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Kent council adopts 2025 CDBG annual action plan after second required public hearing

3442148 · May 22, 2025
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Summary

The Kent City Council voted to adopt the city’s 2025 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) annual action plan and the 2025–2029 consolidated plan after a second required public hearing; staff said the award is $20,000 below last year’s estimate and plans to offset the shortfall with revolving loan repayments and reallocations.

Kent City Council on May 19, 2025 adopted an ordinance approving the city’s 2025 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) annual action plan and the 2025–2029 consolidated plan following the second of two required public hearings under Title I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974.

The plan, which staff said guides use of CDBG funds for 2025 and sets goals for the five‑year consolidated plan, passed on a roll call vote after councillors voted to suspend the rules and adopt the ordinance as an emergency measure. The ordinance is recorded in the agenda as Draft 2025‑44.

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