Ordinance 68343

Summary

BOARD BILL NO. 47 INTRODUCED BY: Alderman Alfred Wessels, Jr. An ordinance, recommended by the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, authorizing the Mayor of the City of St. Louis, on behalf of the City, to submit a Substantial Amendment to the 2008 Annual Action Plan to the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Community Planning and Development ("HUD") as required to apply for City of St. Louis entitlement funding for the Homelessness Prevention Fund created under Title XII of Division A of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (“Recovery Act”), for the purpose of providing financial assistance and services to either prevent individuals and families from becoming homeless or helping those who are experiencing homelessness to be quickly re-housed and stabilized hereinafter referred to as the referred to as the “Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program (HPRP)”, further authorizing the Mayor of the City of St. Louis, on behalf of the City, to submit an application to the State of Missouri for the purpose of securing for the City additional HPRP funding awarded to the State of Missouri (hereinafter referred to as “State HPRP Funding”), authorizing and directing the Mayor and the Comptroller on behalf of the City to enter into and execute an agreement or agreements with HUD for the receipt of HPRP Entitlement Funding and an agreement or agreements with HUD and/or the State of Missouri and/or agencies and/or commissions thereof for State HPRP Funding, appropriating the sum of Eight Million One Hundred Fifty- Six Thousands One Hundred Eighty Eight Dollars ($8,156,188) which the City has been allocated in HPRP Entitlement Funding; appropriating the lesser of Six Hundred Thousand Six Hundred Dollars ($600,600) or such lesser amount of State HPRP Funding as may be awarded to the City; authorizing and directing the Director of the Department of Human Services ("DHS") to contract with municipal agencies, non-profit corporations and other entities, as necessary for the expenditure of HPRP Entitlement Funding and State HPRP Funding; and directing the Comptroller to issue warrants thereon upon the City Treasury; and containing an emergency clause.

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