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23 This Agreement shall be executed by the appropriate officers of COOPERATING UNIT and COUNTY pursuant to authority granted them by their respective governing bodies, and a copy of the authorizing resolution and executed Agreement shall be filed promptly by the COOPERATING UNIT in the Ilennepin County Department of Housing, Community Works and Transit, and in no event shall the Agreement be filed later than June 30, 2008, COOPERATING UNIT and COUNTY shall take all actions necessary to assure compliance with the applicant's certifications required by Section 104(b) of the Title I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, as amended, including Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964; the Pair Housing Act, Section 109 ofTitle I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974; and other applicable laws. IV. ACTIVITIES COOPERATING UNIT agrees that awarded grant funds will be used to undertake and carry out, within the terms of this Agreement, certain activities eligible for finding under the Act. The COUNTY agrees and will assist COOPERATING UNIT in the undertaking of such essential activities by providing the services specified in this Agreement. The parties mutually agree to comply with all applicable requirements of the Act and the Regulations and other relevant Federal and/or Minnesota statutes or regulations in the use of basic grant amounts. Nothing in this Article shall be construed to lessen or abrogate the COUNTY's responsibility to assume all obligations of an applicant under the Act, including the development of the Consolidated Plan, pursuant to 24 CPR Part 91. COOPERATING UNIT further specifically agrees as follows: A. COOPERATING UNIT will, in accord with a COUNTY -established schedule, prepare and provide to the COUNTY, in a prescribed form, requests for the use of Community Development Block Grant Funds consistent with this Agreement, program regulations and the Urban Hennepin County Consolidated Plan. B. COOPERATING UNIT acknowledges that, pursuant to 24 CPR §570.501 (b), it is subject to the same requirements applicable to subrecipients, including the requirement for a written Subrecipient Agreement set forth in 24 CPR §570.503. The Subrecipient Agreement will cover the implementation requirements for each activity funded pursuant to this Agreement and shall be duly executed with and in a form prescribed by the COUNTY. C. COOPERATING UNIT acknowledges that it is subject to the same Subrecipient requirements stated in paragraph B above in instances where an agency other than itself is undertaking an activity pursuant to this Agreement on behalf of COOPERATING UNIT. In such instances, a written Third Party Agreement shall be duly executed between the agency and COOPERATING UNIT in a form prescribed by COUNTY. D. COOPERATING UNITS shall expend all funds annually allocated to activities pursuant to this Agreement within eighteen (18) months of the authorization by HUD to expend the basic grant amount. With each annual program COOPERATING UNITS shall submit to the COUNTY activity schedules for the completion and expenditure of funds within eighteen (18) months. COUNTY will institute monitoring measures and provide technical or other assistance to insure activities are proceeding on schedule. 2. Funds for activities not expended within eighteen (18) months may be recaptured at the discretion of the COUNTY and distributed by COUNTY as provided for in D. 4. Limited extensions to the expenditure deadlines in this section may be granted by COUNTY upon