CC RESOLUTION 4418RESOLUTION NO 4418
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EL
SEGUNDO SUPPORTING THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK
GRANT PROGRAM
The City Council of the City of El Segundo does resolve as follows
SECTION 1 The City Council finds and declares that
A The Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program was enacted and
signed into law by President Gerald Ford, as the centerpiece of the Housing and
Community Development Act of 1974,
B The CDBG Program has as its primary objective "the development of viable
urban communities, by providing decent housing and a suitable living
environment and expanding economic opportunities, principally for persons of
low and moderate income,
C CDBG Program allows communities to carry out activities that are tailored to their
unique affordable housing and neighborhood revitalization needs, and
D Throughout its 30 -year history, the CDBG Program has been a partnership
among the federal state and local governments, business, and the nonprofit
sector which carry out activities that improve the lives and neighborhoods of low
and moderate income,
E The City of El Segundo uses CDBG funds annually in the amount of
approximately $100,000 to support public service activities, removal of
architectural/physical impediments to ease mobility and accessibility for the
disabled, minor housing rehabilitation and residential sound insulation projects,
and
F_ The Federal FY 2006 budget proposes to eliminate the CDBG program, and
G Should such a proposal be enacted it would effect El Segundo's CDBG program
by forcing the City to either eliminate its CDBG program, or fund through the
General Fund
SECTION 2 Council of the City of El Segundo, California hereby asks the Congress to
preserve the Community Development Block Grant Program within the Department of
Housing and Urban Development and provide FY 2006 funding at the current FY 2005
funding level
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SECTION 3 The City Clerk is directed to certify the adoption of this Resolution, record
this Resolution in the book of the City's original resolutions, and make a minute of the
adoption of the Resolution in the City Council's records and the minutes of this meeting
SECTION 4 This resolution will become effective immediately upon adoption and will
remain effective unless repealed or superseded
PASSED, APPROVED, AND ADOPTED this 5th 0 y of April 2005
Kelly Mcbo II,
Mayor
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) SS
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO 1
I, Cindy Mortesen, City Clerk of the City of El Segundo, California, hereby certify that
the whole number of members of the City Council of the City is five, that the foregoing
Resolution No aaiswas duly passed and adopted by said City Council, approved and
signed by the Mayor of said City, and attested to by the City Clerk of said City, all at a
regular meeting of said Council held on the 5`" day of April 2005, and the same was so
passed and adopted by the following roll call vote
AYES McDowell, Gaines, Boulgarides, Busch, Jacobson
NOES None
ABSENT None
ABSTAIN None
ATTEST
Cindy Mort en,
City Clerk /%
APPROVED
Mark D HeA
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X friA Berger,
Assistant City`
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