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52:39 program, which will help three home buyers purchase their first home. To Columbia nonprofit housing for their river and main project, which is new construction of a 40 unit fully affordable housing complex serving low income seniors ages 62 and older located in Washougal and to the foundation for the challenged for a new purchase of two homes for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities who are low income. Next slide. Also under housing, we have stability services. These are through our tenant based rental assistance programs. We are recommending to fund Janice youth programs and share these programs provide tenant based rental assistance and case management services to households experiencing homelessness throughout Clark County. And finally, our first category on next slide is under administration and this covers the

53:38 cost of administering both of the CDBG and the home programs. The CDBG program by regulation allows up to 20% of our annual entitlement to go towards administration for the home program. It's by regulation up to 10% of the entitlement amount that can go towards administration. Next slide. I wanted to touch on a couple of different things that are part of the planning process for our annual action plan. We have a Chodo set aside or a community housing development organization required set aside amounts for the home program for the amount of $84,718. We did not have an eligible project or entity apply for funding under this category. So we will be holding those funds until next year and hopefully that we'll get an application to be able to allocate those funds.

54:35 We also set aside funding for contingency act. I'm sorry. We also set aside the opportunity for contingency projects. If funding comes becomes available, the following activities will be awarded. If we receive a CDBG funds, we would award up to $75,000 to the greater Vancouver Chamber of Commerce business assistance program. If we receive additional home funding, we would provide up to $300,000 to Evergreen Habitat for Humanity for their home buyer assistance. Next slide. And this just provides a quick funding snapshot of the funds that we have available. This gives a breakdown between the application categories and administration. This includes all applications recommended for funding regardless of the funds coming from our 2026 annual action plan or from prior year allocations. Overall, there's about 5% going to public services in the dark teal slice, 9% going

55:34 to public facilities and neighborhood improvements in the light green slice, 18% going to asset and economic development activities in the orange slice, 57% going to housing activities including stability and development of new housing, and the purple slice is the total administration, about 11% total for both programs. Next slide. So this is a quick overview of the amendment to our 2025 action plan. As mentioned previously, we have an amendment to the 2025 action plan. We had originally awarded $200,000 last year for renovations at a building owned by the county in battleground located at 701 East Main Street. This project is no longer moving forward. The funds are now being allocated to the battleground north parkways sidewalks project as discussed earlier. Next slide.

56:34 Public comment is being accepted on the two documents presented today. Public comments are being accepted through Monday, May 11th to adhere to the 30-day public comment period required by HUD. If we will be accepting public comments today during this hearing or people can call Noreen Ibrahim at 564-397-7834 or email Noreen Ibrahim at clark.wa.gov. She's our program assistant and will be accepting all public comments for this public comment process. All public comments accepted today and through phone call or email will be included in our annual action plan submissions to HUD. At this time we are seeking public input through this public hearing for the 2026 action plan and amendment to the 2025 action plan. This concludes staff's presentation and we're happy to answer questions by council before

57:34 opening up for public comment. Thank you very much. Are there any questions from council? Sure. Yes. Go ahead, please. Just curious. I didn't see any in my inbox. Did we receive any comments, any public comments? We did not. Okay. Chair. Please go ahead. Yeah. Thank you for this information. It looks like there's great resources going out to our community. I had just want to learn a little bit more about the proud ground home buyer assistance where 250,000 is allocated for three first time home buyers and I was wondering if that was related, the strategy is related to the 300,000 in potential contingency funds for evergreen habitat for humanity home buyer assistance.