ACTION REQUESTED:
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Communication from the City Manager and the Community Development Director with a Request to APPROVE the Funding Recommendation from the Human Resources Commission for the 2017 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT (CDBG) PUBLIC SERVICE FUNDING, in the Total Amount of $224,400.00.
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BACKGROUND: As approved by the City Council on July 12, 2016 (Item # 16-243), the Advisory Commission on Human Resources (HRC) undertook the process of reviewing CDBG public service applications. For the 2017 funding year, 21 eligible applications were received requesting over $529,000 in CDBG public service funds. Applications were received in all seven funding priority areas adopted by the City Council:
* Senior Services
* Youth Services
* Services for Battered and Abused Spouses
* Employment and Training
* Child Care Services
* Abused and Neglected Children
* Mental Health Services
Each Commissioner reviewed all 21 applications received. Applicants presented a short overview for the Commission and the Commission had an opportunity to ask questions of applicants at a special meeting on Friday, November 4. Following the meeting, commissioners independently submitted evaluation sheets 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 18 Commission meeting, the average scores were presented to the Commission along with some funding options as a starting point for discussion. To ensure the use of funds by the best applicants and to ensure rigor in the public service funding process, the Commission decided to fund all applications that received an average score of 139 points or higher, which would be considered approximately 80% of the total score to be at least a "B". To comply with HUD underwriting stan...
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