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Prescott Valley reviews draft CDBG consolidated plan, $292,411 annual allocation on public comment
Summary
TDA Consulting presented the town's first five-year HUD consolidated plan draft and one-year annual action plan, proposing a 2025 start focused on infrastructure with later phases for emergency home repair and small-business support; public comment is open through June 18 and the consultant aims to submit to HUD by June 30.
The Town of Prescott Valley heard a presentation June 5 on a draft five-year consolidated plan (2025'029) and an accompanying 2025 annual action plan for Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The town's proposed 2025 allocation from HUD is $292,411, the consultant said.
The plan identifies priority needs and recommended goals that will guide annual funding decisions over the five-year period. Jennifer Alfa of TDA Consulting, the firm contracted to prepare the plan, told the council the plan combines national census and local data with outreach and stakeholder interviews and that the draft is open for a 30-day public comment period through June 18.
The nut of the draft plan is a three-part sequence of priorities, Alfa said: begin with public infrastructure and neighborhood revitalization, add an emergency home-repair program in a later year to help people remain housed, and phase in support for low- and moderate-income businesses. "With a small allocation like $292,000, it's a good idea to take a strategy," Alfa said, recommending Prescott Valley focus on infrastructure in 2025 and introduce home-repair policies in 2027 and business supports in 2028.
HUD rules limit where CDBG funds can be spent. Alfa told the council infrastructure or other area-benefit activities must occur in census block groups where at least 51% of households are low- to moderate-income (household income below 80% of area median income). The draft includes maps showing those block groups; Alfa and staff noted census boundaries cross municipal lines and that the maps in the council packet include zoomed-in views so councilmembers can see street-level applicability.
Alfa described eligible uses under CDBG (infrastructure, streets, sidewalks, water/sewer, public facilities, certain economic development and neighborhood revitalization activities) and cautioned that the program limits use for new affordable rental construction. She said emergency "urgent need" activities can be used in non-low/mod areas but are limited to 30% of the allocation and that further clarification about multi-year disaster eligibility would be provided to council.
Councilmembers asked how the outreach captured demographic and geographic representation in survey responses; Alfa said another consultant ran the town survey and TDA can obtain the survey instrument and demographic cross-tabs to report back. Councilmembers also pressed staff on targeting sidewalk gaps and linking past sidewalk investments to prioritized corridors in the purple low/mod map areas.
Next steps in the process, Alfa said, are to collect written public comments through June 18, revise the plan as necessary, and submit to HUD; TDA aims to submit by June 30 (the consultant called that the preferred target) while noting the statutory deadline is August 16.
The town did not take a formal vote at the June 5 study session. Staff and council indicated they will return to the council with the final consolidated plan and the one-year action plan and with recommended implementation steps for 2025.
