AGENDA CAPTION:
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Receive a staff presentation regarding City Council priority needs for drafting the 2020-2024 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Consolidated Plan and comment on the proposed renewal of the Citizen Participation Plan, and provide direction to the City Manager.
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Meeting date: March 3, 2020
Department: Planning and Development Services
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City Council Strategic Initiative: [Please select from the dropdown menu below]
Workforce Housing
Workforce Development
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☒ Economic Development - Workforce & Education Excellence
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☐ Land Use - Choose an item.
☒ Neighborhoods & Housing - Protected Neighborhoods in order to maintain high quality of life and stable property values
☒ Parks, Public Spaces & Facilities - Effective Social Services to those who can most benefit from them
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☐ Core Services
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Master Plan: [Please select the corresponding Master Plan from the dropdown menu below (if applicable)]
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Background Information:
The City Council approved the 2015-2019 CDBG Consolidated Plan by Resolution 2015-95R on August 4, 2015. City Council approved the 2015-2019 Citizen Participation Plan at the same time as an appendix to the Consolidated Plan. When the City received the CDBG-Disaster Recovery Grant, the City Council approved an update to the 2015-2019 Consolidated Plan to incorporate the new grant, by Resolution 2017-097 on June 6, 2017.
The federal department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) requires the creation of a Consolidated Plan that sets strategic priorities and goals for next five years of HUD grant funding, identifies types of activities the City will fund, and acts as the foundation for future one-year Action Plans. HUD grants received by San Marcos that are included in this Plan are CDBG Entitlement, CDBG-DR (Disaster Recovery), and CDBG-MIT (Mitigation). Priority needs for the CDBG-DR and CDBG-MIT have been recently reviewed by City Council and will be included in the Consolidated Plan for each of those grants.
The CDBG Entitlement is now due for its every-five-year review of Priority Needs, which forms the basis for the Consolidated Plan portions related to this grant. The Priority Needs chosen by City Council for the 2015-2019 Consolidated Plan for the CDBG Entitlement grant were:
• affordable housing
• public services
• public facilities/infrastructure/transportation
• clearance activities
• program administration
Citizen comments were received through a survey that was available February 2-23, 2020, and at a public meeting held February 19, 2020. In addition, staff met with service providers to gather their input. Staff will present needs assessment data gathered and public comments received on the categories of activities that could be funded using CDBG Entitlement funds.
Staff will also present the 2015-2019 Citizen Participation Plan (CPP) and the proposal to update the CPP.
Public comments and City responses are attached, as is a presentation.
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Recommendation:
Staff requests City Council direction on the Priority Needs for the 2020-2024 Consolidated Plan, as well as the Citizen Participation Plan.