Report to Mayor and City Council
Tuesday, June 21, 2022
Special Orders of the Day
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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
This item was continued from the April 19, 2022 and May 3, 2022 City Council meetings. However, a new public hearing notice was issued for this meeting.
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 the April 19, 2022 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.
Given that HUD at that point had not yet provided the City with notice of its Program Year (PY) 2022 CDBG entitlement allocation, staff prepared that draft AAP based on an estimate that the entitlement funding would be kept at PY 2021 levels. On April 1, 2022, HUD issued guidance advising grantee jurisdictions to not submit their AAPs until HUD had confirmed their funding allocations and provided a 60-day window from the date of that eventual notification to prepare and submit their AAPs. Consequently, staff requested that the item be continued to May 3, 2022, and on May 3, the item was continued to a date to be determined after HUD had notified the City of its PY 2022 funding allocation.
HUD posted the PY 2022 entitlement allocations for its grantee jurisdictions on its website on May 13, 2022, and based on the aforementioned 60-day timeline, the due d...
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