The 2027 Housing Development Sanction Plan.

I don't have a formal PowerPoint here, but I am going to give a little introduction and talk about how our planning process works and why we're doing an hearing 2027 pension plan now when we don't have a draft or anything else for review.

And the basic reason for that is that this is a required element of our citizen participation plan, that we have a public hearing before we draft the action plan each year so that we can get input from the public before we do anything.

Quite this early.

It's not even 2027 yet.

But we are trying to get onto a cycle where we have our money in hand earlier in the year, basically, than we have in past years.

We have generally actually not even gotten the that year's grant in place until the next calendar year, which is which is fine.

And it runs into these issues with timeliness of spending funds and things like that.

So we are catching up on that and we're trying to get ahead of it.

So this year we are actually doing the first hearing for 2027, right?

As soon as we submitted 2026, which we just submitted early input.

So that's the basic idea.

This hearing, more even than many others, is really geared toward getting input from people on what types of projects and programs we'd like to see.

Saw the example up there of what we submitted for 2026 after we went through this whole process in 2026.

Now we're coming up on 2027.

Yes.

Okay, just for the record, we have Shell Baker has joined us, and we have more.

All right.

And maybe after this presentation.

We can go back and then do it.

Yeah.

So that's basically the idea behind the um public hearing.

There will be another public hearing after we draft a proposed action plan.

Um there'll be a 30-day public comment period public hearing to get reaction to an actual proposed allocation of funds.

So there will be another chance to come back and get input on what you propose to do.

Um, but this is the initial let us know what you want.

Um we we manage three grants through this action planning process.

That's community development block grant, which is our largest program.

Usually we get a little less than two million dollars uh per year that can be used for um a variety of community facilities, community services, public services, public facilities.

Um this year, due to the passage of the 21st century road to housing act in July.

Um, we will be able to do new housing construction with CDBG funds.

That has not been an allowed activity under CDBG for the past 50 years of the program that it's been in place.

That was changed by that law that was recently passed.

They now do up to 20% of the um grant amount for the construction of new housing.

Um very exciting.

Housing is a big priority, not being able to do the C to G our largest grant and have some other chapters.

Um so we are particularly interested in looking at what types of new housing construction might be done.

Now it's not a huge amount of money because it's only 20% of our approximately two million dollars.

So that's about enough for this.

Um, but still that's more than we've had in the past for this grant um for new housing.

Um other things that can be done that are housing related is acquisition properties for housing, um utility and groundwork construction um and uh renovation rehab of existing housing, which is something we are also looking into setting up a new program to do with uh redevelopment as we're calling it, but as part of that's rehab of existing housing.

Um second program, home investment partnerships is primarily focused on housing, in fact, really entirely focused on housing.

However, it is a smaller grant.

We usually only get about six or seven hundred thousand dollars a year from home.

So um that does not become what we can do with that one.

You can do rental housing, you can do homeowner occupied housing.

We do a while they work with Habitat for Humanity and in the past not done that program.

You can also do rental assistance through that program.

Um emergency solutions grant with our smallest grants, usually about 160,000 a year.

In recent years, we have used that entirely to fund a homelessness prevention uh rental assistance program through the aging disability resource center here at the health department.

Um and um you know that's that is one thing you can do.

ESG is generally focused on homelessness, and so there's a variety of things you can do with it.

Um, but it is a pretty small grant.

And so what we've typically done with that in in recent years is focus that on prevention, which tends to be the biggest bank um in the problems and so on.

Um so those are our those are our grants.

We don't yet know our exact rank amounts.

We're so early in the process here that has not yet announced what we're getting for 2027.

They usually don't announce that until the spring, sometime between March and May.

Um, so we won't be able to actually set specific amounts and submit the action plan until we have those specific amounts, but we can do these early stages in the process, kind of estimating approximately how much we intend to hear expect to get um based on different years.

It is a formula, it's nationwide, it's out of our control how much we get.