STRATEGIC PRIORITY: Government Performance & Financial Management
AGENDA DATE: December 14, 2022
COUNCIL DISTRICT(S): N/A
DEPARTMENT: Budget and Management Services
EXECUTIVE: Jack Ireland
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SUBJECT
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A public hearing to receive comments on the Proposed 2022 Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) Budget and draft Action Plan to accept Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery Funds from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in the amount of $24,433,000; and, at the close of the public hearing, authorize final adoption of the 2022 CDBG-DR Budget and Action Plan - Financing: This action has no cost consideration to the City (see Fiscal Information)
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BACKGROUND
In late April 2022, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced that approximately $24.4 million of Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery funding has been allocated to the City of Dallas under the second tranche of funds released from the Disaster Relief and Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2022. This funding was allocated to the City as a result of the winter and ice storm that occurred in February 2021.
The CDBG-DR Funds must only be spent for necessary activities related to disaster relief, long-term recovery, restoration of infrastructure and housing, economic revitalization, and mitigation in the "most impacted and distressed (MID)" areas of qualifying disasters. The entire City of Dallas is included in the MID.
CDBG-DR funding supplements other Federal recovery assistance programs administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the Small Business Administration (SBA), and the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). Funds cannot duplicate financial assistance or be used to reimburse for payments made from any other source. Since these recovery assistance programs provide similar assistance, HUD entered into a dat...
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