Today is Tuesday, March 17th, 2026.

And I officially called this meeting to order.

I would like to welcome our council colleagues in chambers, Councilmember Ramirez.

We can always count on you to be in person, my friend.

And staff representing Councilmember Castillo's office from District H, staff representing Vice Mayor Pro Tim, Peck's office from District A, and staff representing Councilmember Cayman's office from District C, and I will acknowledge council members or their representatives upon their arrival.

Today on our agenda, we will hear from the housing and community development department related to planning and grant reporting, public services, multifamily, public facilities, and finance.

And of course, we will close out with remarks from our director.

Good morning, director.

Good to see you.

You were in the uh throws of your notes.

I didn't want to interrupt you, but the floor is yours.

Thanks so much, Madam Chairwoman.

Today is a full agenda with a lot going on.

And one of the things that I like about today's agenda is you get to see a little bit about the future.

About the monies that have come in and what we're going to do with those.

So I really appreciate you the time and effort looking at these, and though I'm sure there'll be a great many questions.

We'll start with Amy Conley, who is our has a couple of jobs besides being my chief of staff.

She is now heading the planning and grant reporting department.

And we'll begin talking about the annual action plan for 2026.

Um again, this is a very important plan because it sets out what our what we're gonna do for 2026 and sends this on to HUD.

So Ms.

Conley, thank you.

Great, thank you.

And um appreciate the introduction, Mike.

Um, today we are requesting that this committee and council review and approve an ordinance authorizing submission of our program year 2026 annual action plan for our formula fund grants.

Um every year uh we receive funding through HUD.

Um you may have heard these called entitlement grants or formula funds, um, but these are the community development block grant, home investment partnership, housing opportunities for persons with AIDS, and emergency solutions grants.

So uh without further ado, um, I do want to mention before we go to the next slide that uh the public notice and comment period for these allocation of funds runs between March 9th and April 8th.

So we still have plenty of time to receive and take comment about our allocation that we are proposing.

The total amount that we are anticipating receiving from HUD at this point is 51,721 29,401 dollars and eighteen cents.

Uh but we do not yet say that three times.

Yeah.

51 million.

Uh we do not yet have our allocation.

Um, as you probably read, the T HUD bill has been it was delayed, passing through Congress.

Uh we do anticipate receiving that allocation in April or May.

And if any of those amounts are increased or decreased from what we are anticipating, we will change the budgets uh by the percentage allocation that you see in the tables.

Um so without further ado, we're gonna show you the slides for the four different grants that we are um putting forward in our annual action plan, and these include the anticipated allocation that we'll receive, the estimated program income is baked into the final number, and uh proposed line items.

So uh first up is um CDBGs and allocation.

And um, under CDBG we'll be funding public services, which includes essential services to nonprofits relating to homelessness, social services, special needs, economic development, which this year will be a payment for East End Maker Hubs interest for their 108 loan, uh ESG match, which is an annual match that we make to the ESG program, uh homeownership assistance, single-family home repair, lead-based paint, which is a matching funds for the health department's lead safe program, multifamily housing rehab, and program administration.

Total CDBG anticipated is 25 million five hundred and ninety-six thousand five hundred dollars and twenty cents.

This does include program income.

The allocations were very similar to last year's allocations with a small change, adding an economic development line item, and taking a little bit of that amount from multifamily rehab, but overall the allocations are almost exactly the same as program year 2025.

Next, going to the home slide, please.

Will go to single family acquisition, rehab, new construction.

This will also be CHODO and CHODO operating.

Total amount is 10 million dollars, 54,102.98 cents.

And next is our HOPA proposed allocation.

The line items include housing information services, which is counseling to assist on finding homes, uh operating costs, supportive services, project or tenant-based rental assistance, short-term rent mortgage and utility assistance, resource identification, grantee administration, which is the city administration of that grant, and sponsor administration, which is the sub-recipient administration.

Total amount is $13,918.

Same allocation as program year 2025.

And next is uh ESG allocation.

Uh we are proposing homelessness management information system, which is the database managed by our CRC COC.

Uh emergency shelter, which is shelter operations, homelessness prevention, rapid rehousing, which is funding to take people from street to housing, and administration.

Um allocation is exactly the same as last program year of $2 million.

$2,160,384.

So that is our proposal.

Um I do want to point out that we have two upcoming meetings.

Um, would we be very excited to uh take public comment on these allocations?

Uh the person the in-person meeting will be Tuesday, March 31st at 6 p.m.