STRATEGIC PRIORITY: Government Performance & Financial Management
AGENDA DATE: November 9, 2022
COUNCIL DISTRICT(S): All
DEPARTMENT: Budget and Management Services
EXECUTIVE: Jack Ireland
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SUBJECT
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Authorize (1) preliminary adoption of the City's Proposed 2022 Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) Budget and draft Action Plan to accept Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery in the amount of $24,433,000; and (2) a public hearing to be held on December 14, 2022, to receive comments on the proposed use of funds - Financing: No cost consideration to the City
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BACKGROUND
In late April 2022, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced that approximately $24.4 million 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.
Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) funds must only be spent for necessary activities related to disaster recovery, restoration of infrastructure and housing, economic revitalization, and mitigation in the "most impacted and distressed (MID)" areas of qualifying disasters. All 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 data sharing agreement with FEMA. HUD will share FEMA's data with grantees to prevent a risk of duplication of benefits. To receive the CDBG-DR funds, the...
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