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From YouTube: Chattanooga City Council Agenda 04/25/23
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4/25/23
C
E
Am
is,
this
is
I'm.
Sorry
I
was
finishing.
Something
else.
Madam
chair
is
this
for
the
appointment.
It
is
we're
going
to
ask
to
withdraw
that
today,
so
that
we
can
it's
it's
not
on
Nicole
or
or
her
responsibility,
we're
asking
to
withdraw
it
so
that
we
can
work
out
a
legal
issue
that
was
raised
by
cha
we're
confident
we
can
work
this
out.
Our
intention
is
still
to
choose
Miss
Haven
for
that
role.
B
B
C
I
just
wanted
to
on
the
Note
around
Tony
sammons's
appointment
to
be
our
next
chief
Equity
officer.
The
administration
would
like
to
request
a
two-week
deferral
so
that
way
that
Tony,
although
he
has
worked
here
for
a
number
of
years,
is
an
opportunity
to
meet
with
council
members
and
specifically
talk
about
his
vision
for
the
department
and
if
that
is
amenable
to
council,
we
would
just
like
to
take
that
extra
time.
Okay,.
B
From
Council
for
that,
okay,
all
right,
we
moved
that
to
the
May
16th
agenda,
all
right
anything
else
on
the
future
considerations
you
need
to.
We
don't
have
any
departmental,
departmental
reports,
I'm,
sorry
about
that,
and
we
do
have
one
Committee
of
affordable
housing
committee
and
just
as
a
note
counsel,
we
will
not
have
strategic
planning
next
week,
since
we
have
several
committees
next
week
and
with
that
there's
no
other
I'm,
sorry
I'm!
Sorry,
councilman
Henderson
go
ahead.
A
B
D
F
Right,
thank
you,
madam
chair.
So,
as
many
of
you
know,
the
city
of
Chattanooga,
through
our
Department
of
Economic
Development,
is
the
recipient
of
federal
funding
that
comes
from
the
United
States
Department
of
Housing
and
Urban
Development
HUD,
and
so
today
we
will
be
doing
a
presentation
about
our
spending
plan
for
some
of
our
entitlement.
Grants
related
to
Community,
Development,
block
grants
and
home
funds,
and
so
with
that
I
would
invite
our
affordable
housing
manager,
Sandra
Gober
up
to
present,
as
well
as
Nicole
Heyman,
our
chief
housing
officer.
Thank
you,
foreign.
G
You
many
of
you
are
aware
that
the
city
of
Chattanooga
does
receive
federal
entitlements
again
annual
allocations
from
the
U.S
Department
of
Housing
and
Urban
Development.
These
are
allocations
that
the
city's
been
receiving
over
the
last
40
years
or
so.
The
the
two
primary
grants
are,
the
committee
to
development
block
grant
and
the
home
investment
partnership
program
funds,
the
Community
Development
block,
grant
those
dollars
are
have
a
little
bit
of
flexibility
and
that
we
can
use
them
from
our
housing
to
Public
Service
Street
sidewalk
activities,
the
home
investment
partnership
program.
G
All
of
the
funding
that
we
received
have
a
prescribed
uses
as
well
as
required
other
requirement
requirements
which,
in
three
of
those
are
that
the
funding
has
to
meet
a
federal,
National
objective.
Everything
that
all
the
money
that
we
deploy
or
utilize
has
to
at
least
meet
one
of
these
objectives
and
for
the
city
of
Chattanooga.
So
the
most
part,
it's
those
first
two
benefit
low
Mart
income,
persons
or
Aid
in
the
prevention
or
elimination
of
slim
and
blight.
G
The
funding
also
has
to
be
targeted
to
a
specific
populations
or
populations
at
certain
income
levels
for
the
cdbg.
The
funding
has
to
be
utilized
primarily
to
benefit
households
at
or
below,
80
percent
Ami.
For
the
home
funding
it
can,
depending
on
the
activity
of
the
project,
it
can
be
50
percent
up
to
the
80
percent
Ami.
G
This
chart
is
kind
of
busy,
but
just
wanted
to
kind
of
provide
and
present
some
information
on
the
income
limits,
and
these
are
the
charts
that
we
use
when
we're
evaluating
projects
or
participants
in
the
programs
supported
by
the
funding
that
we
manage
and
that,
of
course,
the
first
number
is
the
annual
income.
The
second
is
just
sort
of
broken
down
by
an
hourly
number
and
that
last
parenthesis
is
that's
30
percent
of
the
income
of
that
household
that
they
are
at
that
annual
income.
G
If
that's
their
annual
income,
then
that's
the
30
percent
that
they
would
technically
have
available
for
housing
costs
and
that
housing
that
incorporates
everything
utilities
and
everything,
and
usually
in
our
programs.
We
even
reduce
that
number
by
two
or
three
hundred
dollars
for
utilities.
So
this
is
just
kind
of
bring
it
into
Focus
to
give
you
an
idea
again
of
what
a
family
has
available
for
housing
if
they're
at
these
income
levels
the
down
towards
the
bottom.
G
That's
the
2022,
fair
market
rents,
that's
provided
by
Hud
to
cities
like
Chattanooga,
on
an
annual
bases
and
just
below
that
that's
the
average
rent,
so
I
just
sort
of
pulled
that
off
of
the
website.
Google
average
roots
in
Chattanooga
and-
and
those
are
some
point
in
line
with
you
know
what
what
you
do
see.
So
this
just
sort
of
demonstrating
the
huge
difference
between
what
HUD
allows
versus
what
households
and
families
are
dealing
with
locally.
G
G
G
G
G
G
G
The
application
is
outlined
in
that.
If
an
organization
is
not
funded,
it's
typically
either
because
they're,
not
they
don't
have
the
capacity
to
carry
out
the
activity
or
for
us,
for
the
most
part,
the
available
funding
limits
us
and
then
also
in
in
this
instance,
the
chat
Foundation,
the
orange
growth
Center.
Those
activities
can
they
can
actually
submit
applications
for
funding
under
for
the
Orange
Grove
under
housing,
and
so
we
would
recommend
that
they
actually
submit
an
application
for
funding
through
that
Avenue
and
the
others
are
either
just
limitations
and
funding.
G
D
G
For
the
home
funding,
we
make
this
part
available
throughout
on
it
through
an
open,
ongoing
application.
So,
at
any
time,
during
the
year
organizations
eligible
entities
can
submit
applications
for
funding
and
we
vet
each
project
on
a
project
by
project
basis
based
on
the
criteria
such
as
maximum
per
unit,
the
capacity
of
the
organization
and
the
the
request,
the
amount
that
they're
requesting,
so
they
are
against
set
criteria
and
parameters
or
Awards
under
this,
but
entities
eligible
entities
can
submit
an
application
at
any
time
throughout
the
year.
G
D
Looks
like
our
board
is
clear.
Sandra.
Thank
you
for
for
that
presentation
for
the
city
council
I
want
you
all
to
know
that
we
have
meetings
of
the
affordable
housing
committee
coming
up
in
May
and
in
June
we
have
those
on
the
calendar
and
those
are
when
Nicole
will
begin
presenting
some
of
the
larger
scale.
D
Findings
of
what
our
real
needs
assessment
is
for
housing
in
the
city
at
different
levels
and
types
and
also
will
follow
in
June,
with
the
initial
rollout
of
the
plan
for
affordable
housing
for
the
city
of
Chattanooga
I
know
that's
some
questions
that
we
have
had
as
a
group
as
where
does
what
fits
where
and
and
how
do
we
invest
in
the
future?
So
I
would
think
that
those
plans
would
inform
our
process
for
next
fiscal
year.
Okay.
Well,
thank
you
very
much
with
that.
I
will
adjourn.