have had a better tool learning than to have to develop this for the -- for the City.
MR. ROSE: Are there any particular highlights you wanted to kind of go through, or just
kind of the outline of the plan or --
MS. DEAVER: Really, when you're looking at -- at the Consolidated Plan, the things to --
the biggest things that we have looked at are, first of all, where we're estimating our
funding for the next five years. We estimate that we're going to receive about $5 million in
CDBG funds. We estimate that we're going to receive about $2,350,000 in HOME funds.
Some of the things that we have received guidance from HUD on that will change how we
do things in the future. One thing is is that they are recommending that we do add in
program income for both areas, and that we actually use that money as we're going
through the program year so that we know where that -- funds are going at this point. So
we've added in some into the funding, some program income. Also, as we know, we did
not allow -- allot money towards HOA for this for 2025 because we had previous funding.
They consider that to be kind of held funding, and we added that in, as well. So even
though we didn't allot more money to it, we are using money that had already for that. So
those were kind of interesting things that we -- we've gotten from HUD. So overall, where
we've gotten to is these are the different areas and you can see here where we've, you
know, put in the different funds for -- for CDBG and HOME. This is over the next five
years, so we will continue, as I said, each year that when we go back in and we're doing
the proposals and looking at where we are, I'll be looking and charting where we are in
each area and really keeping better track of that so that we know if we're meeting the
Consolidated Plan. There are so many questions on this. This is basically, again, we've
taken FY 2025 and expanded that out by five years. Any questions on that? You know,
the -- each -- each part of it looks at different things, so we -- you can look at who we've
consulted with. You can look at, you know, what the different -- all of our different citizen
outreach that we've done through this process is on here, and what that has done. Let's
see. We have needs assessments. There's just tons of data that's put in here from --
most of it from the U.S. Census -- to the 2020 U.S. Census, and so a lot of this
information is already in here when we get it from HUD from these documents they're
already giving us. It looks at disproportionate housing needs. There's several of those.
Public housing, CHA does provide this information, so we've gotten this directly from
them. And any information about that has been given to us from CHA. Randy has
provided that for us. You know, those are really the highlights. It's just going through
each area. We've lived it. We worked with the Health Department on the homeless
numbers and where those are for the city of Columbia. The non -- this is the
non-homeless numbers. We've -- I've worked with the Chamber on workforce and where
the workforce is. So just -- it's just each part of that really is interesting in its own
different way of giving information kind of going forward. Once we get towards -- I'm trying
to see down here where we are. Again, here's our goal summaries for this -- for that -- for
the overall. And then if you go to the -- and remember that what is attached to the back -
- to the bottom of -- the end of his report is -- well, I'm going to back step myself here.
Here's expected resources and you can see here we expect $1 million. We're using
$62,500 for program income and that's what -- so we're at -- we have budgeted those
funds in. What we have done with any program income that we are allotting in is we are
putting it towards certain things so that we can make sure to track it, so we don't -- if we
don't receive it, it's kind of a Catch 22. If you don't receive it and you've allotted it
somewhere, then we have to figure out how we're going to pay for it. If -- but if you don't
allot for it, and you get program income, which we're averaging what we get each month,
then -- or each year, then -- then you have more money than you can do with. Lessons
learned, last year when we received -- if you recall, we received back about $225,000 in
program income in May. It -- now, that would be an immediate ding-ding-ding to me to go
ahead and do -- we should have reallocated those funds right then and done an RFP to
use those funds. Those are lessons learned over the year. So -- but here you can see
we've put the $62,500 for the CDBG, we put that as a placeholder under -- under
demolition because we know that that's a place that we're monitoring and we can make
