AGENDA #4g
MEMORANDUM
TO: Mayor and Town Council
FROM: W. Calvin Horton, Town Manager
SUBJECT: A Resolution Designating the Town Manager as the Town’s Authorized Agent for the Hazard Mitigation Grant Application Involving Camelot Village
DATE: March 7, 2005
Adoption of the attached Resolution would designate the Town Manager as the Town’s agent for matters pertaining to a Hazard Mitigation Grant Application for the acquisition and demolition of up to three buildings and the acquisition of land in the Camelot Village condominium complex.
Adoption of this Resolution would not constitute acceptance of the grant by the Town. A formal grant agreement between the Town and the State will be prepared and presented to Council for its consideration regarding acceptance of the grant.
The Town Manager recommends adoption of the attached resolution.
BACKGROUND AND DISCUSSION
In response to repetitive flooding problems over many years along the lower segment of Bolin Creek between East Franklin Street and Fordham Boulevard, the Town of Chapel Hill submitted a grant application to the North Carolina Division of Emergency Management (NCDEM) for funding under the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Pre-Disaster Grant Program.
The grant funding, if accepted by the Town Council, would be for the proposed acquisition and demolition of as many as three structures in the Camelot Village condominium complex and acquisition of surrounding land. The buildings and land included in the grant application are located within the regulatory floodway and/or floodplain of Bolin Creek.
To utilize the grant funds for acquisition of dwelling units, it would be necessary that the owner(s) of each affected unit agree to voluntarily sell at the fair market price approved by FEMA. The fair market price would be based on property appraisals. It would also be necessary that the Camelot Village Associates Partnership agree to sell land surrounding the buildings. The land area proposed for acquisition would be contiguous to the Town’s Community Center property.
The Town has received a copy of a letter from Federal Emergency Management Agency to the State advising that the requested grant funding for this proposed project has been approved. The local share of the grant, if accepted by the Town, would be provided by the State. We do not expect the Town to incur any direct monetary costs associated with the grant. The Town would provide services for the administration and supervision of the project if the grant is accepted.
The North Carolina Division of Emergency Management has requested that the Town of Chapel Hill complete and submit the attached resolution that would designate an agent to represent the Town in matters regarding the grant.
MANAGER’S RECOMMENDATION
That the Town Council adopt the attached resolution designating the Town Manager as the Town’s agent in matters pertaining to a Hazard Mitigation Grant Application for the acquisition and demolition of up to three buildings and the acquisition of land in the Camelot Village condominium complex.
A resolution designating the Town Manager as the Town’s agent in matters pertaining to a Hazard Mitigation Grant Application for the acquisition and demolition of up to three buildings and the acquisition of land in the Camelot Village condominium complex (2005-03-07/R-4)
DESIGNATION OF APPLICANT’S AGENT
BE IT RESOLVED BY the Town Council OF the Town of Chapel Hill
‘ (Governing Body) (Public Entity)
THAT W. Calvin Horton Town Manager
(Name of Incumbent) (Official Position)
is hereby authorized to execute for and in behalf of Town of Chapel Hill, a public entity established under the laws of the State of North Carolina, this application and to file it in the appropriate State office for the purpose of obtaining certain Federal financial assistance under the Disaster Relief Act (Public Law 288, 93rd Congress) or otherwise available from the President Disaster Relief Fund.
THAT the Town of Chapel Hill, a public entity established under the laws of the State of North Carolina, hereby authorizes its agent to provide to the State and to the Federal ‘Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for all matters pertaining to such Federal disaster assistance the assurance and agreements printed on the reverse side hereof.
Passed and approved this 7th day of March, 2005 by:
Kevin Foy, Mayor; Edith Wiggins, Mayor pro tem; Ed Harrison, Sally Greene, Bill Strom, Mark Kleinschmidt. Dorothy Verkerk, Jim Ward, Cam Hill (Town Council)
CERTIFICATION
I, Sabrina M. Oliver, duly appointed Town Clerk of the Town of Chapel Hill do hereby certify that the above is a true and correct copy of a resolution passed and approved by the Mayor and Town Council of the Town of Chapel Hill on the 7th day of March, 2005.
Date: ___________________________
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Town Clerk
(Seal)