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Beloit holds public hearing on 2024 CAPER: staff reports CDBG accomplishments, service counts and challenges
Summary
City staff presented the 2024 Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report (CAPER) for Community Development Block Grant-funded activities. The report summarized allocations, program accomplishments, neighborhood-focused activities in Merrill and Hackett, and common challenges cited by subrecipients.
City staff opened a public hearing on the 2024 Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report (CAPER), the year-end report required by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development that summarizes Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) activities and accomplishments.
Terry, a city staff presenter, and Bianca, the grants administrator, reviewed 2024 priorities, funding allocations and subrecipient accomplishments. Staff said HUD requires the CAPER and that the city’s 30-day public comment period was open from Feb. 26 through March 28; the CAPER must be submitted to HUD by March 31, 2025.
Staff reported the following funding allocations and accomplishments (figures as stated at the hearing): $150,000 allocated to affordable housing; $56,150 to homeless services; $94,950 to case management; $20,650 to future-ready skills; and $335,000 toward improving housing stock. Staff said the program assisted a total of 1,945 individuals (the stated goal was 1,742). A carryover from 2023 and some staffing challenges were noted as context for performance on several activities.
Subrecipient and neighborhood activity highlights included Community Action’s Merrill Community Center, ECHO’s emergency rent and utility assistance, Family Promise of Greater Beloit’s emergency shelter work and Legal Action of Wisconsin’s community lawyer project. Staff said neighborhood revitalization work focused on the Merrill and Hackett neighborhoods under the city’s NRSA addendum and that two neighborhood cleanups were completed.
Staff identified common challenges for subrecipients: transportation barriers, shelter wait lists, inflation and a shortage of housing units available to transition clients into permanent housing.
The public hearing was opened and closed at the meeting; staff invited written comments during the public-review period for incorporation into the CAPER.
