All right, welcome everybody like to call this afternoon's town of Paysan special meeting to order.

Um, if we could all stand for the Pledge of Allegiance, Commander Haynes, could you please lead us in the fledged of the United States of America?

And the Republicans, one nation under God, indivisible for liberty and justice for all.

Thank you, sir.

All right, Michelle.

Could we please get a roll call?

All right, thank you.

Um first two items on the agenda public hearing regarding FY fiscal year twenty four twenty-five community development block grant CDBG.

Uh number one, resolution number thirty-four ten approving an intergovernmental agreement with the town of Star Valley to establish a partnering arrangement for application for community development block grants.

And item number two, uh, resolution number thirty-four eleven authorizing the submission of an application or applications for fiscal year twenty-four twenty-five state community development block grant funds.

So this time open a public hearing and ask our community development director, Donnie Wilbanks, to present the CDBG application, please.

Go.

It's just words.

Give you a quick background.

CDBG is community development block grant.

It is a federal uh non-competitive formula-based grant from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Um, the funds go through the Arizona Department of Housing, so the funding goes through that, which support from the Council of Governments, also known as COGS.

Payson's COG is CAG, which is Central Arizona governments.

Angela Gato.

We'll give you a little brief uh uh overview of the public hearing process that's required.

Thank you.

Good afternoon, Mayor and member of the council's my name is Angela Gato.

I am the administrative and special projects coordinator for CAG.

The purpose of tonight's hearing is to select a project for the FY24 CDBG funding cycle.

The town of Payson is expected to receive 169,215 in CDBG funds.

We held the first public hearing on August 5th, and the following projects were proposed ADA Main Street improvements and ADA park improvements.

Only projects identified in that public hearing can be discussed tonight.

We cannot consider any additional projects at this time.

I'd be happy to answer any questions if you have any.

Otherwise, you're good to discuss your projects.

I guess Johnny's gonna get them.

Yes, thank you.

Thank you.

So the ADA, which is an American Disability Act, uh improvements on Main Street was the number one recommended project for this afternoon.

Oh, sorry, bless you.

That's true.

Uh so this project addresses the ADA deficiencies that we have been identified in the 2018 2021 ADA self-evaluation and transition plan.

Uh, this would be a continuation of council's long-term strategy for ADA improvements town wide.

Um Arizona Department of Housing allows only the one project per application, um, which was mentioned in the first public hearing.

Uh, the chosen for Main Street would be projects such as driveway modifications, crosswalks, and uh improvements at uh town facilities such as the fire station where you have parking lots or driveways that don't meet those requirements.

Um, as I mentioned, we do partner with Star Valley.

Um, in order to receive the entire 169,000, we alternate years allowing each uh municipality to have double the amount of money to do projects with also mentioned we have the related resolutions.

Resolution 3411 is the resolution that allows us to choose the project as well as the application to move forward.

Resolution 3410 is the IGA with Star Valley in order for us to do the partnership with the CDB allotment switching years.

There will be a future contract with CAG for them to help administer the grant, and that money comes out of the grant 169,000 as well.

The financial impact uh for the town would be 169,215 would be the grant funds we would receive.

No cash match or leverages required by the town of CASEN.

Uh, you will be voting tonight to approve an application as well as the project that is on that application.

You will have a future agreement with the CAG, but you have the also the resolution for the Star Valley as well.

This is a step towards moving towards enhancing ADA accessibility in PASIN as well as benefiting the rest of the community.

Angela and I are also here to answer any questions you might have.

All right, great.

Uh, Councilmember Monarch.

A couple questions.

Uh um so it sounds like specific locations have been identified where the money would be used.

There are projects in mind, so for Main Street, it would be anything that was identified in the transition plan already on Main Street.

Uh specifically, the firehouse the fire station stands out because there are deficiencies on the town facility itself within the parking area and the driveway entrance, as well as other vacant or non-developed parcels on Main Street.

So those that are already developed, um, we would not be attempting to do anything there.

And these all are within the town right away.

This is not private investment.