Common Council - public_hearing

evaluation report for the city of Syracuse for the program year 51. I am Michael Collins. I'm commissioner of the Department of Neighborhood and Business Development. I'm joined by Tanya Eastman, who is the director of Neighborhood Grants. And on behalf of Mayor Sharon F. Owens, we are here to go through the report in accordance with Title 24 of the federal regulations, 24 CFR, Part 91, all jurisdictions receiving any of the federal grants awarded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development listed below must complete a consolidated annual performance and evaluation report known as a CAPER within 90 days from the close of the program year. We receive funding for the Community Development Block Grant, the Home Investment Partnership Grant, the Emergency Solutions Grant, and our Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS funding is delegated to the state. uh the city allocates funds from each program annually to support services that address community development housing and human service needs identified in our five-year consolidated plan and that consolidated plan runs from 2025 to 2029. so this is the summary of uh the program year 51 accomplishments may 1 through of 2025 to april 30 2026. There are printed copies here and the report is available on the department's web page of the city website. So if you go to syr.gov and head to the neighborhood and business development. section that the Draft report is there and it will be After this meeting we have until the end of the month to be able to submit it to HUD With the reports that are run So we'll touch quickly on some highlights The Grant's team, along with Tanya Eastman, Rene Chouinard is the home program administrator, Sue McMahon is the emergency solutions grant program administrator, and Michelle Sapansky is the deputy commissioner. During this program year, Sophie Fisher, who has moved on, was the program administrator. the Community Development Block Grant. Our strategic priorities within the five-year plan are to promote and preserve safe, affordable, and stable housing, to promote affordable home ownership, create new affordable housing, prevent and address homelessness, provide quality housing resources and public services, improve neighborhood stability, build wealth, and promote economic inclusion, improve neighborhood vibrancy. Appreciate you joining. I'm glad you could find a seat. We have, within the Community Development Block Grant, we specifically, for Program 51, Program Year focused on home improvement direct assistance, eviction prevention and landlord-tenant counseling, reducing barriers to fair housing, homeownership, promotion and retention, youth receiving academic social and cultural enrichment through structured summer and after school programs reduction of residential and commercial corridor vacancy and removal blading influences and individuals participating in human services social cultural enrichment within neighborhood based community centers for the emergency solutions grant we served 369 unique individuals through the street outreach programming that funded and the rapid rehousing program served 64 individuals homeless prevention work critically important to minimize the need for the street outreach so that people are able to stay in their homes 254 individuals were served For the Home Investment Partnership, for which the focus areas were rehabilitation and new construction of single-family homes, homeownership promotion, rehabilitation and new construction of both two-family or multi-unit rentals, and property demolition, again, to address that. That work happened across the city, but largely within the Neighborhood Stabilization Program. or neighborhood revitalization service areas that make up a significant portion of the northwest and south sides of the city and Many community partners, they're all listed within the budget. To call out a few, certainly we have CNY Fair Housing, In My Father's Kitchen, Home Headquarters, Syracuse Northeast Community Center, Rescue Mission, YWCA, Volunteer Lawyers, and plenty of others. If there are any questions, considering all of the possible speakers today, we'd like to be able to limit that to three minutes. But if there is anybody that would like to make comment, now would be the time to do so. Barring no questions at the moment, we'll wait five minutes in case there are some stragglers coming in who may have some questions. In the meantime, enjoy this moment of silence. You could if we just wait five more minutes. Considering the absence of additional speakers or any speakers, we will call this meeting closed. Thank you very much.