HomeMy WebLinkAboutRES NO 20-52ES0L Tt0N N0.
RESOLUTION REQ~FESTING RESERVATI ON
OF CAPITAL GRANT FUNDS FOR SLUM
CLEARANCE A~D URBAN REDEVELOPNENT
WEREAS, under Title I of the Housing Act of 1949, the Housing
and Home Finance Administrator is authorized to extend financial
assistance to local communities in eliminating their slums and blighted
areas and in providing maximum opportunity, consistent with the sound
needs of the locality as a whole, for the redevelopment of such areas
by private enterprise and to that end is authorized to make advances to
local public agencies for surveys and plans in preparation of projects
and capital grants and temporary and definitive loans; and
WHE-~REAS, the Administrator will consider requests for the reserva-
tion or earmarking of capital grant funds that may be made available to
local public agencies under the provisions of said Title I for slum
clearance and urban redevelopment projects; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary and in the public interest that there
be undertaken and carried out with financial assistance under said
Title I in the City of Bakersfield (herein referred to as the "Locality")
an effective program of slum clearance and urban redevelopment; and it
is therefore desirable and appropriate that a request for a reservation
of capital grant funds for the Locality be submitted to the Administra-
tor; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to said Title I certain contractual obligations
will be imposed upon a local public agency availing itself of financial
assistance thereunder, which obligations will include among other things
the approval of the redevelopment plan by the governing body of the
Locality in which the project is situated, with appropriate findings
(1) that financial aid by the Federal Government is necessary, (2) that
the redevelopment plans for the redevelopment areas in the Locality will
afford maximum opportunity, consistent with the sound needs of the
Locality as a whole, for the redevelopment of such areas by private
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enterprise, and (3) that the redevelopment plan conforms to a general
plan for the development of the Locality as a whole; and such con-
tractual obligations will further require among other things the
provision of local grants-in-aid and the development of a feasible
method for the relocation of families displaced from the -slum ai~a.
NOW, T}EREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY the Council of the City of
Bakersfield, California:
1. That upon the basis of preliminary studies it is considered
to be in the public interest and it is the desire and purpose of the
Locality that there be undertaken and carried out, with financial
assistance under Title I, certain slum clearance and redevelopmerit work.
2. That the Administrator be, and he is hereby requested to
reserve for the Locality capital grant funds in an amount not exceeding
$106,890.
3. That it is hereby recognized that under Title ! of the
Housing Act of 1949 certain requirements are imposed in order to obtain
Federal aid thereunder for slum clearance and redevelopmerit projects,
including requirements for the provision of local grants-in-aid, the
approval of redevelopmerit plans by the governing body of the Locality
and the making of certain findings by such governing body, and it is
further recognized that the cooperation of the Locality is necessary
to carry out the slum clearance and redevelopmerit program which is
proposed to be undertaken and for which the reservation of funds is
hereby requested.
4. That the duly authorized City Clerk of the Locality be, and
she is hereby directed to forward to said Administrator three certified
copies of this resolution and such other supporting data and information
as may be required, and that this resolution shall constitute the
Locality's formal request to the Administrator for the reservation of
capital grant monies.
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I EREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Resolution was passed and
adopted by the Council of the City of Bakersfield at a regular meeting
thereof held on the ~ ~ day of ~ , 1952, by the
following vote:
AYES: GARNAKiS, SAUNDERS, ~, SMIT'.L SULLIVAN, VAi~IDERLEI,. VEST
NT:---~~~ , -'
City ~erk and ex-0fficio Clerk of the
Council of the City of Bakersfield.
MAYOR of the City of Bakersfield
, 1952.
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