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city council Meeting 5-9-95 Santa Monica, California
ORDINANCE NUMBER 1801 (CCS)
(city Council Series)
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF SANTA MONICA AMENDING SANTA MONICA MUNICIPAL
CODE SECTIONS 2.68.010, 2.68.030, 2.68.040, 2.68.050, 2.68.060,
2.68.070 AND 2.68.080 RELATING TO PROCEDURES AND POLICIES
OF THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT PROGRAM
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA DOES ORDAIN AS
FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Santa Monica Municipal Code Section 2.68.010 is
amended to read as follows:
2.68.010 Pindings.
The City council finds and declares:
(a) The Housing and Community Development
Act of 1974 established a community Development
Block Grant Program to provide grants to local
communities to meet housing and community
development needs principally of low and
moderate income persons.
(b) The Congress of the United States has
passed and the President of the united states
has signed the National Affordable Housing Act
of 1990 which amends the Housing and community
Development Act of 1974 and further establishes
the HOME Investment Partnership Program (HOME)
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to meet affordable housing needs.
(c) Implementing regulations have been
amended to consolidate into a single submission
the planning and application aspects of all HUD
formula grants, including community Development
Block Grants and HOME, through a final rule
issued by the Housing and Urban Development
Department, which became effective January 6,
1995.
(d) The City Council desires to ensure
that low and moderate income persons are the
primary beneficiaries of the Community
Development Block Grant Program.
(e) The City Council desires to ensure
that procedures for the implementation of all
HOD formula grants, including the HUD
Consolidated Plan requirements, are adopted
which examine local community needs and address
those needs in an appropriate manner.
SECTION 2. Santa Monica Municipal Code section 2.68.030 is
amended to read as follows:
2.68.030 Community Development Block Grant
proqram Policies and Restrictions.
(a) Each project or activity funded by
the Community Development Block Grant Program
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shall primarily benefit low and moderate income
persons and shall be consistent with the
policies set forth in this Chapter.
(b) A project or other activity funded by
the Community Development Block Grant Program
will not be considered to give maximum priority
to low and moderate income persons unless:
(1) At least 75% of its direct
beneficiaries are low and moderate income
persons; or
(2) At least 51% of the population
of the project area benefited by the activities
are low and moderate income persons.
(c) Community Development Block Grant
funds shall be used to address needs
identified in the City's Consolidated Plan and
may include activities to address affordable
housing, community and public services,
accessibility, public f acili ty improvements,
economic development, and other Community
Development Block Grant eligible activities.
(d) No more than 15% of any year's
allocation of Community Development Block Grant
funds shall be expended on public services.
(e) No more than 20% of any year's
allocation of community Development Block Grant
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funds shall be expended
administrative costs.
on
general
SECTION 3. Santa Monica Municipal Code section 2.68.040 is
amended to read as follows:
2.68.040 Consolidated Plan.
(a) Expenditure of community Development
Block Grant funds shall be made in accordance
with the Consolidated Plan.
(b) At a minimum, the Consolidated Plan
shall be prepared by the city every five years
to identify local community development and
planning needs and shall contain the following
components:
(1) A description of housing and
community development needs identified through
relevant information from previous
sUbmissions, other reports and studies,
community input, and consultation with other
local jurisdictions and entities.
(2) A five-year strategic plan that
brings needs and resources together in a
coordinated housing and community development
strategy describing actions, projects, and
programs the city plans to initiate or
complete over the next five years.
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(3) A one-year action plan, to be
adopted annually, that lists projects and
activities the city will undertake to address
priority needs and local objectives through
anticipated HUD formula grants including
Community Development Block Grant.
SECTION 4. Santa Monica Municipal Code Section 2.68.050
amended to read as follows:
2.68.050 Community Involvement.
(a) The preparation of the Consolidated
Plan will result from a community involvement
process that will provide for and encourage
involvement of low income, very low income,
and extremely low income residents and will
encourage participation of all City residents
including minorities, non-English speaking
persons, as well as persons with impaired
mobility, vision, or hearing.
(b) Prior to the adoption of the
Consolidated Plan, a minimum of two public
hearings will be held at convenient times for
people who might benefit from HUD formula
grants including Community Development Block
Grant.
(c) The proposed Consolidated Plan will
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be made available for a 30 day communi ty
review period prior to its sUbmission to HUD.
All interested persons may submit written
comments during this community review period.
written comm~nts will be incorporated into the
final Consolidated Plan to the extent
possible.
(d) Notice of availability of the
proposed Consolidated Plan for the 30 day
review period will be published in easily-
readable type in the nonlegal section of
newspapers with general circulation in the
area.
(e) At least fourteen (14) days prior to
any public hearing related to the Consolidated
Plan, notice of the date, time, place, and
purpose of the public hearing shall be
published in easily-readable type in the
nonlegal section of newspapers with general
circulation in the area.
(f) Appropriate notices describing the
purpose of any public hearing related to the
Consolidated Plan shall be distributed to
newspapers of general circulation in the City,
to newspapers and newsletters serving low and
moderate income neighborhoods, to television
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and radio stations, and to organizations
serving low and moderate income persons.
SECTION 5. Santa Monica Municipal Code section 2.68.060 is
amended to read as follows:
2.68.060 Approval and amendment of
consolidated Plan
(a) Prior to the submission to the
united States Department of Housing and Urban
Oevelopment of a Statement of Community
Development Obj ecti ves or similar document,
the proposed Consolidated Plan shall be
presented to the City Council for its
approval. Upon approval, the Consolidated
Plan shall become the vehicle for local
design, implementation, and evaluation of the
Community Development Block Grant Program.
(b) The city Council may approve
amendments to the Consolidated Plan. Any
amendments made after the initial approval of
the Consolidated Plan shall be approved
following public hearing as provided for in
this Chapter if the amendment either
individually or in combination with previous
amendments concerns more than ten percent of
the current year's entitlement amount.
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SECTION 6. Santa Monica Municipal Code section 2.68.060 is
amended to read as follows:
2.68.070 One-Year Action Plan and Annual
Review.
(a) The One-Year Action Plan will be
prepared annually to describe the federal
resources, including Community Development
Block Grant, expected to be available to
address the priority needs and specific
objectives identified in the Consolidated
Plan's five-year strategic plan.
(b) The One-Year Action Plan will
provide a description of the activities to be
undertaken during the next program year to
address priority needs. This description of
activities shall estimate the number and type
of households that will benefit from the
proposed activities; the geographic areas to
which funds will be directed; the specific
local objectives and priority needs that will
be addressed by the activities using HUD
formula grant funds, including Community
Development Block Grant funds, and program
income the city expects to receive during the
program year; and a target date for completion
of the activity.
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(c) A performance report describing the
activities undertaken in the prior program
year will be prepared and submitted to the
Department of Housing and Urban Development no
later than september 30th of the fOllowing
program year. This report will detail the
expenditures incurred and program
accomplishments of the One-Year Action Plan in
the prior program year. The City will make
copies of this report available to the
community in sufficient time as to permit
citizens to comment on the report prior to its
sUbmission to HUD. Notification of
availability of this report will be made in
easily readable type in the nonlegal section
of newspapers with a general circulation
within the area.
SECTION 7. Santa Monica Municipal Code Section 2.68.080 is
amended to read as follows:
2.68.080 Information available to the public.
All records maintained by the City in
connection with the Community Development
Block Grant Program shall be available to the
pUblic in accordance with the California
PUblic Records Act. The City shall provide to
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residents without cost a reasonable number of
copies of the Consolidated Plan, any proposed
Consolidated Plan or amendment thereto, the
statement of Obj ecti ves I the annual Grantee
Performance Report, the reports required by
section 2.68.070, and this Chapter.
SECTION 8. Any provision of the Santa Monica Municipal Code
or appendices thereto inconsistent with the provisions of this
Ordinance, to the extent of such inconsistencies and no further,
are hereby repealed or modified to that extent necessary to affect
the provisions of this Ordinance.
SECTION 9. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, or
phrase of this Ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid or
unconstitutional by a decision of any court of any competent
jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the
remaining portions of this Ordinance. The city Council hereby
declares that it would have passed this Ordinance, and each and
every section, subsection, sentence, clause, or phrase not declared
invalid or unconstitutional without regard to whether any portion
of the ordinance would be subsequently declared invalid or
unconstitutional.
SECTION 10. The Mayor shall sign and the City Clerk shall
attest to the passage of this Ordinance. The city Clerk shall cause
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the same to be published once in the official newspaper within 15
days after its adoption. This ordinance shall become effective
after 30 days from its adoption.
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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MKRSHA JONE~/MOUTRIE
city AttornS'y
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Mayor
State of Cabforrua )
County of Los Angeles) ss
CIty of Santa Moruca )
I, ClarIce E Dykhouse, CIty Clerk of the CIty of Santa MOnICa, do hereby certIfy that the
foregOIng OrdInance No 1801 (CCS) had Its first readIng on Apn125_ 1995 and had Its second
readIng on May 9_ 1995 and was passed by the followmg vote
Ayes
CouncIl members
Greenberg, RosensteIn, Abdo, Holbrook, Ebner, Genser,
O'Connor
Noes
CouncIl members
None
AbstaIn
CouncIl members
None
Absent
CouncIl members
None
ATTEST
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