ACTION REQUESTED:
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Communication from the City Manager and the Community Development Director with a Request to APPROVE the Funding Recommendations from the Advisory Commission on Human Resources for the 2018 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT PUBLIC SERVICE FUNDING, in the Amount of $227,400.00.
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BACKGROUND: As approved by City Council on July 25th (Item #17-245), the Advisory Commission on Human Resources (HRC) undertook the process of reviewing the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) public service applications. For the 2018 funding year, eighteen eligible applications were received requesting nearly $438,000. Applications were received in all six priority funding areas adopted by the City Council:
* Senior Services
* Youth Services
* Employment and Training
* Child Care Services
* Abused and Neglected Children
* Mental Health Services
Each Commissioner reviewed all 18 applications received. Applicants presented a short overview for the Commission and the Commission had an opportunity to ask questions of the applicants at a special meeting on November 3rd. Following the meeting, Commissioners independently submitted evaluation forms for each application. City staff compiled these scores and dropped the highest and lowest score for each application. Then, an average score was created from the remaining scores taking into account any Commissioners who did not score an applicant due to a declared conflict of interest.
At the November 17th Commission meeting, the average scores were presented to the Commission along with some funding options as a starting point for discussion. After a detailed discussion, the Commission decided to fund all applications that received 140 points or higher, which would be considered approximately 80% of the score to be at least a "B". To comply with HUD underwriting standards, grant amounts were awarded based on an average score tied to a percentage of grant funds requested. A decreasing scale was used and some...
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