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Home My WebLink About1999 Jan 20 (2) Special Town Board Minutes21 DRAFT SPECIAL TOWN BOARD MEETING WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20TH, 1999 6:42 P. M. After the closing of the public hearing Supervisor Owens moved into a Special Town Board meeting which was held at the Enfield Community Building, 182 En field Main Road, Ithaca, New York. Supervisor Owens presided over this meeting. Present: Supervisor, Jean Owens; Town Councilman, Gary Fisher; Town Councilman, Donald Lovelace; Town Councilman, Greg Stevenson. Town Councilman Tom Drew was absent. Others present - Highway Superintendent, Ron Updike; Book eeper, Pat Podufalski and Town Clerk, Alice Laue. Discussion - Supervisor Owens read the Resolution, Authorization to Submit Applicatic i to Small Cities Community Development Block Grant Funding and Abbreviated Cc solidated Plan. Councilman Fisher has questions on criteria to be used. Does someone, who has just moved into the town and moved into a mobile home qualify? Does someone that has been here paying taxes in the town for 3040 years qualify? Who has a priority? Councilman Fisher concerned about procedure used to determine who qualifies and who doesn't qualify. Questioned what can be built for $18,000.00. Questioned what are you going to come up with for $18,000.00 for a mar ifactured home. Jim Hanson, Tompkins County Planning, criteria would have to be workec out by the town board. Board would have to agree that this is the way they want to i -oceed. Cost of building houses - manufactures have looked at this and feel they c, i do it within that range. Councilman Fisher - This is for manufactured parts, what about foundation parts? Supervisor Owens' understanding is, the grant doesn't pay for all the costs. Person getting housing would be expected to be able to get a loan for the remainder of the costs. Loan would help individuals living in old mobile homes, who would like to move into or upgrade their housing, move into a modular or stick built housing, but because of the costs and overhead of an older home are having problems making that steji. Councilman Fisher hAa hard time expecting people to afford this when it ippears the people we are looking at for this program are the people having a hard tim � maintaining the homes they have now. 22 Special Town Board Meeting Minutes 1/20/99 3 Adjournment - Motion made by Councilman Lovelace, seconded by Councilman Fisher that the Special Town Board meeting held Wednesday, January 20th, 1999 adjourn. Vote - Supervisor Owens, yes. Town Councilmen, Fisher, Lovelace, Stevenson, yes. Town Councilman Drew was absent. Meeting adjourned at 10:30 p.m. Respectfully submitted, Alice Laue Town Clerk 23 INFORMATION FOR PUBLIC HEARING #1 FOR 1999 SMALL CITIES COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT PROGRAM — Town of Enfield The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has announced funding available to local municipalities for housing, community development and economic development activities. Two Notices of Funding Availability (NOW were published in the Federal Register on November 20, 1998. One NOFA provides for approximately $54.4 million in funding for the Small Cities Community Development Block Grant, and the another NOFA provides for $3 million for the Canal Corridor Initiative. Both NOFA's will be discussed in this public hearing. i) Small Cities Community Development Block Grant HUD is making $54.4 million available for the 1999 round of Small Cities funding. Maximum grant limits for towns, cities and villages are $400,000, and for counties are $600,000. Municipalities may apply for one grant or more than one grant, as long as the overall amount of the requests is not greater than the limit. Applications may be submitted in the following areas: housing (including rehabilitation, construction of new housing, and homeownership), economic development, public facilities (typically water and sewer), and microenterprise development. All projects must meet at least one National Objective for the CDBG program, for which the most common is direct assistance to low and moderate income persons in the community. The other National Objectives are clearance or rehabilitation of slums and blighted conditions; and meeting the needs of a community in an emergency situation. _ The Town of Enfield participated successfully in the Small Cities program in 1993 and 1994, receiving a total of $800,000 for housing rehabilitation. Both of these programs are largely completed, and closeout by HUD of these projects is anticipated in 1999 through afield visit by HUD personnel. Both projects have met or exceeded application guidelines for number of customers served, amount spent on construction and adherence to HUD guidelines and regulations. An unsuccessful Town application was submitted for housing rehabilitation in 1996, and an unsuccessful Tompkins County application for housing rehabilitation in Enfield was submitted in 1992. In addition, eight houses have been sold in the Town of Enfield using Tompkins County Homeownership Program funds. Tompkins County has not completed an economic development project in the Town of Enfield. The Town of Enfield believes that replacement of mobile homes and upgrading the housing stock is its major need that can be met with Small Cities funds at the present time. The Town does not have public infrastructure, and no economic development projects have come forward from the County solicitation of projects. j) Canal Corridor Initiative Funding HUD concurrenLy announced the availability of a second round of Canal Corridor Initiative funding. This funding is available through a separate Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) for Canal Corridor Initiative communities, which include Tompkins County and its local jurisdictions. A total of $3,000,000 is available in grants, as well as loans through the HUD Section 108 program. Each community is eligible for a maximum of $300,000 in grant funding, and all projects to be funded must be job -creating economic development projects that have some impact on the Canal or waterfront. Grant funding is encouraged to combine with the Section 108 loan funding to provide lower interest rate opportunities for economic development projects. Unlike the previous round of Canal Corridor Initiative funding, Section 108 loans will not be written down by HUD, or have written -down interest rates. Current Section 108 loan rates from HUD are approximately 6112%, and all Section 108 loan monies borrowed must be returned to HUD. The Town of Enfield did not participate in the 1997 Canal Corridor Initiative, and does not anticipate participating in this round. The Town is not proximate to the Canal. Should an opportunity to participate in the Initiative come forward, the Town will be pleased to explore this funding possibility. k} Abbreviated Consolidated. Plan The Town will be completing a new Abbreviated Consolidated Plan for submission with the application that includes the elements of the applications being submitted for the 1999 round, in accordance with HUD regulations for the Small Cities program. 1) Both Programs Applications for funding for both NOFA's are due to the HUD Field Office in Buffalo on Wednesday, February 3`d by 4:30 p.m. The second public hearing will describe the application or applications being submitted in greater detail, as per HUD guidance for public hearings. The second public hearing is scheduled for January 20 at 6:30 p.m. at the Town Hall. I would be happy to take any questions at this time. 25 RESOLUTION NO. -- AUTHORIZATION TO SUBMIT APPLICATION FOR SMALL CITIES COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT FUNDING AND ABBREVIATED CONSOLIDATED PLAN WHEREAS, the Town of Enfield has had a housing rehabilitation program funded through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and WHEREAS, the Town has expressed interest in the submission of a new application for Mobile Home Replacement in the Town, and WHEREAS, the Town has had two public hearings regarding the Small Cities program and Abbreviated Consolidated Plan, and WHEREAS, the Town wishes to move forward with an application, now therefore be it RESOLVED, that the Town Board authorizes the Supervisor to sign and submit an application for $400,000 to HUD for the Mobile Home Replacement Program as part of the 1999 Small Cities Community Development Block Grant funding round, and submit an Abbreviated Consolidated Plan in conjunction with this application. 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