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Recommendation to adopt resolution authorizing City Manager, or designee, to submit a grant application to the California Department of Housing and Community Development, through the Housing-Related Parks Program, for the rehabilitation of park facilities and park grounds at Drake Park, Peace Park, and Martin Luther King, Jr., Park; accept such grant funding in an amount up to $1,326,350; and, execute all documents necessary to accept the funds and implement the projects. (Districts 1,6)
DISCUSSION
On November 7, 2006, California voters passed the Housing and Emergency Trust Fund Act of 2006 (Proposition 1C), to provide low-cost housing for needy families, seniors, and military veterans, as well as shelters for battered women. Subsequent enabling legislation authorized $200 million in Proposition 1C grant funding for the Housing-Related Parks Program (HRP Program), which is administered by the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD). The HRP Program creates incentives and rewards local governments for building affordable housing by awarding grant funding to be used for much-needed parks within their communities.
Grant funds are awarded on a per bedroom basis for each affordable housing unit that is newly constructed, substantially rehabilitated, and/or preserved with an extended affordability term. Applicants may also be eligible for bonus funding for units developed as infill projects, developments serving extremely low-income households, and for proposed park projects that will serve disadvantaged and park-deficient communities. Grant funds may be used for the creation, development, or rehabilitation of park and recreation facilities.
On November 21, 2016, HCD released a Notice of Funding Availability for the HRP Program for the 2016 round of funding. The Department of Parks, Recreation and Marine (PRM), with the assistance of the Department of Development Services, is proposing to apply for up to $1,326,350 in grant f...
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