HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution 21-34 Approval of Urban Requal Coop Agreement as AmendedCITY OF FALCON HEIGHTS
COUNCIL RESOLUTION
August 11, 2021
No. 21-34
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RESOLUTION APPROVING THE URBAN REQUALIFICARTION COOPERATIVE
AGREEMENT AS AMENDED 22-24
WHEREAS, the Ramsey County Housing and Redevelopment Authority ("Authority") and The
City of Falcon Heights ("Municipality"), each a political subdivision of the State of Minnesota,
entered into a joint cooperative agreement dated August 19,1985, as amended May 10, 2006 and
June 24, 2015 ("Agreement"); and
WHEREAS Title I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974,42 U.S.C. § 5301 et
seq., as amended, ("CDBG Act") provides for a program of community development block
grants; and
WHEREAS, computation of a county's population as an Urban County as that term is used in
the CDBG Act included the Municipality with which it has entered into the Agreement to
undertake or to assist in the undertaking of essential activities pursuant to community
development block grants; and
WHEREAS, HUD CPD Notices 19-04, 20-03, and 21-06 require that an Urban County
requalifying in fiscal year (FY) 2021 for the FY 2022-2024 qualification period is required to
make any necessary revisions to its cooperation agreements at the time that it requalifies; and
WHEREAS, the Authority requalified for the FY 2022-2024 qualification period and therefore
amends the Agreement.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Falcon Heights,
Minnesota:
1. Paragraph 4 of the Agreement should be amended by the addition of the following:
P. Both the Authority and Municipality must take all actions necessary to assure compliance
with the certification required under section 104(b) of Title I of the Housing and Community
Development Act of 1974, that the grant will be conducted and administered in conformity
with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the implementing regulations at 24 CFR
part 1, and the Fair Housing Act, and the implementing regulations at 24 CFR part 100, and
will affirmatively further fair housing. See 24 CFR § 91.225(a) and 5.105(a). Both Authority
and Municipality must also comply with section 109 of Title I of the Housing and
Community Development Act of 1974, and the implementing regulations at 24 CFR part 6,
which incorporates Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and the implementing
regulations at 24 CFR part 8, Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the
implementing regulations at 28 CFR part 35, the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, and the
implementing regulation at 24 CFR part 146, and Section 3 of the Housing and Urban
Development Act of 1968. Authority and Municipality must also comply with other
applicable laws. Funding is prohibited for activities in, or in support of, any Municipality that
does not affirmatively further fair housing within its own jurisdiction or that impedes the
county's actions to comply with the county's fair housing certification. This provision is
required because noncompliance by a Municipality may constitute noncompliance by
Authority that can, in turn, provide cause for funding sanctions or other remedial actions by
the Department.
Q. Municipality may not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer all or any portion of such funds to a
metropolitan city, urban county, unit of general local government, or Indian tribe, or insular
area that directly or indirectly receives CDBG funds in exchange for any other funds, credits,
or non -Federal considerations, but must use such funds for activities eligible under Title I of
the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, as amended.
2. Except as modified herein, the terms of the Agreement shall remain in full force and effect.
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Moved by: `LsJ9 Approved b . �;O-" andall C. C stas—on
Mayor
GUSTAFSON In Favor Attested by:
MIAZGA Sack Thongvan
ANDREWS Against City Administrator
LEEHY
WEHYEE