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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS A RESOLUTION APPROVING THE EXPENDITURE OF FUNDS TO RELOCATE AND REUSE TWO HOMES DAMAGED BY HURRICANE FLOYD AND SUBSEQUENTLY ACQUIRED BY ORANGE COUNTY WHEREAS,we homes on Yorktown Drive in the Heritage Hills subdivision in southern Orange County suffered significant flood damage as a result of Hurricane Floyd In September 1999; and WHEREAS, both houses were repaired and mended to Wable conditions; and WHEREAS, the Federal Emergency Management Agency(FEMA)provides grant funding to assist eligible applicants in refusals to other housing, consequently eliminating previously occupied houses from floodplains under the assumption that he cost of voluntary acquisition will be less than the cost of repairs from repeated Spacings over the yeare; and WHEREAS, Orange Oou my acquired the two Heritage Hills properties in question in Fall 2001 following Me successful application by both homeowners to receive buyout and relocation assistance through federal and state emergency management grant funds under FEMA'a Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP); and WHEREAS. HMGP administrators have indicated to County staff that instead of demolishing and landfilling the demclitlon material from these houses, it is an acceptable alternative under the grant program for the County to relocate and reuse these houses; and WHEREAS, Orange County has determined Nat the relocation and reuse of these homes is preferable to the other available disposition options; and WHEREAS, County staff have call plans under which one home would be moved to Little River Park as a caretaker residence and the other home would be moved m the Pine Knolls Community and used for affordable housing purposes; NOW,THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT the Orange County Board of Commissioners does hereby direct Me Manager and staff to: 1j carry out the relocation and reuse plans outlined by staff to remove and relocate the two Heritage HMIs houses; 2) use Affordable Housing Trust Fund money or 2001 AROrdable Housing bond proceeds and 2001 Parks, Recreation,and Open Space (Lands Legacy) bond pmceeds, as applicable, to pay those pr i costs not covered by FEMAlState grant money and Durham Cal share of the Little River Park house relocation; 3) take all administrative and financial steps necessary to carry out these plans; and 4) execute all documents associated with completion of the removal and relocation project consistent with the previsions of the HMGP grant agreement previously executed between the County and the State of North Carolina. This, the 17m day of September,2002.