109 Community Development Action Plan
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Okay, we're gonna one over nine.
It's always a pleasure to be here in the morning. Marcia Jesberg, Director of Community Development, and we're here to go over our 2021 Action Plan. Of course, the Community Development Office is your department that works to improve the lives of our Pasco residents through four areas: homeless initiatives, neighborhood revitalization, affordable housing, and community partnerships. We use state and federal funding. Today we'll be talking
about that federal funding. And we do work in the with individual households right in our office, but we also partner with a number of agencies around the community. And so the projects we'll be talking about will be those partner communities. On the next slide you'll see the three grant programs that we are looking at today. Pasco County is an entitlement community. That means that we directly receive funding from housing and urban development
based on our population, our number of low-income people, the type of housing we have here. And these are the funds that we have available to work with this year. The first program we'll be looking at is the Community Development Block Grant Fund with an allocation of $3.0 million coming in this year, plus other funding from last year and program income. We use those funds in public services or human services programs and
also development. and we do this with an annual competitive application cycle. Our home investment partnership with a grant of $1.3 million is our affordable housing program, not the state one, but the federal affordable housing program. And then our emergency solutions grant, $247,000. That is our homeless activities program with outreach, emergency shelter, rapid
rehousing, homeless prevention, and the homeless management information system. So on the next slide you'll see our funding recommendations. You know that we have an annual application that opened up in March, and then the applications came in, and we also have a committee that is comprised of citizens and a couple of people from the county, and they go over all the applications, they review, score, and And rank
them and then these come to you for approval. So this is the list. We have for public services Van Gogh's Pallette, which is the services through Vincent House, One Community Now, Saint Vincent de Ball Cares, which is an agency, and we just opened up eight units of affordable housing with them, and 30. units last month. uh the deaf and hard of hearing who is located currently in
Galen Wilson is now going to relocate, uh, to have more synergy of service with Lighthouse for the blind and so that's funding for their relocation. And for the first time since we built their their building, Boys and Girls Club of Tampa Bay has come back to get service uh funding for their after-school program. And a new grant to us would be a new agency, the N Recidivism Project. On the next
slide. We have our development projects. So these are brick and mortar rehab projects, also economic growth. Those are the that's under development. Gulf Coast Jewish Family Community Services, we're doing renovations to one of their facilities. Ark Nature Coast, we want to bring the site up to meet the needs of both day and residential programming. uh cares were going to be a match for the money that they got from the state so that they could clear
the land and get ready for the building that they're gonna build. uh and we are partnering with Pasco County Parks and Recreation to build a universal uh universally inclusive playground in the Lake Lisa Park. uh partnering with the Office of Economic Growth for a five hundred thousand dollar economic development revolving loan fund. And then the last two projects are to assist our staff to manage these projects. So that is our
CDBG funding. On our next slide, this is our ESG or our homeless funding for emergency shelter. We are going to recommend funding ACE Opportunities, Catholic Charities, Salvation Army, and Sunrise of Pasco County. The last two, Sunrise and Salvation Army, are our shelters for people that experience domestic violence. For homeless prevention, new to us is Fresh Start of PASCO and One
Community Now. And then our Coalition for the Homeless manages our HMIS or Homeless Management Information System. Last but not least, we have our home funding recommendations, which again is to go vertical with housing, affordable housing. We have a small project to convert septic to SUR for a residential care facility. Working again this year, we did it last year, and we're doing it again this year. Reroofing
11 buildings for the Pasco County House. housing authority in two different places of theirs and then tenant-based rental assistance and we're bringing on a new agency, Westcare, as well as continuing with the Coalition for the Homeless. So those are our recommendations. Uh do we next slide?
Mm.
So are there questions uh from the commissioners would be happy to answer it.
Any questions?
Motion to approve.
Second. We had a motion and a second. All those in favor say aye. Okay. Okay. Mr. Chairman Mariano.
Motion passed 4-0. Marcia, you're doing a great job. A
lot
of things going on there. A lot of you touching a lot of different bases at a very tough time. So thank you.
Thank you. I'd also like to say thank you. I've been able to send citizens to you and they've been able to find housing. So very excited. Thank you. Thank you.
Yeah. Thank you, Marcy, for all you do and any team members also. We appreciate it.
Okay, I have