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Council committee approves $60,000 RPC contract to manage HUD appropriations for Mayfair stormwater project
Summary
The committee authorized the city manager to sign a contract with the Regional Planning Commission (Greater Birmingham) for grant management services related to a congressional appropriation for the Mayfair stormwater infrastructure project; the $60,000 fee will be paid from the appropriated funds, not the city's general fund.
Homewood’s committee approved a contract with the Regional Planning Commission (Greater Birmingham) to provide grant management services for a congressional appropriation tied to the Mayfair stormwater infrastructure project.
Phil Smith explained that the appropriation flows through a federal or regional mechanism and that the RPC provides grant-management services for appropriations to municipalities for a nominal fee. He said the fee for RPC’s services is $60,000 and that the city will use a portion of the $1,000,000 appropriated sum to pay that fee; staff emphasized the payment comes from the appropriation rather than the city’s operating funds.
“We can use part of the $1,000,000 to pay them 100% of it. So we would we would draw down, $60,000 eventually to pay the RPC,” staff said. City finance staff said the accounting entries would show the $60,000 moving in and then out and that disbursement timing would be reimbursement-based and likely occur next year.
Committee members approved the motion to engage RPC by voice vote, recorded as 5–0. Staff said the RPC’s experience with compliance and the size of the project made the partnership a prudent choice for managing the project’s compliance and reporting burdens.
No project design or construction contracts were awarded at the meeting; the action covers only grant-management services for the appropriated funds.
