The Fall River Community Development Agency held its second public hearing on March 6, 2024, at 5:30 PM in the city council chambers. The purpose was to gather public comment on the draft Year Five Annual Action Plan, which is part of the city's 5-year Consolidated Plan (2020-2025) approved by HUD on June 10, 2020. This plan outlines strategies and activities for the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), HOME Investment Partnerships (HOME), and Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) programs, commencing July 1, 2024. Projected funding for the upcoming year includes $2,631,000 for the CDBG program, $242,000 for the ESG program, and $1,164,000 for the HOME program. Residents were invited to submit comments until March 25th, and copies of the plan were available at various city locations. The draft plan is scheduled to be submitted to the City Council around March 14th, with a resolution authorizing Mayor Paul E. Coogan to file the plan with HUD to be considered on April 23rd. No residents signed up to speak or submitted comments at the hearing, leading to its closure.
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this is the uh second public hearing which is requesting comment on the proposed annual action plan it is March 6 2024 and it is 5:30 in the city council chambers tonight's public hearing is being held to provide residents of the city of Fall River the opportunity to express their views on the draft of the year five annual action plan being prepared for submission to the US Department of Housing and Urban
0:31Development the city of Fall River 5-year Consolidated plan 2020 to 2025 was approved by Hud on June 10th 2020 that document identified Community Development housing and homelessness needs and a schedule of strategies to address them over a 5-year period five the year five annual action plan is incorporated into the Consolidated plan and addresses those strategies with activities to be
0:59undertaken taken through the cdbg home and ESG programs during the program year commencing July 1st 2024 copies of the projected use of funds for each of the programs to be undertaken in the fifth action year are available to you tonight a summary of the proposed year five annual action plan was published in the heral news and on the city of Fall River website www.all River ma.gov and citizens were invited to submit
1:32comments also copies of the proposed plan are available for public review at the following locations the for of a Community Development agency at one government center the office of the city clerk at Government Center and the Fall River main Public Library at 104 North Main Street residents have until March 25th to submit comments All comments received during this review period in testimony statements letters and
2:00petitions submitted at tonight's hearing will be used in the updating the year five annual action plan for the program year to start July 1 2024 according to the submission timetable draft copies of the year five annual action plan and perent related informational materials will be submitted to the city council onor about March 14th 2024 at its meeting on April 23rd the city council will consider enactment of
2:30a resolution authorizing mayor Paul E Coogan to file the year five annual action plan with the US Department of Housing and Urban Development honor about May 1st year 50 of the for of Community Development block grant program year 38 of the emergency Solutions grant program and year 33 of the home program are scheduled to begin July 1 2024 projected funding includes 2,6 31,000 for the cdbg program
3:03242,000 for the ESG program and 1,1 64,000 for the home program the format of tonight's public hearing will be to allow participants the opportunity to express their views on the proposed year five annual action plan prepared statements to that effect will be accepted persons wishing to speak have been asked to sign a separate signin sheet and will be called to testify each speaker should State his or her name and
3:31address and if appropriate the agency or organization represented uh tonight we have no one here that is willing to speak and uh no one has signed in on a separate signin sheet so I'd like at this moment to uh close the hearing thank
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