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El Centro council approves 2025-26 CDBG annual action plan, allocates funds for housing, public services and facilities
Summary
After a public hearing, the City Council approved the City of El Centro Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) 2025–26 one‑year action plan and a 30‑day public review period. The plan includes funding for housing rehab, public services, senior nutrition and city facility improvements.
The El Centro City Council voted unanimously to approve the City of El Centro Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) 2025–26 annual action plan following a public hearing and staff presentation.
City staff member Adrianna Nava, who presented the plan at the hearing, described the city’s conservative revenue estimate and recommended funding allocations that staff compiled through earlier meetings and a request‑for‑proposals process. Nava said the plan assumes a modest program‑income estimate and includes prior project savings to expand several activities.
The adopted plan allocates funding across housing, public services and public facilities. Nava said the city estimated roughly $25,000 in program income and had about $68,000 in accumulated project savings available to allocate. Recommended awards presented in the hearing included $25,000 for housing (to support one to two housing rehabs and related soft costs such as sidewalk work and lead or asbestos remediation), $47,250 for general public services, $20,000 for Catholic Charities senior nutrition, $11,468 for the homeless day center and $4,000 for the SURE helpline. City facilities and improvements (including Frasier Field and community center work) were listed at about $346,000; the plan also includes the required 20% program administration allocation.
Nora Sarte, representing Full Procedure Clinic, spoke during the public comment portion to describe her organization’s street medicine, recuperative care and sobering center services in the region and to answer council questions about referral pathways and hours of operation. Resident Peter Rodriguez offered brief public comment in support of the proposed allocations and urged fiscal balance.
The council approved the resolution to adopt the annual action plan and to release the plan for a 30‑day public review period. The motion passed 4–0.
The plan will now enter the public review phase required by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development before any final submission or contract execution with subrecipients.
