Monterey County supervisors adopt five-year consolidated CDBG plan, approve funding with $150,000 hold on MST bus-stop project

Monterey County Board of Supervisors on May 13 adopted the county's 2025'29 consolidated plan and the fiscal year 2025'26 annual action plan for U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funding, and authorized Housing and Community Development (HCD) to submit the plan to HUD and execute subrecipient agreements.

The action implements the county's eligibility as an urban county consortium and approves staff'recommended project allocations, while the board directed that the $150,000 proposed for a Marina bus-stop ADA project (submitted by Monterey-Salinas Transit, MST) be held in abeyance pending further review of alternative uses for that amount.

HCD program staff presented the plan and funding recommendations. Don Yanomitsu, Housing and Community Development, told the board, "We're requesting the board of supervisors accept the consolidated plan, which includes the annual action plan, adopt and authorize HCD to submit the plan to HUD, approve the subrecipient agreement template...and authorize HCD to execute these agreements." He said funding projections are based on HUD estimates and a joint urban-county agreement with participating cities; final HUD allocations will…