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I COUNCIL MEMBERS: MARK A. CRABTREE, Mayor M. GENE TEAGUE, Vice-Mayor BRUCE H. T. DALLAS ELIZABETH H. HASKELL TERRY L. ROOP CITY OF MARTINSVILLE RESOLUTION DAVID B. WORTHY City Attomey DEWEY R CASHWELL Clerk of Council EARL B. REYNOLDS, JR. City Manager AUTHORIZING THE PREPARATION AND FILING OF AN APPLIICATION FOR COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT GRANT FUNDS THROUGH THE SMALL CITIES VIRGINIA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT PROGRAM WHEREAS, the City of Martinsville has previously participated in the Small Cities community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program as administered by the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development with the undertaking of the Moss/Barton Comprehensive Community Development (CCD) Project and a planning study for the Southside Neighborhood; and WHEREAS, the City has substantially completed both the Moss/Barton CCD Project and said South- side Planning Study and has determined the Southside area as the number one priority for housing and community improvement efforts; and WHEREAS, the City of Martinsville is eligible for and wishes to submit a 1999 Comprehensive Community Development application for the total of $739,200 to the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development for Virginia Community Improvement Grant (CIG) funds by April 21, 1999, for consideration during the 1999 CDBG funding round; and WHEREAS, the City has completed its assessment of the Southside Neighborhood, a residential area which. is blighted and experiencing deterioration of its housing stock and infi:astmcture; and has con- dueted neighborhood meetings and completed the said needs assessment with the neighborhood advi- sory group and residents who identified housing rehabilitation, street improvements, storm drainage, and water improvements as the major needs and concerns that require immediate action; and WHEREAS, a Comprehensive Community Development (CCD) improvement program has been developed by the neighborhood and the city which includes a Preliminary Engineering Report (PER) for the required public improvements approved and certified by the locally authorized water depart- ment and the City of Martinsville's approved Housing Rehabilitation Loan Program; and WHEREAS, the Martinsville City Council wishes to apply for Virginia Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds to assist in implementing the Southside Comprehensive Community Development Project, which will benefit 72 occupied households (an estimated 156 persons) of which an estimated 62 households (134 LMI persons - 86.0%) are low and moderate income (LMI) persons residing in the neighborhood; and WItEREAS, said benefits would result from the implementation of the housing rehabilitation loan program for 32 owner and renter occupied dwellings (69 LMI persons - 100% LMI benefit); sub- stanti al reconstruction o f one ( 1 ) hous eho ld (2 LMI pers ons - 100 % b eriefit); the aequis ition and 55 WEST CHURCH STREET P. O. BOX 1112 MARTINSVILLE, VIRGINIA 24114 PHONE: (540) 656-5180 FAX: (540) 656-5280