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Book 11 448 A RESOLUTION OF THE LEE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS CONCERNING COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT WHEREAS, the Board of Commissioners of Lee County finds that the County faces critical. social, economic, and environmental problems of a significant degree deriving from: 1) the growth of population and the concentration of persons of low income in areas surrounding the City of Sanford and 2) inadequate funds for needed public and private investment and re-investment in housing and other physical facilities and related public and social services, and WHEREAS, this has resulted in the growth and persistence of housing and commercial deterioration and a subsequent deterio- rating in the quality of the County's environment, and WHEREAS, the Board further finds that the future welfare of the County and the well-being of its citizens depends on the establishment and maintenance of a continuing viable County, including its social, economic and political entities, and ® WHEREAS, it is essential to obtain financial assistance in order to rectify the aforesaid conditions, and WHEREAS, the total project cost_is estimated to be WHEREAS, the Board of Commissioners of Lee County finds that the maximum grant under this program is inadequate to complete the planned activities, the Board of Commissioners will make a supplemental grant to the program's total cost, not to exceed twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000). These funds are to be used for construction of the 12-inch waterline on SR 1509 in the San-Lee Heights III impact area. NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Board of Commissioners hereby authorizes the chairman, for and in behalf of the citizens of Lee County, to file all required application documents and supporting data with the North Carolina Department of Natural Resources and Division of Community Assistance for a Community Development Block Grant in t:he amount of