STRATEGIC PRIORITY: Government Performance & Financial Management
AGENDA DATE: March 8, 2023
COUNCIL DISTRICT(S): N/A
DEPARTMENT: Budget and Management Services
EXECUTIVE: Jack Ireland
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SUBJECT
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Authorize (1) preliminary adoption of the Proposed 2022 Amended CDBG-DR Budget and draft Action Plan Action Plan to accept additional Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) in the amount of $15,967,000, increasing the total amount to be received from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development from $24,433,000 to $40,400,000; and (2) a public hearing to be held on April 12, 2023, 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 U.S. 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.
The City of Dallas received a direct allocation of CDBG-DR. These funds are typically awarded to the State, and the City of Dallas had never received CDBG-DR Funds from the State or a direct allocation. The 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.
On December 14, 2022, the City Council authorized final adoption of the 2022 CDBG-DR Budget and draft Action Plan. The Action Plan including the approved budget along with details of the City's plans for the use of funds to address unmet recovery needs, and mitigation was due to HUD on December 28, 2022.
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