Cross_cutting

6:02 that's not really accurate in how we would determine that to be homeless prevention. So I wanted to give a little bit of a description about why these zero, zero, zeros are showing up over our last three years of services, and we hope that we can adjust our scoring and try to encourage some additional outcomes in these categories for our next two years of the plan. With that, I'm going to turn it over to Tasha to talk about some of the updates we're proposing. - Hi, this is Tasha Slater. So yeah, I will be talking about the 2027 application process, going over the timeline, priorities, and scoring. First, I'll talk about the timeline. It was requested during our public hearing

7:00 that we give council our annual action plan earlier so it can be revised after a public comment is received and closed, and while doing that, we also have to meet our 30-day public comment period that's required by HUD and give HUD the action plan by the May deadline. So you can see that we shortened a lot of staff time working on the action plan because we didn't want to shorten the time the applicants had to apply, and we didn't want to shorten the time that the scoring committee had to review. So there are a couple things that will happen because we had to shorten staff time. One of them is going to be that we'll have to start the action plan before we actually receive the recommendations from the committee, so we'll have to start on that narrative piece kind of before we really know what we're funding.

7:58 And then we also will not have exact amounts from HUD, so our action plan will be all estimates, and when we come present to you, it'll most likely be estimates. We typically get our entitlement numbers in April. So our expected resources don't tend to fluctuate too much, so year to year, they are about the same. Sometimes they'll increase, sometimes they'll decrease, but they typically stay around 1.7 million for CDBG and about a million for HOME, and then HOME-ARP was allocated a full sum, and we're estimating we have about 500,000. That number might increase a little bit by the time spring comes just based on staff time that wasn't spent towards the program or programs that may not have spent all of their funds. And then that HOME-ARP specifically does have to be spent out by 2030,

8:57 and it is in support of supportive services for people experiencing homelessness, typically in partnership with our safe stays. So our funding categories are split into two kind of main categories, funding set-asides and then competitive. Our funding set-asides were set either by HUD or our five-year consolidated plan that was approved by council, and so the homeowner rehab is a city program that we have, and our capacity building program is in partnership with the community foundation. Both of those are five-year programs that were approved.