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CONTRACT K-1617-135: A CONTRACT BY AND BETWEEN THE CITY OF NORMAN, OKLAHOMA, AND THE OKLAHOMA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE (ODOC) FOR THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT DISASTER RELIEF (CDBG-DR 13) PROGRAM FOR 2013 IN THE AMOUNT OF $719,970 FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF PROJECTS 4 AND 7 AND BUDGET APPROPRIATION FROM THE CAPITAL FUND BALANCE.
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BACKGROUND: In June 2014 the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) released its allocations and program requirements for the Community Development Block Grant - Disaster Relief 2013 (CDBG-DR 13) Program, based on its estimate of critical unmet needs for repairing and rebuilding housing and infrastructure and economic revitalization in the most impacted areas, primarily using data provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Within these eligible areas, the Federal Register Notice required that a minimum of $41.2 million of the total State of Oklahoma CDBG-DR funding must be expended in Cleveland and Creek Counties (exclusive of funds directly provided to the City of Moore).
In July 2014 the City of Norman and Cleveland County submitted a joint preliminary scope of projects totaling over $49,000,000. Subsequently, the Oklahoma Department of Commerce (ODOC) awarded projects to both the City of Norman ($12,054,090) for seven project locations (Projects 1-7) and Cleveland County ($7,952,350) for seven project locations (Projects 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12) and for the purchase of fire equipment. A second award was made to both the City of Norman ($5,004,821; Projects 8 and 9) and Cleveland County ($2,607,239; Project 9a) in early 2016 when additional funding was made available. Attachment 1 provides information regarding the locations for both the City of Norman and the Cleveland County locations.
Due to the specific two year contract timeframe mandated in the funding legislation, ODOC and HUD aligned the contractual allocation of the construction funding to coincide as projects are ...
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