For City Council Meeting [May 12, 2020]
TO: Honorable City Council
APPROVAL: Rod Foster, City Manager
FROM: Stephen Erlandson, Deputy City Manager
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Request City Council to Conduct the continued Public Hearing to Consider and Make any Modifications Deemed Appropriate and Subsequently Approve the City's Substantial Amendment to the 2018-2019 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Consolidated Plan One-Year Action Plan.
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BACKGROUND
The U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) requires that the City prepare and submit a Consolidated One-Year Action Plan if it receives Federal funding under one or more of the following programs: Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), HOME, Housing for People With AIDS (HOPWA), and Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG). As a reminder to Council, being a recipient of CDBG funds, the City prepared a One-Year Action Plan for program year 2018-2019 that was approved by the City Council and submitted to HUD.
The City of Rialto received $1,213,948 of Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for the 2018 -2019 Program Year. On March 24, 2020 Public Works Staff proposed to the Council's CDBG Committee to formally reduce the 2018-2019 Community Center ADA Building and Tenant Improvements Project budget by $103,486 and allow for reprogramming of that amount to the capital improvement project budget identified as 2018-2019 Bud Bender Ball Park Sideline Fence Project.
The dollars proposed in the substantial amendment are capital improvement funds that have previously been allocated to the City's Community Center ADA Building and Tenant Improvements budget. A chronology and analysis is as follows:
* In review of its proposed project budgets the City's Public Works staff identified a shortfall in the budget for the Bud Bender Park Sideline Fence Project. This shortfall is a result of the bids received by the City coming in higher than th...
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