Community Development Authority Special Meeting - August 26, 2026
Community Development Authority Special Meeting - August 26, 2026
The Community Development Authority (CDA) held a special meeting on August 26, 2026 at 5:30 PM in City Hall Council Chambers. The board approved preliminary allocations for 2026 CDBG public service funds, awarded 2026 HOME funds to Acts Housing for a revolving loan fund, and made preliminary allocations for 2027 HOME funds to Habitat for Humanity projects in Janesville and Beloit.
Consent Calendar
- Approved the minutes from the August 19, 2026 special meeting without objection.
Discussion Items
- 2026 CDBG Public Service Allocation: The board considered allocating $80,000 among five applicants requesting a total of $142,000. Staff recommended proportional distribution. After debate over NeighborWorks' request, the board adopted an amendment that zeroed out NeighborWorks and reallocated funds to Boys & Girls Club ($15,000), Community Action ($6,000), ECHO ($40,000), and Acts Housing ($19,000). The allocation includes automatic proportional adjustment if final federal funding differs.
- 2026 HOME Funds for Acts Housing: The board considered a staff recommendation to award $299,000 in HOME funds to Acts Housing to establish a revolving loan fund for purchasing, rehabilitating, and reselling six single-family homes to low- to moderate-income households in Janesville. Members expressed support for the project's alignment with CDA priorities on housing and neighborhood improvement.
- 2027 HOME Funds Preliminary Allocation: The board reviewed two Habitat for Humanity applications: one for five homes in Beloit ($335,000) and one for five homes in Janesville ($700,000). Due to limited 2027 HOME funds (estimated $640,000 total for all activities), staff recommended allocating $420,000 for three homes in Janesville and $335,000 for Beloit contingent on approval by the City of Beloit. The board discussed the uncertainty of federal funding and the need to reserve funds for the down payment assistance program.
Key Outcomes
- CDBG Allocation: Motion passed unanimously (7-0) to allocate $15,000 to Boys & Girls Club, $6,000 to Community Action, $40,000 to ECHO, and $19,000 to Acts Housing, with automatic proportional adjustment based on final 2027 grant amount.
- 2026 HOME for Acts Housing: Motion passed unanimously to approve $299,000 to Acts Housing.
- 2027 HOME Preliminary Allocation: Motion passed unanimously to approve $335,000 for Habitat for Humanity in Beloit (contingent on City of Beloit approval) and $420,000 for three homes in Janesville.
Meeting Transcript
Order uh the community development authority special meeting for August 26, 2026. Anna, you want to do roll call? Michael Cass. Present Chain Seaman. Here. Jennifer Anderson. Lisa Higgin. Present. Scott Greenland. Present. Max Ryan. Here. Danielle Williams. Here. We're all here. First item is the minutes from last week. Unless anyone objects, that can pass under consent agenda. See no objections, that passes. That'll bring us to the first item consideration of the CDBG funds. Kelly, can you start? Yeah, just real quickly. Number one, thank you for your patience with our technology issues this week. I still I see now that there's another error on here where a line didn't carry over. I promise we'll do better next month. It's just been creating a special meeting was was a little dramatic for us. So I I thank you for your patience. Um so last week you saw all of the presentations for the CDBG applicants, and so tonight your charge is to agree on a preliminary allocation in the amount of eighty thousand dollars, which is what we assume that our funding will be for next year. Keep in mind that that is always subject to change. Um you have three, I'm sorry, five applicants for 142,000. Um, and you need to whittle that down to 80. Um there is a suggested recommendation at the end of your memo that includes the way that we will adjust in the event that our um actual funding ends up being either higher or lower, and how that happens. Um, we would have to come back to the CDA and have this discussion all over again. Um that makes it difficult for our agencies to be able to budget for themselves because there could be a completely different result six months from now or a year from now. Um and so we ask that you adjust according to that that recommendation. So I'm happy to answer any questions. If you don't have any questions for me and you want to just start, I'm gonna step away so that I can run this spreadsheet so that we can kind of keep track. Please give me time and don't just fire off all the things really fast. Okay. Thank you. Okay. And so the Roberts Rules of Order way this works. Someone makes a proposed motion with their allocation, then we can discuss need a second, and then we can discuss. People can propose amendments to reallocate however they want. So does anyone got a strong anchoring point they want to start with? I have a proposal. Sure. Okay. Um using a is this recommendation. Well, you you say the proposal, but you just have to include that language about reallocating proportionally if the funding changes. Okay.
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