2019-11-15 HCHA Approved Minutes

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Special HCHA meeting November 15, 2019 So once you have completed that action plan and completed the citizen review process, HUD reviews and generally accepts. We might ask you to do...you know, add some details here and there. We make sure the activities are eligible on there face and then with that we can generate the grant agreement and you can move into spending the funds. There is a parallel component...let me figure this out, yeah...there is a parallel component I was talking about earlier about getting your financial management processes and procedures in place, there's a timeline for submitting the action plan and us approving the action plan, but we don't sign a grant agreement until those financial management capacity standards are met. So often times you may will have an approved action plan but we can't get to contract until all your capacity and procedures meet the requirements and that can often take longer than the action planning process. But again it's to make sure the money is spent properly and make sure that you have control of all of the federal funds. So we sign the grant agreement...you guys sign the grant agreement, then we sign the grant agreement. Often times the grant agreements will have some special conditions, if in the process of generating that grant agreement, or the action plan, the financial standards we identify things that you need to do, but we don't want to hold up the grant agreement, then we'll put in the agreement...we don't want to hold up the spending of funds...for activities that are ready to go but we might say you need to do this within 90 days, fill this position within 60 days, not spend money on this program until you have policies/procedures fully developed, that sort of things will be in that grant agreement. The eligible uses of CDBG-DR funds it's a...well here's...this is the standard appropriations law, more often than not, this is the language that changes every time they do it, but this is a common language: expenses related to disaster relief. Long term recovery and restoration of infrastructure, housing and economic development. Very general. Each...all of the DR grants are targeted to specific presidential declared disasters areas...disasters. We have what are called most impacted and distressed areas. So if sometimes its towns or zip codes or if a state gets a grant is a county that is that most impacted and distressed area. 80% of the money needs to be spent in those areas. It has to be eligib...meet the standard CDBG eligibility criteria unless like I said there's one of those waivers. And in the CDBG there's a national objective that needs to be met, anything that's spent on an actual benefit, needs to meet a national objective. The national objectives...do I have them...no. It's low-mod benefit, urgent need and slum and black for disaster grants slum and black is rarely used so its mostly low-mod or urgent need and that's still with the tie back to the Page 6 of 31