Department of Finance
Reference: Memorandum of Understanding for the Minor Home Repair Program
To: Mayor Gregory Mills and Members of City Council
Through: Jane Bais DiSessa, City Manager
Maria Ostrom, Director of Finance
Prepared By: Nicole Samson, Senior Management Analyst
Date Prepared: February 19, 2021
PURPOSE
To present a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the City of Brighton and Adams County for the administration of the Minor Home Repair program, to answer questions regarding this agreement, and to request Council allow staff to bring the MOU to the next Council meeting as a Consent item. The Minor Home Repair program is a program funded with Community Development Block Grant (CDBG).
BACKGROUND
Adams County administers a Minor Home Repair program (MHR Program) to assist low- to moderate-income homeowners in Adams County with necessary repairs to their home in order to ensure residents are living in safe, decent and sanitary conditions. The City of Brighton (City) and other cities in the Urban County Consortium can assign CDBG funds to the MHR Program in order to serve the residents in their community through this program. Only residents of Brighton are served with the City's CDBG funds. The City has previously chosen to fund the MHR Program with the City's 2016, 2017 and 2018 CDBG funds. In order to participate in the MHR Program, the City enters into an MOU with the County that outlines the responsibilities between Adams County and the City of Brighton for the program.
The City would like to use the MHR Program as a contingency or supplemental project that can accept funds that are remaining once a primary project is complete. For example, the 2019 CDBG-funded project in Brighton is complete and there is $13,013 left of funds that could be reassigned to the MHR Program. This amount could be used to serve one to three Brighton households with minor repairs to their home.
The average MHR Program grant amount is approximately $6,250 per ho...
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