Report to Mayor and City Council
Tuesday, May 21, 2019
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 2018-2019, AND ADOPTION OF THE 2019-2020 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. This timing has been based on a requirement to 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 prior to that submission, subject the AAP to a period of public review and comment of not less than 30 days. For the third consecutive year, delays in the federal appropriations process left local governments with a degree of uncertainty regarding the availability of CDBG funding and when they would learn of their CDBG allocations. However, unlike the previous two years, HUD was able to provide this information to the local governments with minimal disruption to the normal AAP submission timeframe. Therefore, staff is requesting that the public hearing and consideration of the 2019-2020 AAP proceed in order to enable the AAP to be submitted in a timely fashion.
II. RECOMMENDATION
Recommendation
1. OPEN the Public Hearing, TAKE public testimony, and CLOSE the Public Hearing;
2. ALLOCATE CDBG public service funding for FY 2019-20 (PY 2019) 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 2019-20 (PY 2019) CDBG budget; and
5. APPROVE the submission of the City's 2019-2020 Annual Action Plan to the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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