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Lincoln Park holds public hearing on CDBG CAPER; presenter reports roughly $908,000 available, $1.2M spent with prior-year funds
Summary
City staff held a public hearing on the Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report (CAPER) for the CDBG program, reporting the prior program year allocation and spending and opening a comment period through Oct. 7.
The Lincoln Park City Council opened a public hearing Monday on the city's Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report (CAPER) for the federal Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program, with consultants reporting the city's 2024-25 allocation and how funds were used.
Joan Hennessy of Hennessy Engineers, who presented the CAPER with Community and Business Development Director Monique Guerrero, said the city received $774,007.39 in its annual CDBG allocation and $133,006.38 in program income; she said those figures were presented to the council as a combined total the city staff described roughly as $908,000. Hennessy said the city spent about $1,200,000 in the reporting year, noting the larger number reflects use of prior-year carryover funds as well as the current allocation.
The CAPER summarizes how the city met goals stated in its annual action plan, Hennessy said, and lists housing rehabilitation, housing-stock improvements (including one rehab of a vacant home), public-infrastructure work (including current parking-lot projects), the demolition of blighted properties, and about $180,000 in public-service expenditures for nonprofits, community policing and crime-awareness programs.
Hennessy said the CAPER will be available online for public review through Oct. 7; she said written comments received during the review period will be included with the report submitted to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Hennessy invited public questions and there were none. Mayor Tobin then closed the hearing.
The hearing did not include a separate council vote on the CAPER itself at the meeting; Hennessy and Guerrero said staff will collect and include public comments before submitting the CAPER to HUD.
