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City holds public hearing on 2024 CAPER; officials outline CDBG, HOME and ESG outcomes
Summary
City staff held a public hearing July 15 to present Springfield’s 2024 CAPER, reporting outcomes from HUD entitlement programs and explaining how federal program-year accounting affects reported expenditures.
City staff opened a public hearing July 15 to receive public comment on Springfield’s 2024 Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report (CAPER), which reports on the city’s use of federal HUD entitlement funds and progress against the 2020–2024 consolidated plan.
Logan Gilles, city staff, told commissioners the CAPER documents what the city accomplished during the program year and explained the difference between HUD funding years and the program-year accounting that appears in the CAPER. "The CAPER summarizes the city's performance for the year," Gilles said, and noted the CAPER is required by HUD and subject to a 30-day public comment period and at least one public hearing.
Gilles said the city met or exceeded 2024 action-plan goals in code enforcement, demolition, infrastructure, homeowner rehab and public services, and highlighted several results: a completed single-family home rehabilitation at 742 Clifton Ave, 29 owner-occupied housing units rehabilitated…
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