FOR THE COUNCIL MEETING OF APRIL 5, 2022
COUNCIL AGENDA REPORT
TO: City Council
FROM: City Manager
Prepared by: Director of Community Development
SUBJECT: PROCLAMATION — "NATIONAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT WEEK" RECOMMENDATION:
That the Mayor and City Council recognize April 11-15, 2022, as "National Community Development Week" to celebrate and showcase the programs and projects which are funded by federal grant programs like Community Development Block Grants (CDBG) and HOME Investment Partnership (HOME).
BACKGROUND:
For the past 47 years, since 1975, CDBG has provided local communities, like the City of Santa Maria, with an important source of funds to address a variety of needs, including:
homelessness, at -risk youth, seniors, individuals with special needs, public improvements, and affordable housing. The CDBG program provides grants to create neighborhood approaches that improve the physical, economic, and social conditions in communities, primarily low- to moderate -income residents.
For 32 years, since 1990, the HOME program has helped communities provide access to affordable housing for low-income households. The HOME program provides grants to participating jurisdictions nationwide to create safe, sanitary, and affordable housing in communities. The City has participated in the HOME program, as part of a consortium with the County of Santa Barbara since the consortium's inception in 1995. The County is the lead agency and fiscal agent for the Consortium. Currently, the City is under contract with the County Consortium as both a participating jurisdiction and a subrecipient.
Both CDBG and HOME are administered nationally by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). These programs are needed more than ever to help the City's most vulnerable residents and improve the overall condition of the City's neighborhoods. Every dollar of CDBG and HOME funding leverages more than four dollars in other funding; bringing additional vital resources to communities.
DISCUSSION:
In the past five years, nearly $7.8 million in CDBG funding has been invested in the community. During that time, the City has provided dozens of non-profit agencies with funding so they can offer a variety of programs including senior, legal, youth, substance abuse, homelessness, mental health, health, and domestic violence services. Non-profit
agencies have also been assisted with Capital funding to make improvements to their public facilities, provide minor home repairs to residents in Santa Maria, and revitalize existing neighborhoods. In addition, City public improvement projects continue to be funded with CDBG dollars. In 2020, the City received more than $1.9 million in CDBG-CV funding — meant to help prevent, prepare, and respond to the coronavirus. This funding assisted over five dozen households with emergency rent assistance and covered costs associated with public facility improvements related to the pandemic. It is also expected to assist the City in its public Wi-Fi accessibility efforts and provide the Boys & Girls Club with funding to create an outdoor basketball court for the youth.
For the past five years, HOME funding has provided the City and its residents with more than $1 million in affordable housing projects. From 2017 through 2021, 358 households have been assisted by the Tenant -Based Rental Assistance (TBRA) program. The TBRA program has been around since 2010, successfully providing security deposit assistance to extremely low- and very -low-income families in Santa Maria. There is no other program of its kind in the City. HOME funds during this time were also able to fund affordable housing projects like People's Self -Help Housing Corporation's Los Adobes de Maria, Sierra Madre Cottages, the Housing Authority of Santa Barbara County's Residences at Depot Street, and the recently completed four -bedroom addition to Good Samaritan Shelter's Pine Street Bungalows.
CDBG and HOME are both valuable programs that have made tremendous contributions to the viability of the housing stock, infrastructure, public services, and vitality of the City.
ROSIE ROJO
Community Projects Manager
CHUEN NG
Director of Community Development
City of Santa Maria
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WHEREAS, the week of April 11-15, 2022, has been designated as "National Community Development Week" to recognize and celebrate the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program and the HOME Investment Partnership (HOME) Program; and
WHEREAS, since 1974, the CDBG Program has provided annual funding and flexibility to local communities to provide affordable housing, a suitable living environment, and basic human services; and WHEREAS, since 1990, the HOME Program has created and preserved affordable housing for low- income families; and
WHEREAS, CDBG attracts investment in underserved communities. Every $1.00 of CDBG funding leverages another $4.09; and
WHEREAS, HOME attracts investment in underserved communities. Every $1.00 of HOME funding leverages another $4.52; and
WHEREAS, over the past five years, the City of Santa Maria has invested nearly $7.8 million in CDBG funds, and more than $1 million in HOME funds into the community.
NOW, THEREFORE, 1, ALICE M. PATINO, Mayor of the City of Santa Maria, do hereby designate the week of Apri111-15, 2022, as
"NATIONAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT WEEK"
in the City of Santa Maria to celebrate and showcase the programs and projects which are funded by federal grant programs like Community Development Block Grants (CDBG) and HOME Investment Partnership (HOME).
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I hereunto set my hand and have caused the Seal of the City of Santa Maria to be affixed hereto on this 5ih day of April 2022.
Mayor