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BOON RAV#'iA <br />A RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF <br />COMMISSIONERS OF LEE COUNTY <br />CONCERNING COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT <br />WHEREAS, The Board of Commissioners of Lee County finds that the County <br />faces critical social, economic, and environmental problems of a significant <br />degree deriving from: 1) the growth of population and the concentration of <br />persons of low income in areas surrounding the city of Sanford and 2) inadequate <br />funds for needed public and private investment and re-investment in housing and <br />other physical facilities and related public and social services, and <br />WHEREAS, This has resulted in the growth and persistence of housing and <br />commercial deterioration and a subsequent deteriorating in the quality of the <br />county environment, and <br />WHEREAS, The Board further finds that the future welfare of the county and <br />the well-being of its citizens depends on the establishment and maintenance of <br />a continuing viable county, including its social, economic, and political entities, <br />and <br />WHEREAS, It is essential to obtain Federal financial assistance in order <br />to rectify the aforesaid conditions; <br />NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Board of Commissioners hereby <br />authorizes its chairman, for and in behalf of the citizens of Lee County, to <br />file all required application documents and supporting data with the United <br />States Department of Housing and Urban Development for a Community Development <br />Block Grant in the amount of Four Hundred and Sixty-five Thousand Dollars <br />($465,000.00) for the purpose of undertaking a Comprehansive Renewal Plan within <br />its designated Community Development Area. <br />Adopted this % y day of June <br />Lee County Board of Commissioners <br />