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for the Department of Economic
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Development and Building and Housing.
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And with us this evening is Christian
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Spencer. He is one of our HUD
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consultants with Civotas. We're here
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this evening to discuss the 2025 annual
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action plan. This is our public hearing
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that is required by HUD. It is June 26,
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The consolidated plan and action annual
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CDBG home and ESG is administered
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through the consolidated plan referenced
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as con plan and managed through HUD's
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integrated dispersement and information
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The con plan and annual action plans
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helps grantees determine activities and
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organizations to fund in the coming
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years. The con plan is five years in
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length and describes community needs,
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resources, priorities, and proposed
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activities to be undertaken under
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certain HUD programs.
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The annual action plan. The annual
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action plan, which we refer to as AAP,
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is submitted to HUD every year during
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the five-year con plan cycle. The AAP
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describes the specific plan uses for HUD
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programs as well as certain other
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program requirements.
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The 2025 action plan funds
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funding for community development block
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grant. The HUD 2025 allocation
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we anticipate will be 1,86,820.
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Program income $15,000.
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And related to that program income um is
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uh payments uh from homeowners who have
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sold their homes prior to the required
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five-year timeline or they had previous
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loans with the city or and are repaying
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those home uh those um payments back to
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us. So the total would be1,821,820.
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Home funding $469,627.19.
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And the income would be $10,000 again.
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Again, that's payback on loans, which
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would give us a total of $479,627.19.
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ESG. ESG for your for clarification are
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the dollars that we use to help serve
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our unhoused population in the city of
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Harrisburg. We anticipate $163,869.
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There will be no program income, giving
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us the total of $163,869.
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Given the current climate in DC, it's
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becoming a national trend to focus on a
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few larger projects that will have a
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greater impact on our city than
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sprinkling resources over a lot of
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smaller projects. In addition, our last
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funding cycle did not generate a lot of
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So it has been the decision of the mayor
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that we will focus on infrastructure
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projects for the 2025
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priority needs. Number one, public
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facilities and infrastructure to improve
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and expand public infrastructure
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s such as streets, sidewalks, water,
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sewer, ADA improvements, lighting and
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and improve access to public facilities.
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Two, public services.
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Three, removal of slum and blight
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and blight removal. affordable
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housing development, rental housing
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development, home ownership, housing
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development, owner occupied housing
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rehab, such as our HRP
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homeless and housing services, reduce
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Again, that's our ESG funds and that's
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that's managed by an organization we
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call CAT. That's Capitol Area Coalition
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Section 108 loan repayment.
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And that is a debt that the uh city um
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carries and we hope to have that paid
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The 2025 annual action plan goals to
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improve and expand public
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5,000 low to moderate income persons
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assisted. Improve access to public
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facilities. 20,000 low moderate income
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persons assisted. Demolition and blight
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removal. Buildings demolished. Rental
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housing development. Rental units
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constructed. Home ownership housing
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development. Two homeowner housing units
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construct constructed, I'm sorry. And
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owner occupied housing rehab. 30
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homeowner units rehabilitated.
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Reduce homelessness. 500 persons
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experiencing homelessness provided with
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shelter. 15 persons at risk of
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homelessness provided prevention
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and section 108 loan repayment
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2025 action plan projects and funding.
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And so we'll go down the uh budget
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again. Community development block grant
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administration $361,364.
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Community Development Block Grant,
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public facilities and infrastructure,
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Community Development Block Grant
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Housing Programs, 500,000.
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Community Development Block Grant
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Emergency Demolition, $224,000.
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Home I'm sorry, CDBG section 108 loan
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Home administration $46,962.
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Home CHTO set aside 15%. Now that CHTO
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15% is not for developers to use for
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their own uh administration. Uh it's for
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things like project development fee fees
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that developers would need need to um uh
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complete their projects. Home nonchoto
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And let me go back to the home choto,
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which the set aside is $40,444.
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ESG 2025 for the unhoused, that's
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Citizen participation
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public comment review period. The city
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will hold a public comment review period
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from June 27th, 2025 to July 28th, 2025
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to give the public an opportunity to
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review and make comments on the draft
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The city is currently holding a public
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hearing today to review and discuss the
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proposed action plan. And today's date
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again is June 26, 2025. and we started
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this meeting as advertised at 5:30 p.m.
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The public hearing is being held here in
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the city council chambers on the first
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floor of the MLK Junior City Government
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Center located at 10 North Second
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Street, Sweet 305 Harrisburg,
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Next steps. The draft 2025 action plan
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can be downloaded and reviewed from the
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city's Department of Economic
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Development, Building and Housing
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colon back slashbackharrisburga.gov
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back slb buildingousing back slash it's
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a little difficult to pronounce
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Written comments can be sent to the
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department of building and housing
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office or email to department of
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building and housing at harrisburgpa.gov
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gov. HUD submission 2025 action plan
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will be sent by August 15, 2025.
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We're open for questions in the
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audience. We have anyone here?
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I'm sorry, sir. What was you did?
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I think so. Um, Lori, I I didn't expect
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you to to deliver the whole thing, but
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uh um I was ready to take over as
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needed. So, great job. Uh no comments,
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though. And so I think we'll wait for
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any further comments potentially from
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the 30-day comment review.
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Um, now since we don't have anyone here
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yet and this is to go to 6:30, we have
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to stay here for until 6:30. Correct.
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My lawyer who has my back in case I go
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I that I think that's the standard for
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it is the standard. And actually, we
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really thought the last last year when
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we did it and we held it off site and we
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held it off site to give people, you
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know, the benefit of good parking and
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and and we had, you know, refreshments
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and so forth. And we didn't get any the
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Well, the mayor and and her assistant
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Deb, they were there and uh and that's
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All right. And and so the you know
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tonight we don't have snacks, but it
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wouldn't matter. The mayor was begging
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we don't have snacks. But um we um had
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it here thinking perhaps we get more.
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We got a lot of jokesters in here, too.
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Yes, I I did site the email. You want me
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Okay. Yeah, we a and people can come in
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to our office and review the document.
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Um and it'll be available to them. So,
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and it's actually um the plan is already
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on our web page that it was put on
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yesterday. So, it's already there and I
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checked it, made sure it's there and so
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forth. So, um, we're a day early in
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getting that, um, on our web page, so
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I thank you, Christian, for filling in.
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Thank you. Well, yeah, certainly. And,
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um, glad it went smoothly. And you two
