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Before the Board of County Commissioners of Boulder County, State of Colorado RESOLUTION 2006-73 A Resolution for the Purpose of Approving the Intergovernmental Agreement for a HOME Consortium with the City of Boulder, City of Longmont, City and County of Broomfield, and Boulder County WHEREAS, the City of Boulder, the City of Longmont, the City and County of Broomfield, and Boulder County desire to establish a HOME Consortium; and, WHEREAS, the United States Gov1ernment, through the National Affordable Housing Act of J 930, has established the HOME Investment Partnerships Act Program ("HOME" or "HOME Program") and has designated the Ll~ad Agency (City of Boulder) as a Participating Jurisdiction ("P J") to administer such federal funds, subject to certain conditions, for the pwpose of expansion and rehabilitation of the supply of decent, safe, sanitary, and affordable housing and to strengthen partnerships among all levels of government and the private sector; and WHEREAS, Section 216 (2) of the Act, 42 U.S.C. 12746, provides that a consortium of geographically contiguous or overlapping geographical areas within which separate legal govenunental subdivisions operate can be considered to be a single unit of general local govenunent for the purposes of receiving an allocation and participating in the HOME Program and a detennination has been made by the Untied States Department of Housing and Urban Development that the Participating Governments and Lead Agency are geographically contiguous or overlapping geographkal areas within which separate legal governmental subdivisions operate and are eligible to participate in the HOME Program; and WHEREAS, the Participating Governments (City of Longmont, City/County of Broomfield, and Boulder County) and the Lead Agenc:y (City of Boulder) recognize the need to address the regional issues of increasing the supply of permanent affordable housing for lower income households, and develop affordable and supportive housing opportunities for lower-income persons and families and the homeless in Boulder and Broomfield Counties and have detennined that it will be mutually beneficial and in the public interest to enter into an intergovernmental agreement regarding regional participation in the HOME Program; and WHEREAS, the Lead Agency desires to enter into an intergovenunental agreement with the Participating Governments to participate in a Consortium for the pwpose of implementing a regional HOME Program authorized by the Act to enhance cooperation between jurisdictions and to maximize the use of resources available to local governments to affect the housing-related problems of lower-income people; and WHEREAS, the Lead Agency has eh~cted to administer such federal funds for itself and the Participating Governments through its Department of Housing and Human ServicesIDivision of Housing; and