Report to Mayor and City Council
Tuesday, July 17, 2018
Special Orders of the Day
SUBJECT:
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PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER THE PROPOSED ALLOCATION OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT (CDBG) FUNDS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2018/19, AND ADOPTION OF THE 2018-2019 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. Generally, City has to submit the AAP to HUD by May 15th of each year to meet their July 1 submittal date. However, for the second consecutive year because of delays in the federal government's appropriation process, HUD was unable to inform grantee local governments of their CDBG funding allocations until later in the spring. For both years, HUD issued guidance to local governments advising them not to submit AAPs until after they had been notified of their CDBG allocations. Under that guidance, grantee local governments would have 60 days from the date of the allocation notifications to submit their AAPs. To ensure timely compliance, staff consulted with the HUD Los Angeles Field Office and was advised that the latest date the City could provide HUD with the PY 2018 AAP is August 16, 2018. Based on the above, staff is requesting that the City Council consider the 2018-2019 AAP in order to enable the AAP to be submitted to HUD by this deadline.
II. RECOMMENDATION
Recommendation
1. OPEN the Public Hearing, TAKE public testimony, and CLOSE the Public Hearing.
2. ALLOCATE the sum of $140,562 in CDBG public service funding for FY 2018/19 (PY 2018) as designated by City Council.
3. AUTHORIZE the Mayor to execute agreements with the public service providers as designated by City Council following negotiation and approval as to form by the City Attorney.
4. APPROVE the proposed FY 2018/19 (PY 2018) CDBG budget.
5. APPROVE the s...
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