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CITY COUNCIL AGENDA ITEM BRIEFING SHEET <br />Submittal Date: <br />Originating Department: <br />Presented By: <br />Agenda Item No.: <br />06/27/2012 <br />Council Date: <br />Legal Department <br />Kent Mcllyar, City Attorney <br />11. <br />07/09/2012 <br />RECOMMENDED MOTION: <br />Motion to approve a Resolution authorizing the Mayor to execute a Tax Resale Deed for 1535 W. <br />Walker Street. <br />POLICY ISSUE(S): <br />Transfer of tax foreclosed vacant lot for new residential house construction under 2012 HOME Grant <br />Program. <br />BACKGROUND: <br />Ms. Helen Allen currently resides in a substandard structure located at 1700 W. Walker, Paris, Texas. <br />Ms. Allen applied for new home construction financing through the Texas Department of Housing and <br />Community Affairs (TDHCA) 2012 HOME Grant Program. Ms. Allen cannot rebuild on her existing lot <br />because it has been designated floodway under the updated FEMA Flood Plain Maps. <br />Rachel Edwards and Resource Management of Paris, the local grant administrator for the 2012 HOME <br />Grant Program identified another lot at 1535 W. Walker which is vacant but located outside the FEMA <br />floodway area and is owned by the City of Paris, Texas, Trustee and the other local taxing entities <br />pursuant to a tax foreclosure action. The parties now propose that the tax foreclosed vacant lot at 1535 <br />W. Walker be conveyed to Ms. Allen so that she can have a new home constructed on this lot with <br />funding from the TDHCA 2012 HOME Grant Program. <br />The new home to be constructed at 1535 W. Walker will add value to the neighborhood and will add <br />value to the current tax base. The City will accept the property at 1700 W. Walker for drainage purposes <br />and will dispose of the existing small structure. <br />BOARD/ COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION: <br />EXHIBITS: <br />Resolution <br />ACTION: <br />BUDGET INFO: <br />❑ Financial Report ❑ Minute Order <br />Expense <br />$ <br />❑ Department Report ~ Resolution <br />Budgeted Amt. <br />$ <br />❑ Presentation ❑ Ordinance <br />yTD Actual <br />$ <br />❑ Public Hearing ❑ Other <br />Acct. Name <br />Acct. Number <br />FISCAL NOTES: <br />City of Paris <br />Revised 2/04/08 <br />38 <br />