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MINUTE BOOK No. 24, CITY OF OXFORD
SECTION 1. Purpose of Contract. The purpose of this Contract is to provide
Federal financial assistance to the Public Body in the form of a grant of
Federal funds (herein called the "Grant") under Title VII of the Housing Act
of 1961, as amended, for the purpose of assisting ii, the beautification and
improvement of open-space and other public urban land for its greater use and
enjoyment for park and recreational, conservation, or historic or scenic purposes,
and to state the terms and conditions upon which such assistance will
be extended.
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SECTION 2. Activities. The Public Body agrees to undertake, carry out,
and complete certain urban beautification and improvement Activities, including,
the provision of work and furnishing of materials incident to such Activities,
as described herein and pursuant to its Application filed with the Government.
The Public Body agrees to complete the said Activities within the year beginning
October 1, 1967, and ending September 30, 1968. The Activities are those
identified in the Application as approved by the Secretary and incorporated
herein by reference, generally described as follows:
Upgrading and rehabilitation of parks and recreational areas.
Design and construction, substantial upgrading, or other improvement
of pbblie open spaces other than parks and recreational areas.
Communitywide activities to upgrade and improve the appearance of
streets, greenways, parkways, waterfronts, stream valleys, rightsof-ways,
and other nonrecreational public places.
Activities to beautify and improve historic and other public building
sites.
SECTION 3. The Grant. The Government will assist the Public Body in
financing the cost of the Activities to the extent that the cost of the Activities
exceeds the Public Body's usual expenditures for comparable activities.
The total cost of the Activities is estimated to be $21,337.00; the base cost,
representing the Public Body's usual expenditures, is calculated to be $1,839.00
. The GoVernment agrees to make a Grant in an amount equal to 50 percent of the
sum of the increment (excess of expenditures over base cost) and of the fixed
fee (set forth in Section 4), as determined by the Secretary, or $9,999.00,
whichever is less.
SECTION 4. Amount To Be Compensated Government fir Its Inspections and
Audits. The amount (herein called the "fixed fee" which shall
I be compensated the Government by the Public Body for the former's inspections
and audits shall be $500.00, payable at the time the first requisition for a
Grant payment is approved, by deducting the entire amount of the fixed fee
from the first Grant payment to be made to the Public Body: Provided, That if
the fixed fee is increased subsequent to payment as aforesaid, the amount of
the increase shall be payable at the time the next requisition for a Grant
payment is approved, by deducting same from the Grant payment to be made to
the Public Body. No part of the fixed fee is refundable to the Public Body.
SECTION 5. Counterparts of the Contract. This Contract may be executed
in two counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an original, and such
counterparts shall constitute one and the same instrument.
SECTION 6. Changes Applicable to Part II Hereof. The following changes
are hereby made in the attached Terms and Conditions designated Part II hereof:
(a) Section 107(E)(1) relating to activities and contracts not subject to
Executive Order No. 11246 is hereby changed to substitute the words "race,
color, religion, sex, or national origin" wherever the words "race, creed,
color, or national origin" appear.
(b) Section 107(E)(2) relating to contracts subject to Executive Order
No. 11246 is hereby changed to require the Public Body to substitute in
any contract for construction or modification thereof, executed on or
after October 13, 1968, the words "race, color, religion, sex, or national
origin" wherever the words "race, creed, color, or national origin" are
now required to be used.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Public Body has caused this Contract to be duly
executed in its behalf and its seal to be hereunto affixed and attested; and,
thereafter, the Government has caused the same to be duly executed in its behalf
this day of , 1968;