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Review and approval of 2023 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funding requests
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Submitted by:
Karl Schreiber
Department:
Development Department
A. Issue
Review and approval of 2023 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funding requests.
B. Background/Options
The CDBG Committee met in December, 2022 to review applications and fund requests and set funding levels for the City's 2023 CDBG program year based on an estimated $1,000,000 grant award. The City recently received the official funding notice from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) that the City's 2023 CDBG grant award is $997,039, a $2,961 decrease from the estimated amount.
CDBG funds are broken into three project categories: (1) Administration/Planning, (2) Public Services, and (3) Public Facilities, Economic Development, and Rehabilitation. Per HUD's regulations, Administration/Planning funds are limited to 20% of the total grant award and Public Services funds are limited to 15% of the total grant award. There is no funding cap for the Public Facilities, Economic Development, and Rehabilitation category.
Attached you will find a complete breakdown of the 2023 funding requests along with a brief project summary, and the recommendation for 2023 grant funding. These projects and their ultimate funding amounts will be included in the 2023 CDBG Annual Plan submitted to HUD.
Given the applications and funding requests received, HUD's spending cap regulations, and the CDBG Committee's recommendations, the proposed final 2023 CDBG funding levels are as follows:
* In the Administration category (page 1 of attached table), the General Administration and Fair Housing requests were funded to the requested level.
* In the Public Service category (page 2 of attached table), the total requests exceeded the public service cap so funding requests were adjusted. Further adjustment to CDBG Committee recommendations were made upon receiving the Notice of 2023 Gran...
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