Agreement - Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority - Lead Hazard Reduction Demonstration Grant Program

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EXHIBIT A ADDITIONAL PROGRAMMATIC, STATUTORY AND REGULATORY REQUIREMENTS Agreement Number: LD-018-003 Recipient: City of South Bend Funding Source/Activity Type: LHRD Tire award recipient is bound by the contents of the Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority's (IHCDA's) Lead Hazard Demonstration Grant application package, Manual,, Red Notices, FAQs, the Recipient's approved application, and any other IHCDA policy, directives, or memoranda that may be published from time to time. AGREEMENT EXECUTION The recipient must execute and return this Agreement to the Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority (IHCDA) no later than October 1, 2018. HEALTH HOMES SUPPLEMENTAL FUNDS Healthy Homes Supplemental funds are intended for use in units where LHRD funds are used. Healthy Homes Supplemental funds may be used only in homes also receiving HUD -funded lead hazard control work (interim controls or abatement). The Recipient must use an assessment/inspection tool that assesses for all 29 hazards identified in the Healthy Homes Rating System (HHRS) for assessing, prioritizing and repairing the identified health and safety hazards within those units. Healthy Homes Supplemental funds may not be used to pay for salary or fringe benefits. RECIPIENT MUST WORK TO ACCOMPLISH THE FOLLOWING OBJECTIVES A. Maximize the number of children under the age of six years protected from lead poisoning and the number of housing units where lead hazards are controlled; B. Target lead hazard control efforts in housing units where children are at greatest risk of lead poisoning, especially children currently residing in low-income and minority families, to reduce elevated blood lead levels in children under the age of six years; C. Promote cost-effective lead hazard control methods and approaches that can be replicated, maintained, and sustained; D. Build local capacity to safely and effectively address lead hazards during lead hazard control and renovation, remodeling, and maintenance activities by integrating lead -safe work practices; E. Promote integration of this grant program with other local programs that address housing related health and safety hazards; F. Obligation to affirmatively further fair housing. Note that besides being an "objective" of this NOFA, the obligation to affirmatively further fair housing is also a civil rights related program requirement; G. Develop a comprehensive community -based approach to address lead hazards in housing by mobilizing public and private sector resources including grassroots community -based non-profit and faith -based organizations; H. Promote collaboration, data sharing, and targeting between health and housing departments; I. Establish a detailed process that will facilitate lead -safe units to be affirmatively marketed, and priority given, to families with young children; J. Ensure to the greatest extent feasible that job training, employment, contracting, and other economic opportunities generated by this grant will be directed to low- and very -low income persons, particularly those who are recipients of government assistance for housing, and to businesses that provide economic opportunities to low- and very low- income persons in the area in which the project is located. For more information, see 24 CFR 135; and K. Further environmental justice, the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people within target communities regardless of race, color, national origin, disability, or income with regarding to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies. LEAD- CITY of SOUTH BEND LD-018-003 Recaoture Page 11 of23