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CONTRACT K-1516-129: 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 $10,602,408 AND ADOPTION OF RESOLUTION R-1516-104 APPROPRIATING FUNDS.
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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 and Cleveland County ($7,952,350) for eight project locations and for the purchase of fire equipment. Both the City of Norman and Cleveland County are currently under contract for the engineering and design phase of these awards.
On February 24, 2015 the City of Norman approved K-1415-108 in the amount of $731,712 for engineering and design of the seven roads. The approval of contract K-1516-129 would represent the second award of funds for these seven City of Norman projects. Due to the specific two year contract timeframe mandated in the funding legislation, ODOC and HUD are aligning the contractual allocation of the construction funding as projects are ready to proceed. On ...
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