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CONSOLIDATED ANNUAL PERFORMANCE AND EVALUATION REPORT Program Year 44 October 1, 2018 – September 30, 2019 City of Waterbury NeilDRAFT M. O'Leary, Mayor Submitted by: City of Waterbury Office of Community Development City of Waterbury Consolidated Annual Performance Evaluation Report for the program year ending September 30, 2019 Grant Number: For the Program Year ending: B-18-MC-09-0016 M-18-MC-09-0205 9/30/2019 E-18-MC-09-0001 Address of Grantee: Community Development Contact: City of Waterbury Diane C. Toolan 235 Grand Street Housing and Community Planning Program Waterbury, CT 06702 Director, Office of Community Development 235 Grand Street, Room C-29 Waterbury, CT 06702 (203) 346-3810 ext. 7288 These Community Development Block Grant Funds have been used: 1. to meet the Community Development Program objectives specified in the final statement for this program year 2. exclusively to benefit low/moderate income persons, aid in the prevention or elimination of slums and blight & meet community development need 3. such that the grantee has complied with, or will comply with, its certification to expend not less than 70% of its CDBG funds during the specified period on activities which benefit low/moderate income persons Were citizen comments about this report and/or the CDBG program received? ___ yes ____ no Indicate how the CAPER was made available to the public: By printed notice: Waterbury Republican American, 11/14/2019 DRAFT I hereby certify that: This report contains all required items identified by HUD; Federal Assistance made available under the CDBG has not been utilized to reduce substantially the amount of local financial support for community development activities below the level of such support prior to the start of the most recently completed CDBG program year; all the information stated herein and any information provided in the accompaniment herewith is true and accurate. _____________________________________________ _______________________________ Mayor Neil M. O’Leary Date CR-05 - Goals and Outcomes Progress the jurisdiction has made in carrying out its strategic plan and its action plan. 91.520(a) This could be an overview that includes major initiatives and highlights that were proposed and executed throughout the program year. During the CD YR 44 CAPER Period (10/1/18 to 9/30/19), the City continued its progress in carrying out its Strategic Plan and its Annual Action Plan. Emphasis was placed on bringing in the social service agencies sooner in order to review their awards, go over the City’s requirements, review their responsibilities and ensure that they are ready to execute their contracts in as timely a manner as possible. Each new subrecipient is presented with a Monitoring and Program Handbook, which details the requirements and presents them with templates to follow. Several of the agencies had new staff which required more training and time. All contracts were submitted by the required deadlines. This year, the City required those agencies receiving $50,000 or more to be submitted to the Board of Aldermen for their approval. GWIM, MASC and St. Vincent DePaul’s contracts were approved on November 19, 2018. There were 14 social service agencies/programs funded in the Annual Action Plan for CD YR 44. For the second year, Manufacturing Alliance Service Corporation, Inc. (MASC), a non-profit corporation that provides classroom and hands-on training to low and moderate income residents in order to become certified in the CNC (Computer Numerical Control) Entry Level Manufacturing Program and find jobs with local manufacturers was funded. The CDBG funds were used to pay the tuition of 13 additional income eligible students. This program meets one of the Consolidated Plan goals of economic development and preparing residents for employment. It also assists in helping the re-entry population find employment as well as displaced workers and returning veterans. Similarly, meetings were held with the non-social service recipients, 5 of which were non-profits and 5 were City projects. In the winter 2019, the YMCA requested that their project be cancelled due to the City’s need to fund the construction gap in the Brass City Food Hub Project. Substantial Amendment was approved April 23, 2019, construction got underway and the facility is expected to be substantially completed by December 1, 2019. The other non-profits were in various stages of getting their projects underway. All 5 of the City projects were underway during the program year and are expected to be completed by summer 2020. This year 9 rental units were rehabilitatedDRAFT with HOME funds. The first project completed by Waterbury Community Investments (a subsidiary of Mutual Housing of South Central CT/NeighborWorks New Horizons)included the rehabilitation of 6 units, 4 one bedroom and 2 two bedroom units. This project was an extension of their Gaffney Place Housing Revitalization Project that included the rehabilitation of 4 properties and new construction of 1 into two-family homes. All were sold to low-income families. The second project completed rehabilitated an investor owned three-family home. It consisted of 2 three bedroom and 1 two bedroom units available to low-income families. A third project originally planned for completion this year was delayed, it had to be rebid and work is expected to begin by the end of the year. This will put 6 three bedroom units back on the market for low-income families to rent. CAPER 1 OMB Control No: 2506-0117 (exp. 07/31/2015) Comparison of the proposed versus actual outcomes for each outcome measure submitted with the consolidated plan and explain, if applicable, why progress was not made toward meeting goals and objectives. 91.520(g) Categories, priority levels, funding sources and amounts, outcomes/objectives, goal outcome indicators, units of measure, targets, actual outcomes/outputs, and percentage completed for each of the grantee’s program year goals. Expected – Actual – Expected – Actual – Source / Unit of Percent Percent Goal Category Indicator Strategic Strategic Program Program Amount Measure Complete Complete Plan Plan Year Year Improve Affordable Housing Housing HOME: Rental units Household 99 0 0% 6 9 100% Conditions & Non-Housing $521,003 rehabilitated Housing Unit Community Eliminate Blight Development Improve Affordable Homeowner Housing Housing Non- Household Housing HOME: $0 Housing 6 0 0% 6 0 0% Conditions & Housing Unit Community Rehabilitated Eliminate Blight Development Maintain and Affordable Tenant-based rental Increase Households Housing ESG: $27,488 assistance / Rapid 225 397 176% 32 39 122% Housing for Assisted Homeless Rehousing Homeless Maintain and Affordable Increase ESG: Homeless Person Persons Housing 6500 2896 44.5% 1110 1006 91% Housing for $105,353 Overnight Shelter Assisted Homeless Homeless Maintain and Affordable Increase Homelessness Persons Housing ESG: $23,518 150 485 323% 75 19 25% Housing for Prevention Assisted Homeless Homeless Public service Provide for Non-Housing activities otherDRAFT than Basic Medical CDBG: Persons Community Low/Moderate 32500 17779 55% 5258 2877 55% and Nutritional $77,550 Assisted Development Income Housing Needs Benefit CAPER 2 OMB Control No: 2506-0117 (exp. 07/31/2015) Expected – Actual – Expected – Actual – Source / Unit of Percent Percent Goal Category Indicator Strategic Strategic Program Program Amount Measure Complete Complete Plan Plan Year Year Public service Non-Housing activities other than Provide for the CDBG: Persons Community Low/Moderate 3500 5340 152% 850 1471 173% Elderly $111,388 Assisted Development Income Housing Benefit Public Facility or Provide Infrastructure Non-Housing Infrastructure & CDBG: Activities other than Persons Community 110336 248054 224% 41,956 59,265 141% Facility $1,313,081 Low/Moderate Assisted Development Improvements Income Housing Benefit Public service Provide Non-Housing activities other than Targeted Social CDBG: Persons Community Low/Moderate 15500 9595 62% 1398 1528 109% Service $109,345 Assisted Development Income Housing Programs Benefit Public service Non-Housing activities other than Support Youth CDBG: Persons Community Low/Moderate 23500 7661 33% 380 279 73% Initiatives $23,650 Assisted Development Income Housing Benefit Table 1 - Accomplishments – Program Year & Strategic Plan to Date DRAFT CAPER 3 OMB Control No: 2506-0117 (exp. 07/31/2015) Assess how the jurisdiction’s use of funds, particularly CDBG, addresses the priorities and specific objectives identified in the plan, giving special attention to the highest priority activities identified. The City used its PY 44 CDBG funds to address many of its priority needs as identified in the 5 Yr. Plan. Programs selected for funding were prioritized by the Citizens Advisory Committee (CAC) with those meeting the basic needs of food, shelter/housing and health ranked highest; those serving the elderly, youth and transportation next and education, case management and recreation priority 3. All programs selected for funding met this test. During this CAPER, a total of 6,156 people were served by the social service programs, of which, 4,946 were extremely low income; 992 were low; 179 were moderate and 39 were non-low. A total of 1,086 persons reported a physical disability. Providing these public and supportive social services addresses the following Annual Goals as stated in the 5 Yr. Plan: 3-support youth initiatives; 2-provide for the elderly; 5-targeted social service programs and 4-provide basic medical and nutritional needs.