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:
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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 Su...
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