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SECTION 3: YOUR URBAN COUNTY QUALIFICATION PACKAGE <br />3.1 What documents must I submit in my Urban County's qualification package? <br />Your Urban County must submit three sets of documents to your CPD field office: <br />1. Urban County Participation Decision Letters exchanged back and forth <br />between your county, UGLGs, and Metropolitan Cities about participating <br />or not participating in your Urban County's CDBG program <br />2. Authorized and executed Cooperation Agreements with Participating UGLGs <br />and/or Joint Agreements with Metropolitan Cities (or Amendments to agreements) <br />3. County Counsel Legal Opinion Letter <br />3.2 How do I submit my Urban County's qualification package to HUD? <br />You should submit your qualification package to your CPD field office via email to your <br />CPD Representative. If you are a First -Time Qualifier, your county must submit your <br />qualification package to your CPD field office and the CPD Entitlement Communities <br />Division (urbancountieskhud. og_v). <br />NOTE: GO TO SECTION 4.5 for more guidance for First -Time Qualifiers. <br />3.3 What are HUD's requirements for Urban County Participation Decision Letters? <br />HUD has simplified the naming convention for the notification letters that qualifying <br />Urban Counties must send to UGLGs and Metropolitan Cities during the qualification <br />process. The new name for these letters is simpler and more descriptive: Urban County <br />Participation Decision Letters. HUD changed the name of the letters to better capture <br />their purpose: securing CDBG program participation decisions from UGLGs and <br />Metropolitan Cities for the Urban County's upcoming three-year qualification period. <br />NOTE: Urban County Participation Decision Letters refers to both the outgoing letters sent by the <br />qualifying Urban County and any response letters received from UGLGs or Metropolitan Cities. <br />3.3.1 Urban County Participation Decision Letters for all UGLGs in your county <br />Each time your Urban County qualifies, you must contact all UGLGs in your <br />county (except current independent Metropolitan Cities) with an Urban County <br />Participation Decision Letter. This is true regardless of a) each UGLG's past <br />CDBG program participation decisions, b) if your county has "essential powers" <br />in UGLGs, and c) if you have Auto -Renewal Cooperation Agreements in place. <br />For example, your Urban County may have a Nonparticipating UGLG that has <br />chosen not to participate for 25 years. When your Urban County requalifies every <br />three years, you still must give this UGLG the opportunity to change their CDBG <br />program participation decision and join your Urban County's CDBG program. <br />ro <br />572 <br />