Title
HOLD a public hearing and consider an ordinance amending the FY 19-20 Annual Action Plan reprogramming CDBG-CV funding in the amount of $294,215.46 for activities that prevent, prepare for and respond to the Coronavirus in the Killeen Community.
Summary
DATE: February 15, 2022
TO: Kent Cagle, City Manager
FROM: Leslie Hinkle, Executive Director of Community Development
SUBJECT: Amendment to FY 19-20 Annual Action Plan reprogramming CDBG-CV
BACKGROUND AND FINDINGS:
The Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) made available CDBG-CV funding to prevent, prepare for, and respond to the Coronavirus in the Killeen Community. The City Council has previously allocated the funding to several activities and the funding has provided the community with several assistance programs to include utility assistance, rent and mortgage assistance, public health and public safety activities and economic development activities.
Killeen City Council recently allocated one million dollars for programs that will provide funding for small business assistance and start up business assistance from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA). City staff is proposing to reprogram the remaining balance of CDBG-CV funding in the amount of $294,215.46 in this manner:
$ 1,356.89- Interns for Emergency Management
$166,442.00 -Microenterprise Assistance to Public Health and Public Safety programs and activities
$ 28,107.92- Quarantine Services to Public Health and Public Safety programs and activities
$ 4,429.66 - Subsistence Payments to Public Health and Public Safety programs and activities
$ 93,878.99 - Administration and Planning to Public Health and Safety programs and activities.
All expenditures in this category of Public Health and Public Safety will allow for flexibility that the previously approved specific activities did not.
THE ALTERNATIVES CONSIDERED:
1. Do not reprogram the remaining CDBG-CV funding of $294,215.46 into Public Health and...
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