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Community Development Department requesting Council action regarding the 2022 Annual Action Plan, including the allocation of funds as recommended by the Citizen Advisory Committee, for the use of CDBG funds during the 2022 program year.
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Presenter:
Jake Warner
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Description/Background:
Sandy City is an annual grantee of Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). HUD requires that the City submit a strategic plan (Consolidated Plan) every five years and an Annual Action Plan (AAP) every year. The Consolidated Plan identifies needs and goals. The City adopted a Consolidated Plan in 2020. The Annual Action Plan identifies projects, and the associated funding, that are being funding during the program year (7/1-6/30) to address the needs and achieve the goals of the Consolidated Plan.
The Citizen Advisory Committee's preparation for the 2022 program year began in September 2021 and the Committee has met monthly since then to prepare it's recommendation. The Committee held a public hearing on September 15, 2021 to consider needs in the community. The Committee then prepared a funding request application and established application review criteria. Funding request applications were accepted through January 10, 2022. The Committee reviewed funding request applications and potential City projects. On March 16, 2022, the Committee finalized it's recommendation for projects and funding allocations to be incorporated in the proposed 2022 AAP.
The 2022 AAP has been prepared according to the recommendation of the City's Citizen Advisory Committee ("CDBG Committee"), as required by the City's Citizen Participation Plan. As of the Committee's meeting in March, HUD had not released the actual amount of Sandy City's CDBG award for the 2022 program year due to delays in the federal budget. However, faced with a May 15th deadline to submit the 2022 ...
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