Travis County Commissioners Court
June 9, 2009,
Item 20
And our favorite item, back on the agenda, number 20.
consider and take appropriate action on the following items related to planning for and the use of community development block grant (cdbg) funding from the u.s.
department of housing and urban development: a, receive update on the current projects and timeliness; b, receive results of the needs identification from the spring public engagement process; c, request to approve the potential projects for the program year 2009 action plan; and d, other related items.
famous or infamous other related items.
>> > good morning, sherri flemming, executive manager for health and human services and veterans service. >> > christie moffat, Travis County health and human services. >> > woo-hoo. >> > yea. >> > can you just for the listening audience describe that program. >> > that program is a home based social work program where we go and do case management, information referral, crisis intervention to people at their homes rather than focusing on center based services so that the people who traditionally can't make it to the center because they are living in unincorporated areas, outlying portion of the county can actually get access to services, so with that people are alto get services with the best single source which is a program to get housing or rental assistance for three months and then also access the flexible spending for youth dollars that we currently have. >> > you are also -- my understanding that we are identifying individuals to be contacted rather than waiting for them to contact us. >> > that is correct. >> > thanks. >> > uh-huh. >> > the water sewer improvement planning. >> > just a little background on that project. >> > this position, this particular project funds a senior engineer who is housed at t.n.r. >> > they are not agencies that already do that? >> > there are agencies that actually address that. >> > are we duplicating their work? >> > we are not duplicating their work. >> > okay. >> > the analysis of impediments identifies the community challenges where the agencies we fund deal with individual client cases and so the analysis of impediments will also assist us in determining whether or not this is an area maybe that we need to invest other dollars because we do have significant challenges in securing affordable housing in the community in addition to a whole depth and breadth of other issues that this report will identify. >> > the street improvements in laugh have lane, this was a project that the Commissioners court reprogramed funds from 2006 into this project. >> > >> [reading graphic] we've had multiple discussions with the court regarding the allocation error that h.u.d. >> > >> [reading graphic] >> > question. >> > yes. >> > if we receive the -- the weatherization funds, under the stimulus program. >> > yes. >> > would we still do the -- the home rehabilitation with cdbg dollars. >> > yeah, what we are looking at, originally when we had brought to you home repair or home rehabilitation last year, we thought that either coupling that with weatherization requests that couldn't be met with the current funding or also looking at emergency assistance, the one-time repair to help an issue, that would be of good use. >> > so where will that money come from? >> > that -- well -- >> > > the forgivable loan. >> > it would be the home rehabilitation project that we are actually asking. >> > that will be brought to us once we get a final word on the weatherization funding. >> > it's actually something we would be asking you to vote either on today or next week. >> > >> [one moment please for change in captioners] >> > also there's a threshold talking about led based paint. >> > >> [one moment please for change in captioners] >> > could you give us a real world example to make it clear? >> > well, that would be an example. >> > but there's no insulation in the attic. >> > there's no insulation. >> > what's the average age of the recipients of this service? >> > I would have to check that out. >> > and what is that in real dollars? >> > do we have that? >> > I don't have it with me, but I can provide that. >> > under a -- we can safely say it's under $25,000 a year in income, right? >> > certainly for an individual. >> > so we have Travis County residents that we've identified who would qualify for the home rehab project as we plan to amend it? >> > yeah, I mean we haven't actually had them go through a process, but we -- we have found through our cdbg project, for instance, we have -- we have a home that has no toilets. >> > so just for the regular listening public, that means if you repair somebody's house and they sell it in two years, we take it out of the proceeds of the sale. >> > right, and we get part of the investment back. >> > right. >> > we have reason to believe that h.u.d. >> > actually this is the traditional way most are remembered. >> > therefore we think h.u.d. >> > yes. >> > and we do believe this will be a much needed companion to the weatherization money that we're receiving through the stimulus because at four and a half million dollars, we -- we do not have the flexibility to reprogram any of that money to do additional repairs. >> > we probably wouldn't be able to do 20. >> > and that's my closing point is that we would be talking about residential situations that would be very devastating in terms of living conditions. >> > so for the community development dollars, we were looking at home buy assistance based on the need that at this point in time with the housing market and the lending situation, people are actually needing more money down. >> > I hear the -- I see the projects and I hear a whole lot of details. >> > yes. >> > where can I read the details? >> > the details are in section 4 of the backup. >> > okay. >> > and it's actually after the first sheet you'll find details on each project. >> > all right. >> > uh-huh. >> > question? >> > I'm ronnie refferseed. >> > why don't we -- let's let him know how to contact you later. >> > okay. >> > so the home rehabilitation project is $130,000. >> > who administers that program? >> > this program would be administered by health and human services. >> > and this flexible fund pool also has an investment from the city of Austin cdbg as well, and do you know what this number is? >> > I do not. >> > but over several years we've had an investment from the city of Austin cdbg as a part of this flexible fund pool. >> > any questions? >> > I will need a week so I plan to get court action next week. >> > yes. >> > and just as a cap on the presentation today, would you give a telephone number and the website for individuals who are watching, where they can get more information about our cdbg programs and other hhs and housing corporation programs? >> > sure. >> > on the housing repairs project, we did touch base with other entities that have had such programs in place. >> > yes. >> > and I guess pull from their experience best practices to implement here. >> > yeah, and their comment to me when I would talk to them about their programs and we talked about a $5,000 investment, they said how are you going to meet h.u.d. >> > well, I applaud you all for thinking out of the box, being super creative. >> > we try. >> > anything else today? >> > no. >> > we'll try to call you up early next week. 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before I turn you over to ms.
moffat, for the benefit of those who might be listening, we have been talking a lot about cdbg if these last couple of weeks, I did want to distinguish our previous agenda items and the -- the last two sessions have been related to -- to funding that Travis County has received through the stimulus package and the recovery act and so now today we're here to talk about what we consider our annual cdbg allocation and those projects that we are proposing for court consideration.
so ms.
moffat?
so we have a powerpoint to help expedite going through all of the information as it is a lot.
we provided you some substantial backup.
to give you some detail that we're going to go over very minimally today.
so -- so we receive community development block grant dollars from the u.s.
departments of housing and urban development.
this year for program year 2009 we anticipate to receive $866,432.
i might make a note, though, that we received information on Thursday, that h.u.d.
is having to rerun the allocation numbers for program year '09 because 27 entitlements actually contested their -- their numbers used for the population when the formula was originally run.
so there might be the possibility that this number might be tweaked a little bit.
we haven't received that information yet.
hopefully we will know within the next week.
so the first thing that we would like to do today is to give you a cdbg project update.
this is a project -- this update is for anything that you have funded between 2006 and 2008.
so for the apache shores street improvement projects, the engineering design is about 60% complete, environmental work substantially complete and will be coming to you in -- in probably the next two to three weeks to request advertising for the environmental review results.
so that we can continue on and work towards construction.
we are anticipating that all environmental and design and engineering will be finished in sent, which is actually two months ahead of schedule, yay.
and then move forward with procurement of construction beginning in October.
and with the completion of construction being done in summer of 2010.
which is ahead of schedule again.
so -- in terms of the land acquisition for affordable housing, for affordable housing and also infrastructure development, we are planning to -- to acquire the land no later than December.
we are in final negotiations with habitat regarding a subrecipient agreement.
as we have to go through an environmental process it will take until probably December, we are hopefully earlier, but, but probably December.
the infrastructure development will have been from March to November, it will take about six to nine months for that.
and then the completion of the houses for the construction of homes will -- will be completed approximately June 2013.
so understand that this project is actually about completing 41 homes, which is a nice number when we originally thought our investment would do about 17.
so -- so we are happy that we are able to provide more affordable housing and we'll be coming to you with the location of the land, once an option agreement is put on the property.
the north ridge acres water improvement project, we are anticipating completion in June of 2009.
hopefully I think we have one connection left.
hopefully we will be providing you an update or picture opportunities or something else to indicate that the project is completed.
the fss social work expansion, we actually completed the project for py 2007 funds and started spending money out of program year 2008.
that project is actually going very well.
we have -- we have served I believe 74 households last year.
and we actually are going to have a change of social workers beginning June 22nd.
we are going to be losing our fabulous social worker we've had since it's inception last year and have found an excellent applicant.
now we're not actually losing irene.
she's going to transfer into a different position with health and human services.
so we have found someone that we think is a very, very strong candidate who is also bilingual in spanish and will continue to provide the Sam caliber of services take irene has.
it's really neat.
so it's really breaking a lot of transportation barriers and stuff for people to be able to get access to services who traditionally would not.
what we are doing, we are making contacts with the school districts with different churches, different social service agencies and so people who traditionally need more of a general overview or general case management, we can go out and assess their needs and then advocate with agencies in the county that serve primarily in -- nearer the urban core.
we can advocate for their services to be brought out to the -- to the outlying areas, so --
we began this project with py '07 monies.
that project is complete.
we started spending money with py 2008 now.
we will be receiving a preliminary report in sent of 2009.
what that preliminary report will do will give you an idea of approximately 16 neighborhoods that we have looked at who have requested or identified a need for water or wastewater.
and we will provide you the feasibility of those things, the potential costs to continue, and then ask the court to make some decisions about how they want to move forward.
so --
that project was added to our cdbg menu basically as a result of the public hearing process that we have engaged in throughout the time that the county has received cdbg funding and we have found that we were continually having neighborhoods come forward to talk about water and wastewater projects.
so it was the court and the staff's intent to have a professional available who could actually assess these projects so that we could really identify how many projects were out there, what the needs might be and have a chance to consider sort of the depth and the breadth instead of looking at each project in an isolated fashion each time it sort of bubbled up.
that's sort of the background on this project.
and they -- that person also helps us with our project scoping for our other cdbg projects and also does project management of some of the infrastructure projects that we have talked about.
for home rehabilitation, we are anticipating to have a contract in place in November of 2009.
we actually slowed this project down for a reason because of the -- we were working on getting a template developed to be able to move forward, but also with the influx of stimulus moneys, it actually changed how we were looking at this project.
and so -- so we will probably be coming back to you to reconsider some of the -- some of the program designs.
in the coming weeks.
but we will also discuss some of that with what we are requesting for implementation for program year 2009.
in absence to impediment of fair housing and choice.
we are anticipating to have a contract in place in October of 2009 and currently we are using the city of Austin's office of impediments and also some additional work that we have done to talk about discriminatory practices in the housing industry.
and adding those needs.
and so this will be focused on the unincorporated area of the county and hopefully will identify some particular issues and ways that we can help reduce discriminatory practice and predatory lending, those kinds of things.
we fund through our social service contract investment, not through cdbg but through the general fund, Austin tenants council and Texas rio grande legal aid.
they help or they also provide services to help people understand about their rights as tenants and also move forward with any discriminatory action that needs to happen.
we are required to have an analysis of impediments and we -- in our annual report, we report the actions of the general fund.
cdbg could not possibly fund all of the different things to assist in reducing discriminatory practice.
so anything in the future that cdbg might potentially fund it would not be in duplication of what general fund dollars are already doing, it would be in addition to supplement that work.
but it is a h.u.d.
requirement.
we weren't able to get good candidate hired for the social work program we funded in 2006.
so we moved these dollars last year, last August, into the street improvement design for lava lane.
i'm happy to say that we have that under contract.
by design consultant firm.
we are anticipating that the engineering, design and environmental will be completed in February of 2010, we're going to be requesting that the court fund this second phase through the acquisition of right-of-way which we would anticipate to be finished in sent.
let's move on to timeliness.
h.u.d.
evaluates the county's timelessness at the end of July.
timeliness is achieved by having no more than 1.5 times the current allocation in the line of credit.
which is just a way talking about how quickly you are spending your funds.
provided and that we got a late start on our first year's allocation of spending that money.
and that has had a trickle down effect on us being able to be more timely.
h.u.d.
requested additional information prior to making a determination regarding our waiver request.
how we anticipated spending our money for program year '09 to see where we felt like we would be next July.
so what we have done is I made a chart here, I took the chart that we provided to the court with the letter that we sent to h.u.d.
in March of 2009 and put the different anticipated ratios that we had worked out.
so again you can see by may of 2010 originally in March we felt like we would be at 1.49 in compliance with timeliness.
that was assuming that we had anticipated no '09 money.
now, we're ahead on apache shores and a little behind on implementing some other projects like the home rehabilitation and we are a little further along than we thought, a little behind where we thought we would be with the land acquisition projects.
so us being ahead with apache shores is actually helping us to continue to stay in compliance with where we thought we would be.
i have actually altered the work out plan for June, the work out plan in June and so looking at those anticipated ratios in July of 2009 we'll be at 2.36.
in sent we will be at 2.28.
and in may of 2010 we still feel like we will meet that timeliness of 1.37.
that is assuming that the court approves the staff recommended projects.
and then July of 2010 we believe we'll be at .65, which will be well within our timeliness of 1.5.
each spring so that we can determine what we will be able to fund in 2009 or for the next program year we hold a series of public hearings.
and so over the spring we had five different public hearings, one here at Commissioners court and four out at the precincts.
and we had 19 participants at those public hearings.
we had five citizen participation forms submitted and what we did there is so that people who could not attend a public hearing for one reason or another, whether it was a transportation barrier or schedule conflict, we provided them the option to provide the same feedback that we received at the public hearing through paper.
and so five of those were submitted.
we also received eight project proposal forms, those are people who have specific ideas about how they would like cdbg funds to be spent, either by their agency, by their department, or by their neighborhood.
we received two proposals from neighborhoods, two proposals from agencies, and four proposals from Travis County department heads.
during that process, we learned that there were two additional communities that were interested in water and wastewater needs.
six additional road improvement projects, people discussed needing more affordable housing out in the unincorporated areas.
rehabilitation of existing units.
requesting other public services such as emergency assistance, adult education and extension of social work services.
and also youth services.
these -- these needs aligned with everything that we have seen from 2006 to 2009.
so it's been very nice to -- to know that everything that we have learned in 2006 just continues to build.
the needs remain the same.
and so it helps us in terms of planning in the future with where to put dollars.
so -- so the staff usually put things through a project scoring criteria, this year we used the same criteria that we had used last year with the exception of we combined two different criteria, we talked about feesibility, and -- feasibility and the time that it takes to spend down money for a project.
so we actually the court approved I believe it was in January to combine those two things and so now we have five different criteria that we look at when we look at projects.
so -- so whether or not a project addresses a high priority in the 2006-2010 consolidated plan, whether or not a project is feasible meaning can it be completed in 12 to 18 months, does it impact a significant number of people, does it benefit low to moderate income household and does it leverage funds.
one thing that I would like to note is that since we looked at the consolidated plan in 2006 we have had an economic turndown and a weakened housing market.
what staff did was we also considered this during the review of projects.
because there were some medium priorities that we had that might be a good use of dollars based on the current market.
so for the 2006-2010 con dated plan strategic direction the court had approved back in 2006 high priorities as water sewer improvement, street road improvements, youth services, other public service needs, housing rehabilitation, owner housing production of new units and infrastructure for new housing development.
for 2009, staff are recommending the following projects for consideration.
in the backup that we provided you, in tab 4, you will have a list of all of the different high priority projects that were looked at from 2006 to 2009 and anything that hadn't been funded we re-evaluated.
also there is a specific handout about everything that is requested for 2009.
that was new.
and whether or not -- if we recommended not funding it, there are reasons why we did or did not.
so it's just a summary sheet for you, it's similar to what we did for y'all with cdbgr.
this year we are recommending home buyer assistance in the amount of $528,000.
knowing now there's going to be a large influx of funds potentially coming down to the county, we want to recommend a change.
and this would actually help some of the weatherization dollars.
so traditionally when you look at a house and you evaluate it.
you have to determine whether or not the house is a good enough repair for the weatherization improvements to be of impact.
and what we're finding is that through our cdbg social work expansion project, a lot of the houses that we're seeing is are in disrepair, where $5,000 isn't going to make a significant enough improvement for a service such as weatherization to make a difference.
so we're going to be requesting that the court consider a five year, 0% interest forgivable loan of up to $24,999 to make -- to make improvements to the house so that it can receive assistance such as things like weatherization.
and some of the other programs that might be available.
we are asking you to make a program design for program year 2008, the funds that you have already committed, then also commit the '09 funds towards that model.
changing that model to the 24999, the forgivable loan.
we feel like the recommendation is sounds, we know from our current weatherization program that we have -- that we have the court is aware, that we have general fund dollars that we can use to partner with the grant funds that we receive to do weatherization because in the eligibility for this program, there is not only income eligibility, but then there is -- there is eligibility for the house.
so does the house, is the house -- in sufficient repair that the weatherization improvements will make a difference and what we're finding is that there are houses that we are unable to do, the weatherization improvements because the -- because the repairs are so significant and I think that we have seen in our previous public hears we have -- the home repair issue, home repair problem low to moderate income folks not having a funding stream to be able to make sufficient repairs to their property so they remain liveable.
when you
i'm thinking going in on a house weatherization program and you find out they have the old style windows that are all messed up.
is that like an example of what we're looking at?
i'm sure we probably have different ones, but that would be an example.
the weatherization program, even the knew funding that we are anticipating, limits improvements to those that directly impact energy consumption up to $6,500.
so there's testing conducted by our staff and a substantial number of other folks witness we get the stimulus money that would identify other problems.
for example, the -- oh, shucks, I lost it.
the -- the house being in disrepair so the house is actually losing its heating and cooling because there's -- there's significant leaks or there's, you know, work that needs to be done on doors and windows and whatnot.
if there's -- and also if you have the combination of all of those problems.
so there's no insulation, the windows need to be replaced, there may be roof issues, there may be issues with regard to the sealing of doors and windows, and so you get to $6,500 pretty quick on a property like that.
the other thing, there could be disrepair.
we find sometimes in bathrooms there's significant issues around the flooring and the age of the pipes, those sort of things that while you could put in low flow toilets, if you have pipes that are deteriorating, the home is still going to be in danger of losing water.
many of the residents whose homes we do are, I would say, senior citizens, folks who are disabled.
because right now the program has an income cap of 125% of the federal poverty income guidelines.
the stimulus money will allow us to go up to 200%.
for a family of four it's less than $50,000 a year.
so they are using a port-a-potty.
and so if we were able to hook up a -- if we were able to use this money to -- this amount of investment allows us to do lots of things.
potentially it allows us to repair a septic tank.
it potentially allows us to place a new septic system if that's needed.
it allows us to do a water connection.
it allows us to fix a roof.
and it allows a combination of all of those things so that if there are multiple issues, so for the woman who is renting a port-a-potty because she didn't have the money to have a septic system put in, then -- and she's not able to put running water to her house, that investment might allow those things to happen so that she can have a home with running water and with the luxury that you and I have not to have to leave our home to go use the restroom.
there are people whose bathrooms are in such disrepair that $5,000 is not going to meet it and we are not going to be able to -- to be able to -- to do enough with $5,000.
i know there's also a concern about loans and the county being able to do loans.
that's why we're actually recommending this program goes through a second recipient and this would be a soft second or a lien on a house to be able to insure that we could get the dollars back up to five years and have it prorated.
and that would be considered program income to our cdbg program so we would be able to use that money either for a program such as this or in some other way that is cdbg eligible.
will approve such a program.
will approve.
i mean the repairs that we can do on homes is very specific to that weatherization, to that weatherization requirement.
and so there will be residents whose homes will be disqualified and potentially with very significant repair issues if not for a program like this.
and, of course, $130,000, if everyone were funded at the maximum, we're talking, you know, five homes, for the most part.
we hope to do 20, I believe.
it would probably be between five and six houses.
again, the number of houses would be determined on, you know, how bad the houses were that we ended up determining eligible.
and we really need to ensure affordability so the foreclosure issues that have occurred across the country are not replicated.
so this project would be administered through the Travis County housing finance corporation in the form of downpayment assistance and also gap financing.
this program would allow program income to be created and be hopefully put back into a home buyers assistance program so it would continue to fund itself.
the downpayment assistance would be targeted at people 80% of median family income or below for an amount of $8,000.
and it's a zero percent forgivable loan over five years with 20% -- sorry, I'm going to have to look at my numbers.
prorated at 20% per year.
so we would get that investment back if somebody sold their house within three years, we would get a certain amount of that investment back.
if they sold it in six years, we would not.
for the gap financing, it's actually shared appreciation.
so this amount would be up to $30,000 and it is based on the person's needs.
so it's targeted at people -- at families at 60% of median family income or below.
let's just say people were trying to buy a $100,000 home and they needed $25,000 for it to be affordable.
then what would happen is based on a calculation, we would determine that that was correct, $25,000 would be needed.
that amount would be given at closing to help make that housing cost more affordable to the family.
and then at the time that the family ended up selling the house, we would get an equal amount or a percentage equal to the amount we invested initially of that appreciation cost.
so we would get 25% of the appreciation value coming into the -- to the program income for the county.
and that would end up being reinvested into additional home buy assistance programs through the housing finance corporation.
it was a binder that we had provided.
thanks.
for street improvements for -- we talked about home rehabilitation so it's --
question?
i moved into a house that was a fixer upper over 15 years ago and it still needs to be fixed up and it's -- a lot of what you were saying sounds very interesting to me.
i happen to be a very low-income person and I'm wondering how do I find out more or how do I get involved with your program?
i live in Travis County, by the way, not in the city, but in Travis County.
we'll get that information to you.
thanks.
it would be an investment up to 24,999, which would be a zero percent interest loan, a forgivable loan over five years.
that would be for minor home repair.
and then finally our recommended project for community development is street improvements.
this is phase 2 of a three phase project.
the first phase was funded with money out of py '06.
this $60,000 investment would pay for project management time of our senior engineer as well as $50,000 for anticipated costs for right-of-way acquisition so that we can proceed and move forward with construction hopefully next year we'll bring back a request for construction dollars for leveling.
so that would mean a total of $718,000 or 83% of the py allocation would be spent towards community development projects.
for our public services, we had -- we had a great interest in public services this year with cdbg.
and so for a variety of reasons which we've detailed in your backup, we have recommended these two projects.
the public services, the fss expansion, this is a continuation of a project that is currently being funded.
we are only asking for $35,000 for this reason.
in order to improve our timeliness, what we are wanting to do is to reduce our larger carryover balances from administration and planning and public service.
so with the current money that is being used right now out of program year '08, that funding will take us through April of next year.
so we only want to fund the portion that we need to take that project through September of 2010.
which is $35,000.
so we're anticipating $39,300 in carry overfunds from '08 plus the $39,000 for a total investment of $74,300, I believe it is, to complete that project -- to continue that project through September of 2010.
also we're recommending youth services in the amount of $32,100.
and this is a project that will help build upon the social work project that's currently being funded.
it's the expansion of flex funding for youth.
this is a project that provides youth that are at high risk for incarceration or if they have some mental health issues or if they are just struggling in general, this provides them the opportunity to receive some flexible funding to meet their needs whether that's tutoring, mentoring, going to band camp, you know, a variety of different things to help improve that child's functioning so that they can remain healthy and happy and moving forward in a positive direction.
this is an investment that the Commissioners court had approved back in 2006 and because of the reduction in h.u.d.'s funding error, we ended up getting rid of this project simply because we didn't have enough dollars to do the investment in a genuine way.
austin-Travis County mhmr is the managing service organization that all the funding requests go through them.
they cut the checks so that the money can be dispensed to the care coordinator or social worker who is doing the work for the family.
so there would be $2,100 of this is actually for their program delivery costs to be able to manage that money and to cut the checks.
but the rest of it, the $30,000, is specifically for services to youth.
so this would be the first time that our $1 would be invested -- that our cdbg dollars would be invested in this way.
moving on to administration.
we are recommending the funding amount of $81,332 for administration.
this includes .6 of a f.t.e.
and general operating costs.
and the nice thing about this is that currently the court has been providing funding for one cdbg senior planner and $25,000 of operating costs through the general fund budget.
and then providing one-time assistance to fund additional planners to help with the administration of the grant.
what we're trying to do is to move as much of the cost as possible into the grant and so what we would be asking is for the court to continue the investment that's already in the ongoing target budget for health and human services of the one-time senior cdbg planner or the one cdbg senior planner and the $25,000 investment, which would be about 40% or .4 f.t.e.
of the -- or of the cdbg planner.
and then the grant would cover the remaining costs.
so it would cover the remaining costs of the cdbg planner, plus the operation, training, all of those other costs.
in addition, we would recommend that we continue the planning project, but we wouldn't have to invest any money for program year '09 to continue the water, wastewater planning and that's where wee fund the cdbg senior engineer.
bus we have enough carry overfrom 2008 and because we've asked the senior engineer to put his time that is project delivery eligible, costs that are specific towards each project and put those into their budgets, so we're actually off setting his cost and we're only paying for the actual planning and administrative work that he's doing that is not eligible to a project.
so with that, we are -- we would carry over $75,000 from our current administration and planning budget and so our total allocation amount for 2009 would be approximately 18% of our grant.
and the -- for administration and planning we would use $45,000 for the water and wastewater for the water and wastewater planning and then $111,332 for the administration.
and that totals about 18.5% of the total allocation would be used for administration and planning.
so any questions on that?
i know it's confusing.
all right.
so in terms of a time line, June 9th we're presenting the potential projects for py '09.
on June 16th if the court doesn't choose to approve projects today, then we would need -- we would need project approval by next week.
and on June 23rd staff would bring back to you the draft of the py '09 action plan so it can go up for public comment you from June 24 through July 23rd.
we would have 30 day comment period and two public hearings, one on June 30th and one on July 14th.
august 5th staff would bring back the final action plan for approval, and then by August 14th staff would have to submit the application to h.u.d.
so that was a lot of information we normally provide through a work session, but due to the cdbg deadlines we were not able to do so.
so we are happy to provide any additional information you think you might need or answer any other questions.
and that -- for us to stick to this schedule, we really do need to take action to approve the 2009 projects next week, correct?
and I had met with Commissioner Gomez knowing that she was out, we had also offered to meet with Commissioner Davis and go through everything just so they could understand a little better about where we were.
so with the county's website, www.co.travis.u.s.
that provides to you the main Travis County website where you can find information per department where you can access the housing finance corporation current projects and also the cdbg page.
if you want to go specifically to the cdbg page, just add a back slash.
my phone number is 854-3460 and my name is christy moffett.
regulations.
that's where we knew we were going to have to focus on emergency home repair or weatherization for us to be able to do anything with that $5,000 investment.
yeah, I think that's enough for one day.
i got a lot in my head.
we could keep you here all day if you want to.
thank you all very much.
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