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Palm Bay approves HUD action plan for FY 2025-26 after debate over funding for aging services
Summary
After a divided council debate and a failed amendment to shift funds, Palm Bay approved its 2025-26 HUD Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and HOME action plan. An unsuccessful attempt to reallocate $35,000 from Catholic Charities to Aging Matters failed; the final plan passed 3-2.
Palm Bay City Council approved the city's FY 2025-26 action plan for Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and HOME Program funds on June 16 after a split vote and a narrowly defeated amendment to reallocate funding to a local aging services nonprofit.
The action plan is the city's application to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for program-year funding covering Oct. 1, 2025 through Sept. 30, 2026. Denise Carter, the city's grants manager, told council the plan identifies the projects the city will carry out with CDBG and HOME dollars and that HUD warned the city to meet the plan deadline or risk losing CDBG funding.
Carter stressed HUD monitoring expectations and documentation requirements for subrecipients. She said Catholic Charities, a proposed subrecipient for emergency housing assistance, passed a June 18 monitoring visit with no findings and that the agency records…
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