REPORT TO HOUSING AND HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION
SUBJECT
Title
Consider Draft 2018 Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Action Plan
Report
REPORT IN BRIEF
The City must submit an Action Plan to HUD every year in order to receive federal entitlement grants from the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and the HOME Investment Partnerships (HOME) Programs. The draft 2018 HUD Action Plan ("Action Plan") provided in Attachment 2 has been prepared in accordance with federal requirements governing the use of these entitlement grants, including the citizen participation requirements. HUD is the federal agency that administers and regulates these grants. The Action Plan sets forth the proposed uses of the CDBG and HOME funds projected to be available in the coming fiscal year, as shown in Table 1 in the Discussion section of this report. These funds may be used for eligible community development activities to meet the priority and/or unmet needs, primarily of lower-income residents, described in the City's HUD Consolidated Plan.
The Commission held a public hearing on the draft Action Plan at its April 18, 2018 meeting. Due to a lack of a quorum, the Commission was not able to take action at that meeting and this item was rescheduled for consideration at the May 16 meeting. Since the April meeting, staff has received the 2018 grant allocations from HUD, and has made minor updates to the draft Action Plan and to this report to replace the estimates with the actual 2018 grant amounts.
The City Council is scheduled to hold a public hearing and consider this item on May 22, 2018.
Staff recommends that the Commission recommend to City Council Alternative 1: Approve 2018 Action Plan as shown in Attachment 2.
BACKGROUND
HUD requires entitlement grantees, (cities, counties and states), to submit an application, referred to as a Consolidated Plan, every five years, to maintain eligibility for CDBG and HOME Program grants. Sunnyvale's last Consolidated Plan was approved ...
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