Ogden staff present HUD consolidated plan amendment and FY27 action plan funding priorities
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Summary
City staff proposed Con Plan Amendment #2 to allow parks and ADA improvements in HUD target public improvements, outlined FY27 HUD budgets (CDBG and HOME line items) and described a 30‑day public comment period with a May 12 hearing and May 13 HUD submission if adopted.
Ogden City staff presented a proposed amendment to the five‑year HUD Consolidated Plan and the draft FY27 annual action plan during a joint work session, detailing program budgets, eligibility rules and a public comment schedule.
Kathy Flynn, a city staffer working on HUD plans, told the council that the Consolidated Plan is the city’s mechanism to receive Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and HOME Investment Partnership funds and that "if it's not in the 5 year plan, then we cannot use HUD funds to fund it." She described programs that rely on those funds, including purchase‑rehab‑resale, emergency home repair loans (up to $5,000, 0% deferred loans for very low income homeowners), infill housing and down‑payment assistance.
Con Plan Amendment #2 would explicitly add parks and ADA improvements (playground equipment, restrooms, parking lot repairs, curb ramps, etc.) as eligible target area public improvements limited to low‑ and moderate‑income census tracts, and increase the planned count of public improvement projects for the five‑year period.
Jeremy, the staff presenter on the annual action plan, provided the FY27 budget snapshot and goals: $500,000 CDBG for purchase‑rehab, $751,923 HOME and $205,119 match for that program (goal: four homes renovated and sold), $40,000 CDBG for emergency home repairs (five loans), $500,000 HOME for down‑payment assistance (50 loans), target area public improvements budgeted at $1,796,297 CDBG, $250,000 CDBG for microenterprise assistance (about 10 businesses), $350,000 CDBG for small business loans (projected to create/retain four jobs), and $744,580 for tenant‑based rental assistance to assist about 70 homeless persons.
Council members raised questions about TBRA funding continuity (staff said the current TBRA round is a one‑time ARP award of $1.6 million spread across multiple years and administered by the Ogden Housing Authority), monitoring and supportive services for TBRA participants, interest rates for small business loans and requests for last year’s program performance data (staff offered to provide the CAPER report and program counts). Staff also said purchase‑rehab resale homes include an owner‑occupancy requirement and a minimum five‑year affordability period tied to funding rules.
The public comment period for the FY27 action plan began April 4 and runs through May 4; a public hearing is scheduled for May 12 and staff said they would submit the plan to HUD on May 13 if adopted by the council. HUD is expected to announce entitlement numbers by May 3 and the city will reconcile the submitted plan once final entitlement amounts are available.
