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06/16/2015 NEIGHBORHOOD & AFFORDABLE HOUSING ADVISORY BOARD MEETING MINUTES CITY OF CLEARWATER June 16, 2015 Present: Chair Michael Potts, Vice Chair Vicki Adelson, Board Member Peggy M. Cutkomp, Board Member Lisa Hughes, Board Member Linda Kemp, Board Member Kevin Chinault; Board Member Empty Seat Also Present: Geri Campos Lopez - Economic Development & Housing Director, Michael Holmes - Housing Manager, Patricia O. Sullivan - Board Reporter The Chair called the meeting to order at 9:00 a.m. at City Hall. To provide continuity for research, items are in agenda order although not necessarily discussed in that order. 3 —Approval of Minutes 3.1. Approve the minutes of the May 12, 2015 Neighborhood and Affordable Housing Advisory Board meeting as submitted in written summation. Member Adelson moved to approve the minutes of the May 12, 2015 Neighborhood and Affordable Housing Advisory Board meeting as submitted in written summation. The motion was duly seconded and carried unanimously. 4—Citizens to be Heard re Items Not the Agenda: None. 5— Recommend Approval of the FY 2015/16 Annual Consolidated Plan See Exhibit: FY 2015/16 Consolidated Action Plan Narrative 2015-06-16 Housing Manager Michael Holmes reviewed the FY (Fiscal Year) 2015/16 Consolidated Action Plan Narrative. He said the City was fortunate that many local non-profits provide services that support plan objectives. Economic Development& Housing Director Geri Campos Lopez said while the quick increase in housing prices was surprising, a large inventory of vacant single-family homes provided an opportunity for rehab; next year's goal - rehab 12 -15 owner occupied homes. She complimented the rehab recently completed by Bright Community Trust and said Habitat for Humanity of Pinellas County had acquired additional vacant lots. Financing was challenging for the Garden Trail Apartment project, which proposed to underground its utilities. Staff will continue efforts to find new projects and developers and attract more private investment. Ms. Lopez said the action plan was in draft form; some numbers needed to be updated. Staff will forward board members the final plan narrative, including final numbers and public comments. Mr. Holmes said next year, staff drafts a new 5-year consolidated plan. Neighborhood & Affordable Housing 2015-06-16 1 Member Hughes moved to recommend approval of the FY 2015/16 Consolidated Action Plan Narrative, pending updated numbers in the homeless count and affordable housing sections. The motion was duly seconded and carried unanimously. Mr. Holmes said public comments will be accepted until July 16 when the plan will be presented to the City Council for approval and then forwarded to HUD (Housing & Urban Development) Department. Staff anticipated HUD approval by September 1, 2015. 6 — Old /New Business: None. 7 — Next Meeting — August 11, 2015 8 - Adjourn The meeting adjourned at 9:39 a.m. Attest: :oard Repo C 1 _ •_ 7ir• ' :o7ooi , eig Housing Advi & Affordable ory Board Neighborhood & Affordable Housing 2015 -06 -16 2 2015-2016 Action Plan Appendix 1. Maps 2. Neighborhood Revitalization Strategy 3. Public Comments 4. SF-424 5. Certifications 6. CPMP Projects 7. Schedule 8. Notice of Funding Availability 9. Notice of Public Review & Comment; Meetings & Council Action 10. Recommended Allocations 11. Environmental Review Clearance 12. Demographic Profile Data EXHIBIT FY 2015-16 Consolidated Action Plan Narrative 2015-06-16 II I I I I I :..... ..... 11 SEEN= III u� City of Clearwater,Florida 2015-2016 Action Plan 111111 Illlllu i, "%Ill iilplllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllf f .x The CPMP Fourth Annual Action Plan includes the SF 424 and Narrative Responses to Action Plan questions that CDBG, HOME, HOPWA, and ESG grantees must respond to each year to comply with the Consolidated Planning Regulations.The those with special needs through the construction Executive Summary narratives are optional. of additional facilities and the provision of services. The City's community development improvements ®Executive Summary will be focused on its Neighborhood Revitalization 2015 2016 Yeair Strategy Areas. The City receives federal funds from the The overall goal of the community planning and Department of Housing and Urban Development development programs covered by the Action (HUD)from two federal programs as an Plan is to develop viable urban communities by entitlement community These entitlement funds providing decent housing and a suitable living include the Community Development Block Grant environment and to expand economic Program (CDBG) and the HOME Investment opportunities principally for very-low to moderate- Partnership (HOME) affordable housing program. income persons/households.The primary means The City will also utilize prior years funding and towards this end is to extend and strengthen program income from the Neighborhood partnerships among all levels of government and Stabilization Program 3 to further housing activities the private sector, including for-profit and non- in the program year. The City does not receive an profit organizations, in the production and Emergency Shelter Block Grant. The City also operation of affordable housing. utilizes program income from its State of Florida's State Housing Initiatives Partnership (SHIP) and 1. Decent housing includes assisting homeless Pinellas County's Housing Trust Fund Programs in persons to obtain appropriate housing support of these programs which are all targeted and assisting persons at risk of becoming at assisting the City's low to moderate-income homeless; retention of the affordable housing residents. stock; and increasing the availability of Affordable housing funds will be administered on permanent housing in good condition and a city-wide basis targeted at helping low to affordable to very-low income and moderate- moderate-income families become homeowners, income families, particularly to members of maintain their properties and for housing disadvantaged minorities, without education and counseling. The City will provide discrimination on the basis of race, color, assistance to the homeless and religion, sex, national origin, marital status, familial status, or disability. City of Clearwater,Florida 2015-2016 Action Plan 2. Decent housing also includes increasing the The City continues to provide funding for a variety supply of supportive housing, which combines of Public Service and Public Facility activities structural features and services needed to which include: self-sufficiency, elderly home enable persons with special needs, including cleaning, emergency shelter operations, fair persons with physical and mental disabilities, housing, elderly services, and homeless services. and persons with HIV/AIDS and their families, to live with dignity and independence; and The following Public Service activities are providing affordable housing to low-income proposed for fiscal year 2015-2016: persons accessible to job opportunities. 1. Housing Counseling Program 3. A suitable living environment includes 2. WestCare Gulf Coast of Florida, Inc. improving the safety and livability of 3. Pinellas Opportunity Council —Chore neighborhoods; increasing access to quality Services public and private facilities and services; 4. Safety Harbor Neighborhood Family reducing the isolation of income groups within Center, Inc. a community or geographical area through 5. Gulf Coast Legal Services, Inc. — Fair the spatial de-concentration of housing Housing opportunities for persons of lower income and 6. Community Services Foundation, Inc. — the revitalization of deteriorating or Fair Housing deteriorated neighborhoods; restoring 7. Martin Luther King, Jr. Neighborhood and preserving properties of special historic, Family Center architectural, or aesthetic value; and g. Intercultural Advocacy Institute—Youth conservation of energy resources. Leaders Partnership 9. Homeless Emergency Project— 4. The expanded economic opportunities includes Emergency Shelter job creation and retention; establishment, 10. Religious Community Services, Inc. — stabilization and expansion of small businesses Grace House Shelter (including micro-businesses); the provision of public services concerned with employment; For Public Facility projects during the next fiscal the provision of jobs for low-income persons year, we propose to provide funding to the living in areas affected by those programs and following organizations: activities under programs covered by the plan; 1. City of Clearwater—Jack Russell Stadium availability of mortgage financing for low- Renovations income persons at reasonable rates using 2. Intercultural Advocacy Institute - Renovations non-discriminatory lending practices; access 3. Directions for Living—Office Renovations to capital and credit for development activities that promote the long-term economic and 4. R'Club Child Care, Inc. social viability of the community; and 5. The ARC of Tampa Bay empowerment and self-sufficiency for low- income persons to reduce generational poverty in federal-assisted housing and public The City of Clearwater— Economic Development housing. and Housing Department—Housing Division is the City of Clearwater,Florida 2015-2016 Action Plan lead agency for administering the City's 3. Discussions at committees supported by the Consolidated Action Plan and Consolidated City Planning Document. 4. Technical assistance to agencies and other The City partners with several not-for-profit entities agencies to implement the goals and objectives the 5. Working with local lenders on Community City has established in the Consolidated Planning Reinvestment Act commitments and Document. To obtain these partners, the City requirements published a Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) 6. Participation in public forums in the local newspaper and on its website in 7. Holding public hearings February.This notice informs the non-profits of the 8. Preparation of documents, flyers and resources the City will make available and the brochures regarding specific programs eligible uses of these resources. It also informs 9. Special studies them of the application period for requesting funds. Citizen Participation The City's Technical Review Committee (TRC) reviewed and ranked the applications. From The City of Clearwater has adopted a Citizen results of the ranking committee, the City Participation Plan (and Anti-Displacement Plan) prepared a summary of proposed projects and that meets all HUD regulations as part of the placed it in the local paper for public comments. approval process for the Five-Year Consolidated Plan. Additionally, the City held a public meeting to obtain any further comments on the proposed The Cities of Clearwater and Largo and Pinellas FY15-16 Recommended Allocations with the City's County held a public meeting to obtain citizens' Neighborhood &Affordable Housing Advisory views on housing and community development Board (NAHAB) on May 12,2015. needs as it relates to the preparation of the Cities' and County's Five-Year(FY2011-2016) The Draft Consolidated Action Plan Summary was Consolidated Planning Document. The programs made available in the local newspaper and the covered under the Consolidated Plan are the City's website for citizens to review.The Plan was Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), brought before the City's Neighborhood &Afford- HOME Investment Partnership Programs (HOME), able Housing Advisory Board on June 16, 2015 and NSP 3. and the City Council for final approval on July 16, 2015. Two public hearings were held, one on May 5, 2011 and one on May 6, 2011, to receive public Consultation for the City's Housing and Community comments from the North Greenwood and Lake Development programs is an ongoing process for Belleview Neighborhood Revitalization Strategy departmental staff. Staff stays attuned to housing Areas. and community development issues and needs through the following means: The City advertised the NOFA on February 27, 2015 in the Tampa Bay Times (formerly St. 1. Membership in local and state organizations Petersburg Times) and also posted the Notice on 2. Participation by City staff on boards, the City's website.The application period opened committees and agencies on March 4, 2015 and closed on April 3, 2015. City of Clearwater,Florida 2015-2016 Action Plan QI' IIIz": Iir m o inn inn e III"NI't The City's NAHAB met on May 12, 2015 to discuss and approve the Technical Review Committee Public comments are inserted in the Appendix of Recommended Allocations. this report. The City held a public meeting for the proposed Resources FY15-16 Consolidated Action Plan at the City's The City will utilize its funds to implement the NAHAB on June 16, 2015. The Draft specific objectives established within the City's Consolidated Action Plan was made available for adopted FY2011-2016 Consolidated Plan as a 30-day public review and comment period. shown in Figure 1. Instructions for persons with disabilities who required accommodation(s)for participation in all In addition to the entitlement allocations listed public hearings was contained in all notices. above, the City maintains three Revolving Loan Funds which are set up to carry out specific The final FY15-16 Consolidated Action Plan will activities.The three individual revolving loan funds be approved by the City Council on July 16, are the Housing Rehabilitation Revolving Loan 2015. Fund (City Fund #686), the Economic The City maintains ongoing contact with all its Development Revolving Loan Fund (City Fund Housing, Homeless and Community Development #687) and the Infill Housing Revolving Loan Fund partners through notices of NAHAB meetings and (City Fund #689). other areas of interest. The Housing Rehabilitation Revolving Loan Fund To broaden the public participation process, the includes payments made by homeowners who City frequently advertises meetings and events participated in the Rehabilitation Program and had on the City's website. The website also provides a their home repaired. The Economic Development comprehensive listing of the City's Economic, Revolving Loan Fund includes payments made by Housing and Community Development programs. for-profit business owners who participated in the Economic Development Program and obtained Public Outreach Forums were held throughout the funds to start up or maintain their business.The County to discuss goals, objectives, and priorities. Infill Housing Revolving Loan Fund includes The presentation provided detailed information on payments made by subrecipients who borrowed the Five-Year Consolidated Plan and the process funds to purchase vacant lots to build homes. used to distribute funds in the past and how these Funds were repaid when the subrecipient sold the funds can be utilized in the future. Groups included home to an eligible homebuyer. in this outreach are realtors, contractors, non-profit °°1IIV Nunn NNN�� uuuuNn n u uuu ppuq agencies, government officials, faith-based N HNNN a uu uNNN NN puN organizations and planning agencies. Entitlement Grant Funds Funding Solicitation of input from existing partnerships and CDBG $681,257 organizations in the community, in addition to the HOME $265,110 public hearing process and public notices in the Total Federal Funding Sources $946,367 newspaper, was sought to encourage participation NOMMMEMMEMMMEMMEMEMEEMMEEM in identifying housing needs and needs of the Soi..irce i?UD 27015EntitlernentAllocations homeless and special populations, and in development of the Consolidated Plan. City of Clearwater,Florida 2015-2016 Action Plan In FY 2015-2016, the City anticipates that the into effective, coordinated neighborhood and revolving fund balance will be $857,155. These community development strategies. It also creates funds include $246,823 from the Infill Housing the opportunity for strategic planning and citizen Revolving Loan Fund, $226,092 from the Economic participation to take place in a comprehensive Development Revolving Loan Fund and $384,240 context, and to reduce duplication of effort at the from the Housing Rehabilitation Revolving Loan local level. Fund. The Consolidated Plan approach is also the means Please note that the amounts listed above are only to meet the submission requirements for the projected amounts.These amounts may increase or Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), decrease subject to program activity. These funds HOME Investment Partnerships (HOME), are restricted to the activities listed above and are Emergency Shelter Grant (ESG), and Housing not part of budgeted consolidated plan activities. Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA) formula programs. This process replaces prior CPD In addition to the federal funds listed above, the City planning and submission requirements with a single anticipates that other federal resources will be made document that satisfies the submission requirements available to address the needs identified in the plan. of the four CPD formula programs for local Those funds should include Section 8 funds made jurisdictions. available to the local housing authority, Low-Income Housing Tax Credits through developers, and Figure 2 shows the goals and objectives to be competitive McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance carried out during the Action Plan period. Act funds through local non-profit agencies. The statutes for the formula grant programs set In addition to the federal resources, the City will use forth three basic goals against which the plan and other state and local resources to address housing the jurisdiction's performance under the plan will needs. The City will use program income be evaluated by HUD. Each jurisdiction's plan generated through the SHIP and PCHTF programs must state how it will pursue these goals for all to provide funding for property acquisition and community development programs, as well as all development, rehabilitation, down payment housing programs.These statutory program goals assistance, relocation, demolition, housing are: counseling, and other related housing activities. The city anticipates that$394,096 will be available Decent Housing: through the SHIP Program and $15,515 through the Assist homeless persons obtain affordable housing PCHTF for the next fiscal year. Assist persons at risk of becoming homeless • Retain affordable housing stock ANNUAL OBJECTIVES • Increase the availability of affordable The Consolidated Plan is a collaborative process permanent housing in standard condition to whereby a community establishes a unified vision low and moderate-income families, for community development actions. It offers local particularly to members of disadvantaged jurisdictions the opportunity to shape the various minorities without discrimination on the basis housing and community development programs of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, familial status, or disability City of Clearwater,Florida 2015-2016 Action Plan 'if not using the CPMPlbot Complete and submit lable 3A. ^ifuoing the CPMP7bot Complete and submit the 3umma/yof Specific Annua/Objectives Worksheets or3ummaoies.xis Goals and objectives tobe carried oi..itdiwing the action plan period are indicated by placing an(Vin the following boxes. X Decent Housing X Suitable Living Environment Expanded Economic Opportunities assisting homeless persons improving the safety and livability of job creation and retention X obtain affordable housing X neighborhoods X assisting persons at risk of be- eliminating blighting influences and establishment,stabilization and X coming homeless X the deterioration of property and expansion of small business(including facilities micro-businesses) X retaining the affordable housing X increasing the access to quality the provision of public services stock public and private facilities concerned with employment increasing the availability of reducing the isolation of income the provision ofjobs to low-income per- affordable permanent housing in groups within areas through spatial sons living in areas affected by those standard condition to low-income deconcentration of housing programs and activities under programs and moderate-income families, opportunities for lower income covered by the plan X particularly to members of X persons and the revitalization of X disadvantaged minorities without deteriorating neighborhoods discrimination on the basis of race,color,religion,sex, national origin,familial status,or disability increasing the supply of restoring and preserving properties availability of mortgage financing for supportive housing which of special historic, architectural, or low-income persons at reasonable includes structural features and aesthetic value rates using non-discri minatory lending services to enable persons with X practices special needs(including persons with HIVAIDS)to live in dignity and independence providing affordable housing that conserving energy resources and access to capital and credit for is accessible to job opportunities use of renewable energy sources development activities that promote X X the long-term economic social viability of the community oounce� City of Clearwater, Economic Development and Houoing,June2U/5 ^ Increase the supply of supportive housing that of housing opportunities for|ovvor income includes structural features and services to persons and the revitalization of deteriorating enable persons with special needs (including neighborhoods persons with H|\8A|DS)to live in dignity and ^ Restore and preserve properties of special independence historio, architectural, or aesthetic value; ^ Provide affordable housing that isaccessible ^ Conserve energy resources and use of to job opportunities renewable energy sources A Suitable Living Environment: Expanded Economic Opportunities: ^ Improve the safety and livability of ^ Job creation and retention neighborhoods ^ Establishment, stabilization and expansion of ^ Eliminate blighting influences and the small businesses (including mioro-businossos) deterioration of property and facilities ^ The provision of public services concerned ^ Increase access to quality public and private with employment facilities and services ^ The provision of jobs to low-income persons ^ Reduce the isolation of income groups living in areas affected by those programs and within areas through spatia| d000noontration aotivitios, or]obs resulting from carrying out City of Clearwater,Florida 2015-2016 Action Plan activities under programs covered by the plan SL 2.1 —Provide funding in the amount of$15,000 • Availability of mortgage financing for low- to Martin Luther King, Jr. Neighborhood Family income persons at reasonable rates using Center for salary support to implement the Project non-discriminatory lending practices P.A.S.S. program that provide services to families • Access to capital and credit for development who reside in the North Greenwood Community. activities that promote the long-term economic The program provides children's programs, family and social viability of the community support, educational attainment, and improved • Empowerment and self-sufficiency for low- economic status for low to moderate-income income persons to reduce generational families. The agency's goal is to assist 400 poverty in federally assisted housing and individuals. public housing SL 2.1 —Provide funding in the amount of$12,000 S ullll"1nilll"1ni tlll"" of S' I.o q°;Jl'fllq; AirNirwalll Objeq;,dves to the Intercultural Advocacy Institute for salary support to implement a Youth Leaders Partnership SL 3.1 - Provide funding in the amount of$5,000 to Program.The program provides leadership and Community Service Foundation, Inc., for salary mentoring opportunities to youth in the 6th and 7th support to operate a fair housing counseling and grades.The program focus is to provide the tools housing placement program.The program pro- and resources necessary to help youth develop vides housing services to help lower income leadership skills plus a strong sense of identity and families and individuals locate and secure in turn, grow leaders from within the community to permanent, decent and affordable housing.The serve as role models for their peers and younger program also strives to counsel households on student population. The agency's goal is to assist Fair Housing Landlord/Tenant Rights, and to 27 households. provide emergency food and shelter program rent and mortgage payment assistance.The agency's DH 1.1 - Provide funding in the amount of$12,000 goal is to serve 60 households. to Pinellas Opportunity Council, Inc., for salary support to implement the agency's Chore Services SL 3.1 - Provide funding in the amount of$12,000 Program.The program promotes better livable to Gulf Coast Legal Services, Inc., for salary opportunities by providing services to the elderly support to implement the agency's Legal Aid to and frail elderly.The services will help to alleviate Preservation Housing Project. The project seeks blight and blighting conditions, reduce crime, and to provide legal assistance for low and moderate- create a sense of pride in their community by income residents of Clearwater who are victims providing heavy household cleaning, yard work and of predatory lending practices, foreclosure rescue minor repairs.The agency's goal is to assist 42 scams, persons who are experiencing or who have elderly households. experienced discrimination and/or fraud in housing and to remedy these matters through negotiation, DH 1.1 and EO 1.1 — Provide funding in the amount mediation or litigation and to assist residents in of$50,000 to Directions for Living for office filing complaints regarding violations of Fair renovations. Renovations will include alterations of Housing Laws. The agency's goal is to serve 40 the medical assistant work room, plumbing of the individuals. exam rooms, renovation of the client reception area, restrooms, meeting rooms and other offices. The agency's goal is to serve 2,000 individuals. City of Clearwater,Florida 2015-2016 Action Plan to Tampa Bay Community Development Corp. and SL 2.1 - Provide funding in the amount of$12,000 to Community Service Foundation to offer homebuyer the Safety Harbor Neighborhood Family Center for counseling to families who desire to purchase a salary support to operate the Neighborhood Family home in Clearwater. The program provides pre- Center. The Bridge the Gap project is a combination purchase and post-purchase counseling. The of services to help individuals and families survive, agency goal is to assist 70 families. stay in their homes and stay together by providing food, clothing, hygiene products, baby needs,job DH 2.1, DH 3.1, SL 1.1, EO 2.1, EO 3.1 - Provide training, and financial assistance.The agency's goal funding in the amount of$998,010 to agencies in is to assist 450 families. the City's Housing Pool to acquire and/or develop real property, rehabilitate homes or rental units or DH 1.1 - Provide funding in the amount of$12,000 provide downpayment and closing cost assistance to WestCare Gulf Coast Florida, Inc., for salary to eligible low to moderate-income families.Eligible support to operate the Turning Point shelter. The agencies participating in the Housing Pool include: shelter provides an overnight facility for homeless Pinellas County Housing Authority, The Kimberly persons under the influence of drugs and/or Home, Habitat for Humanity of Pinellas County, alcohol. It operates as an inebriate receiving and Inc., Habitat for Humanity CHDO, Bright intervention program that provides for a 24-hour Community Trust and Tampa Bay Community sobering up area, intensive case management and Development Corporation. placement services. The agency's goal is to serve 150 homeless individuals. DH 2.1, DH 3.1, EO 2.1, and EO 3.1 - Provide funding in the amount of$39,767 to eligible DH 1.1 — Provide funding in the amount of$18,000 Community Housing Development Organizations to the Homeless Emergency Project— Emergency to acquire and/or develop or rehabilitate real Shelter for operational support to administer their property. emergency shelter programs. The program provides shelter, meals, case management, benefit SL 2.1 - Provide funding in the amount of advocacy, life skills training, vocation, medical, $100,000 to the City of Clearwater for renovations dental, mental health care, substance abuse to the Jack Russell Stadium. Renovations include treatment, transportation and referrals to other restrooms, fencing, sidewalks, installing security supportive service providers. The agency's goal is system and the demolition of a building. The to assist 900 individuals. stadium serves as a facility for recreational activities in the North Greenwood Revitalization DH 1.1 — Provide funding in the amount of$18,000 Strategy Area. The facility's goal is to serve 4,000 to Religious Community Services, Inc. —Grace individuals and families. House in salary support to operate an emergency homeless-family program. The program provides SL 2.1 - Provide funding in the amount of eight weeks of shelter and services to families with $17,037 for improvements to the Intercultural children that are homeless or at risk of becoming Advocacy Institute Facility. Improvements include homeless, with the goal of moving them into replacing doors and flooring. The institute sustainable housing. The agency's goal is to assist provides financial education, legal assistance 550 families. services, victim advocacy youth services and a youth leadership program. The agency's goal is to EO 2.1 — Provide funding in the amount of$5,000 serve 4,500 individuals and families. City of Clearwater,Florida 2015-2016 Action Plan 6 through 8. SL 2.1 - Provide funding in the amount of $58,935 to the R'Club Child Care, Inc. for These eligible block groups can be viewed renovations to their child care facility. Renovations graphically in the CDBG Eligible Areas Map include replacing two air conditioning units, the located in the Appendix of this report.As much as preparation of lead-based paint, and possible, the City of Clearwater aims to target interior/exterior painting. The R'Club provides CDBG funds on a community-wide basis with a child care services for parents who live and work focus in areas where the funds are most needed. near the center and serve homeless children whose parents reside in local homeless and The City will allocate its affordable housing funds on a domestic violence shelters. The agency's goal is city-wide basis.The City will allocate its CDBG funds to assist 200 children. within the City's designated low/moderate-income areas and Neighborhood Revitalization Strategy SL 2.1 - Provide funding in the amount of Areas. $99,000 to The Arc Tampa Bay for renovations to The City's priority community development needs their facility. The renovations include replacement will continue to eliminate slum and blighting of the floor covering, partitions, lighting, electrical, influences in the City's three Neighborhood ceiling tiles, showers and painting. The agency Revitalization Strategy Areas: North Greenwood, provides a day program of services to individuals Lake Bellevue (formerly known as South with intellectual or development disability. The Greenwood) and the East Gateway District. agency's goal is to assist 154 families. N'���� °: ui,lll lllw lii ui Nl of q;, liV'di s Figure 3 describes the outcome measures for activities in accordance with Federal Register Notice dated March 7, 2006, i.e., general objective category (decent housing, suitable living environment, economic opportunity) and general outcome category (availability/accessibility, affordability, sustainability). Figure 4 shows the proposed activities for the FY 2015-2016 program year. N III 'µ N III Ilp'°°'III HC PII 'µ III°' / VIII OCA""'I°"IIIIIW' III "'IILIIIIII'' III III III ; Aireas ( f.III....( WIIW)deirate...11linc()ini C( unceintirafllioins Figure 5 shows all of the Census Tracts and Block Groups located within the City of Clearwater that have a Low/Moderate-income percentage above 40 percent. The locations of CDBG eligible areas, very-low in- come and low-income areas are shown in Figures City of Clearwater,Florida 2015-2016 Action Plan Specific Annual Objective Funds Indicators Number Number Completed DH Assist persons at risk of CDBG 2015 Number of persons 3,642 0% 1.1 becoming homeless/homeless assisted a Waa a' 7 DH Retain the affordable housing CDBG 2015 Number of housing 14 0% 2.1 stock HOME units rehabilitated a a' DH Increase the availability of CDBG 2015 Number of housing 2 0% 3.1 affordable housing HOME units developed NSP SHIP PCHTF SL Eliminate blighting influences CDBG 2015 Number of 16 0% 1.1 and the deterioration of HOME structures/properties property and facilities SHIP rehabilitated or demolished SL Increase the access to quality CDBG 2015 Number of people 9,731 0% 2.1 public services and facilities attending the 7 facilities/assisted a aaa a' SL Reduce the isolation of income CDBG 2015 Number of people of 2 0% 3.1 groups within areas through HOME various spatial deconcentration of NSP backgrounds housing opportunities and the SHIP receiving assistance revitalization of deteriorating PCHTF neighborhoods throughout the city. City of Clearwater,Florida 2015-2016 Action Plan Specific Annual Objective Funds Indicator! Number Number Completed EO The provision of jobs to low- NSP3 2015 Number of low- 0 0% 1.1 income persons living in areas income people hired affected by those programs through Section 3 and activities under programs Activities covered by the plan a a' EO Availability of mortgage HOME 2015 Number of loans 20 0% MZ 2.1 financing for low-income NSP3 provided persons at reasonable rates SHIP using non-discriminatory PCHTF lending practices EO Access to capital and credit for HOME 2015 Number of loan 20 0% 3.1 development activities that SHIP provided promote the long term NSP3 economic social viability of the PCHTF community NR Improving living conditions in CDBG 2015 Number of people 8 0% 1.1 the Neighborhood assisted in the Revitalization Strategy Areas NRSA a a O • • % 1.1 a I 2.1 0 Source: City of Clearwater, Economic Development and Housing Department, June 2015 City of Clearwater,Florida 2015-2016 Action Plan 1MUm = ul Habitat for Humanity CHDO Activity Type Amount Tampa Bay Community Development Corp • • '- '• • am Community Service Foundation, Inc. City of Clearwater Rehab $130,000 - •• l� Pro ram De live Costs • • • • 1. Total Estimated Funding $1,885,309 Community Development $136,251 "Funding for proposed activities include funding from entitlement Block Grant CDBG allocations, program income and prior year funding Home Investment Partnership $26,511 Program- Entitlement Source:City of Clearwater, Economic Development and Housing Home Investment Partnership Department,June 2015 Program Income 15,515 State Housing Initiatives $39,410 Partnership Program Potential to State Housing Initiatives Census = • •' •'Become Partnership Program - $15,515 Tract Group Population Program Income Low/Mod Pinellas County Housing Trust 026905 2 15 15 100 Fund Program—Program $10,000 026100 5 322 386 83.4 Income 025902 2 809 1071 75.5 Neighborhood Stabilization 026400 2 996 1326 75.1 Program 3— Program Income $8,358 026601 2 539 720 74.9 EMMMEEM• 026200 1 1264 1707 74.0 Housing Counseling Program $5,000 025504 3 42 59 71.2 WestCare Gulf Coast Florida, $12,000 025902 1 381 549 69.4 Inc. 025404 1 487 707 68.9 Pinellas Opportunity Council, $12,000 025800 3 852 1262 67.5 Inc. -Chore Services Gulf Coast Legal Services, Inc. $12000 026100 3 672 996 67.5 - Fair Housing , 026200 2 256 396 64.6 Community Service 026500 1 405 633 64.0 Foundation, Inc. - Fair Housing $5,000 025401 3 275 431 63.8 Martin Luther King, Jr. 026808 1 2412 3868 62.4 Neighborhood Family Center $15,000 026905 3 877 1409 62.2 Safety Harbor Neighborhood $12,000 025902 4 407 683 59.6 Family Center, Inc. Intercultural Advocacy Institute $12,000 025902 5 423 713 59.3 Religious Community Services, $18000 026808 2 1973 3431 57.5 Inc. —Grace House , 026400 1 840 1484 56.6 Homeless Emergency Project $18,000 026300 6 337 610 55.2 • • • 025405 1 530 978 54.2 City of Clearwater—Jack $100,000 026703 3 1009 1863 54.2 Russell Stadium 026300 1 449 844 53.2 Intercultural Advocacy Institute $17,037 025404 6 460 868 53.0 Directions for Living $50,000 R'Club Child Care, Inc. $58,935 026300 2 667 1266 52.7 The ARC of Tampa Bay $99,000 026100 2 345 663 52.0 • • IM- - •• 026500 5 314 605 51.9 Economic Development— $10,000 026602 2 908 1755 51.7 Program Delivery Source:2013 HUD Low and Moderate-income Summary Data • • • • City of Clearwater Infill $10,000 Housing - Program Delivery µ llbs't. tq''„III es 'to III I e '.Iii r” IhiP"Nl e°"s rued • • The lack of available land and rapidly rising housing Pinellas County Housing Authority Kimberly Home prices will continue to put constraints on the City's Habitat for Humanity of Pinellas County, Inc. ability to provide affordable housing. Rapidly rising City of Clearwater,Florida 2015-2016 Action Plan prices will also increase the need for affordable rental The average home value in Clearwater is $239,701, units for households being priced out of the owner which is 46.2% higher than the average sale price of market. The need for affordable rental projects will also $163,923. The average home value per square foot increase as rents for higher-end apartment complexes in Clearwater is $146 with nearly 3%of all homes in increase. Clearwater sold in the last six months. One obstacle that all communities face with meeting underserved needs is the lack of resources. The City of CIIIeair ateir III'' airlk t C( u)inipairiii )in Clearwater plans to review alternative sources of funds Clearwater II Ioihia a t.Uirflted States to help address the needs of City residents. Efforts will be made to submit grant applications to Federal, state, Average II°io rii alkA $239,701 $211,163$205,854 and local resources. Specific grant applications could Average I io rii $146 w1 1 a w 1 1 Y include Neighborhood Stabilization Programs, other Vallee/SII:: Community Development Initiatives, Economic % IN New Il....lisbings 111% w w 1% 10 1% Development grants, Energy Efficiency grants, % IfRdUaad Il....listliings 41'/� 36% 3t:D'/� infrastructure improvements, and neighborhood enhancement/revitalization. % II:'aair aallos d II....lisbings N/A 4'Yo 11% % of AUl II io rii s II:'aau veii,ww ew Salle CIIIeair ateir 1111 kmsa sling Ill air1k t Suinviniairy % of AUl II°i argues The current population of Clearwater is 108,366 with fR as intlly Scala (Mast 6 3'Yo 3'Yo 11% the median age of 46. Clearwater's median household r1ruaairatJl"us) income is $47,615, and the average household net Average Salle F)ihice $163,923 $253,911 $300,572 worth is $370,307. Twenty-six percent of Clearwater's Average Salle F)ihic /SI:: $116 $149 $158 residents are long term having lived in their homes for more than 5 years, while 13% of Clearwater's residents have moved in the last year. Average Listing Price Clearwater I::.Ilaau°iia a ....tUiralited States ,..,., I::a0 lf3Lallatlio,in 108,366 19,255,295 316,352,297 bl Maliaira II...iaaaasll"uaalla , -, X47,615 `G�B�7,152 $52,961 Ilira�aa��ru Average II kaaas ll"uaalld $370,307 $394,552 N Worth t� 1....oing-teir rii r N r,-perv�^ fR slWeints(5 4- 26% 32% 35 Nnrtii�r n#Listings years) hill" call °If'aairiroveir 13% 191/0 why% M a bairn Age 46 yen-airs 41 years 37 years „ Clearwater Housing and Rental Market Data from Realtor.Com,Truila and Pinellas Realtor Organization(May 2015) ,iW Vav] IA,,F 1 t.1 Y=0'15 B A p% City of Clearwater,Florida 2015-2016 Action Plan � Madian Sales Price �� �W)inNNUy ��)�lstiressed Mairket—A��p ir l U 2()15 SlingUe k)mmes .......... ��)�lineUUas C(xjinty Closeill Sales *m ra 31.7% Median Sale Price s205,00 $195,000 Scm *K ; ',' '� ' � ' ' ' � '',' ''' ''' '' ' / ' / ' / '''' ' ' ''' ' Closed sales 231 um 12.1% 20'�D3 Z01" � � �^ = �" ��~~~^ � Median Sale Price s105,30 a89,25 18.0% N"mber of Sales°,�, ^xnma 49��� � Aff o ir�d a b e o u s ir�i g e e d According to estimates prepared by the Shimberg 2r10 2001 2112 26' 2004 2— 20X 7n07 2001 7n(1 2012 in 214 2017 n�i~=~~ Center for Affordable Housing (2009). 32 percent Av c�e/Price�er^S ft ofC|eonwoter's households (15.435) are considered cost burdened os they pay more than 40 3O percent of their annual income for housing. Out of this total, 42 percent of the cost-burdened households (6.492) are severely cost-burdened, °"" spending more than 50 percent of their annual "� income onhousing. "=="°"° QUeameateir �ReintaU Mairket Summmmairy Twenty-seven percent of total owner households The average rental rate in Clearwater isS1.413 with 5O (7.843) are cost burdened. Of the total number of one-bedroom units available. For otwo-bedroom unit. renter households, 41 percent are cost burdened. the average nanto| rate in Clearwater isS2.247with 168 two-bedroom rentals. One and two-bedroom rental units comprise byfar the greatest percentage of nanto| unit types in the QUeameateir �ReintaU Mairket C(�)mmpair�ls o in Clearwater housing market. The number ofthree �ems nmvemuory Clearwater rnmdhnas Commuy rnornma and four bedroom units has remained constant since 2005. This emphasis on one and two bedroom units indicates there are only o limited number of rental opportunities for larger families. The effect of the economic downturn has presented several obstacles from unemployment and underemployment toforeclosures. The �O^^^~^~ ~ $2,211 $1,167 $3,078 unemployment rate in Clearwater is approximately � 4.7996. As resu|tnf the lost jobs several low to moderate-income families have lost their homes and nontm| units. The vacancy rate for rental City of Clearwater,Florida 2015-2016 Action Plan housing in Clearwater is 8.04%. Overall, 21.7% of all Clearwater housing units are vacant. Over the last three years. With the impact of lack of revenues produced by the economic downturn, the need for social services has increased. The City of Clearwater will continue to work with public service providers in an effort to expand service and become more of a resource for these providers. o re q;III os u iur s There are currently 1,217 properties in Clearwater that are in some stage of foreclosure (default, auction, or bank-owned)while the number of all homes listed for sale on Realty Trac is 1,418 (site accessed June 11, 2015). Of the current distribution of foreclosures, 17.9% are in pre-foreclosure, 43.35%were on auction, and 38.73%were bank- owned. In April 2015, the number of properties that received a foreclosure filing in Clearwater was 9% higher than the previous month and 9% higher than the same time last year. Home sales for March 2015 were up 38% compared with the previous month, and down 41% compared with a year ago. The median sales price of a foreclosure home was $75,100 or 25% lower than non-distressed home sales. P .��� e w � ,� ui�� �ur°NI�lii��III Ilf III��III�inn e ur°NI t iii „ ui NI C°°NI Gurn. Construction of new homes is also beginning to show life. Since January 2012, 67 new single-family homes have been built. However, the majority of the homes were being built by one entity, Habitat for Humanity. In addition, 40 new townhome units were built with 31 units being developed at Country Club Townhomes located in downtown in the East Gateway District. There were six new multi-family complexes developed. They include Sunset Point Apartments (HUD-assisted affordable), Broadstone Clearwater Apartments, Lakeside at Park Place (rental), Bay View Gardens and the Finale on Sand Key (condo). 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Pineview Apartments is also a garden-style, two-story walk- The Public Housing Authority for the City of up apartment family community consisting of 50 Clearwater is the Clearwater Housing Authority units. The Hampton at Clearwater has 275 high- (CHA). rise apartments for people 55 and older. The CHA aims to build communities with The CHA has an ongoing management program in innovative programs, sustain a dignified and place to involve residents in its operations. CHA is desirable environment and create alliances to recognized throughout the state and nation as nurture self-sufficiency. being a very progressive housing authority. Income- eligible residents of CHA's programs are eligible for The CHA's public housing program provides all of the City's affordable housing programs shown federally-subsidized rental properties. Residents in Figure 9. pay only a portion of their rent based on income. Their mission is to lead in creating housing The CHA assisted 1,112 families per month through opportunities to enhance the lives of those they its Housing Choice Voucher Program in 2013. The serve. total expenditures for the program were $10,099,449 which included Housing Assistance The CHA has developed a 5-Year Plan for the Payments of$8,943,876. CHA's public housing 2010-2015 fiscal years. According to the Fiscal expenditures were $1,771,348. Year 2010 Five-Year and Annual PHA Plans for the CHA, the following specific goals will enable the CHA purchased a 13-unit property located in agency to serve the needs of low and very-low Clearwater which they intend to rehabilitate and income, and extremely-low income families over the lease to low-income residents with preference for next five years: homeless families or youth aging out of foster care. 1. Apply for additional Housing Choice Vouchers The City's Public Housing Authority is not listed as when available and applicable. troubled by HUD. The Clearwater Housing 2. Continue to search for affordable housing Authority's website is opportunities and when practical, utilize http://www.clearwaterhousingauth.org/. available Replacement Housing Factor increments. The CHA manages 205 units and 1,340 Housing Choice Vouchers. The 205 units are scattered site properties with the units (200) being located in two high rise properties that are for families 50 years and older. In addition, the housing authority has three affordable mixed-income properties in Clearwater. Main Street Apartments is a garden- style, three-story walk up apartment family City of Clearwater,Florida 2015-2016 Action Plan p°°°Iblinrii 111 ss aird S' I. eq;: I4 III ds get homeless individuals and families stabilized and in permanent housing as quickly and effectively as The Pinellas County Homeless Leadership Board possible. HLB's mission is to prevent, reduce and (HLB) has been in place since February 12, 2012. end homelessness in Pinellas County. The HLB is The HLB is charged with the creation, the by-product of the former Homeless Leadership implementation, and oversight/evaluation of a Network (HLN) and the Pinellas County Coalition for countywide comprehensive system of services to the Figure 9 Priority Public Housing Needs, City Of Capital Improvements Modernization Rehabilitation Other(Specify) *BT—Window replacement with structural improvements, Capital $65,936 MENOMONEE= Operations $165,000 Neighborhood Revitalization(non-capital) Capital Improvement Safety/Crime Prevention/Drug Elimination ®a®., ®O a Resident Services/Family Self Sufficiency Other(Specify) Total 0 • Source:City of Clearwater Housing Authority 2014 City of Clearwater,Florida 2015-2016 Action Plan Homeless, Inc. (PCCH). The PCCH worked in emergency shelters, transitional housing and tirelessly for more than 28 years to coordinate safe havens). "Unsheltered" individuals, those homeless services among the 25-plus provider found to be staying in "places not meant for organizations; the two organizations then worked human habitation" (e.g., parks, bus shelters, cars, together from 2006—2012 to implement the Pinellas etc.), must be counted every other(odd- 10-Year Plan to End Homelessness and to oversee numbered)year. homeless services. The 2014 Pinellas County Point-In-Time study The HLB is the leadership entity for the provision of sought to accurately count both sheltered and streamlined, action-oriented, results-oriented unsheltered homeless individuals and families. homeless services and is accountable to funders and the community for reducing homelessness and Pinellas chose January 23, 2014 on which to getting people in stable housing. It has assumed the conduct this year's count which asked roles and responsibilities of the former HLN and respondents where they stayed on the night of PCCH, and has added the goal of creating and Wednesday, January 22, 2014. implementing a true homeless/at-risk system of being homeless services for individuals, families, Throughout the day, volunteer surveyors unaccompanied youth, chronic homeless persons, interviewed homeless and at-risk individuals and and veterans. The HLB is the lead agency for the families to capture a broad range of information Pinellas County/St.Petersburg/Clearwater/Largo concerning demographics, living arrangements, Continuum of Care(CoC). The HLB will continue to education, employment status and several other provide previous PCCH services such as the annual key factors. Collection and analysis of this data is Point-In-Time Homeless Count, and the Cold Night intended to help stakeholders obtain resources, Shelter program. It will monitor performance develop community initiatives and understand outcomes for HUD-funded providers, based on how to best provide services to people who are whether the services actually helped individuals and homeless or are at-risk of homelessness in families gain permanent housing; every provider will Pinellas County. be held to those outcomes, and funding decisions and recommendations will be based on According to the 2014 Point-In-Time Count performance. The HLB will be accountable to the numbers reported to HUD, the total homeless system funders and the community for the outcomes population of the St. of the homeless services and for the reduction in homelessness in Pinellas County. Petersburg/Clearwater/Largo/Pinellas County Continuum of Care was 3,391. However, HUD's II k)inieles W INeeds definition of homelessness does not include those individuals and families who are considered to be The following narrative is based on the HUD- at-risk of becoming homeless: those who were approved data for 2014 Point in Time (PIT) living in the residence of another due to the Homeless Survey in Pinellas County. inability to obtain their own permanent housing (often referred to as the "doubled-up" population), The primary goal of the Point-in-Time (PIT)count and individuals or families residing in hotels that of homeless individuals is to obtain an accurate as were paid for by other means outside of public or possible estimate of the number of homeless charitable funds. individuals in the community on a given night. HUD requires that local CoC's conduct an annual In order to provide local stakeholders with critical count of"sheltered" homeless persons (individuals City of Clearwater,Florida 2015-2016 Action Plan information for accurately assessing resource Proposed Homeless Projects to address needs and deployment, these populations are needs: included in the Pinellas County definition of homelessness. Using these parameters, Pinellas 0 Provide funding in the amount of$18,000 to County counted 5,887 people as homeless, out of Religious Community Services, Inc. —Grace which 2,526 (42.9%)were children. House in salary support to operate an emergency homeless-family program. The There were 2,117 sheltered individuals and 1,105 program provides eight weeks of shelter and unsheltered individuals, for a total of 3,222 services to families with children that are homeless individuals. On the other hand, there homeless or at-risk of becoming homeless, with were 2,497 sheltered children and 49 unsheltered the goal of moving them into sustainable children, for a total of 2,526 homeless children. housing. The agency's goal is to assist 550 families. Another goal of the PIT is to determine the extent of homelessness among specific HUD-defined 0 Provide funding in the amount of$18,000 to subpopulations such as veterans, chronically the Homeless Emergency Project—Emergency homeless, persons living with HIV/AIDS, severely Shelter for operational support to administer mentally ill, foster care, and those with disabilities. their emergency shelter programs. The There were 474 chronically homeless individuals, program provides shelter, meals, case and 1,051 persons who self reported a disabling management, benefit advocacy, life skills condition. The 2014 Pinellas PIT count identified a training, vocation, medical, dental, mental total of 588 homeless Veterans and 252 homeless health care, substance abuse treatment, victims of domestic violence. transportation and referrals to other supportive service providers. The agency's goal is to Regarding disabilities among the homeless assist 900 individuals. population, 810 individuals had a serious mental illness, 614 had a substance use disorder, 485 had Provide funding in the amount of$12,000 to a physical disability, 87 had a developmental WestCare GulfCoast Florida, Inc., for salary disability, and 18 had HIV/AIDS. support to operate the Turning Point overnight The data included in the point in time count is shelter.The shelter provides an overnight primarily reflective of Pinellas County as a whole, facility for homeless persons under the and not specifically for the City of Clearwater. influence of drugs and/or alcohol. It operates as an inebriate receiving and intervention In determining the unmet need for the homeless program that provides for a 24-hour sobering population, Figure 42, in the 2011-2016 up area, intensive case management, and Consolidated Plan displays 1,650 beds available placement service. The agency's goal is to for individuals. The total number of individuals serve 150 homeless Clearwater individuals. identified in the 2014 PIT count is 1,105. It can be assumed that the current inventory of beds is N in III°°°IIk)inieles W Sped4� INeeds III'�:�Ilrr��llll� tlii:�ur� adequate to serve this population. For families, the Special populations, such as the disabled or number of available beds is 601 with a PIT count of populations living with HIV/AIDS, face particular 2,526 homeless children. The current inventory of obstacles when it comes to housing. Often living beds is not adequate to serve this population. on fixed incomes or burdened by medical expenses, housing opportunities are typically City of Clearwater,Florida 2015-2016 Action Plan limited. infection.According to the Pinellas County Health Department 2009 HIV/AIDS demographic The U.S. Census Bureau defines disability as a information for Pinellas County, there are 155 long-lasting sensory, physical, mental or emotional reported cases of AIDS in Pinellas County. In condition. This condition can make it difficult for a addition, there are 184 reported cases of HIV in person to do activities such as walking, climbing Pinellas County. Based on the percentage of stairs, dressing, bathing, learning, or remembering. persons living in Clearwater's below the poverty rate It can also impede a person's ability to go outside in Clearwater, it is estimated that roughly 5 persons the home to maintain a job. Disability includes with HIV/AIDS may need supportive housing. persons with severe vision and/or hearing impairment. The State of Florida Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS program (HOPWA)does not According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 2008-2012 offer any services in Pinellas County for persons American Community Survey: living with the HIV/AIDS virus. However, the State of Florida offers HOPWA program services in • Of the 19,800 citizens under the age of 18 Tampa, approximately 15-20 miles from the City in the City, 850 or 4.3 percent of individuals Additionally, the Pinellas County Health had some kind of disability; Department, through its Patient Care,AIDS Drug • Of the 65,200 citizens between the ages of Assistance Program (ADAP), and HIV/AIDS 18 and 64 years old in the City, 6,517 or 10 Surveillance, is the primary service provider for this percent of individuals had some kind of special needs population. However, the Health disabilityand; Department does not provide services related to • Of the 22,033 citizens 65 years or older in housing specifically. the City, 7,377 or 33.5 percent of individuals had some kind of disability. A number of specialized services are provided through various agencies in Clearwater.The City Currently, there are a number of agencies within the will continue to narrow the gap in services region that provide programs for the disabled.Family provided to citizens with special needs.The City Network on Disabilities, Inc.,Abilities of Florida, Inc., shall support efforts, either financially or Alternatives at Work,ARC Upper Pinellas, and Gulf otherwise, to meet the needs of this population. Coast Jewish Family Services are the primary Projects that utilize diverse sources of funding will service providers for this population.While all of be granted a higher priority these agencies offer programs that encourage self- sufficiency, including job training and assistance in A description of the City's existing services and locating affordable housing, few of these programs programs dedicated to helping those with special have dedicated housing stock for the disabled.This needs follows.Additionally, the City coordinates special needs population could be underserved in with other agencies to provide services if such ser- the City of Clearwater given the limited resources for vices are not provided by the City of Clearwater housing specifically. Elderly&Frail Elderly According to the U.S. Department of Health and The elderly and frail elderly are assisted through Human Services Centers for Disease Control and City, County and non-profit agencies. Pinellas Prevention, approximately 1.1 million Americans are County, Department of Health and Human living with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, Services provides a significant number of and one-fifth of those infected are unaware of their services, from hot meals to transportation, in City of Clearwater,Florida 2015-2016 Action Plan partnership with community organizations and Patient Care Federal, State and local funding sources. The Pinellas County Health Department HIV/ AIDS Program was established in 1997. The AIDS Local service providers for the disabled include patient care clinic is funded privately and publically Abilities of Florida, Inc., a non-profit 501(c) 3 through private donorship and state general organization located in Clearwater. Abilities of revenue dollars.The clinic is contracted to provide Florida, Inc. offer employment and vocational care to 250 clients however, Pinellas County Health rehabilitation services to people with disabilities. In Department has reported that the County is addition, they offer outsourcing labor options to presently seeing over 800 clients.The Patient Care businesses and government agencies in a variety Clinic also provides patient care, HIV counseling of fields. and testing, case management, nutritional services, Additionally, Gulf Coast Jewish Family Services is etc. a non-profit 501(c) 3 organization located in The AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) Clearwater. Gulf Coast Jewish Family Services ADAP assists HIV positive persons stay healthy provides service to infants, children, families and by providing financial support with the purchase elders in serious physical, mental, medical, social of HIV prescription medications for people who and financial crisis, allowing persons to remain free do not qualify for Medicaid, or have private and independent with families and loved ones. health insurance, or are awaiting Medicaid Services include case management, homemaker eligibility. services, affordable housing, mental health services and job training. HIV/AIDS Surveillance Substance Abusers Pinellas County Health Department provides In Florida, services for persons with Substance education though community presentations and Abuse disorders are coordinated by various street outreach. In addition, the Health agencies within the State of Florida, Pinellas Education department provides HIV/AIDS County and the City of Clearwater. Florida training to health care professionals, provides Department of Children and Families has several technical assistance to community-based programs that can aide Florida families and agencies, maintains a re- source library of individuals.The Department of Children and Families HIV/AIDS educational videos and materials and provides programs called Substance Abuse & conducts media relations to ensure release of Mental Health (SAMH). The Department's SAMH current HIV/AIDS information. programs are administered statewide, through 20 Jail Linkage Program circuits, which are grouped into six regions. The Pinellas County Jail Linkage Project is a Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) program inaugurated in Pinellas County by the The Pinellas County Health Department provides Pinellas County Health Department and has services for those infected with HIV or having AIDS. been in operation since 2001. The Pinellas The Pinellas County Health Department has over County Jail Linkage Project conducts risk 12 years of experience providing health care assessments to inmates to determine those who to persons living with HIV and/or AIDS. Pinellas may be at high risk of infection. The Pinellas County Health Department has programs broken County Health Department provides down into various categories: prevention/education and testing of those individuals who may otherwise "slip through the City of Clearwater,Florida 2015-2016 Action Plan cracks" of the system. regulatory, transportation and financing issues as barriers to affordable housing. Victims of Domestic Violence The Haven of Religious Community Services The City of Clearwater will continue to avoid all (RCS) provides safe housing, outreach and case barriers to affordable housing. In many municipali- management to survivors of domestic violence ties, the following programs and policies have the through the Pinellas County area. RCS is a 501(c) potential for creating barriers to affordable (3) nonprofit corporation that has been in operation housing, and thus, are a matter of interest for the since 1967. The City has given the non-homeless City: special needs populations, who require supportive facilities/housing, a medium priority and intends to Land Development Regulations: The City of continue to support activities in this area as we are Clearwater LDR is free of barriers to affordable presented with projects and/or as we identify housing. It is a useful tool designed to promote activities. Within this group, the elderly are being the health, safety and welfare of its residents. given the highest priority. It does not contain any restrictive, exclusionary zoning or excessive subdivision controls that Non-Homeless Special Needs Projects would impose barriers to affordable housing. Provide funding in the amount of$12,000 to Building Codes: The City adheres to the State Pinellas Opportunity Council, Inc., for salary guidelines code books, designed to ensure that support to implement the agency's Chore dwelling units are structurally sound and safe Services Program. The program promotes better for their inhabitants. CABO (Council of livable opportunities by providing services to the American Building Officials) guidelines are elderly and frail elderly. The services will help to used for one and two-family dwelling units. alleviate blight and blighting conditions, reduce Such building codes do not include any codes crime, and create a sense of pride in their which are insensitive to the older housing stock community by providing heavy household of the City. cleaning, yard work and minor repairs. The Approval and Permitting Systems: The City agency's goal is to assist 42 elderly households. does not utilize slow procedures that are burdensome and uncoordinated, nor does the Ilgllllli��a ui°°ui°°1ii ui°°� ����� ��'�'���ui°°��a IIh:��III IIG°°°Ill����.ui,�° lii ui�.°NI g The City of Clearwater is sensitive to the effects City impose repetitive reviews that require that public policies have on the cost of housing as developers to incur high costs and lose valuable time. well as those that serve to dissuade development, • Manufactured and Modular Housing: The maintenance or improvement of affordable City permits manufactured and modular housing. Although some of the barriers to the housing as long as the development is cost of producing affordable housing are beyond consistent with the City's LDR and the control of local government, it is hoped that Comprehensive Plan. The LDR does not City policies do not create more barriers.The City impose restrictive barriers on these types of works to establish positive marketing strategies new construction. and program criteria increasing housing choices • Redlining and Secondary Market Practices: for households with limited incomes, to provide The City does not use such practices. geographical choice in assisted housing units, and • Code Enforcement: The City has no systematic to improve the physical quality of existing house to house code enforcement program.A affordable housing units. The City has identified complaint-based code enforcement process is City of Clearwater,Florida 2015-2016 Action Plan available to people who call Development based paint if the home was built prior to 1978. Services seeking help.As a result, there are no The costs for the treatment or removal of these code enforcement activities that are excessive, conditions can be minor for encapsulation to exclusionary, or discriminatory major for removal. When a home is identified as a • Policies that Affect the Return on Residential candidate for the City's Rehabilitation program, Investment Including Supportive Housing: and if it was built prior to 1978, it is inspected for The City has no policies that affect the return on lead in accordance to the rules of the federal residential investment.As a result there are no programs. Should lead hazards be found, the City such policies that are excessive, exclusionary, will discuss the options with the homeowner to and discriminatory eradicate the lead presence.The City provides loans to eligible households for lead abatement. 'w°III[, it q: liiourm IL...ead IIIIIIIItased III''Iallint Lead-based paint is defined as paint containing Throughout the fiscal year, the County Health one milligram per square centimeter (1 mg/cm2)of Department screens and tests school children for lead, or 0.5 percent lead by weight. The definition lead poisoning.The City will continue to test all of a lead-based paint hazard is any condition that buildings built before 1978 for lead-based paint in all causes exposure to lead from lead-contaminated its housing programs. dust, soil, or paint that is deteriorated or present in/on accessible surfaces, friction surfaces, or The City follows procedures as specified in impact surfaces that would result in adverse applicable regulations. The Department and its human health effects as established by the representatives provide all required notifications to appropriate federal agency owners and occupants and inspect for defective paint surfaces of pre-1978 properties.Any defective Although lead is known to cause adverse health paint conditions found are included in the Scope of effects in both adults and young children, children Work and Treatment provided to the defective (particularly those under the age of 7) are at a areas. No children under 7 years of age have been greater risk to lead-based paint hazards. Severe found to have identified Environmental Intervention lead exposure in children, which is quantified as Blood Lead Level (EIBLL) condition; however, having blood lead levels greater than or equal to interior chewable surfaces are treated as 880 micrograms per deciliter can lead to necessary.All Department policies and procedures convulsions, a coma, or even death. High levels of have been revised to conform to federal lead exposure can also cause mental retardation, requirements.An EPA-certified staff member orders kidney damage, as well as damage to the central and reviews paint inspections, risk assessments nervous system, brain, and blood forming tissues. and clearance testing of suspect properties done by Figure 55 displays that the number of lead-poisoning licensed testing professionals. cases among children has been in long term decline In every program where Federal funds are ex- within the County, declining from 311 new cases in pended on a housing unit, the City incorporates 1993 to only 30 in 2007. the current procedures for hazard reduction or Public and private efforts are currently underway LBP abatement guidelines as defined in 24 CFR Part 35. with the Pinellas County Public Health Department taking the lead in addressing lead A problem that impacts the rehabilitation of owner- poisoning in the community. The department has occupied housing units is the presence of lead- received a grant from the Centers for Disease City of Clearwater,Florida 2015-2016 Action Plan Control and Prevention. During the years 2000- a study of existing barriers to housing choice. 2007, 34,674 children were screened for lead poisoning throughout Pinellas County by local- This required study is referred to as the Analysis pediatricians and health care facilities. One of Impediments (AI) and is part of entitlement hundred thirty-four cases of lead poisoned children communities' consolidated planning process. were identified. This program will continue to be The purpose of the Al is to examine how state and expanded, especially in the already identified high local laws, and private, public and non-profit sector risk target areas. regulations, administrative policies, procedures, and practices are impacting the location, The City has recently done extensive research to availability, and accessibility of housing in a given obtain educational and outreach materials area. The Al is not a Fair Housing Plan; it is an pertaining to lead-based paint. We have placed analysis of the current state of fair housing choices many brochures, education materials and useful in Clearwater and identifies specific barriers that links on our website for citizens to access. need to be addressed if future fair housing initiatives are to be successful. u pl�u pIIIVpI@ 10°°�1151MMIRMN�u �I u�� � �„ �� a, „�� Each jurisdiction receiving federal funds must Year New Cases(#) Total Screened certify that it is affirmatively furthering fair housing. 1997 104 6,196 The certification specifically requires jurisdictions 1998 73 6,614 to conduct an analysis of impediments to fair 1999 60 5,581 housing choice within the state or local jurisdiction, take appropriate actions to overcome 2000 47 5,249 the effects of any impediments identified through 2001 31 4,939 that analysis, and maintain records reflecting the 2002 16 5,605 analysis and actions in this regard. 2003 25 6,479 2004 14 4,378 On July 22, 2010, the Cities of St. Petersburg, Largo and Clearwater and Pinellas County pro- 2005 11 2,689 cured the services of J-Quad Planning Group, a fair 2006 6 2,684 housing consultant, to conduct an analysis of 2007 30 2,651 impediments to fair housing choice for each entity. 2008 7 4,658 2009 3 4,752 The analysis of fair housing choice in the City has identified impediments, through a study methodology 2010 2 5,194 that included conducting focus group sessions, the 2011 5 3,694 construction of a demographic analysis resulting in a Total community profile and fair housing index, analysis of Soi..irce Florida Department of�?ealth for Pinetro:�s CDi..inty Public the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA)data for i?eatth Department the City and Pinellas County and a fair housing law 1 and public policy and program review. Iii ur III°°°III d�t�5W Iii in�„ In 1995, HUD announced that entitlement The City's commitment to furthering affordable communities, communities receiving direct federal housing through planning and CDBG/HOME funding from Community Development Block program design and implementation is noteworthy. Grant, HOME Investment Partnership and These efforts will continue to help maintain stability Emergency Shelter Grant programs, must conduct City of Clearwater,Florida 2015-2016 Action Plan and strengthen its older and lower-income areas.The business loan applications. Support agencies that City and its nonprofit partners are encouraged to provide workforce development programs and expand these efforts into other neighborhoods as a continuing education courses to increase the primary means of expanding fair housing choice. educational level and job skills of residents. ur uiurf .W ...uiururc;„,W insuiraince aind tt .ur' Cur °tliitlikurW III' IIIt.°t Iundustiry III' � Ie1 tee IIIinipe6iinieint W Brill„red: llini int W Impediment: Impacts of the Sub-prime Mortgage Impediment: Limited resources to assist lower Lending Crises and Increased Foreclosures. income, elderly and indigent homeowners maintain Remedial Action: Continue to work with the their homes and stability in neighborhoods. State, National Non-Profit Housing Intermediaries, Remedial Action: Continue to support and expand Federal Home Loan Bank, other lenders and HUD to program of Self-Help Initiatives based on evaluate programs and identify funding that can help volunteers providing housing assistance to reduce the mortgage default rate and fore-closure designated elderly and indigent property owners rates among low- and moderate-income home and assist them in complying with municipal buyers and existing home owners. housing codes. Involve volunteers, community and religious organizations/institutions and businesses Impediment: Low number of loan applications from as a means of supplementing financial resources minorities and low origination rates for minority for housing repair and neighborhood cleanups. applicants. Remedial Action: Continue homebuyer outreach � It IIIliic III'',( IIIlilcy III' � Ie1 tee IIIinipe6iinieint W and education efforts. Expand homeownership There were no Public Policy Related Impediments. and credit counseling classes as part of a high The City funds programs that offer free classes for school curriculum to help prevent credit problems persons desiring to become homeowners.The later in life. Pinellas Realtor Organization subscribes to the Voluntary Affirmative Marketing Agreement Impediment: Predatory lending and other industry (VAMA) and works to educate its members about practices. Fair Housing. Training and marketing materials Remedial Action: Continue to encourage financial have been videotaped and translated into institutions to assist low-to moderate-income American Sign Language and Spanish. The City persons by establishing or reestablishing checking, promotes home ownership and education at savings, and credit accounts for residents that various homebuyer fairs and expositions.The City commonly utilize check cashing services through also provides funding to the Community Service bank initiated "fresh start programs”for those with Foundation to provide Fair Housing Education. poor credit and previous noncompliant bank ac- count practices. In addition to the Human Relations Department, the City is working with Pinellas County Realtors &)clik) linipe6iunieint W through the VAMA Program to further fair housing Impediment: Poverty and low-income among opportunities in real estate transactions.To further minority populations. these efforts of the VAMA, the Pinellas County Remedial Action: Continue to work on expanding Board of Realtors enlisted the services of the job opportunities through the recruitment of Community Housing Resource Board to focus on the corporations, the provision of incentives for local federal, state and local enforcement agencies, corporations seeking expansion opportunities, and housing industry groups and volunteer community the assistance with the preparation of small groups working together to promote fair housing City of Clearwater,Florida 2015-2016 Action Plan practices. Pinellas County, and distributes approximately 5,000 copies annually. Below market rate These efforts include: mortgages, down payment and closing cost • Providing public information on fair housing assistance are readily available through the • Assessing community fair housing needs and County's Housing Finance Authority and through identifying local problems and issues that other agencies.The County is also active in impede equal housing opportunity providing and promoting affordable housing, • Evaluating performance and effectiveness of providing low-cost funds for home purchase or the VAMA repair, and modifications to homes to make them • Expanding minority involvement in the real accessible to persons with disabilities. estate industry • Expanding public awareness of housing The City directs significant resources to expand opportunities in the community the supply of affordable rental housing and • Developing cooperative solutions to problems partners with a variety of for-profit and non-profit associated with implementation of the VAMA developers and the Housing Finance Authority of • Continued support of the Pinellas County Pinellas County.The City also assists developers Human Relations Department, Pinellas with a variety of incentives aimed at reducing County Board of Realtors, and the Community development costs, impact fees, and regulatory Housing Resource Board impediments. • Continued to work with the local committee of Americans with Disabilities to view housing The City encourages mixed-income, multi-family related issues for homeowners, renters, or developments to develop affordable housing in homebuyers with disabilities. areas that are not predominantly low to moderate- Provided funding in the amount of$12,000 income as part of a continuing effort to to Gulf Coast Legal Services to implement a deconcentrate poverty. Funding is denied to fair housing program that offers counseling developers who do not provide mixed-income services, initial needs assessment, rental housing where the effect could be to racially or eviction intervention, and marketing of fair economically segregate low-income households. housing programs.The agency assisted 40 Strategy individuals. • Provided funding in the amount of$5,000 to the Income levels are a good way to measure the relative economic health of a community.Three Community Service Foundation to administer a fair housing program.The agency assisted 60 measures of income (median household income, individuals. median family income, and per capita income) are recorded by the U.S. Census. Household income is The Pinellas County anti-discrimination effort a measure of the total incomes of the persons living focuses on public information and enforcement of in a single household. Family income is a measure fair housing regulations and the County's Human of the total incomes of a family unit and does not Rights Ordinance. The County publishes a Housing include non-family units, such as a single person Resource Directory that includes an overview of living alone, and for this reason is typically higher fair housing law, information about reasonable than household income. Per capita income is a accommodation and accessibility, and a list of state measure of the incomes of every person in a and local enforcement agencies.The County specific area. Because per capita income is based produces a brochure entitled, Fair Housing in on all individuals, these statistics are typically lower City of Clearwater,Florida 2015-2016 Action Plan than those based on household or family incomes. educational agencies to provide customized job training programs for the business community.The Figure 9, Income and Poverty 1990-2000 on page area's Workforce Development Board, Career 10 in the 2011-2016 Consolidated Plan, shows these Source Pinellas, provides job training/employment measures applied to the City of Clearwater in both skills to low- income residents. the 1990 and 2000 censuses.The 1990 statistics have been adjusted for inflation. As shown in Figure NI, ' III' ul' IIIf IIP"'Nl tlll S'tIIIr ulq°:'t uir 9 in the 2011-2016 Consolidated Plan, the City of The City continues to work with the various Clearwater reported increases in all Median providers and partners of their programs in an effort Household Income, Median Family Income and Per to expand its services and opportunities and to make Capita Income between 1990 and 2000, with Median small, continuous improvements to the process and Family Income being the highest increase (3.2 continue to solicit input from all organizations percent). Other surrounding communities involved in the process. experienced moderate increases in all three income categories, with the exception of the City of Largo, The City utilizes a variety of non-profit organizations which experienced a 1 percent decrease in Median to deliver housing, community and economic Household Income from 1990 to 2000. development services. In the housing programs the City utilizes the local lending institutions and For the City of Clearwater, the poverty level mortgage companies to partner with the City to increased from 10.6 percent in 1990 to 12.3 provide affordable housing. percent in 2000. Every other surrounding community saw both the poverty level increase The City funds several non-profit organizations that and decrease over the 10-year period. However, at provide operational support and services on a 12.3 percent in 2000, the City of Clearwater's county-wide level. Both organizations are located in poverty level is high when compared to the another city of the county but assist Clearwater surrounding communities.Pinellas County reported residents with their services.As in the past, the City a slight increase in poverty from 9.5 percent to 10 has joined forces with the City of Largo and Pinellas percent, while Florida reported a slight decrease in County to fund a county-based non-profit poverty from 12.6 percent to 12.5 percent. organization that provides counseling and safe shelter for run-away youths (Family Resources). The City of Clearwater participates in the Tampa Bay Partnership, the regional Economic The City has developed a wide network of service Development agency and Enterprise Florida, the providers that assist the City with implementing its Statewide Economic Development entity; and has housing, community and economic development its own Economic Development Program. The programs. Our service providers include such Tampa Bay Partnership internationally recruits organizations as: companies to locate to the Tampa Bay region. They Tampa Bay Community Development provide a full range of business relocation Corporation assistance programs and utilize state and local Largo Area Housing Development Corporation incentive programs to help in this process. There Pinellas Habitat for Humanity are also Small Business Development Centers at Community Service Foundation Pinellas County Economic Development offices and Abilities of Florida, Inc. at USF. The Kimberly Home, Inc. • Religious Community Services, Inc. The Tampa Bay Partnership works with a network of • Gulf Coast Legal Services, Inc. City of Clearwater,Florida 2015-2016 Action Plan • Safety Harbor Neighborhood Family Center, enhance the coordination between our service Inc. providers and routinely solicits input from the • Westcare of Florida providers and clients on how the system can be • Homeless Emergency Project improved. • Pinellas Opportunity Council —Chore Services • Martin Luther King Jr. Neighborhood Family The City of Clearwater has identified the following Center institutional structure through which it will carry out • Intercultural Advocacy Institute its affordable and supportive housing strategy.The structure includes organizations from several The City's service delivery system continues to work backgrounds. These organizations represent private well. Communication and coordination between the firms, local, non-profit agencies and local and state providers is excellent. Many agencies will refer agencies. clients to the various other providers.Many of the Social/Public Services providers are members of The most important firms are local financial the Pinellas County Coalition for the Homeless and institutions and contractors. Financial institutions that organization provides a great medium for include savings and loans and banks. Many home coordination and networking. loans for rehabilitation and housing purchase are made by banks and savings and loans. Home loans The City continues to work to bring in more housing for rehabilitation are made by credit unions. non-profits to assist with its Housing Programs, in Contractors perform housing rehabilitation and build particular our housing rehabilitation program. In new houses. addition to housing nonprofits, the City continues to recruit more quality contractors to participate in Some local non-profit agencies are responsible for our rehabilitation and infill housing programs. With assisting homeless persons and households; other the very active new construction market, it has non-profit agencies rehab and repair owner been hard to find additional contractors. occupied houses and rental units for low-income occupancy. Home maintenance skills are provided Other actions undertaken by the City included to households. Subsidies for home acquisition are developing institutional structures and enhanced provided. Legal help and fair housing assistance are coordination between public and private housing also provided. and social service agencies. Partners-In-Self Sufficiency administers a self-sufficiency program Public agencies include city, county and state that provides housing and educational opportunities governments. City government provides financial aid to single-parent, low-income households. Under the to rehabilitate renter- and owner-occupied units and program the Clearwater Housing Authority pro- staff to enforce housing codes. The Housing vides Section 8 certificates or vouchers to program Commission operates units in the City to house low- participants while they are pursuing education and income households. job training.At the end of the program, participants For 2011-2016 there are several ongoing efforts to should have saved enough money for a down enhance coordination between various providers payment on a home. The City's Housing Division, of services, facilities and affordable housing for and other approved housing providers, would low-income persons and homeless persons, and further assist them with obtaining housing between providers of housing rehabilitation and opportunities. these services and facilities. The City continues to look for ways to improve and Coordination between public agencies providing City of Clearwater,Florida 2015-2016 Action Plan housing resources takes several forms. The two and Contracts Manager, Project Manager, or agencies involved here are the Clearwater Housing Manager.Additional technical assistance, if Housing Authority and the City's Economic needed or requested, will be given at the time of the Development and Housing Department. annual monitoring. Coordination activities include the following: • Five-Year Consolidated Plan and Annual HOME: Monitoring will be carried out in accordance Action Plan with federal regulations to insure compliance with all • Consolidated Annual Performance Evaluation HOME requirements. Each sub-recipient will be Report monitored on site to verify that: • Annual City budget preparation The minimum percent requirement for HOME- assisted units are being met under the • Ongoing staff communication to solve common contract. problems Eligible tenant occupancy meets the minimum • Responding to HUD directives percent requirement for HOME-assisted units under the guidelines. ftIilr'lIII' 011111,11 IirN g Adherence to the contractual requirements All sub-recipients will receive federal and local regarding concentration of HOME units and regulations relating to their specific activity, along special treatment of HOME tenants. with an explanation as to how these apply to the The Waiting List procedures are in compliance particular project. Specific Performance Agreements with the grant covenants. will be executed with each sub-recipient, giving Adherence to the Equal Housing Provisions of measurable objectives for the eligible activity to be the contract. carried out. Each project is monitored on an ongoing Adherence to the MBE and WBE provisions of the contract. basis and all pre-construction conferences are The HOME-assisted units meet housing attended by department staff. Documentation quality standards, and on-site files will be submitted with reimbursement requests is re- reviewed for the following information: viewed for compliance with applicable regulations o Current, signed lease. and measurable objectives prior to issuing funds. o Verify tenant's signature to an On-site monitoring of selected sub-recipients will be acceptable form of identification. o scheduled and completed annually by the Verify monthly rent is in compliance. o Verify tenant's income is supported by Accounting and Contracts Manager and/or the file documentation. Project Manager.A checklist will be completed and o Verify annual recertification was reviewed to insure all aspects of the activity are performed in a timely fashion and in carried out in accordance with applicable compliance with contract provisions. regulations.A follow-up letter will be sent to the subrecipient stating the outcome of the monitoring The City recognizes that monitoring of this visit. Consolidated Plan must be carried out on a regular basis to ensure that the statutory and In addition to the above documentation, any regulatory requirements are being met. Further, subrecipient determined to be in need of and/ it is critical to confirm that the information being or requesting additional training on how to meet reported to HUD through such mechanisms as grantee and federal requirements will receive the Integrated Disbursement and Information technical assistance in the form deemed most System (IDIS) is correct and complete. appropriate to the circumstances by the Account- ing The City of Clearwater Economic Development City of Clearwater,Florida 2015-2016 Action Plan and Housing Department is responsible for Funds which are set up to carry out specific preparing annual reports detailing the progress of activities. These include: the Housing all of the strategies contained in the Consolidated Rehabilitation Revolving Loan Fund (City Fund Plan.This department will periodically monitor the #686), the Economic Development Revolving Loan implementation of these strategies to identify areas Fund (City Fund #687) and the Infill Housing requiring improvement. Revolving Loan Fund (City Fund #689). Clearwater will attempt to monitor the success of The Housing Rehabilitation Revolving Loan Fund a couple of projects based on the new regulations includes payments made by homeowners who as stated in September 2003, CPD issued Notice participated in the Rehabilitation Program and 03-09, "Development of State and Local Perfor- had their home repaired. The Economic mance Measurement Systems for Community Development Revolving Loan Fund includes Planning and Development Formula Grant Pro- payment made by for-profit business owners who grams". These benchmarks will be tracked over the participated in the Economic Development time frame covered within this document.The Program and obtained funds to start up or performance of all projects will be reported in the maintain their businesses. self-evaluation section of the Consolidated Annual The Infill Housing Revolving Loan Fund includes Performance Evaluation Report.The City of Clear- payments made by sub-recipients who borrowed water will follow HUD's mandates. To monitor the funds to purchase vacant lots to build homes. City's overall progress, comments will be sought Funds were repaid when the sub-recipient sold from a number of external sources including the the home to an eligible homebuyer non-profit agencies to which Clearwater gives CDBG and HOME funding. Comments from these In FY 2015-2016, the City anticipates that the organizations will be solicited on the City's annual revolving fund balance will be $857,239. These performance. funds include $246,823 from the Infill Housing Revolving Loan Fund, $226,092 from the It is intended that this monitoring plan will reinforce Economic Development Revolving Loan Fund and the communication network between the City and $384,324 from the Housing Rehabilitation the various housing and human needs agencies Revolving Loan Fund. participating directly in the implementation of the Consolidated Plan or assisting in the provision of All program income received in the preceding year service supporting the Plan's strategies.The has been identified in the previous plan. monitoring process will also ensure accountability, compliance and adequate progress from the various 1. Proceeds from Section 108 loan agencies funded as part of the City's CDBG guarantees that will be used during the Program. year to address the priority needs and specific objectives identified in its Specific Program strategic plan. ®Requirements The City does not use funding for Section 108 C fnri inri irrl 111� Loan Guarantees. N illlf °:'114� uliraiiry t 2. Surplus funds from any urban renewal In addition to the entitlement allocations listed settlement for community development above, the City maintains three Revolving Loan and housing activities. City of Clearwater,Florida 2015-2016 Action Plan The City did not participate in any urban due, the City can only recapture the net renewal settlement. proceeds, if any.The net proceeds are the sales price minus the superior loan repayment 3. Any grant funds returned to the line of and closing costs. credit for which the planned use has not been included in a prior statement or plan. This language is included in the loan documents. The City did not return any grant funds from Such funds will be placed in the City's HOME the line of credit. Investment Trust fund. These funds will be used by the City for other eligible HOME activities. 4. Income from float-funded activities. 1. If grantee (PJ) plans to use HOME funds The City did not use any of its funding for any to refinance existing debt secured by float-funded activities. multifamily housing that is being 5. Urgent need activities, only if the rehabilitated with HOME funds, state its jurisdiction certifies. refinancing guidelines required under 24 The City did not identify any of its funds for CFR 92.206(b). urgent need during this reporting period. The City does not use HOME funds for refinancing of existing debt. 6. Estimated amount of CDBG funds that 2. Resale Provisions -- For homeownership will be used for activities that benefit activities, describe its resale or recapture persons of low and moderate-income. guidelines that ensure the affordability of units acquired with HOME funds. See 24 The City did not receive, or anticipates receiving, CFR 92.254(a)(4). any funds through any float-funded activities, Please see number 1. Section 108 Loan Guarantee Program, or any other urban renewal program. All funds allocated 3. HOME Tenant Based Rental Assistance -- for the City have been used on CDBG activities. Describe the local market conditions that One hundred percent of all CDBG funds will be led to the use of HOME funds for a used for low to moderate-income activities. tenant- based rental assistance program. p°°°Illflll1r�i IIIIIP"'NI , ' III1r�iIIP"'NI' Ilq°°°"'VIII°""VIII'"'NIIII" III°"NI VIII If the tenant based rental assistance program N°"'III"f )III" tlll1r�i is targeted to or provides a preference for Recaptured funds are HOME funds which are a special needs group, that group must be recouped by the City when HOME-assisted identified in the Consolidated Plan as having home-ownership housing does not continue to an unmet need and show the preference is be the principal residence of the assisted needed to narrow the gap in benefits and homebuyer for the full affordability period.The services received by this population. City will use the recapture method to obtain The City does not use HOME funds for these funds.The recapture provision is subject Tenant-Based Rental Assistance. to the limitation that when the recapture requirement is triggered by a sale, voluntary or 4. If a participating jurisdiction intends to involuntary, if the housing unit, and there are use forms of investment other than those no net proceeds or the net proceeds are described in 24 CFR 92.205(b), describe insufficient to repay the HOME investment these forms of investment. City of Clearwater,Florida 2015-2016 Action Plan multifamily housing that is rehabilitated The City will use funding from the State with HOME funds, state its financing Housing Initiatives Program and/or the guidelines required under 24 CFR Pinellas County Housing Trust Fund for the 92,206(b). matching requirements under the HOME program. The City will not use HOME funds to refinance the existing debt for multi-family projects. 5. Describe the policy and procedures it will follow to affirmatively market housing II lt' III'' A�")l O()(3) containing five or more HOME-assisted 1. One year goals for the number of units. households to be provided housing Affirmative Marketing Efforts. The Borrower through the use of HOPWA activities for: will follow the affirmative marketing procedures and short-term rent, mortgage,and utility requirements for the HOME Program to attract assistance to prevent homelessness of the eligible tenants in the housing market area to the individual or family, tenant-based rental available housing without regard to race, color, assistance, units provided in housing national origin, sex, religion, familial status or facilities that are being developed, leased, disability or operated. 6. Describe actions taken to establish and The City does not receive any HOPWA funds. oversee a minority outreach program t°° M, M, w tll�m�.ur IP�'� urur� tliiv� W aund Attac;IhumeuntW within its jurisdiction to ensure inclusion, Include any action plan information that was not to the maximum extent possible, of covered by a narrative in any other section. If minority and women,and entities owned optional tables are not used, provide comparable by minorities and women, including information that is required by consolidated plan without limitation, real estate firms, regulations. construction firms, appraisal firms, management firms, financial institutions, investment banking firms, underwriters, accountants, and providers of legal services, in all contracts, entered into by the participating jurisdiction with such persons or entities, public and private, in order to facilitate the activities of the participating jurisdiction to provide affordable housing under the HOME program or any other Federal housing law applicable to such jurisdiction. The City will use the methods described in Section 3 Programs to encourage participation in the HOME Program. 7. If a jurisdiction intends to use HOME funds to refinance existing debt secured by City of Clearwater,Florida 2015-2016 Action Plan I I City of Clearwater,Florida 2015-2016 Action Plan