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Palm Bay advisory board approves city’s CAPER covering Oct. 2023–Sept. 2024
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The Community Development Advisory Board approved the City of Palm Bay’s Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report (CAPER) for Oct. 1, 2023–Sept. 30, 2024, following a staff presentation that reviewed HUD-required public comment dates, financial summaries, and noted discrepancies in spending figures that staff are rechecking.
The Community Development Advisory Board on Wednesday approved the City of Palm Bay’s Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report (CAPER) for the fiscal period Oct. 1, 2023, through Sept. 30, 2024.
Miss Carter, a city staff member who presented the report, said federal HUD regulations require a public comment period of no less than 15 days and that the city’s comment window ran Dec. 2–Dec. 19. "HUD federal regulations require a public comment period for no less than 15 days," Carter said, and the CAPER is due to HUD by Dec. 29.
Carter summarized program finances and beneficiary information included in the CAPER, pointing to maps that show Palm Bay’s low-to-moderate-income areas and a minority business report included in the packet. She noted the starting balance of available Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and entitlement funds for the year and described program income; staff also flagged a discrepancy in the reported spending totals and said they had to re-run numbers because of a software issue. "That number is not right on there… we had to run the numbers again," Carter said when explaining differences between versions of the report.
A board member moved "to approve the city's 2023, 2024 consolidated annual performance and evaluation report for the fiscal year October 1, 2023 through September 30, 2024 for the Community Development Block Grant Program," the motion was seconded and, by voice vote, the board approved it with no recorded opposition.
The report packet also included the financial reports the city must submit to HUD, geographic maps for staff and board use when evaluating funding requests, and the minority business report. According to staff, the CAPER documents will be part of the national database submissions to HUD following the close of the public comment period.
