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Waukegan opens 30-day comment period on 2025–29 consolidated plan; HUD data transfer errors noted
Summary
City of Waukegan staff presented a draft consolidated plan for 2025–2029 at a public hearing June 16 and opened a 30-day comment period, outlining planned CDBG and HOME allocations and saying HUD’s IDIS data export is not pulling current statistics.
City of Waukegan staff presented a draft consolidated plan for program years 2025–2029 and opened a 30-day public comment period at a Finance & Purchasing Committee public hearing on June 16.
The consolidated plan, required for communities that receive U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development funds, lays out priorities and proposed allocations for Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and HOME Investment Partnerships (HOME) funds for the next five years. Larissa Garland, director (city staff presenting the plan), told the committee the city’s 2025 CDBG allocation is projected at $735,595 and the HOME allocation at $266,402, and that the draft action plan for program year 2025 lists specific agency awards and capital projects.
Garland said the draft lists about $110,000 directed to social-service providers (roughly 15% of the HUD grant allocation) and named the recommended subrecipients: Safe Place, Elder Care, Habitat for Humanity, Northern Illinois Food Bank, PADS Lake County, Prairie State Legal Services (disability and fair housing programs), YCC, YouthBuild Lake County and the Zachariah Center. The draft also…
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