Final City Council Meeting of the Year Scheduled For Monday

The newly constituted City Council will conduct its first substantial deliberations on Monday at the final meeting of the year. The council is not scheduled to meet for three weeks and will return on January 13, before another break on January 20 in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday.

At Monday’s meeting, the City Council is scheduled to hold a public hearing on a substantial amendment to the 2019 and 2024 Annual Action Plan for Community Development Block Grant and United States Department of Housing and Urban Development Investment Partnerships Act Funds.

On May 20, 2019, the City Council convened a public hearing approving the submission of the 2019 Annual Action Plan as an application to the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. At a meeting on May 19, the City Council convened a public hearing approving the submission of the 2024 Annual Action Plan as an application to the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. But modifications to several projects require that the respective Annual Action Plans be amended in accordance with United States Department of Housing and Urban Development regulations by a “substantial amendment.”

The amendment would allow the City to reallocate $256,365 in United States Department of Housing and Urban Development Investment Partnerships Act funding made available through the American Rescue Plan Act, and $680,000 in unspent Community Development Block Grant funds. Funds would be used to enhance security at Robinson Park, upgrades to the Villa Parke locker room, sidewalk improvements in Northwest Pasadena, and managing United States Department of Housing and Urban Development Investment Partnerships Act-funded projects.

“The Annual Action Plan sets forth the projected uses of federal entitlement funds, including Community Development Block Grant, HOME Investment Partnership Act, and Emergency Solutions Grant program funds for the program year. The Plan addresses the efforts made toward accomplishing the goals and objectives included in the City’s Five-Year Consolidated Plan (2020-2024). Since its inception in 1974, the Community Development Block Grant is one of the longest-running Housing and Urban Development programs. The program provides communities with resources to address a wide range of unique community development needs.”