Housing and Community Development First (5th) Year Action Plan (2019)

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1 reimbursement and each application for funding that is submitted to the Department of Community Investment (DCI). All subrecipients receive feedback and/or guidance via email and phone ' communication, and in-person meetings with DCI staff. In 2017 regular informal monthly and quarterly began with CDCs. Additionally, DCI staff conduct no less than eight (8) on-site monitoring visits of sub- grantees every year to review their internal systems.As part of the monitoring visit, DCI staff meets with appropriate members of the sub-grantee staff to review procedures, client files, financial records and other pertinent data. Any new sub-recipient is monitored in its first year of funding. ' Promoting Quality Rental Property is realized with the PHA's Section 8 vouchers, CDBG funds for construction of new rental units and rehab of existing rental units, as well as HOME funds for Tenant ' Based Rental Assistance. Efforts to prevent homelessness and assist the homeless are supported with Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) funds, as well as HEARTH McKinney-Vento Homeless funds. ESG funding will be allocated for operations of emergency shelters, essential services, rapid re-housing, tenant-based rental assistance, and program administration. CDBG funds are used to fund a position to administer Coordinated Entry services. 4. Summary of Citizen Participation Process and consultation process Summary from citizen participation section of plan. On May 15, 2018 the notice of the public hearings to start the 2019 Action Plan process was published in the South Bend Tribune and El Puente, and was also available on the City of South Bend website.The notice of the public hearings was also sent to all organizations on the HCD mailing list.Two public meetings were held on May 29, 2018 at different locations and at different times to accommodate a variety of schedules. The City of Mishawaka public meeting addressed Mishawaka CDBG application procedures, as well as City of South Bend CDBG and ESG proposal processes. St.Joseph County Housing Consortium procedures for applying for HOME funding were also discussed.The City of South Bend meeting addressed South Bend CDBG and ESG proposal processes and St.Joseph Housing Consortium HOME application procedures.There was discussion at both meetings regarding the 2019 Action Plan schedules and processes. The proposed 2019 Housing and Community Development Plan will be made available for review 1 November 3, 2018, for a thirty (30) day period, ending December 3, 2018.Two public hearings (one in Mishawaka and one in South Bend) will be held November 14, 2018, during the public comment period. Notice of the public hearings was published in the South Bend Tribune and El Puente. 5. Summary of public comments ' This could be a brief narrative summary or reference an attached document from the Citizen Participation section of the Con Plan. rAnnual Action Plan 3 2019 OMB Control No:2506-0117(exp.06/30/2018)