15.1.1.050 Findings

The Council hereby finds and declares that:

(a) On April 12, 2000, the Council adopted Ordinance No. SI-R00-001, establishing the Northern Pueblos Housing Authority (NPHA);

(b) NPHA is the Tribally Designated Housing Authority ("TDHE") for the Pueblos of San Ildefonso, Picuris, and Tesuque, established by such Pueblos pursuant to §4(18) and (21) of the Native American Housing and Self Determination Act of 1996, 25 U.S.C. §§ 4401 et seq. ("NAHASDA") for developing, operating, and managing housing units assisted by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD);

(c) The Pueblo has directed NPHA to maintain a waiting list of local residents requesting and eligible to receive home rehabilitation services;

(d) Home inspections of residents requesting services have confirmed numerous serious health, safety, energy efficiency, and code compliance issues that could be resolved by an Indian Community Development Block Grant (ICDBG) funded rehabilitation project;

(e) The number of local residents requesting and eligible to receive home rehabilitation services exceeds all funds the Pueblo is eligible to obtain to provide the needed services;

(f) The Pueblo has identified rehabilitation of low-income resident homes as an urgent, high priority housing need in its 2016 Indian Housing Plan;

(g) The Council wishes NPHA to apply for $605,000 in 2016 Indian Community Development Block Grant (ICDBG) on behalf of the Pueblo to finance the rehabilitation of fourteen homes of low-income Pueblo residents; and

(h) Pursuant to the Notice of Funding Availability for the ICDBG program, NPHA, acting on behalf of the tribe, must meet certain threshold requirements in order to be deemed eligible for funding; and

(i) Acting through NPHA, the Council intends to fully comply with the programmatic and project-related threshold requirements of the ICDBG program.