Urbana holds hearing after HUD tells staff to remove prior‑year rollovers from current consolidated‑plan budgets

The City of Urbana Community Development Commission held a public hearing Tuesday to review a revised draft of the city’s 2025–29 consolidated plan and the 2025–26 annual action plan after the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development asked staff to stop showing prior‑year committed rollovers in future budget columns.

Interim Grants Division Manager Nick Olsen said the change is primarily a formatting and accounting adjustment requested by HUD. “The guidance that we’re now getting from HUD is that, those funds are basically accounted for already in prior year action plans, and we don't need to be including them in our budgets moving forward,” Olsen said.

The consolidated plan frames needs and goals over a five‑year period; the action plan covers the first year of that period and lists specific projects and budgets. Olsen told the commission the HUD review focused on how prior‑year balances were displayed: funds already committed to multi‑year projects should not be double‑counted in subsequent action‑plan budget columns. As a result, the draft circulated in August shows a smaller amount of resources available for FY2025–26, although Olsen said some…