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CR-40 - Monitoring 91.220 and 91.230 Describe the standards and procedures used to monitor activities carried out in furtherance of the plan and used to ensure long-term compliance with requirements of the programs involved, including minority business outreach and the comprehensive planning requirements The County's Office of Housing and Community Development (OHCD) projects inspector continues to inspect all of the HOME rental projects as well as the County's own rental housing projects. There have been no findings. The complexes are well maintained, all of the units inspected are in good condition and provides for a decent, safe and sanitary dwelling. Regular, scheduled inspections ensure that any property standards issues are addressed and corrected in a timely manner. The County has adopted the State's Outreach Plan to Minority Business Enterprises (MBE) and Women's Business Enterprises (WBE) as contained in the State's Consolidated Plan. All public notices that pertain to project proposal solicitations that involve the use of funds from HUD contain language that encourages the use of minority firms, women business enterprises and non- discrimination in employment. All construction bid specifications also include specific information on non-discrimination, contracting with small and minority/women business firms and the requirements of Section 3. In addition, the County continues to inform and encourage all contractors of its requirements of Section 3 during pre-bid and pre-construction conferences. The County monitors its agreements and procurements done by grant recipients each year to determine compliance with all rules and regulations. The State's list of eligible MBE/WBE/DBE's is provided to each grant recipient annually and is also available at the OHCD for the grant recipient to utilize for procuring services and goods for their HOME project to ensure compliance with this requirement. Citizen Participation Plan 91.105(d); 91.115(d) Describe the efforts to provide citizens with reasonable notice and an opportunity to comment on performance reports. On September 6, 2017, the OHCD published a CAPER public notice in the Hawaii Tribune-Herald and West Hawaii Today. The notice informed the public where copies of the draft CAPER were available for review and invited the public to provide comments on the draft CAPER. The notice and draft CAPER was also posted on the County website. The 15-day public comment period expired on September 21, 2017. The County did not receive any comments from the public. CAPER OMB Control No: 2506-0117 (exp. 06/30/2018) 25