September 23, 2025
Agenda Item No. 21
TO:
HONORABLE MAYOR AND MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
FROM:
Seimone Jurjis, Assistant City Manager - 949-644-3001, [email protected] PREPARED BY:
Lauren Wooding Whitlinger, Real Property Administrator - 949-644-3236, [email protected] TITLE:
Community Development Block Grant Program Year 2024-25, Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report ABSTRACT:
After the close of each fiscal year, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) requires that the City of Newport Beach prepare and submit a Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report (CAPER) for the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program. The CAPER is a report on the projects and expenditures of the annual CDBG funding issued to program subrecipients. It also describes the City’s progress towards meeting the goals established in the 2024-25 Annual Action Plan that was approved by the City Council on April 23, 2024. The report must be submitted to HUD by the end of September 2025. The Program Year 2024-25 CAPER was prepared and made available for the HUD-required 15-day public review and comment period, which began on September 6, 2025, and concludes with the public hearing before the City Council on September 23, 2025.
RECOMMENDATIONS:
Hold a public hearing to receive comments on the Program Year 2024-25 CAPER; Find this activity exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to Sections 15060(c)(2) (the activity will not result in a direct or reasonably foreseeable indirect physical change in the environment) and 15060(c)(3) (the activity is not a project as defined in Section 15378) of the CEQA Guidelines, California Code of Regulations, Title 14, Chapter 3, because it has no potential for resulting in physical change to the environment, directly or indirectly; Approve the Program Year 2024-25 CAPER; and
Authorize the City Manager or her designee to submit the Program Year 2024-25 CAPER to HUD.
DISCUSSION:
On September 6, 2025, the City published a notice in the Daily Pilot informing the general public that the Draft 2024-25 CAPER (Attachment A) would be available for review and comment from September 6, 2025, to September 23, 2025. The attached CAPER is substantially complete in form and expenditures; it may include minor changes to match the City’s records before it is submitted to HUD. No changes will be made to the final amounts drawn for public services or administration or beneficiaries as those amounts are subject to, and comply with, statutory caps.
The public was informed of the opportunity to provide oral and/or written comments on the CAPER. To date, no public comments have been received; any public comments received at the public hearing will be included in the final report submitted to HUD. Additionally, the CDBG Citizen Participation Plan requires that a public hearing be held to receive comments from interested parties regarding the CAPER. This public hearing addresses the CDBG citizen participation requirements as laid out in the City’s adopted CDBG Citizen Participation Plan.
The program year 2024-25 CDBG allocation from HUD was $375,580. The City anticipated receiving $305,773 in program income but received $318,142. The City also had $384,818 of unallocated CDBG funds from prior years. Table 1 below shows the annual CDBG budget and expenditures.
Table 1
FY2024-25 CAPER
Program Categories
Budget
Expenditures
Public Service Activities
$53,967
$29,118
Homelessness Prevention
$48,237
$48,237
Capital Improvement Program
$672,648*
$236,497
Program Administration & Fair Housing
$136,270
$102,774
Total
$911,062
$416,626
*Note: The ‘Capital Improvement Program’ funding for public facilities projects will carry forward and be drawn in the 2025-26 program year, as needed. Any unspent program funds will be carried forward into the new fiscal year and allocated to eligible CDBG activities. Funding for the San Miguel Park project totaled $442,880 in FY 2024-25, and $657,648 across FY2023-24 and FY2024-25.
The accomplishments for this year include, but are not limited to, a mobile meals program serving 44 senior residents, fair housing services for residents, a motel voucher program for homeless individuals serving 16 residents, and a homeless prevention program that assisted 27 residents with food pantry services, vouchers, and more.
A more detailed explanation of accomplishments can be found in the attached draft 2024-25 CAPER.
Additionally, close-out payments in the amount of $17,105.87 for administrative costs related to the Be Well OC Mobile Response Program, which operated during Fiscal Year 2023-24, were paid from unspent CDBG-CV funds in program year 2024-25. The City Council decided not to extend the Be Well OC Mobile contract beyond August 2024.
FISCAL IMPACT:
This item is a report on accomplishments for the past year; there is no fiscal impact related to this item.
ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW:
Staff recommends the City Council find this action is not subject to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to Sections 15060(c)(2) (the activity will not result in a direct or reasonably foreseeable indirect physical change in the environment) and 15060(c)(3) (the activity is not a project as defined in Section 15378) of the CEQA Guidelines, California Code of Regulations, Title 14, Chapter 3, because it has no potential for resulting in physical change to the environment, directly or indirectly.
NOTICING:
In accordance with HUD requirements for a 15-day public review and comment period, a notice of this public hearing was published in the Daily Pilot on September 6, 2025. Further, the agenda item has been noticed according to the Brown Act (72 hours in advance of the meeting at which the City Council considers the item).
ATTACHMENT:
Attachment A – Draft Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report 21-3
21-1
Community Development Block Grant Program Year 2024-25, Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report
September 23, 2025
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