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MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION # 96247
BY: FINANCE AND PERSONNEL COMMITTEE, SUE ANN DOUGLAS, CHAIRPERSON
IN RE: COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIVISION - 1996 HOUSING COUNSELING GRANT
ACCEPTANCE
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS, HUD has designated the Oakland County Community Development
Division's Housing Counseling unit to be a HUD approved housing counseling
agency eligible to apply for and receive FY 1996 Housing Counseling funding;
and
WHEREAS, the Oakland County Community Development division competed for
funding under this Act nationally and has been awarded a FY 1996 Housing
Counseling Grant totalling $75,122, a variance of zero percent from the
initial application amount of $75,122, and
WHEREAS, the purpose of the grant is to provide a full range of housing
counseling services, information, and assistance to housing consumers to
assist them in improving their housing conditions and meeting the
responsibilities of homeownership and tenancy including information for first
time home buyers; pre-occupancy, rental delinquency and mortgage default
assistance; Home Equity Conversion Mortgage Program; home improvement and
rehabilitation resources; displacement and relocation resources; and pre-
foreclosure assistance; and
WHEREAS, the County intends to use the grant to d9liver housing
counseling services in accordance with federal housing counseling program
guidelines; and
WHEREAS, no county funds are required for the fiscal year 1996 grant;
and
WHEREAS, this grant agreement has been reviewed and approved through the
County Executive's Contract Review Process.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of
Commissioners accepts the 1996 Fiscal Year Housing Counseling Grant in the
amount of $75,122.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the future level of service, including
personnel, will be contingent upon the level of Federal funding available for
this program.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that acceptance of this grant does not obligate
the County to any future commitment.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Oakland County Executive is authorized
to execute this grant agreement.
Chairperson, I move the adoption of the foregoing resolution.
FINANCE AND PERSONNEL COMMITTEE
Resolution #96247 November 7, 1996
Moved by Douglas supported by Kaczmar the resolution be adopted.
AYES: Dingeldey, Douglas, Garfield, Holbert, Huntoon, Jacobs, Jensen,
Johnson, Kaczmar, Kingzett, Law, McCulloch, McPherson, Moffitt, Palmer, Powers,
Schmid, Taub, Wolf, Amos, Crake, Devine. (22)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the resolution was adopted.
STATE OF MICHIGAN)
COUNTY OF OAKLAND)
I, Lynn D. Allen, 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 November 7, 1996 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 7th day of November 1996. >4.:2
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LY7D7Allen, County Clerk