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Staff Report for a Public Hearing on a Proposed Amendment to the FY 2010-2011 U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Annual Action Plan to Re-allocate $100,000 in CDBG Funds Originally Intended for a Proposed Childcare Center by BRIDGE Housing: $10,000 for renovations to the Luella Fuller Home and $90,000 for Continued Implementation of the City's ADA Transition Plan
Staffreport
SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Under the City's FY 2010-2011 HUD Annual Action Plan, the City originally allocated $100,000 for BRIDGE Housing's proposed childcare center located within its affordable rental housing development proposal called The Alameda (now known as Marea Alta). In recent years, the City determined that CDBG funds were too inflexible and cumbersome to allocate to the proposed childcare center and the City Council consequently approved a loan to BRIDGE for $800,000 from General Funds in February 2017. In order to re-allocate the $100,000 from CDBG, the City must adhere to its HUD-approved Citizen Participation Plan (CPP), which governs the process of amending HUD Annual Action Plans.
Staff recommends that the City Council hold a public hearing, provide direction to staff on the amendments to the FY 2010-2011 Action Plan, make the summary of the amendments available for public comment for a 30-day period from June 12 - July 11, 2017, and set a public hearing for July 17, 2017 to consider final approval of the amended FY 2010-2011 Annual Action Plan.
BACKGROUND
The City Council originally allocated $100,000 of CDBG funds to BRIDGE Housing for its proposed childcare center in FY2010-11. As the affordable rental development project (where the childcare center would be on the ground floor) faced major obstacles to funding and construction including negative impacts from the 2008 recession, the childcare center became further delayed and the City never entered into contract with BRIDGE for the CDBG funds. City staff also determined that CDBG funding h...
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