Res 2025-141 adopting the Community Development Block Grant (“CDBG”) 2025-2029 Citizen Participation Plan

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2025-2029 CITIZEN PARTICIPATION PLAN FOR FEDERAL GRANTS FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT CITY OF SAN MARCOS,TEXAS I. GENERAL PROVISIONS A. Applicability Residents shall be involved in prioritizing and planning of Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) activities. The City of San Marcos (City) created this Citizen Participation Plan to meet the requirement that the City adopt and follow a Citizen Participation Plan (CPP)found in federal regulations 24 CFR 91.105 for CDBG-Entitlement, 81 FR 39687 for CDBG-DR Disaster Recovery and 84 FR 45838 for CDBG-MIT Mitigation, pending regulations pertaining to CDBG-CV Coronavirus, and any subsequent notices. This CPP pertains to the creation and amendment of planning and implementation documents ("the documents") related to any grant received from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) by the City of San Marcos, including the following: Five Year Consolidated Plan, CDBG-Entitlement Action Plan, CDBG-MIT Mitigation Action Plan, CDBG-DR Disaster Recovery Action Plan, CDBG-CV Coronavirus Action Plans or amendments to existing plans,Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice (AI), Citizen Participation Plan, and the Consolidated Annual Performance Evaluation Report (CAPER). B. Participation The purpose of this CPP is to establish a means by which residents of the city of San Marcos, public agencies, and other interested parties can actively participate in the creation, implementation, and assessment of planning and implementation documents related to HUD grants. The City encourages residents, public agencies, and other interested parties to participate in the creation or amendment of any of the documents. This CPP is designed especially to encourage participation by low-and moderate-income people, particularly those living in slum and blighted areas and in areas where CDBG funds are proposed to be used, and by residents of predominantly low- and moderate-income neighborhoods. The City will take whatever actions are appropriate to encourage the participation of all its residents, including minorities and non-English speaking persons, as well as persons with disabilities. C. Displacement The City of San Marcos will conduct all its Community Development activities to minimize the displacement of persons. The City is following a residential anti-displacement and relocation assistance plan required under section 104(d)of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974,as amended. In the unlikely event that any person is displaced by Community Development activities, the City will comply with the acquisition and relocation requirements of the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970. D. Information Available 1. Activities and Eligibility To permit public examination and to enhance public accountability, the City of San Marcos will make the following information available to residents, public agencies and other interested parties upon request: a. The amount of funds expected to be available for proposed Community Development activities, b. The range of eligible activities that may be undertaken with such funds, including the estimated amount that will benefit people of low and moderate income, and Page 3 of 12