Okay.

We have recessed the previous meeting, and we are calling special city council meeting.

And it is now six twenty-six.

And I'll call this meeting to order.

Okay.

Let the record show that all council members are present with the exception of Councilmember Nash King.

She is absent.

I need a motion to approve the agenda.

Councilmember Kimmel.

Motion to approve.

Councilmember Kendrick.

Second.

All in favor.

Signify by saying yes.

All opposed.

No.

Motion carries six to zero.

It is now time for citizen comments.

Citizens will have three minutes to speak.

There are no citizen comments.

We have one public hearing item after we have the remarks from staff.

Okay.

All right.

We are madam secretary.

All right.

PH two six zero one seven.

Hold a public hearing to receive citizen input on the citizen comment and participation process and open a 30-day comment period from June 22nd to July 28th, 2026 to receive citizen comment regarding the proposed activities under the program year PY 2026-27 annual action plan describing the use of community development block grant, CDBG, home investment partnerships, home and home American Rescue Plan.

Program funds first of two public hearings.

Hello again, Ms.

McNeil.

Hello again.

Thank you.

So I just want to be clear that this public hearing is only to discuss the proposed comment period.

So as an entitlement community, the City of Clean is awarded funding from HUD through the Block Grant, uh Community Development Block Grant, also known as CDBG and Home Investment Partnership Act, also known as Home.

And in 2021, the city received a one-time award of home art funds.

What's unique with home ARP is even though it is designed for low to moderate income households, they have four qualified populations that must be targeted for this money, and they are listed here homeless at risk of homelessness, fleeing or attempting to flee, domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, or human trafficking.

Other populations were providing supportive services or assistance to prevent homelessness.

So that is to get into a space where those that are maybe at risk of homelessness through an eviction process.

They can be qualified population for this, and then also veterans and families that include a veteran that meet one of the criteria.

So the citizen participation and survey, according to our citizen participation plan, a citizen comment period of no less than 30 days is required prior to the submission of the draft annual action plan.

Comments received on the draft will be included into the final submission to HUD.

The city holds community planning meetings and public hearings to receive input from the community.

Additionally, a public survey is open to gather citizen input on community needs.

This year we did actually see more respondents to our survey.

We had 99 respondents as opposed to last year.

We were just shy of 50.

I do give uh big compliments and uh thanks to the communications department who really worked with us to get that survey out there.

The survey was available from February 11th to March 4th, and the detailed resort results are available on our website.

So this is just a timeline.

We started in February with the community planning meetings.

Takes us through March, April, May, up until today, where we are here to discuss the public comment period, proposed public comment period, and then we'll be back in July for uh detailed discussion on the recommendations and potential adoption of those recommendations by council.

So we received nine applications in the public service category, eight were recommended funding, one rescinded uh their application after recommendation for funding.

For CDBG, including housing infrastructure, code enforcement, we received uh, and that's also parks and recs.

Um, five applications were received, four were recommended funding, and we have one forward funding commitment for code enforcement officers.

Um, and for the sake of informing uh our new council members, our forward commitment is when CDAC votes to vote and votes to award funds in that year, but also votes to award funds in the next two, three years.

And so that's the uh forward commitment that we have there, and that's for code enforcement officers only at this time.

Home, we received four applications, one recommended funding and two home ARP and two recommended funding there.

Our entitlement for program year 2026, which is our fiscal year 27, is 1,437,398 dollars.

And we have reprogrammed funds and the amount of 66,637 dollars and ninety-four cents.

And these are the categories and the spaces we are allowed to use that money.