Title
Resolution Approving the First Amendment to the 2015-2019 Consolidated Plan for Housing & Urban Development (HUD)
Staff Summary
• An amendment to the 2015-2019 Consolidated Plan for Housing & Community Development is required by the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD). This current five-year plan represents the first time that Lake County and its Consortium Members - North Chicago and Waukegan - report accomplishments using HUD’s electronic format, and several issues with the electronic reporting format are resolved in this amendment.
• In April of 2016, HUD provided guidance on the pairing of grant-funded activities (e.g. owner-occupied housing rehabilitation) with HUD’s Goal Outcome Indicators (e.g. # units of homeowner housing rehabilitated). The revised five-year plan incorporates the suggested pairings and recalibrates the five-year targets.
• At the start of planning for each new program year, the Housing & Community Development Commission (HCDC) assesses how funding trends support or detract from achieving the Plan’s five-year goals. This first amendment to the 2015-2019 Plan shifts prospective funding away from infrastructure goals that have already been exceeded to housing goals that, but for additional funding, would not be projected to meet the five-year targets as required by HUD.
Body
RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) requires the submission of a Housing and Community Development Consolidated Plan every five years; and
WHEREAS, the Lake County Housing and Community Development Commission and the Cities of North Chicago and Waukegan held four Public Hearings between November 2014 and February 2015 in conjunction with the development of the 2015 - 2019 Housing and Community Development Consolidated Plan; and
WHEREAS, the Lake County Housing & Community Development Commission, at their regularly scheduled meeting on Wednesday February 11, 2015 recommended for approval by the Lake County Board the 2015 - 2019 Housing and Community Development Consolidated Plan describing the Needs, Goals, and Strategy Statements for federally funded CDBG, HOME, and ESG funds; and
WHEREAS, the Lake County Board approved the initial 2015 - 2019 Housing and Community Development Consolidated Plan on March 10, 2015; and
WHEREAS, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has requested reporting changes requiring this first amendment to the 2015-2019 Housing and Community Development Consolidated Plan.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by this County Board of Lake County, Illinois, that the recommended First Amendment to the 2015 - 2019 Housing and Community Development Consolidated Plan that identifies the Needs, Goals, and Strategy Statements for the use of federally funded Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), Home Investment Partnership (HOME) and Emergency Shelter Grant (ESG) program funds from May 1, 2015 through April 30, 2020 is hereby approved; and
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on June 13th, 2017.