CITY COUNCIL AGENDA ITEM
ACTION REQUESTED:
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Approve the City of Naperville’s revised 2020-24 Consolidated Plan and Program Year 2020 Annual Action Plan allocating a total of $567,835 of Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds
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DEPARTMENT: City Clerk’s Office
SUBMITTED BY: Ruth Broder, Community Grants Coordinator
BOARD/COMMISSION REVIEW:
N/A
BACKGROUND:
The Consolidated Plan summarizes Naperville’s housing and non-housing community development needs and provides a strategic plan for how CDBG funds will be spent over the next five years to meet these needs. The Annual Action Plan describes how funds will be spent during the program year and how these expenditures will contribute to meeting the overall goals of the Consolidated Plan.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) requires that the City develop a Consolidated Plan every five years and an Annual Action Plan prior to the beginning of each program year to propose how CDBG funds will be spent. Program Year 2020 began on April 1, 2020 and will end March 31, 2021.
DISCUSSION:
At its meeting on March 17, 2020, the City Council voted to approve the 2020-2024 Consolidated Plan and 2020 Annual Action Plan following a 30-day public comment period and public hearing. Soon after, the City, in consultation with DuPage County, agreed to delay submission of the plan until more details were provided by HUD on how the plan submission would be affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and the CARES Act. DuPage County is the lead agency of the DuPage HOME Consortium, of which Naperville is a member. Consolidated Plans and Annual Action Plans are submitted by both jurisdictions at the same time.
Naperville has made revisions to the Consolidated Plan to take into account the impact of COVID-19 on goals, objectives, and on the strategic plan for the five-year Consolidated Plan period. COVID-19 supplemental funding provided by the federal government through the CARES Act is included in a Substantial Amendment to the Program Year 2019 Annual Action Plan. At this time, there are no plans to change or revise the projects included in the Program Year 2020 Annual Action Plan, although additional projects may be added to this plan if the federal government agrees to provide additional supplemental funding to address the continuing public health crisis.
Changes to the 2020-24 Consolidated Plan are listed below and are highlighted in yellow in attached copy of the revised Consolidated Plan.
In accordance with new emergency procedures for public comment periods and public hearings, the draft plan was made available to the public for a five-day period from Friday, July 17, 2020 to Tuesday, July 21, 2020, with a public hearing to take place at the City Council meeting on Tuesday, July 21, 2020. Any comments received will be included in the final version of the plan submitted to HUD.
Revisions to the 2020-24 Consolidated Plan and 2020 Annual Action Plan
ES-05 Executive Summary - 24 CFR 91.200(c)
Page 2-3: Added COVID-19 information
PR-15 Citizen Participation - 91.105, 91.115, 91.200(c) and 91.300(c)
Page 24-25: Add citizen participation information for revised plan
NA-50 Non-Housing Community Development Needs - 91.415, 91.215(f)
Page 27: Added information on Facilities Needed to Prevent, Prepare for and
Respond to COVID-19
Page 29-30: Added COVID-19 information to Jurisdiction’s Need for Public
Services and revised public services priority needs chart
MA-05 Housing Market Analysis
Page 33: Added paragraph on housing market needs due to COVID-19
MA-45 Non-Housing Community Development Assets - 91.410, 91.210(f)
Page 34, Page 37-38, Page 40: Added information on economic development
Impacts of COVID-19 on employment, Retail Sector and Arts, Entertainment and
Accommodations sector and Office/Industrial sector
MA-60 Broadband Needs of Housing Occupied by Low- and Moderate-Income
Households - 91.210(a)(4), 91.310(a)(2)
Page 45: Added new information on COVID-19 impacts on internet and wifi
availability to low- and moderate-income households
SP-25 Priority Needs - 91.415, 91.215(s)(2)
Page 50-54: Revised priority needs to include references to COVID-19.
SP-35 Anticipated Resources - 91.420(b), 91.215(a)(4), 91.220(c)(1,2)
Page 55: Added reference to supplemental CDBG funding for COVID-19
response.
SP40 Institutional Delivery Structure - 91.415, 91.215(k)
Page 64: Added reference to changes in the institutional delivery structure for
persons formerly housed in shelters
SP-45 Goals - 91.415, 91.215(a)(4)
Page 69-70: Added additional Economic Development goal for five-year
Consolidated Plan period.
The Annual Action Plan was left unchanged for 2020, though additional supplemental CDBG funding may be added later, if approved by Congress.
FISCAL IMPACT:
Allocation of $567,835 in CDBG funds.