Res 2021-064/approving Substantial Amendment No. 10 to the Community Development Block Grant-Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) Action Plan

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to occur. While some activities are currently being researched and vetted, the City knows that many more projects will be required in order to keep the City safe over the upcoming years. To that end, the City will most likely engage in multiple planning activities, both internally and as part of the greater region that includes Austin and San Antonio, to determine what Hazard Mitigation projects will be required. It is anticipated that the City will complete a new Comprehensive Plan that includes a detailed and specific Hazard Mitigation Plan, complete with implementation schedules and projects. The cost for these activities is unknown at this time, but the City anticipates allocating a portion of its CDBG-DR funds for the planning necessary, as well as to early infrastructure projects that are cost beneficial and reduce the potential for loss in the LMI populations that HUD expects us to serve. E. Final Unmet Needs Summary and Application to the Action Plan Just over a year and a half into the recovery process following the first of the 2015 floods, the City is steadily making progress in defining its need and the activities that we will need to continue making our community whole. Unfortunately, given the nature of all disaster recovery efforts, fully defined and enumerated need requirements will not be completely known even once the CDBG-DR funds are expended and the citizens feel that they are whole again. This estimate is simply that, and should be used to guide the direction of funds under this Action Plan, but not accepted as final fact. The City will continue to refine the data listed throughout this Needs Assessment and will take action to address additional needs as they come up. The chart below details the current Unmet Need estimate for the City. Housing $ 32,042,838 Infrastructure $ 30,J2 ,58" Economic Development The City anticipates that this number will grow as the Action Plan is finalized and moves into implementation, specifically in the infrastructure and hazard mitigation categories. The Hazard Mitigation category alone will significantly increase as we begin to propose projects that will help eliminate or reduce repetitive losses and will improve the long-term sustainability of our City. As noted in the introduction to this Needs Assessment, the current allocation of CDBG-DR funds, $25,080,000, is well below the amount necessary to solve the "problem" for everyone affected by these floods. However, these funds are not provided to the City to solve: every problem: they represent an effort by HUD to assist the City in initiating our long term recovery, and get the ball rolling. The City has explored and continues to explore alternate funding streams that could supplement the CDBG- DR funding. Those funding sources are identified within Section IV.B. (Leveraging Funds) of this document. During implementation of these activities, the City will need to continue to seek ways to leverage these funds against other grants, General Funds and other sources to further extend the use of this very precious resource. The remainder of this Action Plan will enumerate the potential programs that the City will create under the Housing and Infrastructure categories, focusing primarily on activities that will repair still damaged Last Updated 3/03/20 Page 34 of 63