3263-2024: To authorize the City of Columbus, Department of Development to accept and execute a reimbursable grant up to $7,650,000.00 from the LHRD Program with HUD; to waive the provisions in Columbus City Codes Sections 111.14, 329.18, and 329.09 pursuant to CCC Section 329.15; to authorize the Director Development to enter into Program grant agreements over $5,000.00 with property owners, to approve purchase orders over $50,000.00 with Program contractors, and to modify grant agreements or purchase orders to carry out the purpose of the Program, without returning to City Council; to authorize the appropriation and expenditure of grant funds effective on the first day of the grant by the Director of the Development and the Health Commissioner in Columbus Public Health; to authorize an amendment to the 2024 Capital Improvement Budget; to authorize the transfer and expenditure of up to $770,000.00 in Development bond funds as a local match for the grant; to authorize the Auditor’s Office to re-appropriate funds from cancelled grant-funded encumbrances and establish replacement encumbrances from canceled funds if needed, to appropriate any rebates, refunds, program income, etc. or move funding between object classes at the request of the department’s fiscal manager or designee without having to return to council for each budgetary transaction; and to declare an emergency. ($8,420,000.00)