AGENDA #4g

 

MEMORANDUM

 

TO:

Roger L. Stancil, Town Manager

 

 

FROM:

J.B. Culpepper, Planning Director

 

Loryn Clark, Housing and Neighborhood Services Coordinator

 

 

SUBJECT:

Clarification to the 2006-2007 Community Development Program

 

 

DATE:

November 20, 2006

 

 

PURPOSE

 

Adoption of the attached resolution would allocate $120,000 of 2006-2007 Community Develop-ment funds to The Affordable Housing Group.

 

BACKGROUND

 

After holding two public hearings to receive citizen input, on April 24, 2006 the Council approved the following plan for use of $598,310 of 2006-2007 Community Development funds (please see Attachment 1):

 

1.  Public Housing

 

$210,000

Renovation of North Columbia Street

$165,000

 

Refurbishing Program

$  40,000

 

Playground Equipment

$    5,000

 

2. EmPOWERment, Inc.

$  75,810

 

3. Orange Community Housing and Land Trust

 

$120,000

4. Community Services

 

$  74,500

Chapel Hill Police Department Youth Programs

$45,000

 

Chapel Hill Training and Outreach/
   Family Resource Center After School Program


$15,000

 

YMCA After School Program

$14,500

 

5.  Administration

 

$118,000

Total

 

$598,310

 

The Plan includes an allocation of $120,000 to Orange Community Housing and Land Trust for the costs associated with the acquisition of 2.44 acres of property for the Dobbins Hill II Apartments.  The Land Trust is working in partnership with The Affordable Housing Group, a private affordable housing developer, to use low-income housing tax credits to develop 32 permanently affordable rental units.  The Affordable Housing Group is the official applicant for low-income housing tax credits for this project.

 

DISCUSSION

 

The Affordable Housing Group applied for and received preliminary approval for 2007 low-income housing tax credits for this project.  Essential to the tax credit application is a contribution of funds from the jurisdiction in which the project is located.  Though Orange Community Housing and Land Trust is a partner in this project, in order to receive the tax credits, the Town’s funds allocated for this project must be provided to The Affordable Housing Group, rather than Orange Community Housing.   It was an administrative oversight to list Orange Community Housing and Land Trust as the recipient of this allocation. 

 

RECOMMENDATION

 

We recommend that the Council adopt the attached resolution to clarify the allocation of $120,000 of 2006-2007 Community Development funds to The Affordable Housing Group.