Innocence City Council adopts FY2025 action plan and approves reallocation of HOME funding

The Innocence City Council on July 1, 2025, adopted its fiscal year 2025 annual action plan under the CPPG program and the HOME Investment Partnerships Program and approved a related amendment reallocating HOME funding from the 2017–2024 annual action plan. The actions implement the council's annual plan-setting for federal housing and community development programs and reallocate previously allocated HOME funds; the transcript did not specify dollar amounts or which projects will receive funding. During the meeting the council discussed two standalone resolutions that had been reviewed at a prior work session. The first resolution "authorizing the adoption and approval of the fiscal year 2025 annual action plan under the CPPG program and home investment partnerships act program" was put to a roll call and recorded as passed. Mayor Smith announced, "That resolution has passed." The council then considered a second resolution "proposing an amendment to the 2017 to 2024 annual action plan reallocation of home funding," which likewise passed after a motion and roll call; Mayor Smith said, "That resolution has passed." Roll-call votes recorded in the transcript show affirmative votes from members identified as Councilman Browning (or Brown), Councilman Roberts, Councilman Harrington, Councilman Harris and Mayor Smith on the first resolution; the transcript records the second resolution as similarly approved. The meeting record does not state who made or seconded the specific motions by name beyond procedural "so moved" remarks. The HOME Investment Partnerships Program (HOME) is a federal program that provides funds for affordable housing activities; the meeting transcript used the phrase "home investment partnerships act program." The transcript also referenced a "CPPG program"; the council did not expand on that acronym during the meeting and no funding totals, project names, or implementation timelines were provided. No public comments were scheduled for the meeting, and council members did not describe next steps or deadlines for allocating the newly authorized or reallocated funds during the session. Council clerk Miss Bass answered procedural questions on the agenda and roll calls; she did not provide additional funding details at the meeting. For now, the council has approved the FY2025 plan and the reallocation in principle; project-level awards, amounts, and implementation details were not specified in the public record presented at the July 1 meeting.