Report to Mayor and City Council
Tuesday, April 19, 2022
Special Orders of the Day
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CONTINUED PUBLIC HEARING FROM CITY COUNCIL MEETING OF APRIL 19, 2022 PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER THE PROPOSED ALLOCATION OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT (CDBG) FUNDS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2022/23, AND ADOPTION OF THE 2022-2023 ANNUAL ACTION PLAN (CITY COUNCIL)
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I. SUMMARY
Each year, the City Council conducts a public hearing on the City's Annual Action Plan (AAP), its application to the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) under the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program. Staff had noticed the required public hearing for this Council meeting and prepared a draft 2022-2023 Annual Action Plan for public review based on a requirement to a) submit the AAP to HUD not less than 45 days prior to the July 1 start of the CDBG program year (generally by May 15 each year), and b) prior to that submission, subject the AAP to a period of public review and comment of not less than 30 days.
Since HUD had not yet provided the City with notice of its Program Year (PY) 2022 CDBG entitlement allocation, staff prepared that draft Action Plan based on an estimate that the entitlement funding would be kept at PY 2021 levels. However, unlike previous years, on April 1, 2022, HUD issued guidance advising grantee jurisdictions to not submit their Annual Action Plans until HUD had confirmed their funding allocations. HUD further provided the all jurisdictions with a 60-day window from the date of that eventual notification of entitlement allocation to prepare and submit their Annual Action plans. Therefore, staff is requesting that the public hearing proceed for the purpose of hearing public testimony, including presentations from applicants for funding as well as discussion by the City Council regarding the expenditures of the next fiscal year. However, Council must defer a decision on funding allocations to a subsequent agenda after HUD has confi...
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