09-668 2008 CDBG Action Plan AmdmtCITY OF MERIDIAN RESOLUTION NO. Del ~' L 2~ d
BY THE CITY COUNCIL: BIRD, HOAGLUN, ROUNTREE, ZAREMBA
A RESOLUTION APPROVING A SUBSTANTIAL AMENDMENT TO THE CITY'S 2008
CDBG ACTION PLAN REGARDING THE EXPENDITURE OF AMERICAN RECOVERY
AND REINVESTMENT ACT 2009 ECONOMIC STIMULUS FUNDS; AUTHORIZING THE
MAYOR AND CITY CLERK TO EXECUTE AND ATTEST SUCH PLAN AMENDMENT
AND CERTIFYING DOCUMENTS ON BEHALF OF THE CITY OF MERIDIAN; AND
PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
WHEREAS, on Feburary 13, 2009, the United States House of Representatives and United
States Senate passed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 ("ARRA"), under which
Congress made supplemental appropriations for job preservation and creation, infrastructure
investment, energy efficiency and science, assistance to the unemployed, and State and local fiscal
stabilization -which appropriations specifically include stimulus funds for those communities
designated as Entitlement Communities under the Department of Housing and Urban Development
("HUD")'s Community Development Block Grant ("CDBG") program;
WHEREAS, under ARRA, the City of Meridian, as an Entitlement Community, has been
awarded $64,584, which funds are to be invested for the ARRA-enumerated purposes;
WHEREAS, HUD, in a technical guidance document issued May 5, 2009, established
guidelines for the administration of these funds, under which regulations each Entitlement Community
is to submit to HUD by June 5, 2009 an amendment to its Program Year 2008 Action Plan describing
the expenditure of such stimulus package funds, which amendment maybe adopted pursuant to an
abbreviated seven-day public comment period in lieu of the typical thirty-day public comment period
for such amendment as provided by the City of Meridian's Citizen Participation Plan;
WHEREAS, the City adopted, and HUD subsequently approved, the City of Meridian's
Program Year 2008 CDBG Action Plan;
WHEREAS, the City, prior to the issuance of HUD's guidelines, did comply with its Citizen
Participation Plan by holding a public hearing on the proposed amendment to the PY08 Action Plan on
Apri121, 2009, holding a public comment period from Apri121, 2009 to May 26, 2009, and an
additional public comment period from May 26, 2009 to June 2, 2009 regarding a modified version of
the proposed amendment, which procedure complied with by the City's Citizen Participation Plan and
with HUD's guidelines;
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF MERIDIAN, IDAHO:
Section 1. That the Program Year 2008 Community Development Block Grant Action Plan, as
amended, a copy of which is attached hereto as EXHIBIT A and incorporated herein by reference, be,
and the same hereby is, approved as to both form and content.
Section 2. That the Mayor and the City Clerk be, and hereby are, authorized to respectively
execute and attest said materials constituting the Program Year 2008 Action Plan, as amended, for and
on behalf of the City of Meridian.
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Section 3. That this Resolution shall be in full force and effect immediately upon its adoption
and approval.
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ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Meridian, Idaho, this ~ day of w•~'-, 2009.
APPROVED by the Mayor of the City of Meridian, Idaho, this~~day of ~(~; 2009.
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