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PR26-0234 • 2025

Proposed Multiyear Contract with Hamel Builders Inc. for Ontario Apartments Approval Resolution of 2025

Proposed Multiyear Contract with Hamel Builders Inc. for Ontario Apartments Approval Resolution of 2025

Housing
Enacted

This bill passed the Legislature and reached final enactment based on the latest official action.

Sponsor
at the request of the District of Columbia Housing Authority
Last action
2025-07-11
Official status
Approved
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not specify how residents are affected by this resolution.

Contract with Hamel Builders for Ontario Apartments

The bill approves a multiyear contract between the District of Columbia Housing Authority and Hamel Builders Inc. to provide construction services for Ontario Apartments.

What This Bill Does

  • Approves a contract with Hamel Builders Inc. to build and repair small and medium-sized buildings at Ontario Apartments.
  • Sets the total cost of the contract at $2,856,961.
  • Limits the time frame of the contract to no more than 465 days after it starts.
  • Requires the Council to send a copy of this resolution to the Housing Authority and the Mayor.

Who It Names or Affects

  • The District of Columbia Housing Authority
  • Hamel Builders Inc.

Terms To Know

Home Rule Act
A law that gives the District of Columbia more control over its local affairs.
Procurement Practices Reform Act
A law that sets rules for how the government buys goods and services.

Limits and Unknowns

  • The exact start date of the contract is not specified.
  • It does not say what happens if Hamel Builders Inc. fails to complete the work on time or within budget.

Bill History

  1. 2025-07-11 Council of the District of Columbia LIMS

    Resolution R26-0147, Effective from Jul 01, 2025 Published in DC Register Vol 72 and Page 007704

  2. 2025-07-04 Council of the District of Columbia LIMS

    Notice of Intent to Act on PR26-0234 Published in the District of Columbia Register

  3. 2025-07-01 Council of the District of Columbia LIMS

    Retained by the Council with comments from the Committee on Housing

  4. 2025-07-01 Council of the District of Columbia LIMS

    Legislative Meeting

  5. 2025-07-01 Council of the District of Columbia LIMS

    Approved with Resolution Number R26-0147

  6. 2025-06-20 Council of the District of Columbia LIMS

    PR26-0234 Introduced by Chairman Mendelson at Office of the Secretary

Official Summary Text

Proposed Multiyear Contract with Hamel Builders Inc. for Ontario Apartments Approval Resolution of 2025

Current Bill Text

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ENROLLED ORIGINAL

A RESOLUTION

26-147

IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

July 1, 2025

To approve a multiyear contract with Hamel Builders Inc. to provide small and medium size
construction services for the District of Columbia Housing Authority’s Ontario
Apartments public housing property.

RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this
resolution may be cited as the “Multiyear Contract with Hamel Builders Inc. for Ontario
Apartments Approval Resolution of 2025”.

Sec. 2. Pursuant to section 451 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, approved
December 24, 1973 (87 Stat. 803; D.C. Official Code § 1-204.51), and section 202 of the
Procurement Practices Reform Act of 2010, effective April 8, 2011 (D.C. Law 18- 371; D.C.
Official Code § 2- 352.02), the Council approves the Multiyear Contract with Hamel Builder s
Inc. to provide small and medium size construction services for the District of Columbia
Housing Authority’s Ontario Apartments public housing property in the amount of
$2,856,961 for the period from the execution date of the contract to no more than 465 days
after the execution date of the contract.

Sec. 3. Transmittal .
The Council shall transmit a copy of this resolution, upon its adoption, to the District of
Columbia Housing Authority and the Mayor.

Sec. 4. Fiscal impact statement.
The Council adopts the fiscal impact statement of the Chief Financial Officer as the fiscal
impact statement required by section 4a of the General Legislative Procedures Act of 1975,
approved October 16, 2006 (120 Stat. 2038; D.C. Official Code § 1-301.47a).

Sec. 5. Effective date.
This resolution shall take effect immediately.