Res 2025-140 adopting the Community Development Block Grant (“CDBG”) 2025-2029 Consolidated Plan

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City of San Marcos Five Year Consolidated Plan for the 2025-2029 Program Years— FINAL—Last Updated 08/08/25 4. Summary of citizen participation process and consultation process Citizen participation has been an essential element of this plan. All notices and display ads were published in English and Spanish. The major objective of the citizen participation process has been to ensure that the diverse needs of the city residents, agencies, and business owners have been heard, and that the broadest range of responses to that need have been explored. This outreach made information available to potential beneficiaries on the possible funding and the choices for spending it and requested specific input that would guide the creation of this Consolidated Plan and the next Annual Action Plan. Comments and suggestions received have been considered at each step in the process of creating the two plans. Priorities have been set and projects and programs funded specifically to address public input, in balance with the data from the various studies and plans which have also informed the City's funding choices. Efforts made to broaden public participation include publication of notices and summaries in both English and Spanish, providing Spanish interpreters at meetings, and asking everyone who received notices to forward them to others. In addition, the notices for public hearings and public meetings contain instructions on how to ask for accommodation to facilitate participation. The plans have been made available at centralized City buildings on paper, accompanied by paper comment forms, to reach people without internet access. An agency survey, public workshops, a resident survey, a series of internal focus groups, agency interviews, public workshops, and review of various community needs assessments and plans led to a comprehensive view of the community priorities and needs. Please see Section PR-15 Citizen Participation below for additional details on public outreach. The comments that have been received in the workshops and surveys as part of the Consolidated Planning process were considered by staff and City Council and helped form the basis for the Consolidated Plan and the Action Plan. 5. Summary of public comments Although the public comments provide a picture of San Marcos needs and priorities, CDBG funding can only be used to meet some of them. By regulation, CDBG Entitlement funding is intended to be focused on affordable housing, community facilities, and public infrastructure, and federal funding restrictions are in place to support those intentions.The City is allowed to spend no more than 15% Consolidated Plan SAN MARCOS 6