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Approve the City of Clearwater’s Fiscal Year 2016-2017 Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report (CAPER).
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SUMMARY:
The Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report (CAPER) is the principal administrative report documenting the City’s expenditures for Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and HOME Investment Partnership (HOME) programs to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). For Fiscal Year (FY) 2016-2017, the City’s entitlement allocation was $667,634 in CDBG and $285,238 in HOME Program funds, $954,041 of Prior Year funds and $1,147,951 of Program Income for a total budget of $3,054,864 from federal funds.
The report provides HUD with necessary information for the Department to meet its requirement to assess each grantee’s ability to carry out relevant Community Planning and Development programs in compliance with all applicable rules and regulations. It also provides information necessary for HUD’s Annual Report to Congress and it provides grantees an opportunity to describe to citizens their successes in revitalizing deteriorated neighborhoods and in meeting objectives stipulated in their Consolidated Planning document.
In addition to reporting activities carried out with federal money, a summary of activities conducted with the Florida State Housing Initiatives Partnership (SHIP) Program and Pinellas County Housing Trust Fund Program is also included in the narrative section; however, these numbers are not included in the totals below.
Through the CDBG and HOME program activities, total expenditures were $1,629,332 in FY 2016-2017, which included program income and funding from the prior year reprogrammed funds. Those funds not expended from this year’s budget will be programmed in future years.
The City of Clearwater’s FY 2016-2017 CAPER contains information on the City’s assessment of the following activities:
- Assessment of Four Year Goals and Outcomes
- Resources and Investments
- Affordable Housing
- Homeless and Other Special Needs
- Public Housing
- Other Actions to Address Barriers to Affordable Housing
- Monitoring
- CDBG
- HOME
Over 2,200 persons were assisted through Community Development and Public Services, Homelessness, Housing, Non-Homeless Special Needs, and Economic Development activities during FY16-17.
A brief summary of FY 2016-2017 accomplishments are:
- Provided thirteen down payment and closing cost assistance loans totaling $137,959.
- Provided the Arc of Tampa Bay $99,500 for the rehabilitation and upgrading of their rehabilitation room and upgrading of doors at the Long Center.
- Provided $29,950 for the rehabilitation of two owner occupied homes.
- Provided $265,875 of funding toward the construction of Garden Trail Apartments.
- Provided Community Services Foundation $105,721 for the rehabilitation of Fulton Avenue Apartments.
- Provided $296,568 to Habitat for Humanity of Pinellas County for the construction of six single-family homes.
- Provided $268,587 for the acquisition and rehabilitation of two single family homes.
The City’s Neighborhood and Affordable Housing Advisory Board recommended City Council approval of the FY 2016-2017 CAPER at their meeting on November 28, 2017. The CAPER is due to HUD no later than December 30, 2017.
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