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City holds public hearing on 2025–26 Community Development Block Grant applicants; requests exceed available funding
Summary
Council received presentations on 18 applications for CDBG funds, with staff reporting an allocation of $973,000 plus program income and fund balance for a total of about $1.2 million available; requests totaled roughly $2.1 million, leaving the committee and council to prioritize awards.
City staff and nonprofit representatives briefed the Midland City Council on June 10 regarding applications for the 2025–26 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funding cycle and sought public comment as part of the statutory planning process.
Elizabeth Triggs, planning and development officer, described the federal rules that require projects to meet one of three national objectives and one of three outcomes. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) allocation to Midland for the 2025–26 program year, Triggs said, is $973,000; staff also proposed using $50,000 in program income and a portion of a fund balance so the committee could recommend awards totaling about $1,220,000. The city received 18 applications requesting just under $2.1 million.
Applicants who spoke at the hearing described services for seniors, people experiencing homelessness, food access and affordable housing infrastructure. Presenters included Shirley Almanza of Breaking Bread Kitchen (Midland Homeless Coalition), Tanya Eckert of Casa de Amigos (senior nutrition and homemaker services) and Tracy Renton of Senior Life Midland (weekend/frozen meal expansion). The proposals ranged from program continuation (senior meals, homemaker and minor home repair programs) to facility and infrastructure projects (park amenities, Dunigan Park solar lighting, Hidalgo Park restroom replacement, affordable‑housing appliance and HVAC replacements, and street/sidewalk work).
Triggs said the grant committee will meet and make funding recommendations for council consideration; the draft action plan will be published and a final plan must be submitted to HUD by Aug. 15. Staff noted the demand exceeds available funding and emphasized that all awards are reimbursement‑based and tied to performance metrics and HUD requirements. Several presenters highlighted increasing need: nonprofit speakers said senior weekend meals and food distribution programs are seeing growing caseloads and that existing providers had already spent prior year awards.
No funding decisions were made at the June 10 hearing; staff will publish the draft plan and the CDBG prioritization committee will recommend allocations for council consideration later in the public process.
