, Zack, Berman, Bowman. (19)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted in favor, the resolutions (with fiscal notes attached) on the Consent
Agenda were adopted (with accompanying reports being accepted).
I HEREBY APPROVE THIS RESOLUTION
CHIEF DEPUTY COUNTY EXECUTIVE
ACTING PURSUANT TO MCL 45.559A (7)
STATE OF MICHIGAN)
COUNTY OF OAKLAND)
I, Lisa Brown, Clerk of the County of Oakland, do hereby certify that the foregoing resolution is a true and
accurate copy of a resolution adopted by the Oakland County Board of Commissioners on July 19, 2017,
with the original record thereof now remaining in my office.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the County of Oakland at
Pontiac, Michigan this 19th day of July, 2017.
Lisa Brown, Oakland County