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Type: LRNOT
Party: RESOLUTION NO. 16,681
County: Pulaski
Attorney/Contact: Allison Segars

RESOLUTION NO. 16,681
A RESOLUTION TO SET MAY 20, 2025, AS THE DATE OF THE PUBLIC HEARING REGARDING THE 2025 SOURCES AND USES OF CDBG, HOME, AND HOPWA FUNDS FROM THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT; AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
WHEREAS, as a Regulatory Requirement, a public hearing must be conducted regarding the proposed uses of 2025 CDBG, HOME, and HOPWA Entitlement Funds which the City anticipates receiving from the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development; and WHEREAS, the City’s projected 2025 Entitlement total of Three Million, Three Hundred Two Thousand, Three Hundred Seventy-Seven and 57/100 Dollars ($3,302,377.57) and Four Hundred Twenty-Six Thousand Six Hundred Fifty and 56/100 Dollars ($426,650.56) in 2024 program income funds added to the entitlements; thereby making the total expected amount of Four Million, Two Thousand, Twenty-Eight and 13/100 Dollars ($4,002,028.13); and
WHEREAS, the proposed uses of the City’s 2025 entitlement funds were developed with extensive citizen participation, including one (1) public hearing and four (4) public meetings throughout the City and a sixteen (16) member Consolidated Planning Committee; and prior to this public hearing, the Consolidated Planning Committee have developed a slate of projects to recommend for Board approval so that the public hearing will give citizens an additional opportunity to review and comment on the proposed uses of the 2025 CDBG, HOME and HOPWA funding; and WHEREAS, the Consolidated Planning Committee will submit an allocation of funds as its recommendation to the Board.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE CITY OF LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS:
Section 1: The 2025 Consolidated Planning Proposed Sources and Uses of Funding is attached as Exhibit A.
Section 2: The City Clerk is hereby directed to give notice of such hearing in the manner described by law by publication once a week for two (2) consecutive weeks in a newspaper published in Pulaski County, Arkansas, and having a general circulation in the City of Little Rock.
Section 3: Severability. In the event any title, section, paragraph item, sentence, clause, phrase, or word of this resolution is declared or adjudged to be invalid or unconstitutional, such declaration or adjudication shall not affect the remaining portions of the resolution which shall remain in full force and effect as if the portion so declared or adjudged invalid or unconstitutional was not originally a part of the resolution.
Section 4; Repealer. All resolutions by laws, and other matters inconsistent with this resolution are hereby repealed to the extent of such inconsistency.
ADOPTED: May 6, 2025
ATTEST: Allison Segars, City Clerk
APPROVED: Frank Scott Jr., Mayor
APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FORM: Thomas M. Carpenter, City Attorney. DR2T 5/13, 5/20/2025