Thank you.

I'd like to call our special council meeting to order.

It is 556.

Um PM.

Let the record show that uh all council members are present except uh Mayor Pro Tim Adams.

Uh Madam Secretary, whenever you're ready.

We only have one other person that will be speaking, and the gentleman that's with you right now.

This he was up there before I got started.

All right.

Do we need to uh do the approval of agenda?

Uh oh, yes.

Can I get a motion to approve the agenda?

Councilmember Gonzalez.

I make a motion to approve the agenda.

Councilmember Sigar.

All in favor, yes, all opposed, no.

Ms.

Kendrick Andy Day.

Uh Councilwoman Call.

Okay, the motion passed four to zero.

Let the record uh uh note that council member Solomon and Councilmember Alvarez uh has taken a break.

All right, whenever you're ready.

Uh Madam Secretary.

PH 25037.

Hold a public hearing and consider an ordinance authorizing a substantial amendment to annual action plans for program years 2017-2021, 2022, and 2023 to reprogram home funds to provide for affordable housing activities and to remove the city's requirement under the 2024, excuse me, 2020-2024 consolidated strategic plan for HUD certified housing counseling to provide services to recipients as a provision of the home program tenant-based rental assistance, TBRA.

The caption of the ordinance reads an ordinance adopting a substantial amendment to community development annual action plans for FY 2017, 2021, 2022, and 2023 for the reprogramming of home program funds to tenant-based rental assistant program activities, and the removal of the requirement from the 2020-24 consolidated plan for the use of HUD certified housing counselors to provide services to tenant-based rental housing assistant assistance recipients as a provision to receiving assistance, providing a severability clause, and providing an effective date.

Thank you for the short suspense between the meetings, ma'am.

I appreciate it.

Okay.

So a substantial amendment occurs when there is a change in this purpose, scope, location, or beneficiaries of an activity or project.

Home grants remain from previously eligible projects that were completed or canceled without utilizing the entire amount allocated, or when CHOTO funds are converted into entitlement funds.

Reprogramming is necessary to maintain compliance with HUD and home expenditure regulations.

Home funds, you have eight years to spend, or they uh recapture those every year September 30th.

If you have those monies from eight years ago, they take the money back.

That's the community development advisory committee met April 4th to discuss a substantial amendment reprogram uh reprogramming of access home funds and the timely expenditure of home.

Reprogramming home funds will allow for the use in the home housing program, specifically tenant-based rental assistance program, which will achieve timely performance with regulatory expenditure requirements of home funds.

The HUD certified housing counseling is not required under tenant-based rental assistance program unless the jurisdiction elects to include it as part of their program.

Colleen has only one agency certified to provide um certified housing counseling.

Removing this requirement under the goals and objectives of the TIPA program consolidated plan is recommended, and this will allow the city to assist households expeditiously and address the immediate need for assistance.

Annual action plan amendments to make maintain compliance with HUD as we pre- as I previously stated.

Fiscal year 2017, 1,573 cents, 21, 73,683 and 30 cents, 22, 88, 376.25 cents, and 23, 456, 7.68 cents for a total of $619,641.03 cents.

And we did discuss with uh finance about putting it in utility bills, but their July uh mailers were already decided upon, and there's a two-page maximum, so we weren't able to do that, but we can plan for that next year.

The availability of the substantial amendment draft was here at City Hall with the City Secretary, the community development department, both public libraries, Lions Club, uh Park Senior Center, and then online.

Um, when I get to the next two, I these are the same places for the sake of time.

I won't repeat that for you.

Um, next steps, if approved, we will submit the substantial amendment to HUD no later than August 15th of 2025.

And staff recommends that City of Clean Council approve an ordinance for the substantial amendment to reprogram home funds to home housing programs, particularly the TIBA program for program years 2017, 21, 22, 23, and to the 2020 to 2024 consolidated plan and removing the requirement for the HUD certified housing counseling as a provision of eligible how for eligible households to receive assistance.

Thank you.

There are no questions for you.

We will hold a public hearing.

If I mispronounce your name, please correct it.

Madam Mayor Council.

Sir, I'm the president of the Central Texas Home Builders Association, and um we are really starting to look at our county is more and get into more of the affordable housing and fixing some of the downtown areas in these areas.

And um I feel like if we could come together and put some teams together throughout the council, throughout the city man, the management and stuff like that, we can really come together as a community to fix some of these things and get more affordable housing and address the the house the distressed housing in our in our northern area of uh clean.

And I just wanted to um really just bring unity in these decisions as we we move forward uh from home builders to develop to developers to council to city members, and um that's really all I had to say, but thank you, sir, for uh warning to join the team and work together to help the North Side.

Thank you.

Uh Council uh members, do anybody have any comments on this?

Any questions?

Okay.

Melissa Brown.