4523612 Resolution 20-233, “Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development Limited Grant-Making Authority Congressional Review Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2013”

A RESOLUTION

 

20-233 

 

IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

 

July 10, 2013

 

 

To declare the existence of an emergency, due to Congressional review, with respect to the need to amend the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development Limited Grant-Making Authority Act of 2012 to require the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development to issue a loan in the amount of $800,000 to support an affordable housing project in Ward 7.

 

RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this resolution may be cited as the “Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development Limited Grant-Making Authority Congressional Review Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2013”.

 

Sec. 2. (a) In April of 2013, the Council enacted the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development Limited Grant-Making Authority Emergency Amendment Act of 2013 (D.C. Act 20-48; 60 DCR 5770) (“emergency legislation”), and in May of 2013, enacted the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development Limited Grant-Making Authority Temporary Amendment Act of 2013, signed by the Mayor on May 15, 2013 (D.C. Act 20-70; 60 DCR 7238)(“temporary legislation”), which amended the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development Limited Grant-Making Authority Act of 2012 to require the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development to issue a loan in the amount of $800,000 to support an affordable housing project in Ward 7.

(b) The emergency legislation will expire on July 11, 2013, before the temporary legislation is projected to become law.

(c) It is important that the provisions of the emergency legislation continue in effect, without interruption, until the temporary legislation is in effect. 

 

Sec. 3. The Council of the District of Columbia determines that the circumstances enumerated in section 2 constitute emergency circumstances making it necessary that the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development Limited Grant-Making Authority Congressional Review Emergency Amendment Act of 2013 be adopted after a single reading.

 

Sec. 4. This resolution shall take effect immediately.