Report to Mayor and City Council
Tuesday, February 20, 2024
Consent
SUBJECT:
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CONSIDERATION OF ADOPTION OF UPDATED PROGRAM GUIDELINES FOR THE CITY 'S NEIGHBORHOOD PRIDE PROGRAM (CITY COUNCIL)
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I. SUMMARY
The current Neighborhood Pride Program (NPP) guidelines was adopted by the City Council on April 5th, 2022. Staff is requesting the proposed guidelines are modified to maintain high quality improvements by increasing the limits of the program for each residence to keep up with increased construction and Labor costs. Staff believes these modifications will result in providing a better service for the program users and enhance the City's residential communities including mobile homes parks. This enhancement increases the property values in the neighborhood. Income-qualified single-family homeowners have the option of applying for either grants or loans while mobile home residents only have the option of applying for grants. All loan payments received under this program are deposited into the CDBG Revolving Loan Fund for the funding of future eligible NPP activities.
The proposed maximum program grant or loan amount is $30,000 for single-family detached units. For mobile homes the proposed limit for grants is $20,000. The current limits are $20,000 and $15,000, respectively.
The proposed guidelines authorize the City Manager or its designee to increase the grant amount by 20% for single family homes and increase the grant amount by 20% for mobile homes. This authority can only be exercised when the City Manager's designee determines that substantial repairs unforeseen at the time of the initial inspection make the expenditures necessary (e.g.), additional necessary repairs are discovered during construction). The current guidelines allow a 20% increase as well. If the estimate to make the repairs exceeds the said limits, other non-health and safety repairs must be eliminated. Repairs over this amount will be required to be paid by the homeowners.
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