Title
Amendment to the Lee's Summit Citizen Participation Plan
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Issue/Request:
Amending the Lee's Summit Citizen Participation Plan to establish policies and procedures to encourage public participation in the process of developing the HUD required Assessment of Fair Housing.
Key Issues:
HUD Final Rule on Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) requires HUD assistance recipients to conduct an Assessment of Fair Housing (AFH) every five years as a condition for accepting their Consolidated Plans. To conduct this required AFH, the City is also required to amend our current Citizen Participation Plan to establish policies and procedures to encourage public participation during the process of AFH.
Proposed City Council Motion:
I move to direct staff to draft an ordinance for the adoption of the Amendment to the Lee's Summit Citizen Participation Plan.
Background:
Lee's Summit was designated as an Entitlement Community under the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Grant funds must be used to benefit low-to-moderate income persons or to address slum or blight in the community.
HUD regulation 24 CFR Part 91 requires that all CDBG entitlement cities and states prepare and submit to HUD a three-year or a five-year consolidated plan every three or five years respectively, as well as an annual action plan every year, as a condition for receiving HUD grant. A Consolidated Plan is a strategic plan of the community or state that identifies priority needs of the community or state and lays out strategies, priorities and resources to address those needs. An Action Plan is an annual plan that specifies how the community or the state plans to implement the strategies and priorities established in its Consolidated Plan and how to distribute HUD grant funds among the supported programs and projects for the upcoming program year. 24 CFR 91.105 specifically establishes a mandate that all HUD grant rec...
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