Cross_cutting

0:29 Any item you'd like to add? - Nope, we can get right into it, Mayor. - Okay, Sam, it's all yours. - Well, good afternoon. I'm Samantha Whitley, I'm the Housing Programs Manager, and I'm joined here this afternoon by Tasha Slater, our Senior Housing Coordinator. And thank you for having us here to discuss the 2027 HUD Annual Action Plan Application and Award Process, which will begin this October. We have some proposed issues and concerns that Council raised during our May 2026 action plan process, and we'll be proposing changing application scoring and a new funding set aside for childcare. So our agenda today includes a look first at our 2024-2028 consolidated plan, how that was developed and the goals and outcomes that we've achieved so far. We'll walk through a revised timeline with a compressed staff review and plan development to provide the draft plan to Council in April

1:29 and allow the full 30 days of public comment prior to the public hearing. We'll also review expected 2027 resources and set asides and updated priorities and scoring, as well as, like I mentioned, the $100,000 reserved for childcare businesses. So our consolidated plan is a HUD-required document that determines our funding priorities over a five-year period. Developing this plan took more than a year and a half and required extensive participation from advisory committees, neighborhood representatives, service providers and subject matter experts. Council reviewed drafts, memos and workshops throughout this process and ultimately adopted the final goals and strategies that guide our annual action plan activities. There was a question in May about who was listed in our consultation requirements, so I just wanted to share this information briefly.

2:28 HUD requires outreach across specific sectors through the CFR and we consult with over 400 stakeholders with each cycle, including the Commerce Housing Team. The action plan can't list all 400 agencies