HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 2000.06.15 - 26072June 15, 2000
MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION #00142
BY: PLANNING AND BUILDING COMMITTEE, CHARLES E. PALMER, CHAIRPERSON
IN RE: COMMUNITY AND HOME IMPROVEMENT DIVISION - HOME IMPROVEMENT
PROGRAM GUIDELINE CHANGES
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Mr. Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS the Community and Home Improvement Division has administered the Home
Improvement Program since 1976 to rehabilitate approximately 275 single family owner occupied homes
for low and moderate income persons in the 50 communities participating in the Oakland County
Community Development Block Grant Program each year; and
WHEREAS in Miscellaneous Resolutions #81237, #82233, #90201, #94082, #96151 and #99122
the Oakland County Board of Commissioners approved guidelines and amendments for administering the
Home Improvement Program; and
WHEREAS the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency and the Michigan Department of Community Health have enacted new regulatory
requirements to protect young children from lead-based paint hazards in housing; and
WHEREAS these regulatory requirements mandate that extensive and highly sophisticated lead-
based paint testing and remediation be completed for every housing unit built prior to 1978 that is
rehabilitated using federal monies; and
WHEREAS the scope of work identified to address substandard housing conditions must be
expanded to remediate lead-based paint conditions in each home using state certified lead abatement
contractors; and
WHEREAS the additional lead remediation work will increase home improvement construction
costs to levels beyond the current Home Improvement Program maximum loan amount of $14,000 (plus
$1,000 contingency); and
WHEREAS the Community and Home Improvement Division recommends that the current
maximum loan amount of $14,000 (plus $1,000 contingency) be increased to $18,000 (plus $2,000
contingency) as a means to offset the lead based paint regulatory influences that reduce the program's
housing rehabilitation capacity; and
WHEREAS the Oakland County Community and Home Improvement Citizens Advisory Council
voted unanimously to approve the Home Improvement Program Guideline changes that increase the
maximum home improvement loan amount to $18,000 (plus $2,000 contingency).
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
approve the Home Improvement Program Guideline changes that increase the maximum home
improvement loan amount to $18,000 (plus $2,000 contingency).
CHAIRPERSON, on behalf of the Finance Committee, I move the adoption of the foregoing
resolution.
cyP AND BUIL COMMITTEE
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Planning and Building Committee Vote:
Motion carried unanimously on a roll call vote
with Jensen and Gregory absent.
Date
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HE FOREGO RES tJTION
County of Oakland at Pontiac, Michigan this 15t dayjarf June, 2000.
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G7 William Caddell, County Clerk
Resolution #00142 June 15, 2000
Moved by Colasanti supported by Jensen the resolutions on the
Consent Agenda be adopted (with accompanying reports being accepted).
AYES: Appel, Buckley, Causey-Mitchell, Colasanti, Coleman, Dingeldey,
Douglas, Galloway, Garfield, Gregory, Jensen, Law, McCulloch, McPherson, Melton,
Millard, Moffitt, Obrecht, Palmer, Schmid, Sever, Suarez, Taub, Amos. (24)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the resolutions on the
Consent Agenda were adopted (with accompanying reports accepted).
STATE OF MICHIGAN)
COUNTY OF OAKLAND)
I, G. William Caddell, 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 June 15, 2000 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