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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2007 06-27 Block GrantCommunity Development Block Grant Public Hearing June 27, 2007 The Community Development Block Grant Public Hearing was called to order at 6:00 P.M. on Wednesday, June 27, 2007 by City Clerk, Will Berg. Present: Tammy de Weerd, Bill Nary, Emily Kane, Will Berg and Kay Frances. Introduction: Berg: I would like to welcome everyone here tonight and thank you for coming. This is a notice of a pubic hearing and a public comment period regarding Meridian’s Community Block Grant Program. I would like to introduce Kay Frances with the City of Meridian and she will introduce the purpose of this hearing. Frances: Thank you. Good evening. The public hearing this evening is to allow the public to look at the draft plans that we have been preparing over the last several months. One being an analysis of impediments to fair housing plan; another one is our consolidated plan for the Community Development Block Grant application for the city to become an entitlement community; and the third document is a 2007 annual action plan, which will commence October 1st , go for 12 months and end in September. We are preparing a five year consolidated plan so each subsequent year from the 2007 annual action plan, the city will go forward and prepare one each year. I would like to open it up for comments for anybody. We have copies for everyone that is here; however, we have no one in attendance. We will, however, be providing all of the documents for availability to the general public at City Hall for them to review and also at the main library. We have been able to put each of the three documents on the city’s website for reviewing comments and we will be getting a presentation to the City Council on July 17th as well and giving them updates on what we received in the way of comments and suggestions on the plan. We will close our 30 day comment period the evening of July 27th . The city’s plan is to go forward on at their City Council on August 7th , approve the documents and then they will be forwarded to HUD for a 45 day review period and we will be receiving our entitlement status and we can commence activities October 1st . Berg: Thank you Kay. Also in attendance from the city is Emily Kane our Deputy City Attorney. If there are no further comments, I don’t see holding the public hearing open any longer so we will close the public hearing and the public meeting and thank everyone for their attendance. The time is 6:15 p.m. Community Development Block Grant Public Hearing June 27, 2007 Page 2 of 2 MEETING ADJOURNED AT 6:15 P.M. (TAPE ON FILE OF THESE PROCEEDINGS) / / DATE ATTESTED: ___ WILLIAM G. BERG, JR., CITY CLERK