Community Development Block Grant

• The approved 2019 AAP has been amended to reflect the $199, 675 in FY20 CDBG-CV funds.
• The tables in the amended 2019 AAP reflect the combined total amount of $529,490. This includes the original 2019 CDBG allocation from HUD of $329,815 and the new FY20 CBDG-CV allocation of $199,675.
• The proposed amendments to the document are indicated with underlined text. Specific updates are noted below by section and page number.
  • AP-05 Executive Summary: the summary of Citizen Participation was updated (See page 4).
  • AP-10 Consultation: text was added about contacting the stakeholder list about CDBG-CV funds and information about the public hearing on May 5, 2020. (See Pages 8, 9, 15 and 16)
  • AP-12 Participation: a note was added about following HUD’s guidance for the 2019 AAP amendment to receive the CDBG-CV funds, and item 7 Public Hearing was added to Table 4 regarding the hearing on May 5, 2020 (See pages 17 and 26)
  • AP-15 Expected Resources: text was added about the CBDG-CV funds, dollar amounts were updated to include the 2019 allocation plus the new allocation of CBDG-CV funds, and text was added regarding the use of ESG funds and local grants to help leverage the CDBG-CV funds. (See pages 27-32)
  • AP-35 Projects: text was added about the $199,675 in CDBG-CV funds and how it will be distributed between Administration costs (maximum of 20%) and Community Opportunity Grants under the Public Services category through an informal process. (See pages 34 and 35)
  • AP-38 Project Summary: the information and timelines were updated to reflect the CDBG-CV funds and the current projects under the 2019 allocation. (See pages 37-40)
  • AP-65 Homeless and AP-85 Other Actions: notes were added that CDBG-CV funds could be used to support urgent needs in response to COVID-19. (See pages 48 and 53)

• The plan has been amended to reflect HUD Waivers 8 and 9 under the “Public Meetings,” “Location,” and “Public Comment” sections as indicated with underlined text.
• Under Public Meetings” and “Public Comment,” the text reflects HUD waiving the 15 and 30-day minimums for the public comments and allows for no less than five days during the emergency period. (See pages 3 and 4)
• Under “Location” of public meetings, the waiver allows for the use of virtual meetings in an effort to contain COVID-19 and limit public gatherings. (See page 4)
• The full text of HUD’s Waivers 8 and 9 are provided as attachments.

• Amended CDBG Citizen Participation Plan

• Amended PY2019 Annual Action Plan

• Written comments will be accepted beginning April 21, 2020 through May 4, 2020 at 5:00pm by emailing cnesbit@cdaid.org. 

• A public hearing will be held virtually using Zoom at the regular meeting of the City Council on May 5, 2020, at 6:00 p.m. to consider any and all public comments on the amended 2019 Annual Action Plan and the Citizen Participation Plan. 

• Verbal comments will be accepted at the public hearing on May 5, 2020 at 6:00 p.m. through the following link:  https://zoom.us/s/94769910634  (Password:  522103) 

• To provide verbal comments during the City Council meeting, please sign up online at the following link: https://www.cdaid.org/signinpublic/

- Buildings and Improvements, including public facilities

• Construct a facility for testing, diagnosis, or treatment
• Rehabilitate a community facility to establish an infectious disease treatment clinic
• Acquire and rehabilitate, or construct, a group living facility that may be used to centralize patients undergoing treatment
• Rehabilitate a commercial building or closed school building to establish an infectious disease treatment clinic
• Acquire, or quickly rehabilitate (if necessary), a motel or hotel building to expand capacity of hospitals to accommodate isolation of patients during recovery
• Make interim improvements to private properties to enable an individual patient to remain quarantined on a temporary basis

- Assistance to Businesses, including Special Economic Development Assistance

• Provide grants or loans to support new businesses or business expansion to create jobs and manufacture medical supplies necessary to respond to infectious disease
• Avoid job loss caused by business closures related to social distancing by providing short-term working capital assistance to small businesses to enable retention of jobs held by low- and moderate-income persons
• Provide technical assistance, grants, loans, and other financial assistance to establish, stabilize, and expand microenterprises that provide medical, food delivery, cleaning, and other services to support home health and quarantine

- Public Services

• Carry out job training to expand the pool of health care workers and technicians that are available to treat disease within a community
• Provide testing, diagnosis or other services at a fixed or mobile location
• Increase the capacity and availability of targeted health services for infectious disease response within existing health facilities
• Provide equipment, supplies, and materials necessary to carry-out a public service
• Deliver meals on wheels to quarantined individuals or individuals that need to maintain social distancing due to medical vulnerabilities

- Grants or revolving loan funds for small and medium enterprises
- Supporting community non-profits performing essential services
- Workforce development and training services for displaced workers
- Retrofitting community facilities for medical or quarantine uses
- Supporting food and other essential supply deliveries to elderly or other vulnerable populations
- Supporting various interrupted or at-risk core governmental functions (see note below)
- All other CDBG eligible activities that are exacerbated by COVID-19 (e.g., homeless shelters)
- Reimbursement costs to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus incurred by a State or locality, regardless of the date on which such costs were incurred, when those costs comply with CDBG requirements.

• Aid in the prevention or elimination of slum and blight; or
• Benefit to low and moderate-income persons;
• Meet a certain community development need having a particular urgency.

1. For each year's funding allocation, City Staff identifies projects that would meet goals established in the City's Five-year Consolidated Plan. Those projects are proposed in the City's Annual Action Plan and are presented to the public for review and comment as part of its required and robust citizen participation process.
2. The City makes available a predetermined amount of grant funding to be awarded through a competitive process. Applications are solicited from the community and reviewed by an ad hoc Committee who makes recommendations to the City Council for final approval.
3. The City accepts, reviews, and considers requests for funding from community members, organizations, developers, businesses, et al regarding the priorities set forth in the Consolidated Plan. The City has an open door policy regarding discussion of large projects and determination of the priority of funding.