Good evening everyone.

I'd like to welcome you to this special study session on March 17th.

Let's go ahead and do roll call.

Councilmember Blauer is absent.

Councilmember Enriquez.

Present.

Councilmember Ponce is absent.

Councilmember Padilla is absent.

Councilmember Via Padua.

President.

Vice Mayor Lee?

Here.

And Mayor Fugazi.

Present.

We have a quorum.

Wonderful.

Let's set public comment at five minutes.

How many public speaker cards do we have?

We have zero.

Oh, okay.

So I guess we will move on then to item 3.1 presentation and discussion on notice of available funding, otherwise known as NOFA.

The process for housing and urban development housing projects.

Take it away, Miss McCarty.

Good evening.

Tina McCarty, acting economic development director.

So we're going to talk about housing funding, the NOFA process, as you mentioned, notice of funding available, and then the role that the consolidated plan plays in all of this.

So to start off, we have two predominant funding sources.

And federal funding coming from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, also known lovingly as HUD.

Also important to note Stockton is designated as an entitlement city by HUD.

And what that means is we're getting funding on an ongoing basis on an annual basis based on our population.

So we've been designated as this entitlement city, and because of that, we get community development block grants or CDBG.

Lots of acronyms tonight, I should warn you.

So all of those again, we're we're not having to apply and pitch for.

In the consolidated plan, that's a five-year plan.

We're currently in the midst of uh completing the next five-year plan.

We just released it last Friday.

I will not still Jordan's Thunder, but you'll hear more about the consolidated plan later in the presentation.

Just know it's our five-year plan.

Then each year we do an annual action plan.

So that's us taking the five-year plan and the goals that we came up with as a community and really dialing in what's ahead of us this next year.

So that's where we're able to kind of note projects we can see in the pike or actual areas that we want to make sure we're gonna focus on in the coming year.

So action annual action plan, we're doing that every year.

Um does definitely tie to the five-year consolidated plan.

After we've done an annual action plan, we do what's called the CAPER, that is the consolidated annual performance evaluation report.

This is our our how did we do?

So think of it as our report card.

So as we set our goals each year, we're going forward to achieve these goals in very specific manners, and the CAPER comes back and recognizes how did we do in meeting those goals.

So all three intertwined together, they're all important, and HUD is very interested in how we're making progress and the goals that we're setting.

So funding types.

So I know there's a lot of text on this.

I try not to do this, and I promise there's not many slides like this, but I wanted to give you a flavor of there's a lot of different actual funding types.

So what I'd like you to leave this slide with the takeaway is both state and federal, um, and each one has very specific um uh requirements and what they're geared towards.

So you'll see many of them speak to housing.

Um many different ways to come at housing, affordable housing.

There's a couple that have some flexibility to them.

Um where we're combating homelessness, it's a little bit broader, allows us to be a little bit more creative to the needs of our specific community.

Um there's also the CDBG grant, that one too has a little bit more in it, where you're talking about helping the community eliminating blight, so it's a little bit broader.

Um the development with safety urgency that may stand out to you, like what would that be about.

Think about if we had heaven forbid a fire in an abandoned building and now it's unstable and we need to get it down.

These funds could be used in a situation like that.