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To amend Ord. No. 2022-099, adopted Apr. 11, 2022, which amended Ord. No. 2021-099, adopted May 24, 2021, to create certain new line items in the Non-Departmental agency, transfer $1,283,288.00 from the Department of Housing and Community Development, and appropriate such $1,283,288.00 to the new line items in the Non-Departmental agency, all for the purpose of providing grants to certain entities for the provision of housing-related services, to recapture funds in the amount of $80,342.95 from Saint Joseph’s Villa; to amend Ord. No. 2022-104, adopted Apr. 25, 2022, as previously amended by Ord. No. 2022-243, adopted Sept. 12, 2022, and Ord. No. 2023-086, adopted Mar. 27, 2023, which authorized the Chief Administrative Officer to issue grants, loans, or a combination thereof from the City’s 1st Tranche of American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 funds to certain entities in designated amounts and to authorize the Chief Administrative Officer, for and on behalf of the City, to execute all necessary documents to effect such issuance for the purpose of financing the construction and preservation of single-family and multifamily dwellings, to recapture funds in the amount of $250,000.00 from the Better Housing Coalition; and to amend Ord. No. 2023-180, adopted Jun. 26, 2023, which authorized the Chief Administrative Officer, for and on behalf of the City of Richmond, to accept the second tranche of American Rescue Plan Act funds in the amount of $10,000,000.00 from the United States Department of the Treasury and amended the Fiscal Year 2022-2023 General Fund Budget by increasing estimated revenues and the amount appropriated to the General Fund Budget for certain agencies by $8,000,000.00 of the $10,000,000.00 of ARPA funding from the Department of Housing and Community Development for the purpose of funding the City’s efforts to recover from the economic and health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in accordance with the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, to recapture funds in the amount of $245,174.86 from Commonwealth Catholic Charities and funds in the amount of $500,000.00 from Planet Zero Residences, LLC, all for the purpose of expanding affordable housing initiatives.
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THE CITY OF RICHMOND HEREBY ORDAINS:
I. That Ordinance No. 2022-099, adopted April 11, 2022, be and is hereby amended and reordained as follows:
§ 1. That Ordinance No. 2021-040, adopted May 24, 2021, which adopted a General Fund Budget for the fiscal year commencing July 1, 2021, and ending June 30, 2022, and made appropriations pursuant thereto, is hereby amended by:
(a) Creating the following new line items in the Non-Departmental agency:
(1) ARPA - HCD - Homeward - Greater Richmond Continuum of Care Homeless Connection Line;
(2) ARPA - HCD - Daily Planet, Incorporated - Medical Respite Services;
(3) ARPA - HCD - Southside Community Development and Housing Corporation - Post-Purchase Counseling;
(4) ARPA - HCD - St. Joseph’s Villa - Youth Outreach; and
(5) ARPA - HCD - CARITAS - Emergency Shelter Retrofits;
(b) Transferring $1,283,288.00 from the Department of Housing and Community Development; and
(c) Appropriating these transferred funds to the following new line items in the Non-Departmental agency created by subsection (a) of this section in the following amounts:
(1) ARPA - HCD - Homeward - Greater Richmond Continuum of Care Homeless Connection Line . . . $264,170.00;
(2) ARPA - HCD - Daily Planet, Incorporated - Medical Respite Services . . . $350,400.00;
(3) ARPA - HCD - Southside Community Development and Housing Corporation - Post-Purchase Counseling . . . $78,718.00;
(4) ARPA - HCD - St. Joseph’s Villa - Youth Outreach . . . [$240,000.00] $159,657.05; and
(5) ARPA - HCD - CARITAS - Emergency Shelter Retrofits . . . $350,000.00,
all for the purpose of providing grants to certain entities for the provision of housing-related services.
§ 2. This ordinance shall be in force and effect upon adoption.
II. That Ordinance No. 2022-104, adopted April 25, 2022, as previously amended by Ordinance No. 2022-243, adopted September 12, 2022, and Ordinance No. 2023-086, adopted March 27, 2023, be and is hereby amended and reordained as follows:
WHEREAS, section 15.2-958 of the Code of Virginia (1950), as amended, provides that the “governing body of an locality may provide by ordinance that such locality may make grants or loans to owners of residential rental property occupied, or to be occupied, following rehabilitation or after construction if new, by persons of low and moderate income, for the purpose of rehabilitating or producing such property,” and the Council desires to make such grants or loans to owners of residential rental property and to the City’s land bank entity pursuant to section 15.2-7509 of the Code of Virginia (1950), as amended; and
WHEREAS, the City has determined to issue grants, loans, or a combination thereof from the City’s 1st Tranche of funds received pursuant to the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, H.R. 1319, 117th Cong., 1st Sess. (2021-2022), to certain entities in designated amounts to finance the construction and preservation of single-family and multifamily dwellings as set forth in the document entitled “Amended 2 Attachment A2 - Recommendation for ARPA Funding Awards,” a copy of which is attached to and incorporated into Ordinance No. 2023-086, adopted March 27, 2023, except as modified to recapture funds in the amount of $250,000.00 from the Better Housing Coalition, as shown on the document entitled “Attachment A, Transferred, Unallocated, and Recaptured ARPA Funding Awards,” a copy of which is attached to and incorporated into this amendatory ordinance;
NOW, THEREFORE,
THE CITY OF RICHMOND HEREBY ORDAINS:
§ 1. That, subject to any requirements of section 15.2-958 of the Code of Virginia (1950), as amended, the Chief Administrative Officer be and is hereby authorized to issue grants, loans, or a combination thereof from the City’s 1st Tranche of funds received pursuant to the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, H.R. 1319, 117th Cong., 1st Sess. (2021-2022) to the entities designated in the column entitled “Award Recipient” in the aggregate amounts designated in the column entitled “Recommended Award Amount” in the document entitled “Amended 2 Attachment A2 - Recommendation for ARPA Funding Awards,” a copy of which is attached to and incorporated into Ordinance No. 2023-086, adopted March 27, 2023, except as modified to recapture funds in the amount of $250,000.00 from the Better Housing Coalition, as shown on the document entitled “Attachment A, Transferred, Unallocated, and Recaptured ARPA Funding Awards,” a copy of which is attached to and incorporated into this amendatory ordinance, for the purpose of financing the construction and preservation of single-family and multifamily dwellings.
§ 2. The Chief Administrative Officer, for and on behalf of the City of Richmond, be and is hereby authorized to execute all necessary documents, each of which first must be approved as to form by the City Attorney, to effect the issuance of grants, loans, or a combination thereof from the City’s 1st Tranche of funds received pursuant to the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, H.R. 1319, 117th Cong., 1st Sess. (2021-2022) authorized pursuant to section 1 of this ordinance and as set forth in the document entitled “Amended 2 Attachment A2 - Recommendation for ARPA Funding Awards,” a copy of which is attached to and incorporated into Ordinance No. 2023-086, adopted March 27, 2023, except as modified to recapture funds in the amount of $250,000.00 from the Better Housing Coalition, as shown on the document entitled “Attachment A, Transferred, Unallocated, and Recaptured ARPA Funding Awards,” a copy of which is attached to and incorporated into this amendatory ordinance, for the purpose of financing the construction and preservation of single-family and multifamily dwellings in accordance with sections 15.2-958 and 15.2-7509 of the Code of Virginia (1950), as amended.
§ 3. This ordinance is in force and effect upon adoption.
III. That Ordinance No. 2023-180, adopted June 26, 2023, be and is hereby amended as follows:
WHEREAS, pursuant to Ordinance No. 2021-220, adopted September 27, 2021, the Director of Finance has credited all funds received by the City, whether from the United States government, the Commonwealth of Virginia, or otherwise, provided pursuant to the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, H.R. 1319, 117th Cong., 1st Sess. (2021-2022) in the general ledger, to be managed in the Projects and Grants Module in the City’s enterprise resource planning system for purposes authorized by the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, H.R. 1319, 117th Cong., 1st Sess. (2021-2022) for future appropriation by the Council of the City of Richmond only for expenditures authorized by the said Act;
NOW, THEREFORE,
THE CITY OF RICHMOND HEREBY ORDAINS:
§ 1. That the Chief Administrative Officer is authorized to accept the second tranche of American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, H.R. 1319, 117th Cong., 1st Sess. (2021-2022), funds in the amount of $10,000,000.00 from the United States Department of the Treasury for the purpose of funding the City’s efforts to recover from the economic and health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in accordance with the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, H.R. 1319, 117th Cong., 1st Sess. (2021-2022).
§ 2. That a portion of the funds received pursuant to section 1 of this ordinance are hereby appropriated to the General Fund Budget for the fiscal year commencing July 1, 2021, and ending June 30, 2022, by increasing estimated revenues by $8,000,000.00, increasing the amount appropriated for expenditures by $8,000,000.00 and allotting to certain agencies the sum of $8,000,000.00 as set forth in the document entitled “2nd Tranche - Recommendation for ARPA Funding Awards - ATTACHMENT A,” a copy of which is incorporated into and made a part of Ordinance No. 2023-180, adopted June 26, 2023, except as modified to recapture funds in the amount of $245,174.86 from Commonwealth Catholic Charities and funds in the amount of $500,000.00 from Planet Zero Residences, LLC, both as shown on the document entitled “Attachment A, Transferred, Unallocated, and Recaptured ARPA Funding Awards,” a copy of which is attached to and incorporated into this amendatory ordinance, for the purpose of funding the City’s efforts to recover from the economic and health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in accordance with the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, H.R. 1319, 117th Cong., 1st Sess. (2021-2022).
§ 3. This ordinance shall be in force and effect upon adoption.
IV. This amendatory ordinance shall be in force and effect upon adoption.