2019 Annual Community Assessment Report

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AND DEVEMPMENT 9CD-21102 The Honorable Mitch Roth 25 Aupuni Street Hilo, HI 96720 1 1132 Bishop Street, Suite 1400 Hondulu, Hawaii 96813-4918 www hud,gov espanol,hud gov SUBJECT: Annual Community Assessment (ACA) Report Program Year 2019 rt7,T,yg*"rnm=, --%Oj��!:!xy This letter is being sent to convey HUD's assessment of the County of Hawaii's (County's) performance for its 2019 Community Planning and Development (CPD) Program Year. The report reflects the County's efforts to ensure HUD program compliance. As part of HUD's annual review, the Department wants to take this opportunity to address the Community in ensuring that the intent of the CDBG program is achiev�d. HUD CDBG regulations require recipients to carry out their CDBG activities in a timely manner thus ensuring low- and moderate -income persons are assisted. The standard requires grantees to be at a 1.50 CDBG timeliness ratio 60 days prior to the end of their program year. In of that amount. The County's program year ends June 30 of each year. About May 2of each year, or 60 days prior to the end of the County's program year, the County must have a CDBG grant ratio of 1.50 or less. When the 60 -day test was conducted on May 2, 2020, the County had a CDBG timeliness ratio of 1.47. ne enclosed Annual Community Assessment Report reflects HUD's assessment of the County's implementation of its CPD programs. It notes the County's successes and areas needing improvement. Please note that the report identifies the County as not meeting the planning and administrative I. The County exceeded the planning and administrative cap for PY 2019 expending more than the 20% cap. Specifically, the County's submitted IDIS PR -26 report indicates the County expended 22% of its grant funds for program administration. With respect to compliance, grantees will be considered to be in compliance if total obligations charged under 20 percent of the sum of the entitlement grant for the program year, and the program income received during that program year by grantee and its subrecipient. As a result, the County will have to repay the 2% overage to its CDBG program with nonfederal funds. If the County feels it summited its PY2019 PR -26 report with errors, the County may make corrections to the report in IDIS and submit a corrected PR -26 to HUD for review.