PUBLIC NOTICE CITY OF EAST LANSING PROPOSED PY 2023/2024 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT ANNUAL ACTION PLAN

The PY 2023/2024 Annual Action Plan represents the third year of the City’s current Consolidated Plan. The proposed projects and activities would be funded with federal government Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program funds awarded to the City by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The City’s anticipated PY 2023/2024 CDBG Entitlement Grant is $462,406. The proposed budget was unanimously approved by City Council as part of the City’s Fiscal Year 2024 budget on May 23, 2023.

This is to provide notice that the comment period on the proposed Annual Action Plan commences on Wednesday, July 5, 2023, and will conclude on Friday, August 4, 2023. During this period, copies of the Annual Action Plan may be reviewed at the City of East Lansing’s Department of Planning, Building, and Development (410 Abbot Road, East Lansing, MI 48823) or online at https://cityofeastlansing.com/2329/Active-Public-Notices.

The proposed PY 2023/2024 CDBG Program Budget is as follows:

1. Capital Area Housing Partnership, Homeownership Opportunity Assistance Program: $3,750.00
2. Capital Area Housing Partnership, Homeowner Rehabilitation Program: $88,510.00
3. City of East Lansing Department of Parks, Recreation, and Arts, Emerson Park Improvement Project Phase II: $124,825
4. City of East Lansing Department of Parks, Recreation, and Arts, Youth Scholarship Program: $4,290.00
5. City of East Lansing Department of Public Works, Sidewalk Improvement Project: $86,720.00
6. End Violent Encounters (EVE) Inc, Domestic violence shelter and advocacy: $9,530.00
7. Haven House, Emergency shelter and homeless assistance: $29,150.00
8. MSU Safe Place, Domestic violence shelter and advocacy: $3,340.00
9. Tri-County Office on Aging, Meals on Wheels program: $8,580.00
10. MSU Migrant Students Services, Support Services for Low Income Migrant Students: $8,580.00
11. East Lansing Public Library, Deerpath Summer Outreach Program: $1,600.00
12. Grit, Glam, and Guts, Personal, social academic, and career development program for low-to moderate-income young women: $4,290.00
13. Program Planning and Administration: $89,240.00

Anticipated Program Income During PY 2023/2024: Program income from the repayment of second mortgages through the Homeownership Opportunity Assistance Program or Homeowner Rehabilitation Program is estimated at $20,000.

Proposed Use of Program Income: Program income typically returns to the program which generated the income, i.e., recapture of second mortgage proceeds, through the Homeownership Opportunity Assistance Program (HOAP) and Homeowner Rehabilitation program, will be budgeted for additional homebuyer or homeowner assistance subsidy. 

Beneficiaries: Activities under Projects 3 and 5 each serve an area benefit to East Lansing’s low-to moderate-income Bailey Neighborhood. Projects 1 and 2 each serve a housing benefit to low-to moderate-income households. Projects 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 serve limited clientele benefits, meaning that households and individuals assisted with these activities must meet the low-to moderate-income guidelines established by HUD or be considered by HUD to be members of a clientele generally presumed to be low-to moderate-income. Project 13 is for planning and/or administrative activities.

Displacement: As required by HUD regulations, the City will follow the Federal Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Properties Acquisition Policies Act of 1970, as amended and all applicable minimized to the greatest extent possible.

Range of Activities Eligible for CDBG Funding: Activities which may be undertaken with CDBG funds include, but are not limited to: acquisition, disposition, public facilities and improvements, clearance, public services, homeownership assistance, housing rehabilitation and preservation, renovation of closed buildings, lead-based paint hazard evaluation and reduction, special economic development activities, microenterprise development, technical assistance, and planning and administration. For additional information on eligible activities, refer to 24 CFR 570, Subpart C. 

Further Information and Comments: If you wish to obtain further information regarding anything contained in this public notice, please contact East Lansing’s Department of Planning, Building, and Development at 517-319-6930 between the hours of 8:00AM and 5:00PM, Monday through Friday. Comments may be submitted to the East Lansing Department of Planning, Building, and Development at City Hall, C/O Matt Apostle, 410 Abbot Road, East Lansing, MI 48823 or emailed to grants@cityofeastlansing.com. 

Dated July 5, 2023
Marie Wicks, Interim City Clerk
City of East Lansing
Ingham and Clinton Counties              
 

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