Affordable Housing and Community Equity Development Commission - Regular Meeting

You Oh, not yet. Good evening everybody. I want to welcome you to the city of Annapolis' affordable housing community equity development commission meeting tonight. We only have one item on the agenda and we'll get to that later, but first I want to do a roll call and um for those that are present. So, I'm Terry Bond, the acting chair. Patrick? Patrick Sheridan, member. And absent tonight are Nancy Lipson, our chairperson, Elijah Hurlburt Blaine, who's our vice chair, uh Rich Halverson, and Karen Britton. So, I'm going to hand this meeting over to Adam Stradt, who's going to go over from the planning and zoning office and going to go over um the agenda tonight. Thank you, Terry. So, [clears throat] uh for this evening, we uh we have a a scheduled public hearing. This is a part of our public participation plan for or citizen participation plan for community development block grant funding. Uh this is the first of two public hearings that will occur uh prior to us submitting the annual action plan. So, uh just to start, um I want to make it known that a public notice was published in the Capital Gazette on Wednesday, April 15th, detailing the purpose of tonight's hearing. Um I'm going to start just by reading a portion of that notice and then going through um rest of the introduction of this hearing. So, in accordance with title one of the National Affordable Housing Act of 1990, PL 101 through 625, and the city of Annapolis citizen participation plan for community development block grant program, CDBG, the city of Annapolis will hold the first of two required public hearings for the allocation of CDBG funding during the regularly scheduled meeting

of the Affordable Housing and Community Equity Development Commission, which will occur on Thursday, April 30th, 2026 at 6:30 p.m. First hearing will allow for public comment prior to the publication of the draft annual action plan or AAP, which will be available for no fewer than 30 days on the city of Annapolis webpage. And then it details the webpage, which is www.annapolis.gov/916/theofficeorthe-office-of-community-development. City of Annapolis intends to publish the draft AAP on Monday, May 4th, by close of business. So, uh having said that, I want to get into a few points, first of which is the allocation that we received from HUD. So, the city of Annapolis has been allocated $266,505 in CB CDBG funds for federal fiscal 2026, which also aligns with the city and state's fiscal 2027 starting in July. Excuse me. To receive these funds, the city must submit an annual action plan, which I mentioned previously, which proposes uses for these funds that will benefit low to moderate income residents in the city of Annapolis. Purpose of this hearing is to obtain public input regarding community development and housing needs and how these funds should be utilized to meet said needs. So, in the city's adopted five-year consolidated plan, uh which is current up to 2030, it was adopted in 2025, the priority needs to be addressed leveraging CDBG funds were identified. And I'm going to quickly go through these needs as well as their associated goals. So, uh uh foremost, housing needs were identified, which is listed as a priority level of high and has the

associated goals of HS-1, improve the quality of existing home owner home ownership housing. HS-2, which is improve the quality of existing affordable renter units. HS-3, which is increase the supply of decent, safe, and affordable rental units. HS-4, which is increase home ownership opportunities. The next um the next priority is homeless needs, which is list or I'm sorry. Uh yes, the next priority is homeless needs. Um which is listed as a priority level of low and has the associated goal of HO-1, emergency shelters and services. The next is other special needs, which has a priority level of high and the associated goal of SN-1, improve quality of existing special needs housing. The next priority is community development needs, uh which has a priority of high and an associated goal associated goals of CD-1, improve quality of community facilities, and CD-2, connectivity. Uh the next need is economic development needs, which has a priority level of low and its associated goal is ED-1, redevelopment. Finally, the last need is administration, planning, and management need, which has a priority level of high and the associated goal of AM-1, administration. So, during the previous meeting of the Affordable Housing and Community Equity Development Commission, which occurred on the evening of Thursday, March 26th, four applicants presented their projects to the commission. Uh those were Arundel Lodge, the Housing Authority of the city of Annapolis,

Fellow, and Serenity Sisters. A fifth applicant, Rebuilding Together in Arundel County, uh was not present, did not present. Uh as per the afore mentioned public notice that was published on April 15th, and I will read this again directly from the public notice, all persons interested in participating as a commenter must register by sending their name, phone number, and email address to livetestimony@annapolis.gov. Registration will be open until 12:00 p.m. Thursday, April 30th, which is today. Written comments and questions on the allocation of CDBG funding will also be accepted until 12:00 p.m. Thursday, April 30th, again, today. And should be addressed to Mr. Adam Stradt, that is me, economic development manager for the city of Annapolis, 145 Gorman Street, third floor, Annapolis, Maryland, 214010 410 260-2200, extension 7753, or via email at astradt@annapolis.gov or 711 for the hearing impaired. So, I haven't received any written comment. Um having said that, I asked the representative from Annapolis TV, are there any residents who signed up for comment for this evening's public hearing? Uh there is none. Okay. Um having having no one signed up for public hearing, I propose that um we conclude this public hearing. Okay. Thank you. Um Pat, do you have anything you want to bring up tonight? I don't. How about you, Denise? Anything? No. Okay. All right. Well, I guess we can adjourn this meeting. Pat, you want to

make a motion? There's only two of us. [laughter] I'll make a motion we adjourn. And I'll second that, so we'll adjourn.