CITY COUNCIL AGENDA ITEM
ACTION REQUESTED:
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Approve the 2020-24 Consolidated Plan and Program Year 2020 Annual Action Plan allocating a total of $567,835 of Community Development Block Grant funds (Item 2 of 2)
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DEPARTMENT: City Clerk's Office
SUBMITTED BY: Ruth Broder, Community Planner/Community Grants Coordinator
BOARD/COMMISSION REVIEW:
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BACKGROUND:
The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) requires that the City develop a Consolidated Plan every five years and an Annual Action Plan at the beginning of each program year to propose how Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds will be spent. Program Year 2020 will start April 1, 2020 and end March 31, 2021.
DISCUSSION:
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. All CDBG expenditures must meet one of three following national objectives:
1. Benefit low and moderate-income persons;
2. Aid in the prevention or elimination of slums or blight; and
3. Meet an urgent need (Example: a natural disaster, such as a flood or tornado)
The funds granted to the City are used to assist low and moderate-income persons because Naperville has few or no instances that would meet the criteria of items 2 and 3.
Based on the U.S. Census, other quantitative data, and extensive consultation with public and private agencies, the Consolidated Plan describes the following as priority needs:
1. Housing and non-housing community development needs (public infrastructure, facilities and services) of low and moderate-income residents;
2. Areas with higher than average numbers of low and moderate-income residents;
3. Strategic plan that describes priority needs and goals for assisting these residents, including an anti-poverty strategy;
4. Affordable renter and owner housing, special needs housing, and homelessness preventio...
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