CC Resolution No. 2006 - ORCA 2nd Round Assistance Hurricane Ike RESOLUTION NO.2006
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BAYTOW'N,
TEXAS.OPPOSING THE OFFICE OF RURAL COMMUNITY AFFAIRS'
ADMINISTRATION OF THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK
GRANT DISASTER RECOVERY SECOND ROUND ASSISTANCE
IIURRICANE IKE FUNDING:AND PROVIDING FOR'IlIE EFFECTIVE
DATE THEREOF.
WHEREAS.the citizens of the City of Baytown suffered a direct strike by I lurricane Ike
resulting in widespread damages to their homes.streets.utilities,and municipal facilities from the
high winds,storm surge,and rainfall:and
WHEREAS.the U.S.Department of Housing and Urban Development has granted Texas
ONE BILLION SEVEN HUNDRED MILLION AND NO/100 DOLLARS($1,700.000,000.00)
in Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery Second Round Assistance I Iurricane
Ike Funding to be allocated by the Office of Rural Community Affairs("ORCA");and
WHEREAS,ORCA has significantly altered the methodology for distribution from the
first round,which will now be based solely upon modeled weather conditions and not actual
damages experienced,as determined by FEMA and local government damage assessment.or the
actual impact of the storm on lives,housing,businesses,and community infrastructure;and
WHEREAS,ORCA has revised the grant administration process from local priorities.
determination.management.and control to state direction and thereby has decreased the funds
available to local disaster survivors by ONE HUNDRED FIFTY-THREE MILLION AND
NO/100 DOLLARS($1 53.000,000.00);and
WHEREAS,ORCA has proposed to apply any revised distribution methodology
retroactively to the Hurricane Ike Recovery Funds already,granted to local communities:NOW
THEREFORE.
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF TFIE CITY OF BAYTOWN_,
TEXAS:
Section 1:That the facts and recitations set forth in the preamble of this resolution
be.and they are hereby,adopted,ratified and confirmed.
Section?:That the City Council of the City of Baytown.Texas,hereby opposes the
ORCA's administration of the Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery Second
Round Assistance Hurricane Ike Funding and urges the following:
a.ORCA should treat the CDBG Disaster Recovery Grant.Second Round as a
continuation of the First Round and use the existing established distribution
formulae,as creating a new process and then applying it retroactively to Ike-damaged
communities alreadv working with the existing processes is costly and all
unnecessary burden upon already struggling communities:
b.should ORCA insist on revising the distribution process,actual damages from FEMA
and local damage assessment reports from Hurricane Ike must be used to determine
the impact and funding.Such determination should be weighted as follows:
i.at least 75%on the FEMA and local damage assessment reports from
Hurricane Ike;
ii.no more than 25%on the weather modeling;and
iii.storm surge.wind speed,and rainfall flooding should be factored with
decreasing importance respectively.Nvith storm surge weighted twice as great
as wind speed and rainfall flooding factored in one-half as much as wind
speed.
c.ORCA should continue the grant administration with the same local government
priorities.determination.management.and control xvith administrative oversight
through audits by ORCA.
Section 3:This resolution shall take effect immediately fi•om and after its passage
by the Cite Council of the City of Baytown.
INTRODUCED.READ and PASSED,by the affirmative e of the City Council of the
City of Baytown this the 27h day of August,2009.
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