Strategic 5 YR Plan FINAL

CITY OF PALM BAY, FLORIDA

2011-2016

5 YR STRATEGIC PLAN

Prepared by the Staff of the City of Palm Bay

Housing and Neighborhood Development Services

May, 2011

as adopted by the

Palm Bay City Council on

April 21, 2011

for Submission to the

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)

for Comment & Approval

and for Submission to the

Brevard County HOME Consortium for Inclusion in its

Consolidated Plan Submittal to HUD

Driskell Park Improvements Evans Center

Public Facility Project

N.E. Palm Bay Paving Project

Basin 3 Pervious Parking Lot

Down Payment Assistance Program

Community-Wide

Community-Wide

Neighborhood Stabilization Program

Baffle Box Retrofit Drainage Project Community-Wide

CITY OF PALM BAY

2011 – 2016 STRATEGIC PLAN

5 YEAR PALM BAY STRATEGIC PLAN TABLE OF CONTENTS

Section Page # General 01

Executive Summary 03

Community Profile 04

Strategic Plan Mission 13

Managing the Process 16

Citizen Participation 18

2009 Community Survey Results 21

Institutional Structure 22

Monitoring 23

Priority Needs Analysis and Strategies 24

Community Development 25

Non-Housing Community Development Needs 25

Antipoverty Strategy 34

Non-Homeless Special Needs 35

Other Narrative – Summary of Palm Bay’s Community Development Needs 36

Fair Housing – Summary of Palm Bay’s Fair Housing Efforts 39

Appendix A Certifications Appendix B – Maps Appendix C – Public Notices and Citizen Comments Appendix D – Integrated Disbursement Information System (IDIS) Appendix E – Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity (FHEO) Appendix F – Citizen Participation Plan Appendix G – Performance Measurement System

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5 Year Strategic Plan 1

City of Palm Bay 5 Year Strategic Plan This document, the City of Palm Bay’s Strategic Plan and the

Brevard County HOME Consortium’s 5 Year Consolidated Plan

include Narrative Responses to specific questions that grantees of

the Community Development Block Grant, HOME Investment Partnership, Housing

Opportunities for People with AIDS and Emergency Shelter Grants Programs must

respond to in order to be compliant with the Consolidated Planning Regulations.

GENERAL

IInnttrroodduuccttiioonn The City of Palm Bay is a municipality marked over the years by dramatic increases in its population and in its housing stock. Once a quiet community where most of the population was confined to the northeastern portion of the City, residential areas now encompass all four quadrants of the City, making it the third fastest growing municipality in Brevard County.

This dramatic growth is accompanied by "growing pains" that present unique challenges to City leaders and citizens. A need for a new community center where people of all ages can play and exercise; a need for infrastructure of all kinds, but particularly drainage improvements as well as, water and sewer hookups; services and facilities for its burgeoning senior population; job creation, job training and job placement services for many of the residents who are unemployed, enhanced public transportation and housing rehabilitation are but a few of the challenges that continue to face the City.

This Plan is the result of a strong collaborative effort of the City of Palm Bay, several of the public service organizations that assisted with their own updated data and information, input from citizen participation as well as, the participation of elected officials. Because of the many organizations involved throughout the preparation of the Plan, different interpretations of the requested information were made by the organizations.

Some of the major strengths of this plan include the use of 2000 U.S. Census data and the data gleaned from Palm Bay’s Community Survey, Brevard County’s Public Service questionnaire; the City of Palm Bay's "Vision 2020"; and Comprehensive Plan; and the Palm Bay "Bayfront Community Redevelopment Plan". The City believes that the data contained herein represents the housing needs, especially those of low to moderate-income persons. This plan presents a concise and accurate representation of the community development needs throughout the City.

FY 2011 – FY 2016 STRATEGIC PLAN PRIORITY NEEDS

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Purpose of the 5 Year Strategic Plan The City of Palm Bay’s 5 Year Strategic Plan is a requirement of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). It must be developed by local governments in order to receive funding under the federal programs: Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), program. In the past, local jurisdictions applied for the CDBG funding program using separate and distinct planning procedures and timelines. In 1994, HUD combined the planning, application, and reporting requirements of these pro-grams into a single 5 Year Strategic Plan for Housing & Community Development. The City of Palm Bay, as a member municipality of the Brevard County HOME Consortium (BCHC), utilizes the BCHC’s 5 Year Consolidated Plan to meet its 5 year reporting requirement for Housing while Palm Bay’s 5 Year Strategic Plan covers the reporting requirement for the CDBG funding it receives for the Planning period between 2011 and 2016. HUD has continued to utilize the Consolidated Plan Management Process (CPMP) automated tool that links the goals contained in the Consolidated Plan with each of the five, one year Action Plans and Consolidated Annual Performance Evaluation Reports (CAPER) for these two reports. The City of Palm Bay’s 5 Year Strategic Plan is a comprehensive planning docu-ment that identifies the overall needs for community and economic development. The Plan also identifies activities to be undertaken to meet these needs, and serves as an application for entitlement fund allocations for the CDBG program cited above. Scope of the 5 Year Strategic Plan The City’s 5 Year Strategic Plan focuses specifically on community development needs of low to moderate-income persons, as defined by HUD regulations. In addition, the document identifies supportive service needs of the homeless and other persons with special needs (including the elderly/frail elderly; persons with physical, mental, and developmental disabilities; persons with alcohol/drug addictions; and others). Communities also use the 5 Year Strategic Plan process to identify community development needs, including needs for public facilities and services, economic development, and infrastructure improvements. The 5 Year Strategic Plan sub-mission covers the five-year period from October 1, 2011 - September 30, 2016. The accompanying Action Plan portion covers the upcoming one-year program period between October 1, 2011 and September 30, 2012.


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EExxeeccuuttiivvee SSuummmmaarryy

The Executive Summary is required. Include the objectives and outcomes identified

in the plan and an evaluation of past performance.

5 Year Strategic Plan Executive Summary:

In developing a strategic plan to meet community development needs, priority needs were identified due to limited funding availability. For the 2011-2016 5 Year Strategic Plan, the priority needs were identified based on information gathered from the 2000 U.S. Census data, a Community Survey conducted between June 15, 2009 to July 15, 2009, the county-wide Public Service Agency Survey, through public hearings, the City of Palm Bay’s “Vision 2020”, the City’s Comprehensive Plan, the City’s Capital Improvement Program (CIP), the Bayfront Community Redevelopment Plan and through numerous Brevard County information sources. The Strategic Plan includes a “mission statement” that identifies the City of Palm Bay's top priority, identifies a work plan to achieve that mission and defines measurable objectives in that work plan as well as, the tactics to be used to achieve the identified objectives and priorities. Priority needs in the plan will be addressed for non-housing community development needs. The following three national objectives will serve as the overall framework for the use of Consolidated Plan funds: 1. Provide decent housing, including assisting homeless persons to obtain affordable housing, assisting persons at risk of becoming homeless, retaining existing affordable housing stock, increasing the availability of affordable permanent housing in standard condition without discrimination, increasing the supply of supportive housing that includes structural features and services to enable persons with special needs to live in dignity, and providing affordable housing that is accessible to job opportunities. 2. Provide a suitable living environment, including improving the safety and livability of neighborhoods, increasing access to quality public and private facile-ties and services, reducing the isolation of income groups within areas through spatial decentralization of housing opportunities, restoring and preserving proper-ties of special historic, architectural, or aesthetic value, and conserving energy resources. 3. Expand economic opportunities, including job creation, job placement, job training and retention, the creation, and expansion of businesses into Palm Bay via business grants, the provision of public services concerned with employment, the provision of jobs to low and moderate-income persons living in areas affected by programs and activities covered by this plan, the availability of mortgage financing for low and moderate-income persons at reasonable rates using non-discriminatory lending practices, access to capital and credit for development activities that promote the long-term economic and social viability of the


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community as well as, the empowerment and self-sufficiency for low-income persons to reduce generational poverty in federally assisted housing and public housing.

NOTE: While the Strategic Plan process has requested that funding amounts be estimated for a five-year time period, due to the uncertain program appropriations at the federal and state levels as they relate to the future of community development programs, and due to the inability to forecast the amount and existence of such funding, the City of Palm Bay has confined its funding estimates to the FY 2011/2012 allocation. It is hoped that in the near future (possibly by the second or third year of the 5 Year Strategic Plan) that some of its proposed accomplishments will be funded by non-federal sources. It is believed however, that presently the identification of five-year priority needs and the development of objectives for meeting those needs is a valid and important process for the City to undertake, and will determine how future dollars are spent, whatever their source or amount may be.

CCoommmmuunniittyy PPrrooffiillee The City of Palm Bay is located on the east Central Florida coast in South Brevard County, adjacent to the Indian River Lagoon, which is part of the Inter-Coastal Waterway, midway between Jacksonville and Miami on I-95, about a three hour drive in either direction. The Kennedy Space Center is 50 miles to the north and Orlando, with its resorts and attractions, is sixty-five (65) miles to the west via US 192/441. The City was planned in the late 1950s and incorporated in 1960. With approximately one hundred (100) square miles of territory, Palm Bay is the largest incorporated area in Brevard County and the sixth (6th) largest incorporated area in the state. Over forty-four thousand, eight hundred (44,800) acres of land are committed to development with eighty-four thousand (84,000) platted lots. Population The City of Palm Bay in 2010 has the largest population (106,871) in Brevard County and ranks twenty-first (21st) among the most populated cities in Florida. Between 1990 and the 2000 U.S. Census, Palm Bay ranked fourth (4th) in population growth in Brevard County and sixteenth (16th) in Florida, among cities having a population of at least fifty thousand (50,000) persons. Between 2000 and 2008 Palm Bay has become the second fastest growing City in Brevard County exhibiting an increase in population of 23,106 persons for a growth rate of 29.1% over the eight year period.


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BREVARD COUNTY POPULATION GROWTH BY CITY 1990 - 2008

Brevard County

2008 Estimate

2000 Census

1990 Census

1990/2000 Difference

1990/2000 % Change

Palm Shores 968 797 208 586 281.7%

Malabar 2,859 2,622 1,977 645 32.6%

Palm Bay 102,519 79,413 62,702 16,711 26.7%

Rockledge 25,698 20,170 16,023 4,147 25.9%

Melbourne 78,308 71382 59,646 11,736 19.7%

Indian Harbour Bch. 8,733 8,152 6,933 1,219 17.6%

West Melbourne 16,703 9,824 8,381 1,443 17.2%

Melbourne Village 729 706 603 103 17.1%

Cape Canaveral 10,635 8,829 8,014 815 10.2%

Melbourne Beach 3,309 3,335 3,031 304 10.0%

Indialantic 2,992 2,944 2,834 110 3.9%

Titusville 45,664 40,670 39,394 1,276 3.2%

Cocoa Beach 12,800 12,482 12,123 359 3.0%

Satellite Beach 10,848 9,577 9,889 -312 -3.2%

Cocoa 16,971 16,412 17,691 -1,279 -7.2%

Unincorporated 216,477 188,918 149,599 39,319 26.3%

Totals: 541,183 476,230 398,978 77,252 19.4%

Source: Bureau of Economic and Business Research, University of Florida 2008

Palm Bay’s 2000 U.S. Census population of seventy-nine thousand, four hundred and thirteen (79,413) persons was more than four times its 1980 population of eighteen thousand, five hundred and sixty (18,560) persons. The City since the year 2000 has continued to grow at an average of almost four (3.64%) percent per year. This percentage accounted for a population gain from 2000 to 2008 of twenty-three thousand, one hundred and six (23,106) persons. The City is esti-mated to have a built-out population of two hundred, forty-six thousand, four hundred and forty-two (246,442) persons and a total of ninety-three thousand, three hundred and four (93,304) housing units by the year 2030. Most Recent Population Trends Most recently, population in the City of Palm Bay was estimated to have increased from ninety-one thousand and seventy-five (91,075) persons in 2004 to one hundred six thousand, eight hundred and seventy-one (106,871) persons in 2010 for a total population increase of fifteen thousand, seven hundred and ninety-six (15,796) persons or by more than three thousand, one hundred, fifty-nine (3,159) persons per year over the five (5) year period. This represents an average growth rate of approximately four (3.5%) percent per year over the five year period.


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Education Between 1990 and 2000 while approximately twenty-three (23.2%) percent more of persons aged twenty-five (25) or more graduated high school, the highest percentage increase in educational attainment for persons aged twenty-five (25) or more was in having some college or in obtaining an Associate degree. Between 1990 and 2000, approximately forty-three (42.9%) percent more of persons aged twenty-five (25) or more attended some college or received an Associate degree. The percentage of persons aged twenty-five (25) or more who graduated college or obtained an advanced degree increased by approximately thirty (30.2%) percent.

CITY OF PALM BAY HIGHEST EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT OF PERSONS AGED 25 OR MORE

Education Level Year Number 1990/2000 Difference % of Total

1990 To 2000 Did Not Graduate

High School % Change = 4.8%

1990 7,208 1,343

17.9%

2000 8,551 16.3%

1990 To 2000 High School Graduate

% Change = 23.2%

1990 13,448 3,115

33.4%

2000 16,563 31.7%

1990 To 2000 Some College or Associate Degree

% Change = 42.9%

1990 12,915 5,542

32.1%

2000 18,457 35.3%

1990 To 2000 College Graduate or Advanced Degree

% Change = 30.2%

1990 6,709 2,026

16.7%

2000 8,735 16.7%

Totals: % Change = 29.9%

1990 40,280 12,026

100%

2000 52,306 100%

Source: 2000 U.S. Census

Employment Palm Bay ranks first in Brevard County in basic industrial employment. Harris Corporation employs approximately three thousand, six hundred and seventy-seven (3,677) people in the City. Intersil Corporation, a manufacturer of integrated circuits and semiconductors for the integrated communications market, employs one thousand, one hundred and eight (1,108) persons in the City. DRS Technologies, Inc. is a hi-tech manufacturer of rugged computer systems and communications interfaces for the military, and operates a facility in the heart of the Bayfront Redevelopment District in northeast Palm Bay. The


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Company employs one hundred and seventy-five (175) workers in Palm Bay. In the 2000 U.S. Census Palm Bay had one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight (1,878) people who were unemployed, which represents an unemployment rate of five (5%) percent. The construction industry historically has accounted for much of the economic activity in the City. Palm Bay has historically ranked among the leaders of Cities in the East Central Florida region (Brevard, Seminole, Osceola, Orange, and Lake Counties) in single-family construction units since 1977. During the 1980's, the City permitted nineteen thousand, six hundred and eighty-nine (19,689) total dwelling units, of which fifteen thousand, six hundred and seventy-one (15,671) units were single-family homes. In 2000, fifteen (15%) percent of all single-family permits in the County, were issued in the City of Palm Bay. This percentage grew to fifty-eight (58%) of all single-family permits issued in the County in 2008, a forty-three (43%) percent increase over eight years. The large percentage of single-family permits written in Palm Bay in 2008 versus being written in the county overall represents the overall importance of housing construction to Palm Bay’s economy and to the County as a whole. The decline overall in both County and Palm Bay single-family building permits in 2009 is reflective of the overall collapse in the housing market in Florida which has compounded the impact on unemployment in Palm Bay.

SINGLE-FAMILY BUILDING PERMITS ISSUED

Year

Brevard County Single-Family

Building Permits

City of Palm Bay Single-Family

Building Permits

% of Total County Single-Family

Building Permits

2000 3,438 530 15%

2001 4,379 789 18%

2002 4,956 966 19%

2003 5,605 1,477 26%

2004 6,180 2,318 38%

2005 6,279 3,253 52%

2006 4,074 2,128 52%

2007 2,032 801 39%

2008 1,227 706 58%

2009 345 157 46%

Source: Brevard County and City of Palm Bay Building Department 2010


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Unemployment Economic Conditions in East Central Florida/Brevard County/Palm Bay Briefly describe the economic conditions of the region, as well as the economic

adjustment problems or economic dislocations the region has experienced (or is

about to experience) and the regional impact of these conditions.

Florida’s East Central Florida Region that includes Brevard, Lake, Orange, Osceola, Seminole and Volusia Counties continues to face high unemployment. For 2010, the unemployment rate in the East Central Florida Region rose to 11.9%, a 1.3% increase from the year prior. Brevard’s unemployment rate also rose to an average annual rate of 11.9% from 10.5% a year earlier, 1.4% higher from the year prior while the City of Palm Bay’s unemployment rate rose to 12%, a .9% increase from the year prior and the short term forecast continues to look bleak.1/ NASA layoffs at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) could devastate Brevard County. The space agency could eliminate 6,400 positions at KSC after it retires the space shuttle in 2011. The 6,400 workers earning an average salary of $77,600 will alone cost the county $496 million. The number of additional local jobs generated by those 6,400 KSC job loses using the NASA multiplier of 1.5 earning equals 9,600 local jobs, earning an average salary of $39,788 which will cost the county an additional $383 million in lost jobs. The NASA economic study estimates that KSC layoffs and related job losses across the county could cost a total $879 million a year. More conservative estimates put the NASA job loss closer to 3,500 positions which would make the economic impact $480 million a year. Closing the gap between the two estimates requires continued Congressional funding. In either case, the unemployment rate in Brevard County will continue to rise. 2/ In all, 877 workers from United Space Alliance the main shuttle contractor and about 200 shuttle contractors working for seven other companies lost their jobs as of October 1, 2010 as part of the program’s gradual shutdown. It was the biggest wave of layoffs thus far, in advance of the planned 2011 end of the space shuttle program. The cuts represent about 17 percent of USA's 5,100 person Florida workforce.3/

Employment in the longer term however is more optimistic as the House overwhelmingly approved a new NASA policy to develop commercial rockets and launch an extra shuttle flight, rubber-stamping Senate legislation Wednesday that the administration supported. The February administration budget proposed to abandon the $9 billion Constellation return-to-the-moon program as underfunded and unrealistic. Instead, it proposes an extension of the International Space Station from 2015 to 2020 as part of greater attention to research. Even more boldly, the administration proposed $6 billion over five years to spur development

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of commercial rockets that would ferry people to the station after the retirement of the shuttle program next year.4/

The rising cost of pursuing foreclosures coupled with falling property values and new government policies may have influenced lenders to work harder on making modifications or allowing short sales. Although the pace of properties entering foreclosure slowed in July 2010 as lenders pre-empted or delayed foreclosure proceedings on delinquent properties with more aggressive short sales and loan modification initiatives, the pace of properties completing the foreclosure process through bank repossession quickened as lenders cleared out a backlog of distressed inventory delayed by foreclosure preservation efforts in 2009. With the continued trend in high unemploy-ment in Brevard County, housing foreclosures will continue to rise.5/ According to James Saccacio, Realty Trac CEO, improvements in sustaining a fragile stability that is emerging in local housing markets hinges on improvements in the underlying economy, particularly job growth. Ninety-five (95%) percent of the twenty (20) markets identified by Realty Trac as having the highest foreclosure rates (9 of which are in Florida) were experiencing double-digit unemployment in June 2010 exceeding the national average of 9.6 percent according to a report issued by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The Palm Bay/Melbourne/Titusville MSA ranks eighteenth in the top twenty (20) list of foreclosures with one (1) filing per thirty-six (36) housing units and an unemployment rate of over eleven (11.4%) percent. 6/ 1/Florida Agency for Workforce Innovation, Labor Market Statistics Center

2/Orlando Sentinel, May 29, 2008

3/Florida Today, October 1, 2010

4/Florida Today, September 30, 2010

5/Florida Today, July 25, 2010

6/Inman News, July 29, 2010

2009 Versus 2010 UNEMPLOYMENT STATISTICS1/

2009/2010 Annual Average Unemployment Area

2009 Avg. Percent

2010 Avg. Percent

2009 - 2010 Change

United States 9.3% 9.6% 0.3%

State of Florida 10.5% 11.5% 1.0%

Brevard County 10.5% 11.9% 1.4%

Palm Bay/Melbourne/Titusville MSA 10.5% 11.9% 1.4%

East Central Florida Region1/ 10.6% 11.9% 1.3%

City of Palm Bay 11.1% 12.0% 0.9% 1/The East Central Florida Region is comprised of the counties of Brevard, Lake, Orange, Osceola, Seminole and Volusia.

Source: Florida Agency for Workforce Innovation, Labor Market Statistics Ctr. Local Area Unemployment Statistics Program, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics

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Population by Age Palm Bay’s population continues to age. Since the 1990 U.S. Census, Palm Bay’s median age has risen from approximately thirty-two (31.6) years to just over thirty-eight (38.04) years in 2010. In 2000, twenty-six (26.4%) percent were less than eighteen years of age compared to twenty-four (24.0%) percent in 2010. In 2000, approximately Fifty-nine (58.7%) percent of the City’s population was working age compared to sixty-one (61.4%) percent in 2010 and while the remaining fifteen (14.9%) percent of the City's residents were sixty-five (65) years or older in 2000, approximately the same fifteen (15.0%) percent were sixty-five or older in 2010.

2010 CITY OF PALM BAY BY AGE OF POPULATION

Age

<5

5-17

18-24

25-34

35-44

45-54

55-64

65-74

75-84

85+

#

6,742

18,475

9,706

14,291

13,875

16,623

11,086

8,187

5,734

2,152

% of Tot.

6%

17%

9%

13%

13%

16%

10%

8%

5%

2%

Source: 2010 P Census, Claritas – Tetrad

Household Income The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) establishes the income limits for low-income families under the Housing Act of 1937. Income limits are subject to change each year, (as are the income ranges) and are based on the HUD estimates of median family income for a given fiscal year. The definition for low-income is fifty percent (50%) of the median income level for an area and the definition for moderate-income is eighty percent (80%) of the median income for an area. These percentages are adjusted by the size of the household. The 2010 median household income for the Palm Bay, Melbourne, Titusville MSA is sixty-two thousand, nine hundred ($62,900) dollars for a family of four. Following are the HUD 2010 income limits in Palm Bay adjusted for family size:

2010 INCOME LIMITS ADJUSTED TO FAMILY SIZE %

Median Family Income

1 Person

2 Persons

3 Persons

4 Persons

5 Persons

6 Persons

7 Persons

8 Persons

30%

$13,200

$15,100

$17,000

$18,850

$20,400

$21,900

$23,400

$24,900

50%

$22,050

$25,200

$28,350

$31,450

$34,000

$36,500

$39,000

$41,550

80%

$35,250

$40,250

$45,300

$50,300

$54,350

$58,350

$62,400

$66,400

Source: 2010 HUD Income Limits Adjusted to Family Size


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In determining the housing and community development needs of a community, a basic guideline followed, is to examine the amount of income a household receives. HUD considers a community to be low/moderate area if at least fifty-one (51%) percent of its residents have household incomes that are less than eighty (80%) percent of the median combined household income adjusted for family size. The following table summarizes City of Palm Bay households by income for the year 2000:

CITY OF PALM BAY 2000 HOUSEHOLDS BY INCOME

Income Range 2000

Number of Households 2000

% Of Total

$10,000 - $14,999 4,440 15%

$15,000 - $24,999 4,954 16%

$25,000 - $34,999 4,943 16%

$35,000 - $49,999 6,182 20%

$50,000 - $74,999 6,187 20%

$75,000 - $99,999 2,324 8%

>$100,000 1,367 5%

Total: 30,397 100%


According to the 2000 Census, there were a total of thirty thousand, three hundred and ninety-seven (30,397) households in Palm Bay. Of these, six thousand, five hundred and one (6,501) households or twenty-one (21%) percent were considered low-income. Another five thousand, four hundred and thirty-six (5,436) households, or eighteen (18%) percent of the households earned incomes that were between fifty-one (51%) percent and eighty (80%) percent of the median income of thirty-six thousand, five hundred and eight ($36,508) dollars. In summary, thirty-nine (39%) percent of the households in Palm Bay in 2000, were considered to be at eighty (80%) percent or less of the median income.


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Income by Race/Ethnicity

The following table represents an examination of income by race and ethnicity:

CITY OF PALM BAY HOUSEHOLDS BY MINORITY STATUS AND INCOME GROUP, 2000

Households

Total 2000 % Total

% Low 0-50%

% Mod. 51-80%

% Middle 81-95%

% Above 95%

White Race 25,203 83% 26% 9% 8% 56%

Black or African American Race

3,268 11% 34% 21% 9% 36%

American Indian or Alaska Native

162 1% 35% 22% 0% 43%

Asian Race 452 1% 36% 11% 10% 43%

Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific

Islander 9 0% 0% 0% 0% 100%

Households

Total 2000 % Total

% Low 0-50%

% Mod. 51-80%

% Middle 81-95%

% Above 95%

Other Race 576 2% 27% 17% 7% 48%

Two/More Races 727 2% 26% 20% 6% 47%

All households 30,397 100% 21% 18% 8% 53%

Hispanic or Latino Ethnicity

2,153 7% 23% 16% 8% 53%


While the large majority of Palm Bay households are White, Black or African American households have a much larger percentage of low to moderate-income households (21% among Black or African American vs. 9% among White households). While there are few American Indian or Alaska Natives living in the City, they also, make up a disproportionate share of low-income households (35%). Only the Hispanic or Latino ethnicity closely approximates all house-holds. Poverty Level Status The following table represents an examination of the City of Palm Bay’s population by race and ethnicity for which poverty status is determined:


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CITY OF PALM BAY POVERTY LEVEL STATUS, 2000

Poverty Level Population by Race/Ethnicity Count Percent

White 4,991 67%

Black or African American 1,483 20%

American Indian and Alaska Native 68 1%

Asian 218 3%

Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander 12 0%

Other Race 327 4%

Hispanic or Latino Ethnicity (any race) 978 13%

Total Palm Bay Population Below Poverty Level: 7,471 9%

Source: PCensus 2000 U.S. Census

While the majority of poverty level residents (67%) are White, a dispropor-tionately larger percentage (20%) of Black or African Americans, based upon their population distribution (11%), live at or below poverty level in Palm Bay.

SSttrraatteeggiicc PPllaann Due every three, four, or five years (length of period is at the grantee’s discretion)

no less than 45 days prior to the start of the grantee’s program year start date.

HUD does not accept plans between August 15 and November 15.

Mission: The City of Palm Bay's “Mission Statement”, relative to its 5 Year Strategic Plan, is to provide assistance that addresses the three aforementioned national objectives; 1. to provide decent housing; 2. to provide a suitable living environ-ment and 3. to provide expanded economic opportunities so as to principally benefit low and moderate-income residents in Palm Bay. Work Plans to Achieve Mission Statement The City of Palm Bay's programs to provide “Decent Housing” include: the Housing Rehabilitation Program; the Rental Occupancy Assistance Program; the Utility Hook-Up Assistance Program; the Homebuyer Education Program; the Down Payment Assistance Program and the Foreclosure Prevention Program.

The City of Palm Bay's programs to provide “A Suitable Living Environment” include: the Public Service 15% Program Set-Aside; the Community Housing Development Organization (CHDO) 15% Program Set-Aside; the Public Safety/ Code Enforcement Officer and the Capital Improvements Program (CIP).


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The City of Palm Bay's programs to provide “Expanded Economic Opportunities” include: the Economic Development Grant Program.

The CDBG non-housing community development programs are detailed in the sections which follow with a full description of the City of Palm Bay’s Performance Measurement System for each of the programs is contained in Appendix G: Performance Measurement System. General Questions 1. Describe the geographic areas of the jurisdiction (including areas of low income

families and/or racial/minority concentration) in which assistance will be directed.

(See pages 14 and 15).

2. Describe the basis for allocating investments geographically within the

jurisdiction (or within the EMSA for HOPWA) (91.215(a)(1)) and the basis for

assigning the priority (including the relative priority, where required) given to

each category of priority needs (91.215(a)(2)). Where appropriate, the

jurisdiction should estimate the percentage of funds the jurisdiction plans to

dedicate to target areas. (See page 15).

3. Identify any obstacles to meeting underserved needs (91.215(a)(3)). (See page

15).

5 Year Strategic Plan General Questions response:

1. Describe the geographic areas of the jurisdiction (including areas of low income families and/or racial/minority concentration) in which assistance will be directed.

GGeeooggrraapphhiicc DDiissttrriibbuuttiioonn ooff IInnccoommee Activities and projects that may be eligible to receive HUD funding generally may be carried out only if the activity or project benefits a "low/mod (low/moderate) area". A low/mod area is a concentration of persons in a defined area (i.e. census tract; block group) in which at least fifty-one (51%) percent of persons in that area have combined household incomes at or below eighty (80%) percent of the median household income. The City of Palm Bay has block groups in two out of the four quadrants of the City that meet the definition of a low/mod area. Some are in heavily populated areas, like those block groups in the northeast section of the City, and others, like Block Group 3 of Census Tract 0652.02, in the southeast quadrant of the City, have high concentrations of low/mod persons, but are sparsely populated. The following table represents the concentrations of low/mod-income persons in Palm Bay that meet HUD's definition and represent the primary geographic areas in which assistance will be directed:


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CITY OF PALM BAY LOW/MOD PERSONS BY CENSUS TRACT & BLOCK GROUP

Census Tract/ Block Group Total Persons

Low/Mod Persons

% Low/Mod

City Quadrant

CT: 0651.21/BG: 3 1843 1,094 59.4% N.E.

CT: 0651.22/BG: 1 2,904 2,077 71.5% N.E.

CT: 0651.22/BG: 2 1,790 921 51.5% N.E.

CT: 0651.23/BG: 1 476 358 75.2% N.E.

CT: 0651.23/BG: 2 517 334 64.6% N.E.

CT: 0651.23/BG: 3 1,062 686 64.6% N.E.

CT: 0651.23/BG: 4 759 482 63.5% N.E.

CT: 0652.01/BG: 1 618 391 63.3% N.E.

CT: 0652.01/BG: 3 2,451 1,386 56.5% N.E.

CT: 0652.02/BG: 3 450 363 80.7% S.E.

CT: 0713.21/BG: 5 848 497 58.6% N.E.

CT: 0713.22/BG: 3 1,830 994 54.3% S.E.

Source: HUD Low & Moderate Income Population Report, FY 2000

2. Describe the basis for assigning the priority given to each category of priority

needs. The basis for assigning the priority given to each category of priority needs were obtained from the results from the 2009 City of Palm Bay’s Community Survey; the results from the 2009 Brevard County Public Service Agency Survey; the 2009 Consolidated Plan’s two Public Hearings; the 2000 U.S. Census Data; the City of Palm Bay’s Vision 2020; the City of Palm Bay’s Comprehensive Plan; the City of Palm Bay’s Capital Improvement Project Plan; the Bayfront Redevelopment Plan and other Brevard County Sources.

3. Identify any obstacles to meeting underserved needs. For the 2011 – 2016, 5

Year Strategic Plan the primary obstacles to meeting underserved needs include: a.) the overall reduction/absence of funding, especially the State Housing Initiatives Partnership (SHIP) funds which, in the past, have served as matching funds to the Federal Home Investment Partnership (HOME) funds that are utilized to meet several of the City’s housing priorities, b.) the absence/lack of certified, non-profit 501 (c) (3) public service agencies to meet the unmet needs of the community, c.) the absence of qualified Community Housing Development Organizations (CHDOs) which are needed to develop/rehabilitate single-family and multi-family housing to meet the unmet needs in the community and d.) the reduction in City staffing levels that severely curtail program development, execution and reporting capabilities.


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MMaannaaggiinngg tthhee PPrroocceessss ((9911..220000 ((bb)))) 1. Lead Agency. Identify the lead agency or entity for overseeing the development

of the plan and the major public and private agencies responsible for

administering programs covered by the Consolidated Plan.

2. Identify the significant aspects of the process by which the plan was developed,

and the agencies, groups, organizations, and others who participated in the

process.

3. Describe the jurisdiction's consultations with housing, social service agencies, and

other entities, including those focusing on services to children, elderly persons,

persons with disabilities, persons with HIV/AIDS and their families, and homeless

persons.

*Note: HOPWA grantees must consult broadly to develop a metropolitan-wide strategy and other jurisdictions must assist in the preparation of the HOPWA submission.

5 Year Strategic Plan Managing the Process response: The HUD entitlement cities of Palm Bay, Melbourne, Cocoa, and Titusville, together with Brevard County make up the Brevard County HOME Consortium. The HOME Consortium was formed in order to maximize the federal funding possibilities for the consortium's member jurisdictions under the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) HOME Investment Partnership program, a program designed to promote affordable housing. The existence of this consortium dictates that the member jurisdictions combine their efforts and produce a HOME Consolidated Plan for the entire County. In the body of that Consolidated Plan, housing needs and strategies are addressed on a county-wide basis, with sections on each City's individual community development needs and strategies. Brevard County is the lead agency for that document.

Because the needs of each consortia member are different, it was decided that to best identify the needs of Palm Bay, this separate 5 Year Strategic Plan focusing on the City’s non-housing community development needs would be developed by City staff. It is anticipated that this will result in a better understanding of the community, and demonstrate an increased ability to prioritize the limited funds received by the City from HUD. The staff of Housing and Neighborhood Development Services is the lead agency within the City which is responsible for the development of this 5 Year Strategic Plan.

Housing and Neighborhood Development Services sought input to update its extremely high involvement of data collection from the 2005-2010 Consolidated Plan process. The majority of information in this Plan is taken from the 2000 U.S. Census Data and from the City of Palm Bay's "Vision 2020"; the City’s Comprehensive Plan and the Palm Bay "Bayfront Community Redevelopment Plan" as well as, a community survey that was mailed to 12,707 households in Northeast Palm Bay and distributed via the City of Palm Bay’s web site. Additionally, a "Citizen Participation Plan" was written and adopted by the City


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Council, as part of the 2011-2016 Consolidated and Strategic Plan processes, and their implementation provides the framework around which the community was provided an opportunity to be a part of the 2011-2016 Consolidated Planning process. (See Appendix C: Public Notice). A public hearing was held on Tuesday, June 30, 2009, and a second meeting was held on Wednesday, July 22, 2009. Both meetings were held at the Palm Bay Community Center, 1502 Port Malabar Blvd., Palm Bay. A third Consolidated Plan public hearing was held on January 22, 2010 at the Community Center in northeast Palm Bay that included the FY 2010/2011 Action Plan. The purpose of these meetings was to elicit comment on priority community development and housing needs from citizens. The priority community needs that were presented were taken from the 2005-2010 Consolidated Plan as well as from the 2009 Community Survey. Because funding priorities of both the federal Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and HOME programs benefit low and moderate-income house-holds/persons, and in an effort to broaden public participation in the Consolidated Plan process, comments from members of low and moderate-income households and minority communities were sought as well as, from public service providers. A survey to public service providers was distributed by the County also in June 2009. Additionally, Brevard County conducted a series of meetings which focused on the needs of children, the elderly, persons with disabilities, persons with HIV/AIDS, and the homeless. (See Appendix C: Public Notice). The meetings were advertised in a variety of ways to heighten awareness of the process. In addition to a legal ad in the Florida Today, Palm Bay Edition, a newspaper of general circulation, press releases were distributed to the Florida Today prior to each advertised public hearing, encouraging participation at the meetings. Notices of the public hearings were also mailed to existing CDBG sub-recipients of the City, and to any organization that had expressed an interest in CDBG or HOME funding during the previous twelve (12) months, and to City department heads. (See Appendix C: Public Notice). During the meetings, the Consolidated Plan's purpose and process were discussed as well as, a review of eligible CDBG and HOME activities. A broad discussion was held regarding the priority needs established during the planning process for the 2011-2016 Consolidated Plan. During the planning process for the 2011-2016 Consolidated Plan, participants were given the opportunity to voice their opinions and comments and, at the neighborhood meetings, were also asked to rank priority community development and housing needs. To do this, those present were given three choices to make in each of seven categories, each of which was then tallied. A review of the plan's purpose and process was initiated, with comments received (See Appendix C: Public Notice, for a summary of these comments).


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As a member of the Brevard County HOME Consortium, the City of Palm Bay’s Housing and Neighborhood Development Services staff has attended meetings with Brevard County and the other entitlement cities that tallied community priorities around Brevard County as part of the fact gathering process for the Brevard County HOME Consortium’s 5 Year Consolidated Plan. Also, several plans were utilized for the purpose of compiling the City’s 2011-2016, 5 Year Strategic Plan. The documents consulted include the City of Palm Bay's "Vision 2020"; the City of Palm Bay Comprehensive Plan and the Palm Bay "Bayfront Community Redevelopment Plan". United States Census data (2000) were also reviewed for pertinent information, as were several population and housing reports written and updated annually by the City's Growth Management Department. The review and analysis of all material received from the aforementioned parties helped tremendously in the preparation of the City’s 2011-2016 Strategic Plan. The results of that plan were then presented for review to the Community Development Advisory Board. Citizens and agencies were in agreement with the priorities established during the City’s 2011-2016 5 Year Strategic Plan process and only minor modifications have been made.

CCiittiizzeenn PPaarrttiicciippaattiioonn ((9911..220000 ((bb)))) 1. Provide a summary of the citizen participation process.

2. Provide a summary of citizen comments or views on the plan.

3. Provide a summary of efforts made to broaden public participation in the

development of the consolidated plan, including outreach to minorities and non-

English speaking persons, as well as persons with disabilities.

4. Provide a written explanation of comments not accepted and the reasons why

these comments were not accepted.

*Please note that Citizen Comments and Responses may be included as additional files within the CPMP Tool.

5 Year Strategic Plan Citizen Participation Response:

A public hearing was held on Tuesday, June 30, 2009, and a second meeting was held on Wednesday, July 22, 2009. Both meetings were held at the Palm Bay Community Center, 1502 Port Malabar Blvd., Palm Bay. A third Consolidated Plan public hearing was held on January 22, 2010 at the Community Center in northeast Palm Bay that included the FY 2010/2011 Action Plan. The purpose of these meetings was to elicit comment on priority community development and housing needs from citizens. The priority community needs that were presented were taken from the 2005-2010 Consolidated Plan as well as from the 2009 Community Survey. Because


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funding priorities of both the federal Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and HOME programs benefit low and moderate-income households/ persons, and in an effort to broaden public participation in the Consolidated Plan and Strategic Plan processes, comments from members of low and moderate-income households and minority communities were sought as well as, from public service providers. A survey to public service providers was distributed by the County also in June 2009. Additionally, Brevard County conducted a series of meetings which focused on the needs of children, the elderly, persons with disabilities, persons with HIV/AIDS, and the homeless. (See Appendix C: Public Notice). The meetings were advertised in a variety of ways to heighten awareness of the process. In addition to a legal ad in the Florida Today, Palm Bay Edition, a newspaper of general circulation, press releases were distributed to the Florida Today prior to each advertised public hearing, encouraging participation at the meetings. Notices of the public hearings were also mailed to existing CDBG sub-recipients of the City, and to any organization that had expressed an interest in CDBG or HOME funding during the previous twelve (12) months, and to City department heads. (See Appendix C: Public Notice). During the meetings, the Consolidated Plan's purpose and process were discussed as well as, a review of eligible CDBG and HOME activities. A broad discussion was held regarding the priority needs established during the planning process for the 2011-2016 Consolidated Plan. During the planning process for the 2011-2016 Consolidated and Strategic Plans, participants were given the opportunity to voice their opinions and comments and, at the neighborhood meetings, were also asked to rank priority community development and housing needs. To do this, those present were given three choices to make in each of seven categories, each of which was then tallied. A review of the plan's purpose and process was initiated, with comments received (See Appendix C: Public Notice, for a summary of these comments). Summary of Citizen Comments or Views on the 5 Year Strategic Plan

Drug sales in neighborhoods (62%) and police presence/protection (53%) were the two most requested community priorities under the public safety category.

Sixty-one (61%) percent of low/mod respondents requested that flood/ drainage improvements be the top priority under the category of infrastructure improvements.

Fifty-six (56%) percent of low/mod respondents requested that job placement services and fifty-two (52%) requested that job training be addressed as the highest priorities under economic development.

Overgrown lots, yards and roadsides (55%); Abandoned cars and junk in yards (51%); and liter and junk on vacant lots and roadsides (50%); were the highest priorities requested under the category of community appearance.


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Help with home repairs (52%) was the most requested community priority under the housing category.

Food banks/food programs (38%) and Senior Services (38%) were the two most requested priorities under the human services category.

Youth Centers (35%) and Health Facilities (35%) were the top two most requested priorities under the category of public facilities. (See Appendix C: Public Notice for complete comments/views on the Strategic Plan).

Michael Lindsay of Northeast Palm Bay would like to see the City do a better job of maintaining landscaping following installation and would like to see old structures demolished in favor of green space versus dilapidated buildings.

Susan Berry would like to see more landscaping placed around a holding pond which is being dug near her home and an aerating fountain installed as a deterrent to algae and to the mosquito population.

A Public Service agency priority needs survey was also developed and mailed by Brevard County to social service, health, and housing organizations which operate in the County and includes agencies that provide services to Palm Bay residents. As a member of the Brevard County HOME Consortium, the City of Palm Bay’s Housing and Neighborhood Development Services staff has attended meetings with Brevard County and the other entitlement cities in order to ascertain community priorities county-wide. Also several plans were utilized for the purpose of compiling the 2011-2016 Consolidated Plan including the City of Palm Bay's "Vision 2020"; the Brevard County "Continuum of Care Coalition"; the Ten Year Plan to End Chronic Homelessness; the City of Palm Bay Comprehensive Plan; the Brevard County "Comprehensive Housing Affordability Strategy (CHAS)"; the Shimberg Center for Affordable Housing and the Palm Bay "Bayfront Redevelopment Study". United States Census data (2000) was also reviewed for pertinent data and information, as were several population and housing reports written and updated annually by the City's Growth Management Department. The review and analysis of all material received from the aforementioned parties helped tremendously in the preparation of the 2011-2016 Consolidated Plan. All public comments were accepted for the purpose of developing the 2011 – 2016 Consolidated Plan. The results of that plan were then presented for review to the Community Development Advisory Board. For the most part, citizens and agencies were in agreement with the priorities established during the 2011-2016 Consolidated Plan process, and only minor modifications were made.

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COMMUNITY SURVEY - LOW/MOD RESPONDENT RESULTS

Mailed: Estimated 12,707 surveys mailed in Cycles 2 & 3 to N.E. Palm Bay City’s Web Site Surveys Received: 74 web site surveys received Mailed/Dropped Surveys Received: 1,631 mailed/dropped-off surveys received Mailed Survey Response Rate: 12.8% Low/Mod Surveys Processed: 723 Low/Mod surveys processed Primary Household Size: 2 Person Households, 44% of respondents answering Primary Combined HH Income: <$35,000, 74% of respondents answering Primary Palm Bay Quadrant: Northeast Palm Bay, 88% of respondents answering

COMMUNITY PRIORITIES COMMUNITY PRIORITIES

HOUSING – UP TO 3 CHOICES HUMAN SERVICES – UP TO 3 CHOICES 19% Affordable rental units 38% Food banks/food programs

09% Rental assistance 09% Drug/alcohol treatment 25% Affordable housing available for purchase 35% Public transportation 17% Purchase assistance for first-time homebuyers 26% Prescription purchase assistance

24% Housing for people with special needs 31% Health services 24% Domestic violence shelters 08% Mental health services 31% Emergency shelters/homeless facilities 38% Senior services 52% Help with home repair 15% Handicapped services (special needs) 36% Foreclosure prevention assistance 15% Affordable child care

17% After school programs COMMUNITY APPEARANCE – UP TO 3 CHOICES 15% Youth Services

51% Abandoned cars and junk in yards 06% Family Counseling 50% Litter and junk on vacant lots and roadsides 55% Overgrown lots, yards and roadsides PUBLIC FACILITIES – UP TO 3 CHOICES 48% Abandoned/dilapidated homes 26% Park facilities

12% Commercial vehicles parked in residential neighborhoods 32% Recreation programs 21% Rundown buildings other than homes 32% Senior centers 10% Business storefronts that need improvement 20% Community centers/meeting places

35% Youth centers ECONOMIC/JOB DEVELOPMENT – UP TO 3 CHOICES 16% Child care facilities

51% Unemployment 35% Health facilities

56% Job placement services 23% More bus stops

52% Job training 16% Wheelchair/handicap accessibility 41% Higher paying jobs 37% Small business assistance INFRASTRUCTURE – UP TO 3 CHOICES

40% Pave roads in neighborhoods PUBLIC SAFETY – UP TO 3 CHOICES 44% Improve hazardous intersections

48% Gang activities 08% Widen main roadways

62% Drug sales in neighborhoods 38% Street lights

18% Noise pollution 22% Sidewalks 21% Fire protection 13% Fire hydrants 53% Police presence/protection 61% Flood/drainage improvements 37% Speeding in neighborhoods 23% City water/sewer service hook-up assistance

15% Safer school bus stops

HOUSEHOLD SIZE/COMBINED HOUSEHOLD INCOME/PALM BAY RESIDENCE HOUSEHOLD SIZE COMBINED HOUSEHOLD INCOME PALM BAY RESIDENCE

35% 1 Person 03% 5 Persons 74% <$35,000 01% $50,000 - $54,999 88% North East Palm Bay

44% 2 Persons 02% 6 Persons 18% $35,000 - $39,999 00% $55,000 - $59,999 02% North West Palm Bay

11% 3 Persons 00% 7 Persons 03% $40,000 - $44,999 00% $60,000 - $65,999 09% South East Palm Bay

05% 4 Persons 00% 8 or More 01% $45,000 - $49,999 02% $66,000 or More 01% South West Palm Bay

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1. Explain the institutional structure through which the jurisdiction will carry out its

consolidated plan, including private industry, non-profit organizations, and public

institutions.

2. Assess the strengths and gaps in the delivery system.

3. Assess the strengths and gaps in the delivery system for public housing, including

a description of the organizational relationship between the jurisdiction and the

public housing agency, including the appointing authority for the commissioners

or board of housing agency, relationship regarding hiring, contracting and

procurement; provision of services funded by the jurisdiction; review by the

jurisdiction of proposed capital improvements as well as proposed development,

demolition or disposition of public housing developments.

5 Year Strategic Plan Institutional Structure response: Institutional Structure/Coordination The Consolidated Plan will be carried out through a combination of public, private, and non-profit organizations. Working with local businesses, with social service providers and providers of low-income housing, with other units of local government, and with the State of Florida, the City will work in partnership to meet the housing and service needs of its low/moderate income citizens with the resources at its disposal. One such non-profit organization is Community Housing Initiative, Inc. which administers the City’s Down Payment Assistance Program (DAP) and also works in the community as a Community Housing Development Organization in developing and rehabilitating single-family and multi-family housing projects in Palm Bay. Partnerships and coalitions are needed in order to see the "whole picture" of needs and services available, and to enhance the ability of the community to provide a continuum of services to those in need. In order to remain informed on critical issues, City staff attends meetings of the Hungry and Homeless Coalition of Brevard, Inc., Habitat for Humanity, The Brevard Continuum of Care Coalition and meetings of the Brevard County HOME Consortium as part of this collaborative effort. It further attends workshops and seminars sponsored by the Florida Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), the Florida Department of Community Affairs (DCA), and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), in order to learn more about available programs, to exchange ideas with other units of government as well as, facility and service providers, and to improve its ability to develop/improve City programs. City staff also participates as members of the Florida Housing Coalition, a partnership development/housing idea exchange organization whose goal it is to advocate for affordable housing in the State of Florida.


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The City's housing programs are integrated with those of the State of Florida through the Florida Housing Finance Corporation (FHFC) and its State Housing Initiatives Partnership (SHIP) program. These funds, when they become available again, will be used to help match federal HOME requirements. While the City of Palm Bay does not utilize Emergency Shelter Grant (ESG) or Housing Opportunities for People with AIDS (HOPWA) funds, it will support the applications of other units of local government and non-profits which do. The primary strengths in the delivery system of facilities and services to those in need are the commitment and desire of all involved to meet these needs. The principal gaps occur in communication, and in the difficulty of providing services to a county that is seventy-two (72) miles long and fifteen (15) miles wide with minimal public transportation service available as noted by human service providers in the Brevard County public service agency survey. Although efforts have been made to strengthen the capacity of non-profits, there remains the need to further strengthen their capacity in order to help them become fully independent of CDBG funding. With regard for the strengths and gaps in the delivery system for public housing, the HOME Consortium municipalities continue to work together well in funding public housing single-family and multi-family projects throughout the County. There continues however, to be a need to develop and to nurture an increased number of Community Development Housing Organizations (CHDOs) in order to further increase the production and to improve the quality of public housing in the community. Presently, the Housing Authorities do not operate an office in the City of Palm Bay and the extent of their activity in the municipality is extremely limited. With the exception of the Section 8 Voucher program in Palm Bay and the City’s efforts with regard to Section 3 compliance, the City has very limited interaction with the Melbourne Housing Authority.

MMoonniittoorriinngg ((9911..223300)) 1. Describe the standards and procedures the jurisdiction will use to monitor its

community development projects and ensure long-term compliance with program

requirements and comprehensive planning requirements.

5 Year Strategic Plan Monitoring response:

PROGRAM MONITORING GUIDELINES

Community Development Block Grant Program Monitoring All sub-recipients i.e., public service agencies are monitored at least annually to ensure compliance with program guidelines and to sub-recipient contracts. Each sub-recipient has contracts in place to ensure compliance with all federal requirements. All invoices submitted for reimbursement contain the appropriate


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supporting documentation in accordance with program regulations. The sub-recipients are also required to submit to the Neighborhood Development office compliance/accomplishment reports both quarterly and annually. The Neighborhood Development staff monitors all recipients at least one time annually. The sub-recipients are also required to submit to the Neighborhood Development office accomplishment reports both quarterly and annually. All CDBG Economic Development clients are monitored to fulfill employment requirements for low/mod individuals with site visits occurring on an annual basis. The monitoring visits are used additionally to ascertain the financial worthiness of each client business, in order to assure his/her continued success. Businesses that fail to comply with contractual obligations are turned over to the City Attorney’s office for the appropriate action in accordance with written agreements

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1. Describe the basis for assigning the priority given to each category of priority needs.

2. Identify any obstacles to meeting underserved needs.

3-5 Year Strategic Plan Priority Needs Analysis and Strategies response: 1. Describe the basis for assigning the priority given to each category of priority

needs. The bases for assigning priority needs are the responses received from low/mod respondents to the June 15, 2009 Community Survey; responses received from the Public Service Questionnaire; comments received from the public throughout the Consolidated Plan process; the “Continuum of Care Coalition”; the Ten Year Plan to End Chronic Homelessness; the City of Palm Bay's "Vision 2020"; the Comprehensive Plan; the Brevard County "Comprehensive Housing Affordability Strategy (CHAS)"; the Shimberg Center for Affordable Housing and the Palm Bay "Redevelopment Study".

2. Identify any obstacles to meeting underserved needs. The primary obstacles to meeting underserved needs are funding limitations and the lack of capacity/manpower both at the local government level and among the public service agencies. The downturn in the economy and the housing crisis of 2009 further compounded these obstacles by increasing the foreclosure rate in Palm Bay to ten (10.3%) percent, while increasing the unemployment rate in Palm Bay to approximately twelve (11.8%) percent. The twelve (11.8%) percent unemployment rate meets the criteria for designating Palm Bay as a distressed community being that its unemployment rate is a more than a full percentage point higher than the eleven (10.7%) percent unemployment for the State of Florida and the ten (9.7%) percent unemployment rate for the entire nation for the month of June 2009. This subsequently has created an enormous demand for human services in the community as well as, for emergency housing in Palm Bay and throughout Brevard County.


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COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

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1. Identify the jurisdiction's priority non-housing community development needs

eligible for assistance by CDBG eligibility category specified in the Community

Development Needs Table (formerly Table 2B), i.e., public facilities, public

improvements, public services and economic development.

2. Describe the basis for assigning the priority given to each category of priority

needs.

3. Identify any obstacles to meeting underserved needs.

4. Identify specific long-term and short-term community development objectives

(including economic development activities that create jobs), developed in

accordance with the statutory goals described in section 24 CFR 91.1 and the

primary objective of the CDBG program to provide decent housing and a suitable

living environment and expand economic opportunities, principally for low- and

moderate-income persons. NOTE: Each specific objective developed to address a priority need, must be identified by number and contain proposed accomplishments, the time period (i.e., one, two, three, or more years), and annual program year numeric goals the jurisdiction hopes to achieve in quantitative terms, or in other measurable terms as identified and defined by the jurisdiction.

5 Year Strategic Plan Community Development response:

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There are a host of important non-housing needs in the City of Palm Bay, that help to meet the goals of the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program in developing viable urban communities by providing a suitable living environment and expanding economic opportunities. Priority #1: Provision of Public Safety Public Safety is the #1 community priority cited in the 2009 Community Survey. The top three priorities to be addressed as requested by low to moderate-income respondents in the survey was 1) Drug sales in Neighborhoods; 2) Police presence/protection and 3) Gang activities. Sixty-two (62%) percent of the low to moderate-income respondents in the survey cited the community priority of addressing drug sales in neighborhoods while fifty-three (53%) percent re-quested police presence/protection and forty-eight (48%) percent requested addressing gang activities. Obstacles to meeting these needs are funding availability and the reductions in manpower experienced at all local levels of government.


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Objective #1: Over the next five (5) years, the City of Palm Bay will continue to support efforts to increase police presence/protection in low to moderate-income areas of northeast Palm Bay with a designated public safety officer assigned to the specific duty. Proposed Accomplishments: The City proposes in FY 2011/2012 to fund a public safety officer in northeast Palm Bay covering areas of high crime and have a high incidence of drug trafficking. It is anticipated that approximately $75,000 in CDBG funds will be spent on public safety over the next five years covering the time period of the Consolidated Plan. In later sections of this plan, references are made to a public safety officer and a code enforcement officer. This is one position that will perform both duties. The funding for public safety activities in FY 2011 - 2012 is for $20,000 and the funding for code enforcement activities is also $20,000 for a total of $40,000 for the one position. * Public Safety Officer: The City plans in FY 2011/2012 to fund $20,000 for a public safety officer to patrol high crime and high drug trafficking areas in northeast Palm Bay along the Bayfront Redevelopment District and to assist 100 people with public safety issues in low to moderate-income neighborhoods in northeast Palm Bay. Priority #2: Improving the Community’s Appearance

The second most requested category of improvement sited in the 2009 Community Survey was Community Appearance. The top four (4) high priorities to be addressed, as requested by low to moderate-income respondents, in the survey were 1) Overgrown Lots, Yards and Roadsides; 2) Abandoned Cars and Junk in Yards; 3) Litter and Junk on Vacant Lots and Roadsides and 4) Abandoned/ dilapidated homes. Fifty-five (55%) percent of the low to moderate-income respondents in the survey sited overgrown lots, yards and roadsides while fifty-one (51%) percent requested addressing abandoned cars and junk in yards. Fifty (50%) percent of the respondents in the 2009 Community Survey mentioned litter and junk on vacant lots and roadsides while forty-eight (48%) percent mentioned abandoned and dilapidated homes that need improvement.

Obstacles to meeting these needs include funding availability and organizing neighborhood groups to assist in and support the clean-up.

Objective #1: Over the next five (5) years, the City of Palm Bay will continue to support efforts toward improving the community’s appearance in low to moderate-income areas of northeast Palm Bay with a designated code enforcement officer assigned to the specific duty.

Proposed Accomplishments: The City proposes in FY 2010/2011 to fund a Code Enforcement officer in northeast Palm Bay covering areas designated for improvement and clean-up. It is anticipated that approximately $75,000 in CDBG funds will be spent on code enforcement over the next five years covering the time period of the Consolidated Plan.


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* Code Enforcement Officer: The City plans in FY 2011/2012 to fund $20,000 for a code enforcement officer to improve the community appearance in northeast Palm Bay along the Bayfront Redevelopment District to assist 100 people, on an annual basis, with code related citations in low to moderate-income neighborhoods in northeast Palm Bay.

Objective #2: Over the next five (5) years, the City of Palm Bay will continue to support efforts toward improving the community’s appearance in low to moderate-income areas of northeast Palm Bay with a Façade Improvement Program designed to eliminate slum and blight areas of the commercial and light industrial business areas of the Bayfront Redevelopment District in the CRA.

Proposed Accomplishments: The City proposes in FY 2011/2012 due to the limited SHIP funding that is currently available, not to fund the Façade Improvement Program in northeast Palm Bay covering areas designated for improvement and clean-up until such time as SHIP funding once again becomes available. It is anticipated that no CDBG funds will be spent on the Façade Improvement Program over the next five years covering the time period of the Consolidated Plan. * Façade Improvement Program: The City plans in FY 2011/2012, not to fund the Façade Improvement Program to improve the community appearance in northeast Palm Bay along the Bayfront Redevelopment District until such time as SHIP funding once again becomes available. The Bayfront Redevelopment District has been targeted to assist property owners of commercial business locations in the district in low to moderate-income neighborhoods in northeast Palm Bay. Priority #3: Development of the City’s Economy, Particularly as it Relates to Job Creation for low/Mod Persons During the preparation of the 2011-2016 Strategic Plan, through the 2009 Community Survey and as a part of the City’s Vision 2020 process, where citizens took part in developing municipal goals for the next 10 years, economic development continues to be a high priority. Job placement services was the top requested community priority as indicated by fifty-six (56%) percent of the low to moderate-income respondents under the Economic/Job Development category Job training was the second top requested community priority in this category mentioned by fifty-two (52%) percent of the low to moderate-income respon-dents. Help with unemployment was the third top priority as indicated by fifty-one (51%) percent of the low to moderate-income respondents. The Coalition for the Hungry and the Homeless of Brevard County, Inc., sites employment and “job training” as the second and third most important unmet needs of the homeless. The City of Palm Bay has created the Bayfront Community Redevelopment District (BCRD) along the U.S. Highway 1 corridor in north eastern Palm Bay in


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accordance with Florida Statutes. Along with this creation came the adoption of the BCRD Plan, a plan that identifies a twenty-five year visioning of improve-ments to the U.S. 1 corridor area (The BCRD Plan is available in the Housing and Neighborhood Development Services office). Additionally, the City continues to encourage redevelopment in the district with its Bayfront “Restore” Commercial Façade Improvement and landscape programs. Obstacles to meeting economic development needs include limited funding, inadequate roads, faulty lot layout, defective property titles, other conditions which inhibit redevelopment of the U.S. Highway 1 corridor, and the general challenges of attracting new business to the City (i.e. infrastructure needs, tax incentives, skilled employment pools, etc.). In accomplishing the goals of meeting the City's need for economic development, and job creation particularly for its low and moderate income residents, the City of Palm Bay proposes the following short term (one year accomplishments) and long term (five year accomplishments) objectives: Objective 1: Over the next five (5) years, the City of Palm Bay will seek to maximize economic opportunities for low/moderate income persons in Palm Bay. Proposed Accomplishments: The City proposes to accomplish the objectives through the creation/expansion of small and medium sized businesses with job retention/creation for low to moderate-income persons an integral component of this process: * Economic Development Grants: The City proposes to continue fund the Palm Bay Economic Development Grant program with approximately $100,000 in CDBG funds each year. The City proposes as a short-term goal in FY 2011/ 2012 to utilize existing CDBG funds to create and/or retain five (5) jobs. Grants will be made to either new businesses or existing medium sized businesses having at least five (5) employees in order to generate new business or to encourage expansion, to create/retain jobs and/or to revitalize deteriorating commercial areas. The City’s Economic Development Grants will be used to assist small and medium sized businesses open, procure equipment, facilitate business expansion, and/or facility renovations. The Grants will be prioritized on the ability to create and retain jobs for low to moderate-income families. Grants will be made to businesses city-wide that meet the qualifications, but will be targeted toward businesses that are currently located or plan to be located in the Bayfront Redevelopment District and the City of Palm Bay in general. Objective 2: Over the next five (5) years, the City will seek the economic revitali-zation of the U.S. Highway 1 corridor, a low/moderate income area. Proposed Accomplishments: The City proposes to accomplish this objective through the on-going operation of a redevelopment agency:


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Implementation of the Bayfront Community Redevelopment District (BCRD) Plan: The Housing and Neighborhood Development Services staff will play a supportive role to the Bayfront Community Redevelopment Agency (BCRA) in the implementation of the BCRD plan throughout the redevelopment district. The plan is that as tax incremental dollars are realized, these funds will be used along with CDBG funds to enhance the economic growth and redevelopment of the area. The creation of the BCRD Plan, subsequent to the development and adoption of the Study of Blight and Basis for Planning, is a significant benchmark for Palm Bay. The intent of the Plan is to provide the redevelopment framework for the “Bayfront Village Area”. The City began the long process of creating a community redevelopment area with the Finding of Necessity and Study of Blight in 1994. Soon after the adoption of a resolution to accept the blight study, the Palm Bay City Council created the Bayfront Community Redevelopment Agency (BCRA) to oversee all redevelopment activities with the target area, largely located along US 1 and Palm Bay Road. Following the creation of the BCRA, the agency held additional meetings to provide public input to the development of the twenty-five (25) year plan. The Plan identifies a specific path to direct the community in the realization of its vision, goals and objectives. The Vision for the BCRD is that “the district shall be redeveloped as an attractive, inviting and economically successful community with residential, commercial/retail and mixed use areas that promote a positive image and marine village for the enjoyment of the Community and Region.” The Plan directs the actions of the BCRA with regard to capital facility improvements and specific redevelopment projects to enhance the BCRD. The Plan identifies specific incentives for new and redeveloping projects. This Plan allows developers investing in the area to be assured of a consistent approach for redevelopment, adequate infrastructure to support it and a cohesive/coordinated approval process. The BCRD consists of five (5) unique, yet interconnected special character districts. The most central of these districts, Bayfront Village, will boast a Florida vernacular style of architecture; a compact built environment; a grid network of streets; pathways leading to the river and public spaces; attractive views and vistas to accentuating the Indian River riverfront. Other special character districts include South Cove, Riverview, Kirby Industrial Area and the Powell Subdivision. Each district boasts of an environ-ment that is unique and a mixture of land uses.

Specific projects funded by tax incremental funds are identified in the work program. In addition, a comprehensive list of proposed redevelopment projects being funded through a combination of multiple funding sources has been included in the Plan. Although many projects have been identified in the overall objectives, as well as the special character districts, only a few can be funded in the early years of the BCRD redevelopment. Projects identified in the Plan’s early years have been selected as priorities for their ability to stimulate private


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market response throughout the BCRD. Although the Plan is intended to set the stage for redevelopment over a twenty-five (25) year period, a more feasible short and long-term work program has been outlined. The BCRA updates and amends the plan on a regular basis to keep the plan focused and timely. As the BCRD plan reaches fruition the district will become known as the City’s traditional downtown and riverfront accessibility will be enhanced to the benefit of residents, visitors, business owners and property owners alike. Priority #4: Provision of Public Services In the past five years, the City of Palm Bay has seen a dramatic increase in the number of non-profit organizations that seek CDBG funding as a resource. Typically, requests for services far exceed available funds. In FY 2011/2012, the requests for public services exceeded the allowable public services budget by $92,694. While the City recognizes the need for such services, it is not within the City's limited budget and its staffing limitations to fund all such services. Difficult and sometimes unpopular choices must be made. The principal purpose of this document is to identify priority needs, in an effort to help provide a guideline for determining which programs to fund, and which not to fund. To the maximum extent possible, local agencies and citizens have been a part of identifying those needs themselves. The top public service priority needs as requested by low/mod respondents from the 2009 Community Survey were: Food banks/food programs – 38%; senior services – 38% and public transportation – 35%. With the current economic conditions and high unemployment rates, it is logical that food banks/food programs are a high priority need among low/mod respondents to the 2009 Community Survey. Additionally, Palm Bay’s population is ageing and therefore the need for senior services and public transportation are high priority needs. Since the 1990 U.S. Census, Palm Bay’s median age has risen from approximately thirty-two (31.6) years to slightly more than thirty-seven (37.2) years in the 2000 U.S. Census. In 1990, twenty-eight (28%) percent of its citizens were under eighteen (18) years of age compared to slightly more than twenty-six (26.4%) percent in 2000. In 2000, almost fifty-nine (58.7%) percent of the City’s population was working age compared to sixty-one (61%) percent in 1990 and while the remaining fifteen (14.9%) percent of the City's residents were sixty-five (65) years or older in 2000, only eleven (11%) percent were sixty-five or older in 1990. Obstacles to meeting these needs are funding availability and the existence of agencies with the capacity and expertise to administer these services. While Housing And Neighborhood Development Services will continue to solicit assistance for the most requested services, the availability of such services as public transportation may continue, in the next five years, to be an unmet need.


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Objective 1: Over the next five (5) years, the City will seek to fund public service agencies that provide Food Banks and Food Programs. Proposed Accomplishments: The City proposes between 2011 and 2016 to fund food banks/food programs in Palm Bay. It is anticipated, so long as economic conditions warrant, that approximately $45,000 in CDBG funds will be spent on public service agencies that provide food banks/food programs over the next five years covering the time period of the Consolidated Plan. * Food Banks/Food Programs: The City plans in FY 2011/2012 to leave this need unfunded due to a lack of adequate capacity by the public service agencies that provide food banks/food programs to low/mod residents of Palm Bay to assist families that are experiencing the present high unemployment rates and deteriorating economic conditions. Objective 2: Over the next five (5) years, the City will seek to fund public service agencies that provide Food Banks and Food Programs. Proposed Accomplishments: The City proposes between 2011 and 2016 to fund public service agencies that provide senior services in Palm Bay. It is anticipated, that approximately $45,000 in CDBG funds will be spent on public service agencies that provide senior services and senior programs over the next five years covering the time period of the Consolidated Plan. * Senior Services: The City plans in FY 2011/2012 to leave this need unfunded due to the lack of public service agencies that provide senior services and senior programs to low/mod residents of Palm Bay to assist families that are in need of assistance with senior services such as; senior day care, services for the frail elderly, Alzheimer’s and dementia related services, etc. Objective 3: As its third objective, over the next five (5) years, the City will seek to fund public service agencies that provide public transportation to low/mod residents in Palm Bay. Proposed Accomplishments: The City proposes to spend $40,000 in CDBG funds on public service agencies that provide public transportation services for low/mod residents of Palm Bay over the next five years covering the time period of the Consolidated Plan. * Public Transportation Services: The City plans in FY 2011/2012 to leave this activity unfunded due to the absence of public service agencies that provide public transportation services to low/mod residents of Palm Bay to assist families in these trying economic times for basic needs such as getting to the grocery store, to doctors’ appointments, to job interviews, etc.


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Priority #5: Development of the City’s Infrastructure in Low/Moderate Income Areas Palm Bay's infrastructure has not kept pace with its rapid population and housing growth. The need for infrastructure improvements and expansion has continued to be identified at the public hearings, in consultation with City department representatives, and in several needs assessment and/or planning documents such as the Vision 2020 as well as in the 2009 Community Survey. Particular concerns continue to be given to flood/drainage improvements – 61%. Safety concerns is a need that continues to be addressed regarding improving hazardous intersections – 44%, street improvements – 40% in northeast Palm Bay, and the need for street lights – 38%. For the 2011-2016 planning years, the City's Public Works Department has identified almost $720,000 in drainage projects that need improvements in Palm Bay's low to moderate-income areas over the next five (5) years, the time period covered in the Strategic Plan. Approximately $445,000 is CDBG and CDBG-R stimulus funds were utilized following the 2009 Community Survey to pave twenty-eight (28) roads in neighborhoods in Northeast Palm Bay. An obstacle to meeting priority #5 is funding availability. Objective 1: Over the next five (5) years, the City will continue to implement infrastructure improvements in areas of low to moderate-income concentration. The northeast area of Palm Bay will continue to be the priority, but other areas of low to moderate-income concentration will also be considered for funding. Top infrastructure priority needs to be addressed include those for drainage improvements. Medium level infrastructure priority needs include hazardous intersections, street improvements, and street lights. Street Light improvements will take place as required with public safety police requests being paramount, flood drainage improvements, improving hazardous intersections, street improvements and other infrastructure needs will be addressed as sufficient funding becomes available. Proposed Accomplishments: The City proposes to meet this objective through a comprehensive effort of infrastructure improvements and the continued implementation of the City’s CIP five (5) year plan. Over the next five (5) years the City proposes to spend $720,000 in CDBG funds to accomplish this objective. * Drainage Improvements: The City plans to continue to make drainage improvements in Basin 3 in Northeast Palm Bay, as with other underlying, flood-prone areas. The City is planning to spend $520,000 for improvements over the next five (5) years. These activities will take place within the five (5) year time frame of the Consolidated Plan. The City plans in FY 2011 – 2012 to spend $50,000 in CDBG funds for drainage improvements in low/mod neighborhoods.


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* Intersection Improvements: The City plans over the next five (5) years, to address excessive vegetation growth, turning lane enhancements, and improved traffic signals when funds become available. The City plans in FY 2011 – 2012 to spend Transportation Impact Fees to improve intersections in low/mod areas of Palm Bay. In many instances these improvements are maintenance issues that are ineligible activities for the use of federal assistance. * Street Improvements: The City between the time of the 2009 Community Survey distribution and the completion of the 2011 – 2016 City of Palm Bay Strategic Plan has met this objective by completing $279,331 in paving twenty-five (25) roads in neighborhoods in Northeast Palm Bay, utilizing CDBG funds, and committed another $166,081 to constructing and paving another nine (9) roads in neighborhoods, utilizing CDBG-R stimulus funds, for a total infrastructure investment of approximately $445,000. The City plans in FY 2011 – 2012 to spend no CDBG funds for street paving in low/mod neighborhoods in Palm Bay. * Street Lights: In the 2009 Community Survey conducted in June 2009 thirty-eight (38%) percent of the low to moderate-income respondents ranked street lighting as a medium community priority in the infrastructure category. During the past several years, the City of Palm Bay has actively sought to increase the amount of street lighting on nine (9) collector roads, thus making neighborhoods a safer place for the traveling public. The City in FY 2011 – 2012 proposes to meet this objective through a collaborative effort with Florida Power & Light which will be finishing the installation of these street lights. Once this group of installa-tions is complete, further street light improvements, primarily focused on roadway lighting, will be addressed as funding becomes available. * Sidewalks: Though, sidewalks continue to be a low priority among the most requested infrastructure improvements, the need exists to improve handicap accessibility around the City regarding existing sidewalks is an important City priority. The City in FY 2011 – 2012 therefore plans to spend $60,000 in total to make Ersoff Blvd. ($30,000) and Bianca Drive ($30,000) sidewalks both in northeast Palm Bay handicap accessible. Priority #6: Provision of Public Facilities in Areas of Low/Mod-Income Benefit Public facility priority needs are among the lowest of the community priorities requested in the 2009 Community Survey. The top public facility priority need mentioned by thirty-five (35%) percent of low to moderate-income respondents in the 2009 Community Survey was for additional youth centers. Currently the City has only one Community Center in northeast Palm Bay with plans to build a facility for at-risk youth with the Police Athletic League in southwest Palm Bay. There are no plans at this time therefore to fund public facilities beyond those projects previously planned and listed in the Capital Improvement Program list. Those projects include one Youth Center and one Neighborhood Park.


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Other public facility high priority needs requested in the 2009 Community Survey included health facilities – 35%; recreation programs – 32% and senior centers – 32%. These will remain unfunded until such time as additional funding becomes available. Objective 1: Over the next five (5) years the City of Palm Bay will seek to maximize funding availability for priority public facility needs (previously planned) that will benefit low/moderate income areas. Proposed Accomplishments: It is anticipated that approximately $500,000 in CDBG funds will be spent on public facilities over the next five years covering the time five (5) year time period of the Consolidated Plan. The City in FY 2011/2012 plans to spend $73,099 in Palm Bay Community Center upgrades and an additional $50,703 on Knecht Park handicap accessibility improvements in northeast Palm Bay. There are also plans to fund handicap accessibility projects in two existing parks – Liberty Park, $65,000 in southeast Palm Bay and Veteran’s Park, $45,000 in northeast Palm Bay. * Park Improvements: The City proposes to spend an average of $40,000/year in CDBG funds beginning in FY 2011/2012 for park improvements to neighborhood parks in low/mod neighborhoods throughout Palm Bay. Three parks receiving handicap accessibility improvements in FY 2011/2012 include Knecht Park ($50,703), Liberty Park ($65,000) and Veteran’s Park ($45,000).

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1. Describe the jurisdiction's goals, programs, and policies for reducing the number

of poverty level families (as defined by the Office of Management and Budget and

revised annually). In consultation with other appropriate public and private

agencies, (i.e. TANF agency) state how the jurisdiction's goals, programs, and

policies for producing and preserving affordable housing set forth in the housing

component of the consolidated plan will be coordinated with other programs and

services for which the jurisdiction is responsible.

2. Identify the extent to which this strategy will reduce (or assist in reducing) the

number of poverty level families, taking into consideration factors over which the

jurisdiction has control.

3-5 Year Strategic Plan Antipoverty Strategy response:

AANNTTII--PPOOVVEERRTTYY SSTTRRAATTEEGGYY According to the 2000 U.S. Census, almost nine (8.8%) percent of the population of the City of Palm Bay, is living under the poverty level. This Consolidated Plan outlines City strategies for helping to alleviate that condition. Decent affordable housing, both rental and owner; economic development that generates jobs for low income families; down payments and closing costs assistance; subsidized child care services so that low income parents can know that their children are


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safe and well-cared for while they are away at work; educational assistance for at risk low income youth; and technical assistance to local non-profits actively engaged in providing services to the community's poor, are all ways the City is trying to meet this need. Housing and Neighborhood Development Services provides the lead for much of this assistance and referral, but other departments, most notably the Police and Parks and Recreation Departments, also have active programs, which include low-income youth (i.e. Police Athletic League; reduced rates for the summer day camp program). The primary role of the City in its anti-poverty strategy is the development of opportunity of empowerment and the creation of an environment in which economic conditions are nourished and grow.

NON-HOMELESS SPECIAL NEEDS

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over a specified time period.

2. Describe how Federal, State, and local public and private sector resources that

are reasonably expected to be available will be used to address identified needs

for the period covered by the strategic plan.

5 Year Strategic Plan Non-homeless Special Needs Analysis response:

Priority #1: Provision of Affordable Rental Housing and Supportive Services to Those with Special Needs While there are some housing units available to the elderly and frail elderly, and while there are several units available to the handicapped/disabled and several units available to those with HIV/AIDS , there are few affordable housing units in Palm Bay that provide supportive services to adults with alcohol or drug-related addictions. “Sally’s House” an outreach of Prevent! Of Brevard, currently services fifteen (15) single women and their children with support services for drug/alcohol and intervention, as well as transitional housing. Although not in Palm Bay, Serene Harbor, Inc., a group home for victims of domestic violence operates a fourteen (14) unit emergency shelter facility. This is a need that was identified at the neighborhood meetings and was corroborated by both the Brevard County Public Service Agency survey, and the City of Palm Bay’s Community Survey (identified need for services), as being a medium priority in Palm Bay. It was also an objective identified in Brevard County’s ten year plan to end chronic homelessness. The need for affordable housing units for others with special needs - the elderly, frail elderly, handicapped/disabled and those with HIV/AIDS - continues. Given


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the size of the City's population, and an estimated one thousand two hundred sixty-eight (1,268) disabled persons living in the City (370 are over 65 years old), thirteen (13) rental units set aside for handicapped/disabled persons is minimal. Also, Project Response, Inc., a non-profit organization that provides services to those with HIV/AIDS, has documented instances of AIDS patients who were unable to afford suitable housing in Palm Bay. An Obstacle to meeting these needs is funding availability. Objective 1: Over the next five (5) years, the City of Palm Bay will continue to support efforts to maximize affordable rental housing and supportive services to low income persons with special needs. Proposed Accomplishments: The City plans to meet this need through the provision of supportive housing opportunities, and through technical assistance to private providers. * Transitional Housing: for Women with Alcohol/Drug Addictions (also cited in Non-housing Community Development section, Public Services). In FY 2011 – 2012 Prevent of Brevard, Inc., a transitional program for low income/indigent women with alcohol/drug addictions and their young children (one or two, under the age of six), will receive $14,882 in CDBG public service funding. Pregnant women and teens will be targeted. This facility is located in Palm Bay, and serves up to six (6) women and their dependent children. The length of stay is six (6) months to one (1) year. Women receive a continuum of services from drug treatment/counseling, transportation, child care, education, and legal services, as well as, shelter. * Technical Assistance: The City will provide technical assistance to providers interested in increasing the supportive housing stock and services to persons with special needs in Palm Bay.

OTHER NARRATIVE

Include any Strategic Plan information that was not covered by a narrative in any

other section.

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The following table, HUD Table 2B represents a summary of the community development needs. It also provides an estimate as to the number of dollars needed to address the represented needs. Of the needs mentioned on HUD Table 2B, eighteen (18) needs were listed as high priority, fifteen (15) were listed as medium priority and fifteen (15) were given a low priority. The City of Palm Bay as a whole is doing a relatively good job in addressing its public facility


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needs especially in the area of Parks/Recreation Facilities in areas that are of predominantly of low to moderate-income. Those needs listed as having a medium priority are only listed in such a way because there has not been as large a public demand in the community compared to those receiving a high priority. But that is not to say, that during the course of this plan, any one of the needs listed as medium will not change to a high priority because of a shift in priority needs by public demand. The needs listed as high were so listed because of on-going programs that are addressing the community needs but at an inadequate level. Many of these needs are for public services, infrastructure improvements, or for economic development. The City of Palm Bay has taken a pro-posture on economic development and is aggressively addressing economic development needs and the City’s high unemployment rate of 12.0% in the community. Many of the economic development goals pertain to job creation and retention. As noted in the 2009 Community Survey Community Appearance – Code Enforcement concerns as well as Public Safety issues are of the highest concerns for low/mod citizens in Palm Bay. These two categories are represented as high priority need levels in the following table. (See Appendix C: Public Notices and Citizen Comments for complete Community Survey results).


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Table 2B

CITY OF PALM BAY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT NEEDS

Priority Community Development Needs

Priority Need Level High, Medium, Low,

No Such Need

Dollars to Address Unmet Priority Need

PUBLIC SAFETY $ 75,000

Drug Sales in Neighborhoods – 62% HIGH $ 15,000

Police Presence/Protection – 53% $ 15,000

Gang Activities – 48% $ 15,000

Speeding in Neighborhoods – 37% MEDIUM $ 12,000

Fire Protection – 21% LOW $ 6,000

Noise Pollution – 18% $ 6,000

Safer School Bus Stops – 15% $ 6,000

COMMUNITY APPEARANCE $ 75,000

Overgrown lots, yards and roadsides 55% HIGH $ 15,000

Abandoned Cars & Junk in Yards – 51% $ 15,000

Litter and Junk on Vacant Lots and Roadsides – 50%

$ 15,000

Abandoned/Dilapidated Homes – 48% $ 15,000

Rundown Buildings Other Than Homes 21%

MEDIUM

$ 6,000

Commercial Vehicles Parked In Residential Neighborhoods – 12% LOW

$ 4,500

Business Storefronts That Need Improvement – 10%

$ 4,500

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT $ 500,000

Job Placement Services – 56% HIGH $ 150,000

Job Training – 52% $ 140,000

Unemployment – 51% $ 130,000

Higher Paying Jobs – 41% MEDIUM $ 50,000

Small Business Assistance – 37% LOW $ 30,000

HUMAN SERVICE NEEDS $ 344,771

Food Banks/Food Programs – 38% HIGH $ 45,000

Senior Services – 38% $ 45,000

Public Transportation – 35% $ 40,000

Health Services – 31% MEDIUM $ 30,000

Prescription Purchase Assistance –26% $ 30,000

After School Programs – 17% $ 30,000

Handicapped Services – 15% $ 15,000

Affordable Child Care – 15% $ 35,000

Youth Services – 15% $ 35,000

Drug/Alcohol Treatment – 9% LOW $ 15,000

Mental Health Services – 8% $ 15,000

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CITY OF PALM BAY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT NEEDS cont… Priority Community Development

Needs Priority Need Level High, Medium, Low,

No Such Need

Dollars to Address Unmet

Priority Need

Family Counseling – 6% LOW $ 9,771

INFRASTRUCTURE $ 720,000

Flooding/Drainage Improvements – 61% HIGH $ 520,000

Hazardous Intersections – 44% MEDIUM Transportation Impact Fees

Pave Roads in Neighborhoods – 40% Unfunded, Already Expended $444,915 in CDBG & CDBG-R

Street Lights – 38% Unfunded

City Water/Sewer Hook-Up Assistance 23% LOW

Unfunded, Until SHIP Funds Become Available

Sidewalks – 22% $200,000

Fire Hydrants – 13% Utility Funds

Widen Main Roadways – 8% Transportation Impact Fees

PUBLIC FACILITY NEEDS $ 524,009

Youth Centers – 35% HIGH $ 224,009

Health Facilities – 35% Private/Non-Profit Funds

Recreation Programs – 32% Fee Supported

Senior Centers – 32% Unfunded

Park Facilities – 26% MEDIUM $ 300,000

More Bus Stops – 23% Brevard County SCAT

Community Centers/Meeting Places 20% Unfunded

Wheelchair/Handicap Accessibility–16% LOW Park & Sidewalks Funds

Child Care facilities – 15% Unfunded

Administrative Expenses $ 559,695

Total Estimated Dollars Needed: $2,798,475*

* Needs exceed funding availability in all categories.

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The City of Palm Bay, in May of 2009, completed an update to its Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing (FH). Four (4) impediments to FH were identified along with specific action recommendations that included milestones and timetables for completion.

1. Impediment #1 – Discrimination against persons with disabilities due to the overall number of Fair Housing complaints in Palm Bay over the past eight years. Action Recommendation: Continue with FH affirmative marketing programs directed toward persons with disabilities by the continued circulation of FH brochures in the community at such locations as City Hall and the Palm Bay Chamber of Commerce no later than Ongoing, and to conduct twelve (12) FH disabilities tests over the next five (5) years, the period covered by the Consolidated Plan.


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2. Impediment #2 – Discrimination against Black/African Americans due to their overall percentage gains in Palm Bay as a racial group and as documented in the HMDA data as well as, in the FH complaints over the past four (4) years. Action Recommendation: Continue with FH affirmative marketing programs directed toward the Black/African American community by the continued circulation of FH brochures in the community at such locations as City Hall and the Palm Bay Chamber of Commerce no later than Ongoing and to conduct testing in Palm Bay with an emphasis on racial FH complaints commencing no later than October 2011 and continuing, on an annual basis, through September 2016, the period covered by the Consolidated Plan.

3. Impediment #3 – Discrimination based upon Familial Status due to historical FH complaints and the ageing population in Palm Bay. Action Recommen-dation: Continue with FH affirmative marketing programs directed toward individuals and families by the continued circulation of FH brochures in the community at such locations as City Hall and the Palm Bay Chamber of Commerce no later than Ongoing and to conduct testing in Palm Bay with an emphasis on familial status commencing no later than October 2012 and continuing, on an annual basis, through September 2016, the period covered by the Consolidated Plan.

4. Potential FH discrimination against Hispanics due to their overall percentage

gains in Palm Bay as an ethnic group. Action Recommendation: Continue with FH affirmative marketing programs directed toward the Hispanic community by the continued circulation of FH brochures in the community at such locations as City Hall and the Palm Bay Chamber of Commerce no later than Ongoing and to conduct testing in Palm Bay with an emphasis on National Origin FH complaints commencing no later than October 2013 and continuing, on an annual basis, through September 2016, the period covered by the Consolidated Plan.

For FY 2011/2012, the City entered into a five-year continuing agreement with Fair Housing Continuum, Inc. to conduct testing and education programs identified in the action recommendations. As of May 2011, the FH Continuum has conducted ten (10) FH tests for disability discrimination and one (1) Fair Housing training seminar in the program’s initial year.

APPENDIX - A

CERTIFICATIONS

CPMP Non-State Grantee Certifications 1 Version 2.0

CPMP Non-State Grantee Certifications Many elements of this document may be completed

electronically, however a signature must be manually applied and the

document must be submitted in paper form to the Field Office.

This certification does not apply.

This certification is applicable.

NON-STATE GOVERNMENT CERTIFICATIONS

In accordance with the applicable statutes and the regulations governing the

consolidated plan regulations, the jurisdiction certifies that:

Affirmatively Further Fair Housing -- The jurisdiction will affirmatively further fair housing, which means it will conduct an analysis of impediments to fair housing choice within the jurisdiction, take appropriate actions to overcome the effects of any impediments identified through that analysis, and maintain records reflecting that analysis and actions in this regard. Anti-displacement and Relocation Plan -- It will comply with the acquisition and relocation requirements of the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970, as amended, and implementing regulations at 49 CFR 24; and it has in effect and is following a residential antidisplacement and relocation assistance plan required under section 104(d) of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, as amended, in connection with any activity assisted with funding under the CDBG or HOME programs.

Drug Free Workplace -- It will or will continue to provide a drug-free workplace by:

1. Publishing a statement notifying employees that the unlawful manufacture, distribution, dispensing, possession, or use of a controlled substance is prohibited in the grantee's workplace and specifying the actions that will be taken against employees for violation of such prohibition;

2. Establishing an ongoing drug-free awareness program to inform employees about – a. The dangers of drug abuse in the workplace; b. The grantee's policy of maintaining a drug-free workplace; c. Any available drug counseling, rehabilitation, and employee assistance programs; and d. The penalties that may be imposed upon employees for drug abuse violations occurring in the

workplace; 3. Making it a requirement that each employee to be engaged in the performance of the grant be given

a copy of the statement required by paragraph 1; 4. Notifying the employee in the statement required by paragraph 1 that, as a condition of employment

under the grant, the employee will – a. Abide by the terms of the statement; and b. Notify the employer in writing of his or her conviction for a violation of a criminal drug statute

occurring in the workplace no later than five calendar days after such conviction; 5. Notifying the agency in writing, within ten calendar days after receiving notice under subparagraph

4(b) from an employee or otherwise receiving actual notice of such conviction. Employers of convicted employees must provide notice, including position title, to every grant officer or other designee on whose grant activity the convicted employee was working, unless the Federal agency has designated a central point for the receipt of such notices. Notice shall include the identification number(s) of each affected grant;

6. Taking one of the following actions, within 30 calendar days of receiving notice under subparagraph 4(b), with respect to any employee who is so convicted – a. Taking appropriate personnel action against such an employee, up to and including termination,

consistent with the requirements of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended; or b. Requiring such employee to participate satisfactorily in a drug abuse assistance or rehabilitation

program approved for such purposes by a Federal, State, or local health, law enforcement, or other appropriate agency;

7. Making a good faith effort to continue to maintain a drug-free workplace through implementation of paragraphs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6.

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Specific CDBG Certifications

The Entitlement Community certifies that: Citizen Participation -- It is in full compliance and following a detailed citizen participation plan that satisfies the requirements of 24 CFR 91.105. Community Development Plan -- Its consolidated housing and community development plan identifies community development and housing needs and specifies both short-term and long-term community development objectives that provide decent housing, expand economic opportunities primarily for persons of low and moderate income. (See CFR 24 570.2 and CFR 24 part 570) Following a Plan -- It is following a current consolidated plan (or Comprehensive Housing Affordability Strategy) that has been approved by HUD.

Use of Funds -- It has complied with the following criteria: 11. Maximum Feasible Priority - With respect to activities expected to be assisted with CDBG funds, it

certifies that it has developed its Action Plan so as to give maximum feasible priority to activities which benefit low and moderate income families or aid in the prevention or elimination of slums or blight. The Action Plan may also include activities which the grantee certifies are designed to meet other community development needs having a particular urgency because existing conditions pose a serious and immediate threat to the health or welfare of the community, and other financial resources are not available);

12. Overall Benefit - The aggregate use of CDBG funds including section 108 guaranteed loans during program year(s) 2011, 2012, 2 , (a period specified by the grantee consisting of one, two, or three specific consecutive program years), shall principally benefit persons of low and moderate income in a manner that ensures that at least 70 percent of the amount is expended for activities that benefit such persons during the designated period;

13. Special Assessments - It will not attempt to recover any capital costs of public improvements assisted with CDBG funds including Section 108 loan guaranteed funds by assessing any amount against properties owned and occupied by persons of low and moderate income, including any fee charged or assessment made as a condition of obtaining access to such public improvements. However, if CDBG funds are used to pay the proportion of a fee or assessment that relates to the capital costs of public improvements (assisted in part with CDBG funds) financed from other revenue sources, an assessment or charge may be made against the property with respect to the public improvements financed by a source other than CDBG funds. The jurisdiction will not attempt to recover any capital costs of public improvements assisted with CDBG funds, including Section 108, unless CDBG funds are used to pay the proportion of fee or assessment attributable to the capital costs of public improvements financed from other revenue sources. In this case, an assessment or charge may be made against the property with respect to the public improvements financed by a source other than CDBG funds. Also, in the case of properties owned and occupied by moderate-income (not low-income) families, an assessment or charge may be made against the property for public improvements financed by a source other than CDBG funds if the jurisdiction certifies that it lacks CDBG funds to cover the assessment.

Excessive Force -- It has adopted and is enforcing: 14. A policy prohibiting the use of excessive force by law enforcement agencies within its jurisdiction

against any individuals engaged in non-violent civil rights demonstrations; and

15. A policy of enforcing applicable State and local laws against physically barring entrance to or exit from a facility or location which is the subject of such non-violent civil rights demonstrations within its jurisdiction;

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OPTIONAL CERTIFICATION

CDBG

Submit the following certification only when one or more of the activities in the

action plan are designed to meet other community development needs having a

particular urgency as specified in 24 CFR 570.208(c):

The grantee hereby certifies that the Annual Plan includes one or more specifically identified CDBG-assisted activities, which are designed to meet other community development needs having a particular urgency because existing conditions pose a serious and immediate threat to the health or welfare of the community and other financial resources are not available to meet such needs.

Signature/Authorized Official Date

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Telephone Number

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Specific HOME Certifications

The HOME participating jurisdiction certifies that: Tenant Based Rental Assistance -- If the participating jurisdiction intends to provide tenant-based rental assistance:

The use of HOME funds for tenant-based rental assistance is an essential element of the participating jurisdiction's consolidated plan for expanding the supply, affordability, and availability of decent, safe, sanitary, and affordable housing.

Eligible Activities and Costs -- it is using and will use HOME funds for eligible activities and costs, as described in 24 CFR § 92.205 through 92.209 and that it is not using and will not use HOME funds for prohibited activities, as described in § 92.214. Appropriate Financial Assistance -- before committing any funds to a project, it will evaluate the project in accordance with the guidelines that it adopts for this purpose and will not invest any more HOME funds in combination with other Federal assistance than is necessary to provide affordable housing;


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Telephone Number

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HOPWA Certifications

The HOPWA grantee certifies that: Activities -- Activities funded under the program will meet urgent needs that are not being met by

available public and private sources. Building -- Any building or structure assisted under that program shall be operated for the purpose specified in the plan: 1. For at least 10 years in the case of assistance involving new construction, substantial rehabilitation, or

acquisition of a facility,

2. For at least 3 years in the case of assistance involving non-substantial rehabilitation or repair of a building or structure.


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Telephone Number

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ESG Certifications

I, , Chief Executive Officer of Error! Not a valid link., certify that the

local government will ensure the provision of the matching supplemental funds

required by the regulation at 24 CFR 576.51. I have attached to this certification a

description of the sources and amounts of such supplemental funds.

I further certify that the local government will comply with:

1. The requirements of 24 CFR 576.53 concerning the continued use of buildings for

which Emergency Shelter Grants are used for rehabilitation or conversion of

buildings for use as emergency shelters for the homeless; or when funds are used

solely for operating costs or essential services.

2. The building standards requirement of 24 CFR 576.55.

3. The requirements of 24 CFR 576.56, concerning assurances on services and other

assistance to the homeless.

4. The requirements of 24 CFR 576.57, other appropriate provisions of 24 CFR Part

576, and other applicable federal laws concerning nondiscrimination and equal

opportunity.

5. The requirements of 24 CFR 576.59(b) concerning the Uniform Relocation

Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970.

6. The requirement of 24 CFR 576.59 concerning minimizing the displacement of

persons as a result of a project assisted with these funds.

7. The requirements of 24 CFR Part 24 concerning the Drug Free Workplace Act of

1988.

8. The requirements of 24 CFR 576.56(a) and 576.65(b) that grantees develop and

implement procedures to ensure the confidentiality of records pertaining to any

individual provided family violence prevention or treatment services under any

project assisted with ESG funds and that the address or location of any family

violence shelter project will not be made public, except with written authorization

of the person or persons responsible for the operation of such shelter.

9. The requirement that recipients involve themselves, to the maximum extent

practicable and where appropriate, homeless individuals and families in

policymaking, renovating, maintaining, and operating facilities assisted under the

ESG program, and in providing services for occupants of these facilities as provided

by 24 CFR 76.56.

10. The requirements of 24 CFR 576.57(e) dealing with the provisions of, and

regulations and procedures applicable with respect to the environmental review

responsibilities under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 and related

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authorities as specified in 24 CFR Part 58.

11. The requirements of 24 CFR 576.21(a)(4) providing that the funding of homeless

prevention activities for families that have received eviction notices or notices of

termination of utility services will meet the requirements that: (A) the inability of

the family to make the required payments must be the result of a sudden

reduction in income; (B) the assistance must be necessary to avoid eviction of the

family or termination of the services to the family; (C) there must be a reasonable

prospect that the family will be able to resume payments within a reasonable

period of time; and (D) the assistance must not supplant funding for preexisting

homeless prevention activities from any other source.

12. The new requirement of the McKinney-Vento Act (42 USC 11362) to develop and

implement, to the maximum extent practicable and where appropriate, policies

and protocols for the discharge of persons from publicly funded institutions or

systems of care (such as health care facilities, foster care or other youth

facilities, or correction programs and institutions) in order to prevent such

discharge from immediately resulting in homelessness for such persons. I further

understand that state and local governments are primarily responsible for the

care of these individuals, and that ESG funds are not to be used to assist such

persons in place of state and local resources.

13. HUD’s standards for participation in a local Homeless Management Information

System (HMIS) and the collection and reporting of client-level information.

I further certify that the submission of a completed and approved Consolidated Plan

with its certifications, which act as the application for an Emergency Shelter Grant, is

authorized under state and/or local law, and that the local government possesses legal

authority to carry out grant activities in accordance with the applicable laws and

regulations of the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.


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APPENDIX TO CERTIFICATIONS

Instructions Concerning Lobbying and Drug-Free Workplace Requirements Lobbying Certification This certification is a material representation of fact upon which reliance was placed when this transaction was made or entered into. Submission of this certification is a prerequisite for making or entering into this transaction imposed by section 1352, title 31, U.S. Code. Any person who fails to file the required certification shall be subject to a civil penalty of not less than $10,000 and not more than $100,000 for each such failure. Drug-Free Workplace Certification 1. By signing and/or submitting this application or grant agreement, the grantee is providing the

certification. 2. The certification is a material representation of fact upon which reliance is placed when the agency

awards the grant. If it is later determined that the grantee knowingly rendered a false certification, or otherwise violates the requirements of the Drug-Free Workplace Act, HUD, in addition to any other remedies available to the Federal Government, may take action authorized under the Drug-Free Workplace Act.

3. Workplaces under grants, for grantees other than individuals, need not be identified on the certification. If known, they may be identified in the grant application. If the grantee does not identify the workplaces at the time of application, or upon award, if there is no application, the grantee must keep the identity of the workplace(s) on file in its office and make the information available for Federal inspection. Failure to identify all known workplaces constitutes a violation of the grantee's drug-free workplace requirements.

4. Workplace identifications must include the actual address of buildings (or parts of buildings) or other sites where work under the grant takes place. Categorical descriptions may be used (e.g., all vehicles of a mass transit authority or State highway department while in operation, State employees in each

local unemployment office, performers in concert halls or radio stations). 5. If the workplace identified to the agency changes during the performance of the grant, the grantee

shall inform the agency of the change(s), if it previously identified the workplaces in question (see paragraph three).

6. The grantee may insert in the space provided below the site(s) for the performance of work done in connection with the specific grant: Place of Performance (Street address, city, county, state, zip code) Check if there are workplaces on file that are not identified here. The certification with regard to the drug-free workplace is required by 24 CFR part 21.

Place Name Street City County State Zip

7. Definitions of terms in the Nonprocurement Suspension and Debarment common rule and Drug-Free

Workplace common rule apply to this certification. Grantees' attention is called, in particular, to the following definitions from these rules: "Controlled substance" means a controlled substance in Schedules I through V of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 812) and as further defined by regulation (21 CFR 1308.11 through 1308.15); "Conviction" means a finding of guilt (including a plea of nolo contendere) or imposition of sentence, or both, by any judicial body charged with the responsibility to determine violations of the Federal or State criminal drug statutes; "Criminal drug statute" means a Federal or non-Federal criminal statute involving the manufacture, distribution, dispensing, use, or possession of any

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PALM BAY 065202 2 918 2435 37.7

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PALM BAY 071332 2 586 1791 32.7

PALM BAY 071332 2 255 421 60.6

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PALM BAY 071323 1 80 416 19.2

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PALM BAY 065233 1 118 525 22.5 1

PALM BAY 065233 1 0 84 0 1

PALM BAY 071332 1 1854 3685 50.3 2

PALM BAY 065121 1 1325 2646 50.1 1

PALM BAY 065121 2 342 786 43.5 2

PALM BAY 065122 3 652 1337 48.8 2

PALM BAY 065123 5 492 1206 40.8 2

PALM BAY 065123 5 0 0 0 2

PALM BAY 065201 2 682 1442 47.3 2

PALM BAY 065201 2 0 0 0 2

PALM BAY 065201 4 469 986 47.6 2

PALM BAY 065201 4 0 0 0 2

PALM BAY 065202 1 1051 2215 47.4 2 >40% - <51%

PALM BAY 071321 4 870 2059 42.3 2

PALM BAY 071321 4 0 0 0 2

PALM BAY 071321 6 1053 2596 40.6 2

PALM BAY 071322 1 1140 2650 43 2

PALM BAY 071322 1 0 0 0 2

PALM BAY 071322 2 1243 2484 50 2

PALM BAY 071323 1 2378 5483 43.4 2

PALM BAY 071323 1 80 416 19.2 2

CITY OF PALM BAY LOW/MOD BLOCK GROUPS

47.6%

42.3%

43.0%

41.7%

51.9%

64.6%

63.5%

63.3%

58.6%

54.3%

40.8%

47.3%

CDBGNAME TRACT BLKGRP LOWMOD LOWMODUNIV LOWMODPCT RANK COLLAPSEDPCT CATEGORY

PALM BAY 071323 2 861 1857 46.4 2

PALM BAY 071323 3 981 2062 47.6 2

PALM BAY 071323 3 123 322 38.2 2

PALM BAY 071333 2 0 0 0 2 >40% - <51%

PALM BAY 071333 2 2107 4943 42.6 2

PALM BAY 071333 3 867 2029 42.7 2

PALM BAY 071333 3 0 47 0 2

PALM BAY 065121 4 0 0 0 3

PALM BAY 065121 4 347 995 34.9 3

PALM BAY 065202 2 918 2435 37.7 3

PALM BAY 065231 1 630 2223 28.3 4

PALM BAY 065231 1 94 561 16.8 4

PALM BAY 065231 1 296 586 50.5 4

PALM BAY 071321 1 276 896 30.8 3

PALM BAY 071332 2 586 1791 32.7 3

PALM BAY 071332 2 255 421 60.6 3 >30% - <40%

PALM BAY 071333 1 2187 5535 39.5 3

PALM BAY 071333 1 0 0 0 3

PALM BAY 071334 1 1625 4192 38.8 3

PALM BAY 071334 1 2 20 10 3

PALM BAY 071334 2 749 2062 36.3 3

PALM BAY 071334 2 0 0 0 3

PALM BAY 065101 4 0 13 0 4

PALM BAY 071301 1 148 1053 14.1 4

PALM BAY 071321 2 0 0 0 4 >0% - <30%

PALM BAY 071321 2 498 2546 19.6 4

PALM BAY 071321 3 256 1253 20.4 4

PALM BAY 071321 3 0 0 0 420.4%

36.3%

19.6%

34.9%

38.0%

39.5%

38.6%

30.3%

46.3%

42.6%

41.8%

CITY OF PALM BAY LOW/MOD BLOCK GROUPS

APPENDIX - C

PUBLIC NOTICES AND

CITIZEN COMMENTS

CITY OF

PALM BAY FLORIDA

April 01, 2010

Legal Advertising

FLORIDA TODAY NEWSPAPER

P.O. Box 419000

Melbourne, FL 32941-9000

Re: Legal Advertisement

Please publish the attached advertisement, as a legal notice, in the FLORIDA TODAY NEWSPAPER

on Tuesday, April 06, 2010.

Please provide an affidavit of same and forward the invoice to:

Housing And Neighborhood Development Services

CITY OF PALM BAY

5240 Babcock Street, N.E.

Suite #212

Palm Bay, FL 32905

Please call me at (321) 952-3429 if you have any questions.

Sincerely,

_______________________________

William J. Pehaim, Neighborhood Development Specialist


City of Palm Bay

PUBLIC NOTICE/CITY OF PALM BAY

5 YEAR CDBG STATEGIC PLAN

FY 2011 - 2015

Notice of availability of the proposed City of Palm Bay’s Community Development Block Grant

(CDBG) 5 Year Strategic Plan for FY 2011 – 2015 beginning 10/01/2010 and continuing through

09/30/2015 is hereby presented for public comment. Said document is to be incorporated into the

Brevard County HOME Consortium's 2011-2015 Consolidated Plan that will be submitted to the

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The plan contains the proposed use of

funds for the CDBG program and addresses the City of Palm Bay’s Non-Housing Community

Development Needs of low/moderate income persons.

Notice is hereby given that the proposed City of Palm Bay’s CDBG 5 Year Strategic Plan for FY

2011 – 2015 is available for public review and comment from Tuesday, April 06, 2010 to Wednes-

day, May 5, 2010. Written comments on the plan may be delivered in person or mailed to the City of

Palm Bay’s Housing and Neighborhood Development Services (HANDS) Office, located at 5240

Babcock Street NE, Suite #212, Palm Bay, FL 32905. All citizens are invited and encouraged to

make oral or written comments to the City of Palm Bay’s CDBG 5 Year Strategic Plan for FY 2011

– 2015. Comments received after 5 PM on May 5, 2010 will not be considered. The document will

be available for review at the City of Palm Bay’s City Clerk's Office located at 120 Malabar Road

SE, at the Housing and Neighborhood Development Services Office at the location listed above, and

at the two public libraries in Palm Bay. The City of Palm Bay’s CDBG 5 Year Strategic Plan for FY

2011 – 2015 will be made available in a form that is accessible to non-English speaking residents

and to persons with disabilities upon request.

CITY OF

PALM BAY FLORIDA

120 MALABAR ROAD, SE PALM BAY, FLORIDA 32907-3008 (321) 952-3429

June 28, 2011

Legal Advertising

FLORIDA TODAY NEWSPAPER

P.O. Box 419000

Melbourne, FL 32941-9000

Re: Legal Advertisement

Please publish the attached advertisement, as a legal notice, in the FLORIDA TODAY NEWSPAPER

on Wednesday, June 29, 2011. Please publish the advertisement as a legal notice.

Please provide an affidavit of same and forward invoice to:

HOUSING AND NEIGHBORHOOD

DEVELOPMENT SERVICES DIVISION

City of Palm Bay

5240 Babcock Street, N.E., Suite 3212

Palm Bay, FL 32905

Please call me at 321-952-3429 if you should have any questions.

Sincerely,

____________________________

William J. Pehaim, Neighborhood Development Specialist


City of Palm Bay

PUBLIC NOTICE/CITY OF PALM BAY

2011-2016 CITIZEN PARTICIPATION PLAN

Notice of availability of the proposed 2011-2016 City of Palm Bay Citizen Participation Plan is

hereby presented for public comment. Said document is to be incorporated into the Brevard County

HOME Consortium's 2011-2016 Consolidated Plan that will be submitted to the U.S. Department of

HUD. The Citizen Participation Plan is to ensure effective citizen input in the planning,

implementation and assessment of the City of Palm Bay’s Strategic Plan, Substantial Amendments,

the Annual Action Plan, Performance Reports, the Section 108 Loan Guarantee Program, CDBG,

and other federal programs with local funding access, and to provide particular emphasis to

encouraging participation by persons of low, very low and moderate-income, who are residents of

areas of the City of Palm Bay which are eligible for funding i.e., residents who live in the Bayfront

Redevelopment District, including all minority and non-English speaking groups in accordance with

the federal regulations at 24 CFR Part 91..

Notice is hereby given that the proposed 2011-2016 City of Palm Bay Citizen Participation Plan is

available for public review and comment from Wednesday, June 29, 2011 to Thursday, July 28,

2011. Written comments on the plan may be delivered in person to the Housing and Neighborhood

Development Services Office, located at 5240 Babcock Street NE, Suite #212 in Palm Bay, or

mailed to 120 Malabar Road SE, Palm Bay, FL 32907. All citizens are invited and encouraged to

make oral or written comments to the 2011-2016 City of Palm Bay Citizen Participation Plan.

Comments received after 5 PM on June 28, 2011 will not be considered. The document will be

available for review at the City Clerk's Office at 120 Malabar Road SE, at the Housing and

Neighborhood Development Services Office, and in the two public libraries in Palm Bay. A copy

will be made available on diskette upon written request.

PUBLIC NOTICE/ CITY OF PALM BAY

FY 2010 – 2015 CONSOLIDATED PLAN PUBLIC HEARINGS

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT &

HOME INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIP PROGRAMS

The Housing And Neighborhood Development (HANDS) Office of the City of Palm Bay, in conjunction

with the Brevard County HOME Consortium, is currently in the process of developing its five year, FY

2010 - 2015 Consolidated Plan for the expenditure of Federal government funding for low and moderate-

income families. The City of Palm Bay anticipates receiving approximately $4,500,000 in federal funds

to operate the Community Development Block Grant Program and the HOME Investment Partnership

Program during the planning period from October 1, 2010 to September 30, 2015.

The initial phase of the plan includes identifying community priorities for the expenditure of Community

Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds and Home Initiative Partnership (HOME) funds. The types of

projects usually funded include homebuyer activities, rental housing activities, housing rehabilitation,

emergency shelters/homeless assistance, economic development, public facilities construction,

infrastructure improvements, recreation facilities, façade improvements and public services. Projects and

services must primarily benefit low and moderate income families/ households.

In order to help determine the needs of the community and where to place priority for funding for the next

five years, the City needs YOUR input NOW. This is YOUR opportunity to tell the City what YOU think

should be done for YOUR neighborhood, and the City as a whole. YOUR observations, ideas and input

are important. The City will hold two Public Hearings to hear your suggestions. Based upon your input,

the City will develop the Consolidated Plan outlining the priority needs and strategies for meeting those

needs for FY 2010-2015. ALL RESIDENTS have the opportunity to be actively involved in the planning

and development of programs for these funds.

Persons with disabilities requiring special accommodations to participate, in the Public Hearing, should

call the HANDS Office at 952-3429 at least forty-eight (48) weekday hours in advance of the meeting.

Where a significant number of non-English speaking residents can reasonably be expected to participate,

an interpreter will be provided upon written request to the HANDS office located at 5240 Babcock Street,

N.E., Suite #212 in Palm Bay no later than 5p.m. Friday, June 26, 2009.

PUBLIC HEARING #1

The first formal Public Hearing is scheduled for Tuesday, June 30, 2009 at 7:00 PM in Meeting Room

“B” of the Palm Bay Community Center, located at 1502 Port Malabar Blvd., N.E. in Palm Bay.

FY 2000 – 2005 Consolidated Plan priorities will be reviewed along with a discussion/ ranking of priority

needs in the community for the upcoming FY 2010 – 2015 Consolidated Plan.

PUBLIC HEARING #2

The second formal Public Hearing is scheduled for Wednesday, July 22, 2009 at 7:00 PM in Meeting

Room “B” of the Palm Bay Community Center, located at 1502 Port Malabar Blvd., N.E. in Palm

Bay. Recommended community priorities being proposed for the FY 2010-2015 Consolidated Plan and a

calendar of dates for the approval and submission of the plan will be discussed.

Persons with disabilities requiring special accommodations to participate in the Public Hearings should

call the Neighborhood Development Office at 952-3429 within forty-eight (48) weekday hours of the

meeting. Where a significant number of non-English speaking residents can be reasonably expected to

participate, an interpreter will be provided upon written request to the Neighborhood Development

Division (120 Malabar Rd. SE, Palm Bay, FL, 32907) no later than 5PM Friday, June 26, 2009 for Public

Hearing #1. For Public Hearing #2, the written request for an interpreter must be provided no later than

5PM Monday, July 20, 2009.

City of Palm Bay, Housing And Neighborhood Development Services Date: Jun. 22, 2009

5240 Babcock Street, N.E., Suite #212

Palm Bay, Florida 32905

Contact: Bill Pehaim, HANDS

Ph: (321) 952-3429

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Florida Today Newspaper

Kimberly Moore, Reporter

Palm Bay Edition

240 Interstate Court

Palm Bay, FL 32909

Tel.: (321) 409-1424

For Immediate Release: 4.5 MILLION DOLLARS TO PALM BAY. That is the amount of Federal funds which the City of Palm Bay expects to

receive from the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development

(HUD) over the next five (5) years.

The Housing And Neighborhood Development Services Division of the City of

Palm Bay, in conjunction with the Brevard County HOME Consortium, is

currently in the process of developing its five year, FY 2010 - 2015 Consoli-

dated Plan for the expenditure of Federal government funding for low and

moderate-income families. The initial phase of the plan includes identifying

community priorities for the expenditure of Community Development Block

Grant (CDBG) funds and Home Initiative Partnership (HOME) funds. The

types of projects usually funded include homebuyer activities, rental housing

activities, housing rehabilitation, emergency shelters/homeless assistance,

economic development, public facilities construction, infrastructure improve-

ments, recreation facilities, façade improvements and public services. Projects

and services must primarily benefit low and moderate income families.

In order to help determine the needs of the community and where to place

priority for funding for the next five years, the city needs YOUR input NOW.

This is YOUR opportunity to tell the city what YOU think should be done for

YOUR neighborhood, and the city as a whole. YOUR observations, ideas and

input are important. The City will hold a Public Hearing to hear your

suggestions. Based upon your input, the City will develop the Consolidated

Plan outlining the priority needs and strategies for meeting those needs for FY

2010-2015. ALL RESIDENTS have the opportunity to be actively involved in

the planning and development of programs for these funds.

A formal Public Hearing is scheduled for Tuesday, June 30, 2009 at 7:00 p.m.

to discuss funding priorities in Meeting Room “B” of the Palm Bay Community

Center, located at 1502 Port Malabar Blvd., N.E., in Palm Bay. ALL

CITIZENS are encouraged to attend the Public Hearing and make oral or

written comments.

Persons with disabilities requiring special accommodations to participate, in the

Public Hearing, should call the HANDS Office at 952-3429 at least 24 weekday

hours in advance of the meeting. Where a significant number of non-English

speaking residents can reasonably be expected to participate, an interpreter will

be provided upon written request to the HANDS office at 5240Babcock Street,

N.E., Suite #212 in Palm Bay no later than 5p.m. Friday, June 26, 2009. PR

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City of Palm Bay, HANDS Division Date: July 15, 2009

1575 Main Street, N.E.

Palm Bay, Florida 32905

Contact: Bill Pehaim, Neighborhood Development Specialist

Ph: (321) 952-3429

Florida Today Newspaper

Kimberly Moore, Reporter

Palm Bay Edition

240 Interstate Court

Palm Bay, FL 32909

Tel.: (321) 409-1424

For Immediate Release: 4.5 MILLION DOLLARS TO PALM BAY. That is the amount of Federal funds which the City of Palm Bay expects to

receive from the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development

(HUD) over the next five (5) years.

The Housing And Neighborhood Development Services Division of the City of

Palm Bay, in conjunction with the Brevard County HOME Consortium, is

currently in the process of developing its five year, FY 2010 - 2015 Consoli-

dated Plan for the expenditure of Federal government funding for low and

moderate-income families. The initial phase of the plan includes identifying

community priorities for the expenditure of Community Development Block

Grant (CDBG) funds and Home Initiative Partnership (HOME) funds. The

types of projects usually funded include homebuyer activities, rental housing

activities, housing rehabilitation, emergency shelters/homeless assistance,

economic development, public facilities construction, infrastructure improve-

ments, recreation facilities, façade improvements and public services. Projects

and services must primarily benefit low and moderate income families.

In order to help determine the needs of the community and where to place

priority for funding for the next five years, the City needs YOUR input NOW.

This is YOUR opportunity to tell the City what YOU think should be done for

YOUR neighborhood, and the City as a whole. YOUR observations, ideas and

input are important. The City will hold a Public Hearing to hear your

suggestions. Based upon your input, the City will develop the Consolidated

Plan outlining the priority needs and strategies for meeting those needs for FY

2010-2015. ALL RESIDENTS have the opportunity to be actively involved in

the planning and development of programs for these funds.

A formal Public Hearing is scheduled for Wednesday, July 22, 2009 at 7:00

p.m. to discuss funding priorities in Meeting Room “B” of the Palm Bay

Community Center, located at 1502 Port Malabar Blvd., N.E., in Palm Bay.

ALL CITIZENS are encouraged to attend the Public Hearing and make oral or

written comments.

Persons with disabilities requiring special accommodations to participate, in the

Public Hearing, should call the HANDS Office at 952-3429 at least 24 weekday

hours in advance of the meeting. Where a significant number of non-English

speaking residents can reasonably be expected to participate, an interpreter will

be provided upon written request to the HANDS office at 5240Babcock Street,

N.E., Suite #212 in Palm Bay no later than 5p.m. Monday, July 20, 2009. PR

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TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 2009

AT 7:00 P.M

IN MEETING ROOM “B”

PALM BAY COMMUNITY CENTER

1502 PORT MALABAR BLVD., N.E., PALM BAY

ALL CITIZENS ARE ENCOURAGED TO ATTEND TO

SET PRIORITIES FOR FUNDING THE CITY’S FY 2010 - 2015 CONSOLIDATED PLAN

THIS IS YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO BE INVOLVED IN THE PLANNING AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF

PROGRAMS THAT UTILIZE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT (CDBG), AND HOME

INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIP (HOME) FUNDS TO ASSIST LOW TO MODERATE – INCOME RESIDENTS

IN OUR CITY

FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, CALL THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT OFFICE

AT (321) 952-3429

WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 2009

AT 7:00 P.M

IN MEETING ROOM “B”

PALM BAY COMMUNITY CENTER

1502 PORT MALABAR BLVD., N.E., PALM BAY

ALL CITIZENS ARE ENCOURAGED TO ATTEND TO

SET PRIORITIES FOR FUNDING THE CITY’S FY 2010 - 2015 CONSOLIDATED PLAN

THIS IS YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO BE INVOLVED IN THE PLANNING AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF

PROGRAMS THAT UTILIZE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT (CDBG), AND HOME

INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIP (HOME) FUNDS TO ASSIST LOW TO MODERATE – INCOME RESIDENTS

IN OUR CITY

FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, CALL THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT OFFICE

AT (321) 952-3429

CITIZEN PARTICIPATION

FY 2009-2010 ACTION PLAN

JULY 22, 2009 PUBLIC HEARING #2

The Public Hearing took place in Meeting Room “B”, at the Palm Bay Community Center, located at

1502 Port Malabar Blvd., N.E., at 7:00 p.m. the evening of July 22, 2009. A Public Notice legal

advertisement was placed in the Florida Today newspaper on Monday June 15, 2009, two weeks prior to

the initial public hearing and flyers were distributed on the east side of the City at the public libraries, at

the Palm Bay Community Center and at City Hall advertising the hearings to the public. A press release

for the July 22nd

meeting was sent to the Florida Today newspaper on Friday, July 17, 2009.

One citizen attended the July 22, 2009 public hearing. Topics covered at the meeting included the types

of projects that are eligible for funding with HOME and CDBG Federal funds as well as the HOME and

CDBG income limits for low/mod income persons to be eligible to receive Federal assistance. Also

covered in the presentation were the Consolidated Plan priorities which were used to develop the

priority needs for the FY 2005 – 2010 Consolidated Plan. The results from the 2009 Community

Survey, that are used to aid in the development of High, Medium and Low priority needs, were

discussed and compared to the 2004 Community Survey by the seven major areas: Housing; Community

Appearance; Economic/Development; Public Safety; Public Facilities; Infrastructure and Human

Services. In the discussion involving Human Services, it was explained that fifteen percent (15%) of the

Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) allocation is set-aside each funding year for approved

public service projects.

It was also explained that 15% of the HOME allocation is set-aside each year for activities performed by

Community Housing Development Organizations (CHDO). Finally, the FY 2010 – 2015 calendar of

events was reviewed highlighting the November 1st through December 1

st public comment period and

the December 3rd

City Council approval dates where the entire FY 2010-2015 Consolidated Plan will be

approved. In addition to the one Palm Bay citizen that was present, in attendance was Bill Pehaim,

Neighborhood Specialist from the Housing and Neighborhood Development Services (HANDS) office,

John G. Rodgers, Deputy Director from Growth Management Division and Kimberly Moore, a reporter

from the Florida Today Newspaper. One resident, Susan Berry, who was unable to attend, phoned in

her public comments prior to the meeting.

PUBLIC COMMENTS

1. Michael Lindsay, a renter from Northeast Palm Bay whose phone number is (321) 432-1277

stated that the City does a great job landscaping, but that they do not do an adequate job of

maintaining the landscaping following installation. Mr. Lindsay pointed to examples such as the

Lagoon House, the Victoria trailer park, as well as others including the R. J. Conlan Blvd.

landscaping. His opinion is that the City spends a lot of money initially installing landscaping

but then by the end of six months everything has gone to weeds. Mr. Lindsay also threw out the

degraded state (abundance of weeds and algae) of the pond in front of the Lagoon House on U.S.

1 to further illustrate his point. He would also like to see buildings such as the old auto repair

shop just north of the Lagoon House on U.S. 1 demolished because he feels that grass (a green

space) would look better than a hideous blue dilapidated building. Mr. Lindsay would also like

to see improved street lights in northeast Palm Bay. Tim Ford, City Liaison to the Bayfront

Community Redevelopment Agency (the area in which Mr. Lindsay resides) has been given Mr.

Lindsay’s phone number to contact. None of Mr. Lindsay’s comments were CDBG project

related.

2. Susan Berry, of 2771 Jupiter Blvd., S.W., whose phone number is (321) 676-7001, was not able

to attend the public hearing however she asked that her public comments, which she provided

over the phone, be included with the citizens’ responses. Ms. Berry lives on the corner of Jupiter

Blvd. and Minton Road. Her home is located very near the bridge widening project which is

currently under construction. She would like landscaping to be placed around the holding pond

which is being dug next to her home similar to the landscaping being installed on the berm

located across the street. She would also like the City to install an aerating fountain in the

holding pond to act as a deterrent to the algae that is currently growing in the pond and as a

deterrent to keep the mosquito population down. Chad Shoultz, Assistant Public Works Director

has been given Ms. Berry’s phone number to contact. None of Ms. Berry’s comments were

CDBG project related.

The meeting was adjourned at 8:00 p.m. From the comments heard following the meeting, the

presentation was well received and found to be informative by the citizen and the press who attended.

CITIZEN PARTICIPATION

FY 2010-2015 CONSOLIDATED PLAN

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009 NEIGHBORHOOD MEETING #1

A neighborhood meeting took place with the Powell Neighborhood Watch Group beginning at 7:00 p.m.

the evening of September 19, 2009. The Housing and Neighborhood Development Services Division

was invited to speak before the Powell Neighborhood Watch Group and discuss the FY 2010 – 2015

Consolidated Plan.

Nineteen citizens attended the meeting. Topics covered at the meeting included the types of projects

that are eligible for funding with HOME and CDBG Federal funds as well as the HOME and CDBG

income limits for low/mod income persons to be eligible to receive Federal assistance. Also covered in

the presentation were the Consolidated Plan priorities which were used to develop the priority needs for

the FY 2010 – 2015 Consolidated Plan. The results from the 2009 Community Survey, that are used to

aid in the development of High, Medium and Low priority needs, were discussed and compared to the

2004 Community Survey by the seven major areas: Housing; Community Appearance;

Economic/Development; Public Safety; Public Facilities; Infrastructure and Human Services. In the

discussion involving Human Services, it was explained that fifteen percent (15%) of the Community

Development Block Grant (CDBG) allocation is set-aside each funding year for approved public service

projects.

It was also explained that 15% of the HOME allocation is set-aside each year for activities performed by

Community Housing Development Organizations (CHDO). Finally, the FY 2010 – 2015 calendar of

events was reviewed highlighting the April 6, 2010 through May 5, 2010 public comment period and the

May 6th

City Council approval dates where the entire FY 2010-2015 Consolidated Plan will be

approved. In addition to the eighteen area residents that were present, in attendance was Bill Pehaim,

Neighborhood Specialist from the Housing and Neighborhood Development Services (HANDS) office.

PUBLIC COMMENTS

1. Mary Baker, of 1401 Baker Drive, whose phone number is 727-8426 requested that security

lighting be added to the bathrooms at Driskell Park.

2. James Bartell, President of the Powell Neighborhood Watch group stated that several improve-

ments were needed at Driskell Park in addition to the security lighting and that he would send the

entire list of the desired improvements to Bill Pehaim at the HANDS office. Mr. Pehaim

responded that since the park is eligible to receive CDBG funds that he would look into making

the neighborhood’s requested improvements to the park.

The meeting was adjourned by 9:00 p.m. From the comments heard following the meeting, the

presentation was well received and found to be informative by the residents who attended.

RESP. ID # _______________ Office use only

Housing And Neighborhood Development Services, City of Palm Bay

COMMUNITY SURVEY - LOW/MOD RESPONDENT RESULTS

Mailed: Estimated 12,707 surveys mailed in Cycles 2 & 3 to N.E. Palm Bay City’s Web Site Surveys Received: 74 web site surveys received Mailed/Dropped Surveys Received: 1,631 mailed/dropped-off surveys received Mailed Survey Response Rate: 12.8% Low/Mod Surveys Processed: 723 Low/Mod surveys processed Primary Household Size: 2 Person Households, 44% of respondents answering Primary Combined HH Income: <$35,000, 74% of respondents answering Primary Palm Bay Quadrant: Northeast Palm Bay, 88% of respondents answering

COMMUNITY PRIORITIES COMMUNITY PRIORITIES

HOUSING – UP TO 3 CHOICES HUMAN SERVICES – UP TO 3 CHOICES 219% Affordable rental units 38% Food banks/food programs

09% Rental assistance 09% Drug/alcohol treatment

25% Affordable housing available for purchase 35% Public transportation

17% Purchase assistance for first-time homebuyers 26% Prescription purchase assistance

24% Housing for people with special needs 31% Health services

24% Domestic violence shelters 08% Mental health services

31% Emergency shelters/homeless facilities 38% Senior services

52% Help with home repair 15% Handicapped services (special needs)

36% Foreclosure prevention assistance 15% Affordable child care

17% After school programs

COMMUNITY APPEARANCE – UP TO 3 CHOICES 15% Youth Services

51% Abandoned cars and junk in yards 06% Family Counseling

50% Litter and junk on vacant lots and roadsides

55% Overgrown lots, yards and roadsides PUBLIC FACILITIES – UP TO 3 CHOICES

48% Abandoned/dilapidated homes 26% Park facilities

12% Commercial vehicles parked in residential neighborhoods 32% Recreation programs

21% Rundown buildings other than homes 32% Senior centers

10% Business storefronts that need improvement 20% Community centers/meeting places

35% Youth centers

ECONOMIC/JOB DEVELOPMENT – UP TO 3 CHOICES 16% Child care facilities

51% Unemployment 35% Health facilities

56% Job placement services 23% More bus stops

52% Job training 16% Wheelchair/handicap accessibility

41% Higher paying jobs

37% Small business assistance INFRASTRUCTURE – UP TO 3 CHOICES 40% Pave roads in neighborhoods

PUBLIC SAFETY – UP TO 3 CHOICES 44% Improve hazardous intersections

48% Gang activities 08% Widen main roadways

62% Drug sales in neighborhoods 38% Street lights

18% Noise pollution 22% Sidewalks

21% Fire protection 13% Fire hydrants

53% Police presence/protection 61% Flood/drainage improvements

37% Speeding in neighborhoods 23% City water/sewer service hook-up assistance

15% Safer school bus stops

OTHER COMMUNITY PRIORITIES

04% of the people making comments stated “Need benches for bus stops/bus stop shelters.”

HOUSEHOLD SIZE/COMBINED HOUSEHOLD INCOME/PALM BAY RESIDENCE

HOUSEHOLD SIZE COMBINED HOUSEHOLD INCOME PALM BAY RESIDENCE

35% 1 Person 03% 5 Persons 74% <$35,000 01% $50,000 - $54,999 88% North East Palm Bay

44% 2 Persons 02% 6 Persons 18% $35,000 - $39,999 00% $55,000 - $59,999 02% North West Palm Bay

11% 3 Persons 00% 7 Persons 03% $40,000 - $44,999 00% $60,000 - $65,999 09% South East Palm Bay

05% 4 Persons 00% 8 or More 01% $45,000 - $49,999 02% $66,000 or More 01% South West Palm Bay

THANK YOU for completing the survey. Please follow the mailing instructions on the reverse side to return the completed survey to

the City of Palm Bay or drop off the survey at the Housing And Neighborhood Development Services office located at 5240 Babcock

Street, N.E., Suite #212, Palm Bay, FL 32905. NO RETURNED SURVEYS CAN BE ACCEPTED AFTER JULY 15, 2009.

Please return by

July 15, 2009

COUNT % OF TOT. HOUSEHOLD SIZE

249 35% 1 Person

319 44% 2 Persons

78 11% 3 Persons

35 5% 4 Persons

23 3% 5 Persons

11 2% 6 Persons

2 0% 7 Persons

2 0% 8 Persons

719 100%COUNT % OF TOT. COMBINED HOUSEHOLD INCOME

535 74% <$35,000

129 18% $35,000 - $39,999

23 3% $40,000 - $44,999

10 1% $45,000 - $49,999

7 1% $50,000 - $54,999

3 0% $55,000 - $59,999

2 0% $60,000 - $65,999

14 2% $66,000 or More

723 100%COUNT % OF TOT. PALM BAY RESIDENCE

466 88% North East Palm Bay

11 2% North West Palm Bay

49 9% South East Palm Bay

6 1% South West Palm Bay532 100%

COUNT % OF TOT. HOUSING

140 19% Affordable rental units

64 9% Rental Assistance

182 25% Affordable housing available for purchase

126 17% Purchase assistance for first-time homebuyers

175 24% Housing for people with special needs

172 24% Domestic violence shelters

221 31% Emergency shelters/homeless facilities

375 52% Help with home repair

261 36% Foreclosure prevention assistance

COUNT % OF TOT. COMMUNITY APPEARANCE

372 51% Abandoned cars and junk in yards

363 50% Litter and junk on vacant lots and roadsides

398 55% Overgrown lots, yards and roadsides

350 48% Abandoned/dilapidated homes

84 12% Commercial vehicles parked in residential neighborhoods

153 21% Rundown buildings other than homes

73 10% Business storefronts that need improvement

COUNT % OF TOT. ECONOMIC/ JOB DEVELOPMENT

367 51% Unemployment

406 56% Job placement services

378 52% Job training

293 41% Higher paying jobs

267 37% Small business assistance

COUNT % OF TOT. PUBLIC SAFETY

348 48% Gang activities

450 62% Drug sales in neighborhoods

132 18% Noise pollution

153 21% Fire protection

380 53% Police presence/protection

264 37% Speeding in neighborhoods

109 15% Safer school bus stops

COUNT % OF TOT. HUMAN SERVICES

273 38% Food banks/food programs

63 9% Drug/alcohol treatment

256 35% Public transportation

190 26% Prescription purchase assistance

227 31% Health services

56 8% Mental health services

272 38% Senior services

105 15% Handicapped services (special needs)

112 15% Affordable child care

125 17% After school programs for children

107 15% Youth services

44 6% Family counseling

COUNT % OF TOT. PUBLIC FACILITIES

187 26% Park facilities

233 32% Recreation programs

232 32% Senior centers

144 20% Community centers/meeting places

251 35% Youth centers

112 15% Child care facilities

254 35% Health facilities

164 23% More bus stops

113 16% Wheelchair/handicap accessibility

COUNT % OF TOT. INFRASTRUCTURE

292 40% Pave roads in neighborhoods315 44% Improve hazardous intersections

55 8% Widen main roadways

276 38% Street lights

162 22% Sidewalks

92 13% Fire hydrants

444 61% Flood/drainage improvements

167 23% City water/sewer service hook-up assistance

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Department Public Comments

BCRA Keep up the good work in the Bayfront area.

BCRA Too much spent on Parks, ridiculous landscaping i.e. Conlan Blvd.

BCRA The east end of Palm Bay Road needs clean-up and improvement.

BCRA Pay more attention to old N.E. side of the City.

BCRA Would be nice to have picnic facilities on the river but not at Castaway Cove which is too secluded and dangerous.

Brevard County Seasonal mosquito control.

Brevard County Need more libraries/public pools.

Brevard County Make public more aware of leash laws plus animal waste pick-up

Brevard County Better animal control (Pit bulls, etc.)/keep dogs on a leash. Stop defacating on peoples' lawns.

Brevard County Lower Humane Society fees and help people who are alone to have a pet for company.

Brevard County Need affordable animal care.

Brevard County The library is great.

Brevard County Do something about all the stray cats.

Brevard County Bring back inter-library loans at public libraries.

Brev. Co. Schl. Brd. We need quality education, fully equipped and updated/modernized schools.

City Manager They should have used the building on Main St. as a small business incubator. We already have a police sub station.

City Manager Return the federal money to the govt. so the deficit and the taxes go down.

City Manager License mobile vendors, allowing the little guy to make a living.

City Manager Smokers, drinkers and youth seem to think the whole City is their trash can.

City Manager Stop spending money, reduce government spending and lower taxes, invest wisely.

City Manager Need more community involvement.

City Manager Eliminate Homestead Exemptions.

City Manager Start a State Tax on all properties.

City Manager Concentrate on needs before wants. No more parks! We need: police,fire,roads,drainage & safe intersections.

City Manager Need free Cable for seniors and low income people.

City Manager Utilize vacant lots to help the poor and the unemployed.

City Manager Free birth control for teens.

City Manager Palm Bay's infrastructure is a joke, that should be the priority, get the basics done first.

City Manager Do not build a baseball stadium.

City Manager Need health fairs, i.e., preventive care especially dental.

City Manager Lower property taxes for senior citizens.

City Manager Force landlords to screen their tenants better especially in high crime neighborhoods.

City Manager Less spending on new parks, more spending on infrastructure and core fundamentals. Get back to basics.

City Manager Palm Bay is a great place to live. I love living in Palm Bay, it's a beautiful City.

HANDS Com. Srvy.


City Manager A new freeway (I-95) off ramp (interchange) is needed somewhere between Malabar Road and Fellsmere.

City Manager Create neighborhood pride programs to teach people not to trash or to litter.

City Manager Need to put the money into Northeast Palm Bay and not places that don't need it.

City Manager Community Appearance is our highest priority!

City Manager Support Church activities and programs.

City Manager Unreasonable property taxes cause much of the foreclosure problems, a sales tax is much better.

City Manager Quit paying for illegals and those who contribute nothing but kids to society.

Eco Devel We need a theatre back in Northeast Palm Bay.

Eco Devel Any projects that result in additional work for Palm Bay is most important.

Eco Devel Need more jobs (for minorities).

Eco Devel Make it easier for businesses to open in Palm Bay which will create jobs.

Eco Devel Need to attract more upscale commercial retail and upscale residential housing.

Eco Devel Need to draw large companies like Harris to the area.

Eco Devel Buy the old Chevrolet building and turn it into a convention center for graduations, mayor's ball, etc.

Eco Devel We need job placement services for real jobs not "BS" ones.

Eco Devel Overall the City has grown well. Would like to see more businesses to bring additional revenue.

FDOT Please install noise barrier between Malabar and Palm Bay Rd on I95 northbound.

FDOT Need to finish the road work on Palm Bay Road. It's taking too long.

FDOT Need light at left turn when exiting Publix Babcock store by Radio Shack.

Fire Department Add more policemen and firemen.

Fire Department Build a new fire station on Port Malabar Blvd. for better area coverage.

Growth Mngmnt. Need larger (1 to 1.5 acre) lot sizes for homes.

Growth Mngmnt. Empty homes, empty storefronts, we have wrong City Plan, need quality not growth.

Growth Mngmnt. Need more north/south and east/west feeder roads.

Growth Mngmnt. Pedestrian crossing lights at Babcock and Port Malabar are not allowing enough time for wheelchairs to cross.

Growth Mngmnt. Provide for more open space, environmental areas and protect well fields.

Growth Mngmnt. The natural beauty of the City has been replaced with pavement.

Growth Mngmnt. Empty homes, empty storefronts, we have wrong City Plan, need quality not growth.

Growth Mngmnt. Make it easier for businesses to open in Palm Bay which will create jobs.

Growth Mngmnt. FP&L must bury power lines.

Growth Mngmnt. Synchronize red lights and lengthen yellow lights 2 or 3 seconds.

Growth Mngmnt. Need voice commands at traffic lights for the blind. Make jay walking a fineable offense.

Growth Mngmnt. Need an ordinance against parking on front lawns. Need more on-street parking.

Growth Mngmnt. Make builders restore garages in model homes.

HANDS Com. Srvy.


Growth Mngmnt. Stop giving building permits to strip malls which stay vacant forever.

Growth Mngmnt. Need better signage.

Growth Mngmnt. Why do they have a strip club next to a kindergarten on Palm Bay Road.

Growth Mngmnt. Change the zoning of vacant property to fewer houses per acre which still promotes growth but limits density.

Growth Mngmnt. Too many people are using the street/front lawns to park their cars.

Growth Mngmnt. Put a time limit on construction projects.

Growth Mngmnt. No more HUD low rent housing especially around senior housing.

Growth Mngmnt. Need to save/purchase wild/nature areas.

Growth Mngmnt. We need a City Center, a real downtown.

Growth Mngmnt. Need less sprawl and a sustainable water source.

Growth Mngmnt. Too many businesses going up (new bldgs.), becoming a big city, where's the woods like 10 years ago.

Growth Mngmnt. Beautify Palm Bay, so its' not trashy looking.

Growth Mngmnt. Make use of the commercial sites that are already built instead of building more.

Growth Mngmnt. Encourage home improvements.

Growth Mngmnt. Allow minor changes to the building code.

Growth Mngmnt. Change the zoning so that businesses are not placed right near each other.

Growth Mngmnt. We need a shopping mall in Palm Bay. We need a City center, let's have a real City.

Growth Mngmnt. Need underground electric lines.

HANDS Financial Aid to area youth sports' organizations.

HANDS More housing/better care for seniors.

HANDS Support the Salvation Army, Daily Bread and CITA.

HANDS I believe with the resources that you have to work with that you have done a very good job.

HANDS Our City just keeps getting better, thanks for the lights and trees at Goode Park.

HANDS If our tax money is paying for this it is a complete waste.

HANDS Need affordable housing for returning vets. Should provide material and professional guidance.

HANDS Need senior exercise programs where lunch and even dinner made available for a small fee.

HANDS You are doing a very good community service!

HANDS Need group home for mentally challenged adults. Med waivers do not work.

HANDS We need to find ways to help the homeless in our City.

HANDS Provide mortgage assistance to homeowners.

HANDS This area has lots of discrimination in housing.

HANDS More money should be aimed at the people who need it and not the ones with their hands out.

HANDS Need domestic violence shelters.

HANDS Provide homecare assistance for seniors when needed.

HANDS Com. Srvy.


HANDS None of the Housing Community Priorities should get tax money.

HANDS Need "Free" Health facilities.

HANDS Need help for older people on fixed incomes.

HANDS Need domestic violence shelters that also allow men.

HANDS Need a child support office to serve the south area instead of going to Cocoa.

Parks and Rec. Need more libraries/public pools.

Parks and Rec. Too much spent on Parks, ridiculous landscaping i.e. Conlan Blvd.

Parks and Rec. A nicer recycling center by the Recreation Center.

Parks and Rec. Clean up lake at Veteran's Park, open 2nd well which has been closed for 5 yrs.

Parks and Rec. Improve existing Recreation Centers, do not build more.

Parks and Rec. Need more passive park facilities for walking, reading and peace.

Parks and Rec. Need real youth centers like 4H Clubs.

Parks and Rec. Would like to have an arts center for staged plays.

Parks and Rec. Need restrooms at all parks.

Parks and Rec. Recreation programs need to be later at night.

Parks and Rec. Find a place for community Farmer's market, crafts, flowers, plants, honey, and music outdoors.

Parks and Rec. Need a playground for abused children and toddlers.

Parks and Rec. Would like the recreation programs to be free.

Parks and Rec. Purchase old Port Malabar Country Club and use as either 18 hole City course or combo 9 hole course with green space.

Parks and Rec. Need a dog park in abandoned U.S. 1 shopping center.

Parks and Rec. Palm Bay has too many parks. Quit spending money on developing more parks.

Parks and Rec. Need green areas like golf course at Port Malabar Blvd.

Parks and Rec. Need recreational paths for bikes and walkers as in the "Rails to Trails" national program.

Parks and Rec. Need to clean-up and paint the Palm Bay recreation center, what a disgrace for a growing town.

Parks and Rec. Need upkeep on older parks such as Knecht and Veteran's i.e., bleachers and concession stands.

Parks and Rec. Create more neighborhood parks on empty lots.

Parks and Rec. Miss the Jazz & Blues concerts at Goode Park but love the trees!

Parks and Rec. Need more parks, more bike racks and more safe places for low-income children.

Parks and Rec. Need parks in PM Unit 6, none are available.

Parks and Rec. We need more boat ramps, no parking available after 9:00 a.m.

Police Dept. Need "Happy Days" hangouts for teens 13-18 years of age.

Police Dept. Better control to keep ATV's off roads and private property.

Police Dept. Dogs barking.

Police Dept. Drug activity (Tenants in Rentals) is increasing around BCRA area of Bacon Cir.

HANDS Com. Srvy.


Police Dept. Neighborhood vandalism by bored teens.

Police Dept. Motorcycles speeding on Bianca.

Police Dept. The City needs red light runner cameras.

Police Dept. The Old Winn Dixie Plaza on US 1 is a mess.

Police Dept. Need more police patrols in neighborhoods in northeast Palm Bay.

Police Dept. Find grow houses and meth labs.

Police Dept. Police need to enforce stop sign/red light running.

Police Dept. Police should stake out frequently robbed businesses.

Police Dept. Parking overnight on City Streets and in drainage ditches.

Police Dept. Add more policemen and firemen.

Police Dept. Make a curfew for teenagers.

Police Dept. Funds need to put young teenagers to work to eliminate juvenile crime.

Police Dept. RV's parked in front of houses, trucks & vans blocking sidewalks.

Police Dept. Graffiti and foul language is written on a house on Bianca Drive, bad for children.

Police Dept. Need more traffic control. Do something about the high crime areas.

Police Dept. Need City to block entrances for dirt bikes from woods, Cindy Mc Cune 848-2190, Call!

Police Dept. Need to work on teenage activities to stop crime (things to do for kids).

Police Dept. Make better use of crossing guards.

Police Dept. Need more officers to patrol (to deal with gangs and drugs).

Police Dept. Stop police cars from going home with cops off duty.

Police Dept. Need better teenager control.

Police Dept. Encourage more neighborhood watch groups.

Police Dept. Need real youth centers like 4H Clubs.

Police Dept. Control the Boom Box cars!

Police Dept. Force absentee landlords to maintain their properties.

Police Dept. Excessive noise from motorcycles, scooters and pool parties.

Police Dept. Need better traffic control (more of a police presence).

Police Dept. Bacon Circle is becoming a haven for drugs.

Police Dept. Vehicles are always parked on lawns and in the right of way.

Police Dept. Big problem with speeding in residential neighborhoods.

Police Dept. Clean out high crime neighborhoods especially those affecting good areas.

Police Dept. Need to enforce "Code Enforcement" rules across the board.

Police Dept. Fences (especially front yard fences) not being taken care of.

Police Dept. A big at-a-boy to our police department. Continue to make the unconforming unwelcome in Palm Bay.

HANDS Com. Srvy.


Police Dept. Palm Bay police need to slow down on non-emergency calls and obey the laws they are entrused to enforce.

Police Dept. Palm Bay is noted as the "Redneck City", (Drugs, Violence and Theft), let's change that image.

Police Dept. Home clean-ups, my neighbor has a working garage in his yard, all this decreases home values.

Police Dept. Need more police to crack down on drug dealers.

Police Dept. Remove the sexual predators from the neighborhoods and work with people getting bills passed.

Police Dept. People are running businesses out of their homes i.e., furniture repairs; automotive repairs; etc.

Police Dept. The new breed of residents don't care about zoning laws or traffic laws.

Police Dept. Enforce parking laws i.e., cars blocking sidewalks; cars too close to intersections blocking street signs.

Police Dept. Keep drug dealers out of decent neighborhoods with kids.

Police Dept. Illegal daycare in residential homes.

Police Dept. Noisy motorized equipment repair in residential garages.

Police Dept. The police need to refocus from traffic enforcement to crime prevention and enforcement.

Police Dept. Stop drivers talking on cell phones and/or tailgating.

Police Dept. Too many people renting in one house, parking on grass, not raking leaves or watering lawn.

Police Dept. Keep campers and race cars off residential streets.

Police Dept. Overgrown lot on corner of Braun Street and Hickory Street.

Police Dept. Rundown building on corner of Braun Street and Hickory Street.

Police Dept. The building on Clermont Street is bad in appearance for our neighborhood in Sleepy Hollow, N.E.

Police Dept. Stop City workers from speeding in neighborhoods.

Police Dept. Palm Bay Police are extremely lax when given information about drug houses by homeowners in the neighborhood.

Police Dept. Do something about the gang graffiti on empty houses and sidewalks on Rowe Street, N.E.

Police Dept. Stop vehicles from parking in front yard grass and in roadway in front of house instead of driveway (Cromey Rd. N.E.).

Police Dept. Abandoned cars located at 1782 Glenndale Street, N.E.

Police Dept. Commercial vehicles parked at 1719 Glenndale Street, N.E.

Police Dept. Drug sales in neighborhoods at 1795 and 1739 Barker Street, N.E.

Police Dept. Noise pollution from cars at 451 Addison Street and 1706 Apache.

Police Dept. Speeding in neighborhoods at 341 Brant (White SUV), 1861 Barker Street and 1870 Glenwood Street N.E.

Police Dept. Drug dealer houses at 1734, 1782, 1838, 1846 and 1854 Glenwood Street, N.E.

Police Dept. Need to get preditors and perverts out of 55+ communities. Elderly women cannot defend themselves. Keep Seniors safe.

Police Dept. Drug sales are a big problem!

Police Dept. Better identify in the neighborhoods the sexual predators and sexual offenders.

Police Dept. Keep the same police in a troubled neighborhood.

Public Works Dept. Dredge Turkey Creek.

Public Works Dept. Drainage ditch at the corner of Hawthorn Rd. and Colby St. always flooding.

HANDS Com. Srvy.


Public Works Dept. Maintain potholes, get debris off streets.

Public Works Dept. I will pay higher taxes if roads and drainage are improved.

Public Works Dept. Flood/drainage improvements needed on Cimarron Circle.

Public Works Dept. Residents 25 years ago on Beckman St. signed a petition to get a st. light, we're still waiting.

Public Works Dept. We need sidewalks on Florida Ave.

Public Works Dept. Fix potholes on Babcock Street.

Public Works Dept. Synchronize red lights and lengthen yellow lights 2 or 3 seconds.

Public Works Dept. Need voice commands at traffic lights for the blind. Make jay walking a fineable offense.

Public Works Dept. Remove right turn at intersections with 4 lanes and where green arrows are in use.

Public Works Dept. Need more street lights.

Public Works Dept. I need new dead end signs on my street, 2107 Granville St. N.E.,

Public Works Dept. Need City to block entrances for dirt bikes from woods, Cindy Mc Cune 848-2190, Call!

Public Works Dept. Clearly mark bike lanes on Port Malabar Blvd.

Public Works Dept. Create more bike paths.

Public Works Dept. Half size streets still in the area in units #1 to #6.

Public Works Dept. Improve stormwater systems to hold water during storms.

Public Works Dept. More sidewalks for school children.

Public Works Dept. Charles and Cricket streets need painted center lines.

Public Works Dept. Need a location for disposal of hazardous waste (computers/oil/microwaves/etc).

Public Works Dept. Need benches for bus stops/bus stop shelters.

Public Works Dept. Promote re-use and re-cycling and assist existing recycling businesses.

Public Works Dept. Raise speed limits.

Public Works Dept. Repave Fallon Blvd. east of Babcock.

Public Works Dept. Safe bike trails.

Public Works Dept. Sidewalks in neighborhoods that are handicapped friendly.

Public Works Dept. Decrease pollution/runoff.

Public Works Dept. Fix culvert on Flag Drive, between Cromey and Hooper, before it floods houses again.

Public Works Dept. St. lights on Sandy Pines are so dark, that you need to paint a center line to prevent elderly from driving into pond.

Public Works Dept. Encourage more recycling.

Public Works Dept. Please improve canal and ditch drainage.

Public Works Dept. Make bicycling a better option.

Public Works Dept. Need bike lanes on Port Malabar Blvd. from Babcock to U.S. 1 and on Malabar Rd., E. or improve shoulder.

Public Works Dept. Children @ Play signs are needed on Karney Avenue, due to speeders exceeding 40 miles/hour.

Public Works Dept. Need curbs along residential streets.

HANDS Com. Srvy.


Public Works Dept. Make it safer for children walking or riding their bikes to and from school.

Public Works Dept. N.W. Malabar Road canal bridge needs to be widened and extended to 192. People west have only one way out.

Public Works Dept. Need more bike lanes.

Public Works Dept. Need concrete drainage in front of houses to get rid of standing water.

Public Works Dept. We should have sidewalks in Palm Bay.

Public Works Dept. Need permanent flood drainage improvements, not just redigging swales.

Public Works Dept. No selection for "Build New Roads". Let's cover Tillman Canal and turn it into an east/west expressway.

Let's cover all these open cesspools and bring the City up to better standards.

Public Works Dept. Stop planting trees and bushes in the medians.

Public Works Dept. Glenwood and Harvey needs a 4-way Stop sign.

Public Works Dept. The miminum speed limit should be 35 MPH.

Public Works Dept. Please, there is a need for sidewalks on Malabar Road for people in wheelchairs and children on bikes.

Public Works Dept. Bike paths along roadways are very dangerous.

Public Works Dept. Spend our money wisely. Do not patch a road to come back and patch it again, wasted money/man hours.

Public Works Dept. Put back "Palm Bay" on I-95 Exit 176.

Public Works Dept. Babcock Street south of Palm Bay Road needs curb cut as it is extremely dangerous.

Public Works Dept. Repair roads in South Palm Bay.

Public Works Dept. Require Public Works to actually consider citizen comments and not simply ignore info. from citizens.

Public Works Dept. Need speed bumps.

Public Works Dept. Maintain culverts for drainage.

Public Works Dept. Flood/drainage improvements needed for Palm Bay Colony especially Coconut Palm Dr. and Royal Palm.

Public Works Dept. Trying to cross Malabar Road (N.E. end) during peak hours of traffic is dangerous.

SCAT House to Dr. appointments & house to grocery store transportation for seniors.

SCAT Need more buses for seniors.

SCAT Free public transportation (SCAT) for seniors (65+) and handicapped persons with City issued photo I.D.

SCAT We need public transportation especially to Orlando airport.

SCAT Make buses pay for themselves.

SCAT Improve public transportation, i.e., more buses.

Utilities Dept. Cut the pilot fee on water for seniors, it's outrageous.

Utilities Dept. The reclaimed water we were told would be "Free" should remain "Free".

Utilities Dept. Why did the city waste money on a Water Utility Calendar? SHAME on you!!!

Utilities Dept. Reclaimed water hook up for irrigation.

Utilities Dept. We've waited long enough for sewer hook-up, what's the latest excuse?

Utilities Dept. Please put in Sewer system on Baker Avenue.

HANDS Com. Srvy.


Utilities Dept. Reduce/eliminate foul odors from the water treatment plant on Troutman Blvd.

Utilities Dept. Lower water charges.

Utilities Dept. All homes should be hooked-up to City water/sewer.

Utilities Dept. Get basic utility services to residences that have been paying taxes for years in lieu of getting services to the newer homes.

Utilities Dept. For public safety, have fire hydrants everywhere around the City.

APPENDIX - D

INTEGRATED DISBURSEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM (IDIS)

FY 2011 – 2012 ACTION PLAN INTEGRATED DISBURSEMENT & INFORMATION SYSTEM (IDIS)

UOG CODE: 122358 UOG NUMBER: 0001 FIELD OFFICE: 29 REGIONAL OFFICE: 04 FIELD OFFICE CONTACT: Olga L. De La Rosa Andujar, CPD Representative ADDRESS: U.S. Department of Housing And Urban Development CPD Jacksonville Field Office 400 W. Bay Street, Suite 1015 Jacksonville, FL 32202-4410 E-MAIL ADDRESS: [email protected] TELEPHONE: 904.208.6007 FACSIMILE: (904) 232-3617

CDBG ENTITLEMENT GRANT # B-11-MC-12-00-32 EMPLOYER IDENTIFICATION # 59-6018984 CITY DUNS #: 060236262 HANDS OFFICE CONTACT: William J. Pehaim, HANDS Specialist ADDRESS: City of Palm Bay Housing And Neighborhood Development Services 5240 Babcock Street, N.E. Suite #212 Palm Bay, FL 32905 E-MAIL ADDRESS: [email protected] TELEPHONE: 321.952.3429 FACSIMILE: (321) 733-3087

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APPENDIX - E

FAIR HOUSING AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITY (FHEO)

MINORITY REPRESENTATION

The City of Palm Bay’s Fair Housing activities impact areas of minority concentration in a

positive manner by:

1. All of the City’s fair housing activities including its Down Payment Assistance

Program (DAP) are undertaken community-wide and include all protected classes.

Specific Information for the Homeless and Other Special Needs

1. As a member of the Brevard County Consortium, the City of Palm Bay follows the

lead of the County as lead entity in addressing the needs of the homeless county-

wide. The City of Palm Bay participates in all homeless strategic planning and

housing efforts both as a consortium member and with its Community Housing

Development Organization (CHDO) annual funding. In FY 2010/2011, the City of

Palm Bay contributed $119,365 in CHDO funds to the City’s single-family housing

rehabilitation and new construction efforts for three (3) very low-income families in

the low/mod Driskell Heights neighborhood.

2. One hundred (100%) percent of the City’s Community Development Block Grant

(CDBG), Home Initiative Partnership (HOME) and State Housing Initiatives

Partnership (SHIP) programs/activities are directed toward low to moderate-income

persons and their families without prejudice to racial and ethnic minority persons/

families in any of the City’s minority geographic areas. Homeless and Other Special

Needs activities/programs are addressed specifically by the Public Service agencies

the City solicits each Action Plan year.

3. The City has also addressed accessibility for the disabled in both its Code of

Ordinances and in its Fair Housing testing programs/activities.

Breakdown by Percentages of Minorities and Persons with Disabilities Served

1. It is impossible during the planning of the FY 11/12 Action Plan to show a

breakdown by percentages of minorities and persons with disabilities served as the

activities are in the planning stages and cannot be reported on until year-end at the

time of the Consolidated Annual Performance Evaluation Report (CAPER).

Section 3 Compliance

1. The City of Palm Bay complies with all Section 3 requirements under 24 CFR 85.36

for covered projects for which the amount of assistance exceeds $200,000 and for

Contractors and Subcontractors when the amount of the contract or subcontract

exceeds $100,000.

FAIR HOUSING COMPLAINTS

For FY 09/10, the Fair Housing Continuum, Inc. (FHC) located at the Honey Brooke

Commercial Center 4760 North Dixie Hwy., Suite 203, Melbourne, FL 32935 received a total of

four fair housing complaints, two (2) fair housing complaints based upon Race/Color and two (2)

fair housing complaints based upon Gender in Palm Bay. Although Palm Bay has been the

fastest growing and largest municipality in all of Brevard County with a current population of

one hundred six thousand, three hundred, fifty-one (106,351) residents, it has (since 1995 when

statistics were first collected) the second lowest (13% of total Fair Housing complaints County-

wide) percentage of Fair Housing complaints (only behind Titusville at 12%) for all of Brevard

County and its municipalities.

City of Palm Bay Fair Housing Complaints by Year & Projected Category

Year 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 Total

Race & Color 3 0 2 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 2 15

Religion 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

National Origin 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 4

Gender 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 6

Disability 0 2 2 2 3 1 1 1 0 3 3 0 1 1 1 0 21

Familial Status 1 1 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 7

Total* 4 3 5 6 8 1 1 2 2 3 5 2 1 5 1 4 53

*Total number of complaints as of 9/30/10

**Numbers do not reflect housing complaints filed directly with HUD or the Florida Commission on Human Relations by

residents of the City of Palm Bay.

Brevard County Fair Housing Complaints by Year & Entitlement Area

Year 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 Total

Brevard 9 10 12 12 22 7 13 16 11 10 5 11 8 9 6 4 165

Cocoa 9 13 6 1 3 4 3 5 0 1 5 6 3 1 0 2 62

Melbourne 5 9 5 13 2 9 3 8 4 3 4 5 3 6 3 1 83

Palm Bay 4 3 5 6 8 1 1 2 2 3 5 2 1 5 1 4 53

Titusville 5 6 5 5 1 4 4 4 1 6 3 0 2 1 1 1 49

Total* 32 41 33 37 36 25 24 35 18 23 22 24 17 22 11 12 412

*Total number of complaints as of 9/30/10

**Numbers do not reflect fair housing complaints filed directly with HUD or the Florida Commission on Human Relations by

residents of Brevard County.

J. SUMMARY OF FAIR HOUSING GOALS/STRATEGIESIMPEDIMENTS TO BE

ADDRESSED

(list by degree of importance.)

FH discrimination against:

GOALS 1/

(What do you hope to

achieve?)

STRATEGIES TO

MEET THE GOALS

(How will you achieve

your goals?)

RESPONSIBLE ENTITIES

ASSIGNED TO MEET GOALS

(Identify the organization who

will be undertaking the

impediment.)

BENCHMARK

(In which year of your Con/

Plan do you plan to achieve

this?)

Impediment #1 Reduce FH Complaints 1 FH Seminar & City of Palm Bay HANDS & 2010-2015

Persons with disabilities

from 8 to 0 over next 5

yrs. 12 FH Tests

Fair Housing Continuum, Inc.


Black/African Americans


yrs. 12 FH Tests



Familial Status


yrs. 12 FH Tests



Hispanics


yrs. 12 FH Tests


IMPEDIMENTS TO BE

ADDRESSED

(list by degree of importance.)

FH discrimination against:

PROPOSED

INVESTMENT (Amount

of money by funding

source? $20,000 in CDBG

funding )

YEAR TO BE

COMPLETED

(Is it contained in your

Con/Pln Action Plan

Goal?)

DATE COMPLETED (Identify

which year of the Con/Pln the

action was addressed.)

IF THE IMPEDIMENT WAS

NOT ADDRESSED PROVIDE

AN EXPLANATION AS TO

WHY AND WHEN

Impediment #1 $4,000 in CDBG Funding 2010-2015 2010 N/A

Persons with disabilities Contained in Con. Pln.


Black/African Americans Contained in Con. Pln.


Familial Status Contained in Con. Pln.


Hispanics Contained in Con. Pln.

Retesting in Final Year: $4,000 in CDBG Funding 2014-2015 2014 N/A1/

Even though Palm Bay is the municipality with the greatest population in Brev. Co. it has among the fewest FH complaints in the county.

The City has an outstanding FH complaint reporting mechanism in place, a FH ordinance in place, an advisory board in place and maintains an

on going program of FH education and testing. Page 42.

CITY OF PALM BAY FAIR HOUSING ACCOMPLISHMENTS/

FY 2010/2011 FH TESTING & EDUCATION GOALS

1. The City of Palm Bay has and will continue to address its identified Analysis of

Impediments to Fair Housing and for FY 2010 - 2015 they are as follows:

A. Impediment #1 – FH Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities.

B. Impediment #2 – FH Discrimination against Black/African Americans.

C. Impediment #3 – Potential FH Discrimination against Hispanics.

D. Impediment #4 – FH Discrimination Based Upon Familial Status.

The City of Palm Bay in FY 2010-2011 is continuing to address its Impediments to Fair Housing

taking the following steps:

1. City of Palm Bay for its first-time homebuyer, Down Payment Assistance Program

(DAP) approved Its Down Payment/Closing Costs/Rehabilitation Costs subsides under its

contract with Community Housing Initiative, Inc. to provide down payment and closing

costs program assistance community-wide for $196,339. The contract included $196,339

in FY 10/11 Home Investment Partnership (HOME) funding.

2. The City in FY 2010/2011 approved the first year of a five year public service contract

w/Fair Housing Continuum, Inc. for Fair Housing Testing and Seminars/Workshops in

the amount of $4,000.

3. On May 7, 2009, the City of Palm Bay sponsored a Fair Housing Seminar in order to

educate Realtors/Mortgage Lenders regarding prohibitive practices and avoiding costly

discrimination complaints and will in FY 2010/2011 continue sponsoring a FH seminar

annually.

As part of the City of Palm Bay’s Affordable Housing Initiative the City, in FY 2009/

2010, completed its review process analyzing and presenting to its Community Develop-

ment Advisory Board its updated Affordable Housing Incentives. As a requirement for a

State of Florida housing program known as State Housing Initiatives Partnership (SHIP),

the City of Palm Bay was required to increase its Community Development Advisory

Board from a seven (7) member board to an eleven (11) member Community Develop-

ment Affordable Housing Advisory Board. The board was then commissioned with the

task of addressing the issue of barriers to affordable housing and made recommendations

addressing these barriers. In FY 2011/2012, the City will continue to address and to

promote these Affordable Housing initiatives. Please refer to the link:

http://www.palmbayflorida.org/growth/hands/plans/ahisr.html.

4. To address its impediments to fair housing, over the past, five (5) years the Fair Housing

Continuum, Inc. will have conducted seventy (70) fair housing tests from National Origin

to Fair Housing practices of Realtors and Mortgage Lenders. In addition, to the testing,

the City of Palm Bay has either totally sponsored, co-sponsored or participated as a

member of the Brevard County Consortium in five (5) fair housing seminars from a

seminar for Spanish Speaking residents to a State-wide Conference on Fair Housing held

in 2008. The City of Palm Bay has, over the past five (5) years, expended twenty

thousand ($20,000) dollars toward fulfilling its Fair Housing goals. In FY 2010/2011, the

City will continue funding this initiative with $4,000 being allocated to the Fair Housing

Continuum, Inc. for Fair Housing testing and educational seminars.

http://www.palmbayflorida.org/growth/hands/plans/ahisr.html

FY 11/12 FAIR HOUSING EDUCATION & TESTING GOALS

1. The City approved the first year of a five year public service contract w/Fair Housing

Continuum, Inc. for FH Testing and Seminars/Workshops in the amount of $4,000.

2. It was decided from the Fair Housing Complaint received in 2009 that testing in FY

2011/2012 would be focused on testing for discrimination against persons with disabili-

ties and that twelve (10) FH tests would be conducted in FY 2011/2012.

3. In FY 2011/2012, based upon the FHEO summary matrix milestones/timetable as well as,

from the updated City of Palm Bay Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing, the Fair

Housing Continuum, Inc. will conduct one educational seminar to public service agency

providers and the general public covering Discrimination against persons with disabilities

on Thursday, April 21, 2011 that will be sponsored by the Housing and Neighborhood

Development Services (HANDS) office. Please refer to the Fair Housing Summary

Matrix “J” for HANDS’ Fair Housing goals and strategies for the next five (5) years.

APPENDIX - F

CITIZEN PARTICIPATION PLAN

Strategic Plan for Housing And Neighborhood Development Services,

City of Palm Bay, Florida, 2011 - 2016

Citizen Participation Plan Page 1

PALM BAY CITIZEN PARTICIPATION PLAN

The City of Palm Bay’s Housing and Neighborhood Development Services receives Community

Development Block Grant funds (CDBG) from the United States Department of Housing and

Urban Development (HUD). Housing and Neighborhood Development Services (HANDS)

administers the CDBG program and is responsible for the planning, preparation and submission

of the Strategic Plan, Substantial Amendments as well as, all the performance reports affecting

the CDBG program for the City. HANDS provides the day-to-day operations of all activities

approved under the CDBG program. Consistent with the duties and responsibilities of the

HANDS’ program, the grants are administered with not more than twenty (20%) percent of the

annual CDBG entitlement grant plus ten (10%) percent of any program income that is received.

The Palm Bay City Council, after receiving input from the public, the Community Development

Advisory Board and staff, authorizes the annual allocation of funding for identified needs and

goals in accordance with the grant criteria established by HUD. These funding allocations must

concur with the needs and the goals established in the Brevard County HOME Consortium

Consolidated Plan.

The purpose of the Citizen Participation Plan is to ensure effective citizen input in the planning,

implementation and assessment of the City of Palm Bay’s 5 Year Strategic Plan, Substantial

Amendments, the Annual Action Plan, Performance Reports, the Section 108 Loan Guarantee

Program, CDBG and other disaster/stimulus programs with local funding access, and to provide

particular emphasis to encouraging participation by persons of low, very low and moderate-

income, who are residents of areas of the City of Palm Bay which are eligible for funding i.e.,

residents who live in the Bayfront Redevelopment District, including all minority and non-

English speaking groups in accordance with the federal regulations at 24 CFR Part 91. In

conjunction with consultation with the Brevard County Housing Authority, the participation of

residents of public and assisted housing developments will also be solicited as they pertain to

Section 3 requirements under 24 CFR Part 135, Section 3 of the Housing and Urban Develop-

ment Act of 1968, as amended.

I. Applicability and Adoption of the Citizen Participation Plan.

A. Pursuant to 24 CFR Part 91, Consolidated Submissions for Community Planning and

Development Programs, the jurisdiction is required to certify that it has developed and is

acting in compliance with a Citizen Participation Plan that sets forth the jurisdiction's

policies and procedures for citizen participation. The plan must include the following

topic areas:

1. CITIZEN PARTICIPATION: Provide for and encourages citizen participation,

with particular emphasis on participation by persons of low and moderate-income,

particularly those residents living in slum and blighted areas and where

CDBG/Federal funds are proposed to be used, as well as encourage the participation

of all residents, including minorities, non-English speaking persons and persons with

disabilities;




2. CITIZEN COMMENTS: Provide citizens with a reasonable opportunity to examine

the proposed Strategic Plan, Action Plans and Performance Reports, to submit

comments and provide for the consideration of written and oral comments and views

from citizens and procedures for handling citizen complaints;

3. SUBSTANTIAL AMENDMENT: Provide for specification of criteria the City will

use to determine what constitutes a substantial change in the City’s planned or actual

activities requiring a substantial amendment in the Strategic Plan or Action Plan and a

procedure for notification and comment on proposed substantial amendments by the

public;

4. PUBLIC HEARINGS: Provide for public hearings to obtain citizen views on

housing and community development needs, including priority non-housing

community development needs and for citizens to respond to proposals relative to the

selection of funded activities and to respond to questions at all stages of the

community development program, including at least, the development of needs, the

review of proposed activities and the review of past program performance at times

and locations that are convenient to potential and actual beneficiaries;

5. REASONABLE AND TIMELY ACCESS: Provide citizens with reasonable and

timely access to local meetings, information and records related to the City of Palm

Bay’s proposed and actual use of funds at times and locations convenient to potential

or actual beneficiaries including prior years’ annual Action Plans and Consolidated

Annual Performance and Evaluation Reports (CAPERs) with accommodations for

persons with disabilities and groups of non-English speaking persons;

6. INFORMATION PROVIDED: Provide information to citizens, public agencies and

other interested parties, that includes the amount of Federal Assistance available to

the City and the activities that may be undertaken, including the estimated amount of

funds that will benefit persons of low and moderate-income as well as, plans to

minimize displacement (even if no displacement is expected to occur);

7. TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE Provide technical assistance to groups representative

of persons of low and moderate-income that request such assistance;

8. PUBLIC HOUSING AUTHORITIES: Provide for consultation between the City

and public housing authorities in order to encourage participation by residents of

public and assisted housing developments in the process and implementation of the

Strategic Plan and to provide information to these agencies about Strategic Plan

activities, so this information can be used in the Comprehensive Grant program

process;

9. NON-ENGLISH SPEAKING RESIDENT NEEDS: Identify how the needs of non-

English speaking residents will be met in the case of public hearings where a

significant number of non-English speaking residents can be reasonably expected to

participate.




10. COMPLAINT RESOLUTION: Provide for timely written answers to written

complaints and grievances.

B. Goal I Citizen Participation Plan Update: To update the existing Citizen Participation

Plan under the auspices of the Community Development Advisory Board and be

submitted in conjunction with the Strategic Plan submission.

1. Strategy A: Submit revisions to the Citizen Participation Plan to the Community

Development Advisory Board for their input/recommendations.

2. Strategy B: Submit the revised Citizen Participation Plan to the City Council at a

City Council meeting.

II. Encouragement of Citizen Participation

A. The Citizen Participation Plan must provide for and encourage citizens to participate in

the development of the Strategic Plan, any substantial amendments to the Strategic Plan,

and the performance report. These requirements are designed especially to encourage

participation by low and moderate-income persons, 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, as defined by the

jurisdiction. A jurisdiction also is expected to take whatever actions are appropriate to

encourage the participation of all its citizens, including minorities and non-English

speaking persons, as well as persons with disabilities. The jurisdiction shall encourage, in

conjunction with consultation with public housing authorities, the participation of

residents of public and assisted housing developments, in the process of developing and

implementing the Strategic Plan, along with other low-income residents of targeted

revitalization areas in which the developments are located. The jurisdiction shall make an

effort to provide information to the housing agency about Strategic Plan activities related

to its developments and surrounding communities so that the housing agency can make

this information available at the annual public hearing required under the Comprehensive

Grant program.

B. Goal II Citizen Participation: To obtain the views of citizens, i.e., low to moderate-

income persons, those living in slum and blighted areas and in areas where CDBG funds

are proposed to be used, minorities, non-English speaking persons, as well as persons

with disabilities, public agencies, residents of public and assisted housing developments

and other interested parties on housing and community development needs, the following

strategies will be implemented:

1. Strategy A: Review existing needs assessment documents (i.e., City of Palm Bay’s

Growth Management Plan; Palm Bay Vision Plan; and the Bayfront Redevelopment

Plan; Brevard County’s Comprehensive Housing Affordability Strategy (CHAS); and

consult with interested public agencies.




2. Strategy B: Consult individually with representatives of City departments i.e.,

Community Policing, Parks and Recreation, Code Compliance, Public Works, etc.

3. Strategy C: Consult with interested area social/health service/housing providers i.e.,

the Fair Housing Continuum, etc.

4. Strategy D: Consult with the member municipalities (Melbourne, Titusville, Cocoa

and Brevard County as the lead agency) in the Brevard County Consortium for

purposes of coordination.

5. Strategy E: Provide a minimum of one (1) and preferably two (2) neighborhood

meetings, one in an area of predominantly low and moderate-income residents and

another location that is accessible to beneficiaries of the CDBG fund for citizen input

on community development needs.

III. Citizen Comments

A. The jurisdiction must provide citizens with a reasonable opportunity to comment on the

original Citizen Participation Plan and on substantial amendments to the Citizen

Participation Plan, and must make the Citizen Participation Plan public. The Citizen

Participation Plan must be in a format accessible to persons with disabilities, upon

request.

B. Goal III Citizen Comments: Citizen comments will be solicited at all public meetings/

hearings.

1. Strategy A: A summary of citizen comments received in writing, or orally at public

meetings, concerning the City of Palm Bay’s Strategic Plan, the annual Action Plan,

substantial amendments, and/or concerning the Consolidated Annual Performance

and Evaluation Report (CAPER) will accompany all sub-missions to HUD.

2. Strategy B: Where a significant number of non-English speaking residents can be

reasonably expected to participate, a method of communication will be provided for

non-English speaking residents as well as, accommodations will be provided for

persons with disabilities, upon forty-eight (48) weekday hours written notification to

Housing and Neighborhood Development Services.

3. Strategy C: The City shall respond to any written responses or comments from

Citizens within fifteen (15) working days, where practical.

IV. Development of the Consolidated Plan

A. The Citizen Participation Plan must include the following minimum requirements for

the development of the Strategic Plan. The Citizen Participation Plan must require that:




Before the jurisdiction adopts a Strategic Plan, the jurisdiction will make available to

citizens, public agencies, and other interested parties information that includes the

amount of assistance the jurisdiction expects to receive (including grant funds and

program income) and the range of activities that may be undertaken, including the

estimated amount that will benefit persons of low and moderate-income.

The Citizen Participation Plan also must set forth the jurisdiction's plans to minimize

displacement of persons and to assist any persons displaced, specifying the types and

levels of assistance the jurisdiction will make available (or require others to make

available) to persons displaced, even if the jurisdiction expects no displacement to occur.

The Citizen Participation Plan must state when and how the jurisdiction will make this

information available. The Citizen Participation Plan must require the jurisdiction to

publish the proposed Strategic Plan in a manner that affords citizens, public agencies, and

other interested parties a reasonable opportunity to examine its contents and to submit

comments. The Citizen Participation Plan must set forth how the jurisdiction will publish

the proposed Strategic Plan and give reasonable opportunity to examine the contents of

the proposed Strategic Plan. The requirement for publishing may be met by publishing a

summary of the proposed Strategic Plan in one or more newspapers of general

circulation, and by making copies of the proposed Strategic Plan available at libraries,

government offices, and public places. The summary must describe the contents and

purpose of the Strategic Plan, and must include a list of the locations where copies of the

entire proposed Strategic Plan may be examined. In addition, the jurisdiction must

provide a reasonable number of free copies of the plan to citizens and groups that request

it.

The Citizen Participation Plan must provide for, at least, one public hearing during the

development of the Strategic Plan. See Strategy D of this section for public hearing

requirements, generally.

The Citizen Participation Plan must provide a period, not less than 30 days, to receive

comments from citizens on the Strategic Plan. The Citizen Participation Plan shall require

the jurisdiction to consider any comments or views of citizens received in writing, or

orally at the public hearings, in preparing the final Strategic Plan. A summary of these

comments or views, and a summary of any comments or views not accepted and the

reasons therefore, shall be attached to the final Strategic Plan.

B. Goal IV Consolidated Plan Development: To obtain input from public and private

agencies, as well as, State or local health and child welfare agencies that assist in

housing, health, social services and child care agencies to low and moderate-income

residents of Palm Bay while notifying adjacent units of general local government, to the

extent practicable.

1. Strategy A: Participate with the member municipalities (Melbourne, Titusville,

Cocoa and Brevard County as the lead agency) in the preparation of the 5-Year

Stategic Plan.




2. Strategy B: Consult with interested area social/health service/housing providers i.e.,

the Fair Housing Continuum, Community Housing Initiative, Inc., the Brevard

County Housing Authorities, etc.

3. Strategy C: Obtain input, in the form of recommendations, from the Community

Development Advisory Board in the development of the 5-Year Strategic Plan.

4. Strategy D: Conduct a minimum of one (1) and preferably two (2) neighborhood

meetings, one in an area of predominantly low and moderate-income residents and

another location that is accessible to beneficiaries of the CDBG fund for the purpose

of citizen input on community development needs.

5. Strategy E: Advertise all public meetings and workshops, for the preparation of the

5-Year Strategic Plan in a newspaper of general circulation at least fifteen (15) days

prior to the scheduled meeting/hearing which shall indicate the purpose, date, time

and location of the hearing, prepare a press release for general publication and place

the dates/times/locations of all public meetings on the City’s website.

6. Strategy F: In the development of the 5-Year Strategic Plan, a draft of the Plan will

be provided for public review and comment at the City clerk’s office in City Hall, at

the City’s public libraries and at the Housing and Neighborhood Development

Services office not less than thirty (30) days prior to the plan’s submission. Copies of

the plan will be made available to the public upon request.

V. Criteria for Amendment(s) to Strategic Plan

A. The Citizen Participation Plan must specify the criteria the jurisdiction will use for

determining what changes in the jurisdiction's planned or actual activities constitute a

substantial amendment to the Strategic Plan. (See Sec. 91.505.) It must include among

the criteria for a substantial amendment changes in the use of CDBG funds from one

eligible activity to another. The Citizen Participation Plan must provide citizens with

reasonable notice and an opportunity to comment on substantial amendments. The

Citizen Participation Plan must state how reasonable notice and an opportunity to

comment will be given. The Citizen Participation Plan must provide a period, not less

than 30 days to receive comments on the substantial amendment before the amendment is

implemented. The Citizen Participation Plan shall require the jurisdiction to consider any

comments or views of citizens received in writing, or orally at public hearings, if any, in

preparing the substantial amendment of the Strategic Plan. A summary of these

comments or views, and a summary of any comments or views not accepted and the

reasons therefore, shall be attached to the substantial amendment of the Strategic Plan.

B. Goal Va. Strategic Plan: An activity/project shall be constitute a substantial

amendment to the Strategic Plan if:




1. Strategy A: Any change in priority strategies which may affect the activities to be

funded from CDBG.

2. Strategy B: Any change in an activity that substantially changes the purpose, scope,

location or beneficiaries of an activity.

3. Strategy C: Any proposed changes that fall into any of the above categories shall be

advertised for public review and comment in a newspaper of general circulation for a

period of fifteen (15) days. Comments from the general public will be given due

consideration by City staff before written notice of the plan amendment is sent to

HUD.

C. Goal Vb. Action Plan: An activity/project shall constitute a substantial amendment to

the Action Plan if:

1. Strategy A: Any new activity proposed for CDBG funding

2. Strategy B: Any revision in an activity which results in a change from one eligible

activity to another or a change in the location or the overall CDBG funds expended

for the benefit of low to moderate-income persons falls below 70% as a result of any

proposed increase/decrease in expenditures for any one project or activity, or where

the overall scope and/or purpose of the project is changed.

3. Strategy C: Any proposed changes that fall into any of the above categories shall be

advertised for public review and comment in a newspaper of general circulation and

allow the citizens a minimum of a 30-day comment period. Comments from the

general public will be given due consideration by City staff before written notice of

the plan amendment is sent to HUD.

VI. Performance Reports

A. The Citizen Participation Plan must provide citizens with reasonable notice and an

opportunity to comment on performance reports. The Citizen Participation Plan must

state how reasonable notice and an opportunity to comment will be given. The Citizen

Participation Plan must provide a period, not less than 15 days, to receive comments on

the performance report that is to be submitted to HUD before its submission. The Citizen

Participation Plan shall require the jurisdiction to consider any comments or views of

citizens received in writing or orally at public hearings in preparing the CAPER. A

summary of these comments or views shall be attached to the performance reports.

B. Goal VI Performance Reports: To provide an opportunity for citizens to receive

information and/or submit comments regarding the Consolidated Annual Performance

and Evaluation Report (CAPER) the following strategies will be implemented:

1. Strategy A: Notification will be given of the availability for review of the CAPER in

a legal advertisement in a newspaper of general circulation, soliciting comments for a




period of fifteen (15) days. The summary will describe the contents of the CAPER

and will include locations where the entire performance report may be examined.

2. Strategy B: Citizens will be given a period of fifteen (15) days in order to submit

comments to the CAPER prior to the report’s submission to HUD.

3. Strategy C: CAPER results will also be presented in the first of two public hearings

that are held annually in the succeeding year following publication of the CAPER.

VII. Public Hearings

A. The Citizen Participation Plan must provide for at least two public hearings per year to

obtain citizens' views and to respond to proposals and questions, to be conducted at a

minimum of two different stages of the program year. Together, the hearings must

address housing and community development needs, development of proposed activities,

and review of program performance.

To obtain the views of citizens on housing and community development needs, including

priority non-housing community development needs, the Citizen Participation Plan must

provide that at least one of these hearings is held before the proposed Strategic Plan is

published for comment.

The Citizen Participation Plan must state how and when adequate advance notice will be

given to citizens of each hearing, with sufficient information published about the subject

of the hearing to permit informed comment. (Publishing small print notices in the

newspaper a few days before the hearing does not constitute adequate notice. Although

HUD is not specifying the length of notice required, it would consider two weeks

adequate.)

The Citizen Participation Plan must provide that hearings be held at times and locations

convenient to potential and actual beneficiaries, and with accommodation for persons

with disabilities. The Citizen Participation Plan must specify how it will meet these

requirements. The Citizen Participation Plan must identify how the needs of non-English

speaking residents will be met in the case of public hearings where a significant number

of non-English speaking residents can be reasonably expected to participate.

B. Goal VII Public Hearings: To provide the public an opportunity to share their views

and to respond to proposals and comments at all stages of the Strategic Planning process,

the following strategies will be implemented:

1. Strategy A: In addition to the community needs public hearing, the City will hold a

minimum of one (1) public hearing on the Strategic Plan that provides citizens an

opportunity to comment on the proposed plan at times and locations that are

convenient to potential and actual low and moderate-income beneficiaries.




2. Strategy B: Provide notice of neighborhood meetings and public hearings by placing

an advertisement in a newspaper of general circulation at least fifteen (15) days prior

to the scheduled meeting/hearing that shall indicate the purpose, date, time and

location of the hearing.

3. Strategy C: Hold neighborhood meeting(s) and public hearings at sites that are

accessible to persons with disabilities.

4. Strategy D: Where a significant number of non-English speaking residents can be

reasonably expected to participate, a method of communication will be provided for

non-English speaking residents as well as, accommodations will be provided for

persons with disabilities, upon forty-eight (48) weekday hours notification to the City

of Palm Bay’s Housing And Neighborhood Development Services (HANDS) office.

VIII. Availability to the Public

A. The Citizen Participation Plan must provide that the Strategic Plan as adopted, the Action

Plan as adopted, any substantial amendments as adopted, and the CAPER will be

available to the public, including the availability of materials in a form accessible to

persons with disabilities, upon request. The Citizen Participation Plan must state how

these documents will be available to the public.

B. Goal VIII Availability to the Public: To provide the public an opportunity to share

their views and to respond to the Strategic Plan as adopted, the Action Plan as adopted,

any substantial amendments as adopted and the CAPER as adopted, the following

strategies will be implemented:

1. Strategy A: Advanced public notice will be given whenever a required document

is available for public comment, such as the proposed Strategic Plan, Action Plan,

any proposed Substantial Amendments, the Annual Reports and any other

programs which may require Citizen Participation in their process.

2. Strategy B: The Housing and Neighborhood Development Services office will

post, the Strategic Plan as adopted, the Action Plan as adopted, any substantial

amendments as adopted and the CAPER as adopted on the City’s website at

http://www.palmbayflorida.org/growth/hands/index.html.

3. Strategy C: The Consolidated Plan as adopted, the Action Plan as adopted, any

substantial amendments as adopted and the CAPER as adopted will be made

available in a form accessible to persons with disabilities upon request.

IX. Access to Records

A. The Citizen Participation Plan must require the jurisdiction to provide citizens, public

agencies, and other interested parties with reasonable and timely access to information

and records relating to the jurisdiction's Strategic Plan and the jurisdiction's use of

http://www.palmbayflorida.org/growth/hands/index.html




assistance under the programs covered by this part during the preceding five years

consistent with applicable Federal, State and Local laws regarding personal privacy and

obligations of confidentiality.

B. Goals IX Access to Information: To provide an opportunity for citizens to receive

information and submit comments and/or grievances on the proposed Strategic Plan, the

Action Plan and when applicable, substantial amendments to the plan, the CAPER and on

the City’s anti-displacement policy, the following strategies will be implemented:

1. Strategy A: Advertise a summary of the Strategic Plan in a newspaper of general

circulation, soliciting comments for a period of thirty (30) days. The summary will

describe the contents and purpose of the Strategic Plan and will include locations

where the entire plan may be examined.

2. Strategy B: Make copies of the Strategic Plan, the Action Plan, and when

applicable, substantial amendments to the plan, the CAPER and on the City’s anti-

displacement policy available at the Housing and Neighborhood Development

Services Office, City Hall and the public libraries in Palm Bay.

3. Strategy C: Make available a reasonable number of copies of the plan to citizens

and groups upon written request.

4. Strategy D: Materials will be supplied in a form accessible to persons with

disabilities upon written request.

X. Technical Assistance

A. The Citizen Participation Plan must provide for technical assistance to groups

representative of persons of low and moderate-income that request such assistance in

developing proposals for funding assistance under any of the programs covered by the

Strategic Plan, with the level and type of assistance determined by the jurisdiction. The

assistance need not include the provision of funds to the groups.

B. Goal X Technical Assistance: To provide technical assistance to groups representative

of low and moderate-income the following strategy will be implemented:

1. Strategy A: Technical assistance will be provided by the HANDS staff to groups,

representative of persons of low and moderate-income who request such assistance in

developing proposals for funding assistance under any of the programs covered by the

Strategic Plan and/or Action Plan.

XI. Complaints

A. The Citizen Participation Plan shall describe the jurisdiction's appropriate and practicable

procedures to handle complaints from citizens related to the Strategic Plan, to the Action

Plan, to substantial amendments, and to the CAPER. At a minimum, the Citizen

Participation Plan shall require that the jurisdiction must provide a timely, substantive




written response to every written citizen complaint, within an established period of time

(within 15 working days, where practicable, if the jurisdiction is a CDBG grant

recipient).

B. Goal XI Complaint Resolution: Housing and Neighborhood Development Services

will act swiftly and objectively in resolving all written complaints and grievances

utilizing the following strategies by utilizing the following grievance procedure. Citizens

may, at any time during the complaint resolution process, contact the U.S. Department of

Housing and Urban Development (HUD) directly at the following address:

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Jacksonville Field Office

Office of Community Planning and Development

Charles Bennett Federal Building

400 West Bay Street

Suite 1015

Jacksonville, FL 32202-4410

1. Strategy A Grievance Procedure: In the case where an applicant believes that he or

she is being unfairly treated, or where an applicant believes that the rules of any

Housing and Neighborhood Development Services’ CDBG programs, if applied to

his/her situation, would result in an unfair or inequitable action being taken in regard

to his/her application, the following grievance procedure shall be followed:

a. Applicant must state the grievance in writing to the Housing and Neighborhood

Development Services Division Office. The grievance letter must provide exact

details of the policy or decision made which is being appealed, must explain why

the applicant believes the policy or decision is unfair or inequitable in this case,

and should state a remedy which would resolve the issue to his/her satisfaction.

b. The Housing and Neighborhood Development Services Division Office shall

respond to the grievance in writing in not more than fifteen (15) working days

from receipt of the grievance, explaining the decision reached and the reasons

therefore. A copy of the grievance and response will be forwarded to the Deputy

City Manager and the City Manager for their information.

c. The applicant, if dissatisfied with the Housing and Neighborhood Development

Services Division Office’s response, may appeal said response within fifteen (15)

working days to the Deputy City Manager. The appeal must give the applicant’s

reasons for rejecting the remedy set forth by the Housing and Neighborhood

Development Services Division Office. If an appeal is not received by the Deputy

City Manager within fifteen (15) working days of the date of the Housing and

Neighborhood Development Services Division Office’s letter, the Housing and

Neighborhood Development Services Division Office’s response shall be

considered accepted by the applicant, and the matter shall be considered closed.




d. The Deputy City Manager shall respond to the applicant’s appeal in writing in not

more than fifteen (15) working days from receipt of the appeal, explaining the

decision reached and the reasons therefore. A copy of the response will be

forwarded to the Housing and Neighborhood Development Services Division

Office and to the City Manager for their information.

e. The applicant, if dissatisfied with the response of the Deputy City Manager, may

appeal said response within fifteen (15) working days to the City Manager. The

appeal must give the applicant’s reasons for rejecting the prior two rendered

decisions. If an appeal is not received by the City Manager within fifteen (15)

working days of the date of the Deputy City Manager’s letter, the Deputy City

Manager’s response shall be considered accepted by the applicant, and the matter

shall be considered closed.

f. The City Manager shall respond to the applicant’s appeal in writing in not more

than twenty (20) working days from receipt of the appeal, explaining the decision

reached and the reasons therefore. A copy of the response will be forwarded to

the Deputy City Manager and the Housing And Neighborhood Development

Services (HANDS) offices for their information.

g. The decision of the City Manager shall be final.

XI. Use of Citizen Participation Plan

A. The jurisdiction must follow its Citizen Participation Plan.

B. Goal XI Citizen Participation Plan Use: Housing and Neighborhood Development

Services will utilize the following strategy to implement use of the Citizen Participation

Plan:

1. Strategy A: The Citizen Participation Plan will continue to be an integral component

of the Housing and Neighborhood Development Services’ day-to-day proceedings

and will be of paramount consideration in the proceedings of the Community

Development Advisory Board.

XII. Jurisdiction Responsibility

A. The requirements for citizen participation do not restrict the responsibility or authority of

the jurisdiction for the development and execution of its Consolidated Plan.

B. Goal XII Jurisdiction Responsibility: The requirements for citizen participation do not

restrict the responsibility or authority of the jurisdiction for the development and

execution of its Consolidated Plan.

1. Strategy A: Housing and Neighborhood Development Services’ responsibility for

the development and execution of the 5-Year Strategic Plan is expanded by citizen




participation. Developing and executing a Strategic Plan that meets the needs of our

citizens is a dynamic responsibility because it provides assistance that is not

otherwise available to low to moderate-income individuals, households, as well as,

low-income/slum and blighted areas of Palm Bay.

CITIZEN PARTICIPATION PLAN STRATEGY SUMMARY BY CATEGORY

STRATEGIES STRAT. PLN. SUBSTL. AMNDMNTS. STRATEGIC PLAN DEVELOPMENT ACT. PLN. SUBSTANTIAL AMEND. ACCESS TO INFORMATION

Strategy A

Any Change in Priority Strategies which

affect the funded activities.

Participate with Brevard County Consortium

Member Municipalities.

Any New Activity is Proposed for

CDBG Funding.

Advertise a Summary of the Strategic Plan in

a Newspaper of General Circulation,

Solicitating Comments for a Period of Thirty

(30) Days.

Strategy B

Changes in the Purpose/Scope/

Location/Beneficiaries of an Activity.

Consult with Interested Area Social/Health

Service/Housing Providers.

Change in Eligibility/Location/Program

Benefit Falls Below 70%/Changein

Overall Scope/Purpose.

Make Copies Available of the Strategic

Plan/Action Plan/Substantial Amendments/

CAPER/Anti-Displacement Policy.

Strategy C

Any Changes Listed Above Shall be

Advertised in a Newspaper of General

Circulation for a Period of 15 Days.

Obtain input, in the form of recommendations,

from the Community Development Advisory Board

Any Changes Listed Above Shall be

Advertised in a Newspaper of General

Circulation for a Period of 30 Days.

Make a Reasonable Number of Copies of the

Strategic Plan Available to Citizens and

Groups that Request it.

Strategy D

Conduct a Minimum of one (1) and preferably two

(2) Neighborhood Meetings.

Make Materials Available in a Form

Accessible to Persons w/Disabilities Upon

Written Request.

Strategy E

Advertise all Public Meetings and Workshops at

least fifteen (15) days in advance indicating

Purpose, Date, Time and Location.

Materials will be Supplied in a Form

Accessible to Persons w/Disabilities.

Strategy F

Draft of Strategic Plan Made Available for Public

Comments at Least Thirty (30) Days Prior to the

Plans Submission.

PUBLIC HEARINGS CAPER PUBLIC COMMENTS STRATEGIC PLAN AS ADOPTED

Strategy A

One (1) Public Hearing on Community

Needs and a minimum of one (1) Public

Hearing for the Solicitation of Public

Comments.

Provide Notification in Newspaper of General

Circulation Fifteen (15) Days in Advance of

Availability for Review of the CAPER.

All Public Comments Received

Concerning Strat. Pln./ Act. Pln./

Substantial Amendments/ APR. will

Accompany all Submissions to HUD.

Con. Pln./Act. Pln./Substantial Amendments/

HOME APR as Adopted wil be Posted on the

City's Website.

Strategy B

Provide Notice of Public Meetings in

Newspaper of General Circulation at

Least FIFteen (15) Days Prior.

Provide Period of Fifteen (15) Days for Citizens to

Submit Comments for the CAPER.

Provide a Method of Communication for

Non-English Speaking Residents and

Accomodations for Persons with

Disabilities Upon Forty-Eight (48) Hours

Prior Notice.

Strategic Plan/Action Plan/Substantial

Amendments/CAPER as Adopted will be

Made Available in a Form Accessible to

Persons w/Disabilities.

Strategy C

Hold Public Meetings at Sites That Are

Accessible to Persons w/Disabilities.

CAPER Results Presented in the first of Two

Public Hearings in the Succeeding Year Following

the CAPER'S Publication.

Respond to Written Responses or

Comments Within Fifteen (15) Working

Days Where Practicle.

Strategy D

Provide a Method of Communication for

Non-English Speaking Residents and

Accomodations for Persons with

Disabilities Upon Forty-Eight (48) Hours

Prior Notice.

APPENDIX - G

PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM


PUBLIC SERVICE: Youth Services

Goals: Inputs: Activities: Outputs: Outcomes: Accessibility

Target Low-income, at-risk YouthFederal FundingClient Intake/Eligibility

Screening # of Clients Served Secure / Well Adjusted Youth

Improve Socialization skills

through athletics Qualified Applicants Applicant Approval Assistance $ Spent Improved Quality of Life

Improve Educational

Opportunities Qualified Programs Program Monitoring Better Educated

Safe / Secure Living

Environments StaffQuarterly and Year End

Reporting Enhanced Self Sufficiency / Self Worth

Grow to be Responsible Adults

APPENDIX C - CHECKLIST

5,000 Long-Term (5 Year) Goals/Objectives - Unit of Measurement: Youth 5 Year Est. Funding = $65,000

1,000 Short-Term (Current Year) Goals/Objectives

5,000 Expected Units of Accomplishments Upon Completion of Project ActivityTBD Actual Units of Accomplishment Upon Completion of Project/Activity

1,000 Expected Units of Accomplishment During Each Program Year of the Project/Activity

BELOW Actual Units of Accomplishment During Each Program Year of the Project/Activity

___% Aggregation of Actual Units of Program Year Accomplishiments to Short-Term and Long-Term Numeric Goals/Objectives____ Current Year Outputs Resulting From HUD Funding Are Shown Separately - Sole Source of Funding: CDBG Funded

_01_ One or More Proposed Outcome(s) __X_ Yes, ____ No__ If So, Which Indicator is Used? Accessibility

_01_ One or More Actual Outcome(s) __X_ Yes, ____ No 1ST YEAR GOAL 1ST YEAR ACCOMPLISHMENT

__ If So, Which Indicator is Used? Accessibility 1,000

__ Contributing Public Service Agencies: Rolling Readers, Inc.; Palm Bay Police Athletic League;

Child Care Association of Brevard, Inc.; Early Learning Coalition of Brevard County, Inc.

FY 11/12 Results FY 12/13 Results FY 13/14 Results FY 14/15 Results FY 15/16 Results

PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEMPUBLIC SERVICE: Senior ServicesGoals: Inputs: Activities: Outputs: Outcomes: AccessibilityIncrease Elderly / Frail Elderly

Assistance Federal FundingClient Intake / Eligibility

Screening # of Clients Served Adult Day Care Provided

Increase Counseling Counseling Applicant Approval Assistance $ Spent Healthcare Programs for Elderly

Increase Health Programs Support Services Program Monitoring Improved Quality of Life

Increase Socialization

Quarterly and Year End

Reporting Safe / Healthy Living Environment

Delay Institutionalizaton

Promote Individual Dignity

APPENDIX C - CHECKLIST_25_ Long-Term (5 Year) Goals/Objectives - Unit of Measurement: Persons 5 Year Est. Funding = $45,000

_0__ Short-Term (Current Year) Goals/Objectives_25_ Expected Units of Accomplishments Upon Completion of Project ActivityTBD Actual Units of Accomplishment Upon Completion of Project/Activity

__5_ Expected Units of Accomplishment During Each Program Year of the Project/ActivityBELOW Actual Units of Accomplishment During Each Program Year of the Project/Activity___% Aggregation of Actual Units of Program Year Accomplishiments to Short-Term and Long-Term Numeric Goals/Objectives_00_ Current Year Outputs Resulting From HUD Funding Are Shown Separately - Sole Source of Funding: CDBG Funded


_01_ One or More Actual Outcome(s) __X_ Yes, ____ No 1ST YEAR GOAL 1ST YEAR ACCOMPLISHMENT__ If So, Which Indicator is Used? Accessibility 10

__ Contributing Public Service Agency: Brevard Alzheimer's Foundation, Inc.FY 11/12 Results FY 12/13 Results FY 13/14 Results FY 14/15 Results FY 15/16 Results

PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEMPUBLIC SERVICE: Other Special NeedsGoals: Inputs: Activities: Outputs: Outcomes: Accessibility

Increase Assistance Federal FundingClient Intake / Eligibility

Screening # of Clients Served Special Needs Met in the Community

Increase Counseling Support Services Applicant Approval Assistance $ Spent

Increase Health Programs Program Monitoring Improved Quality of Life

Increase Socialization


Reporting Safe / Healthy Living Environment

Increase Self Worth Delay Institutionalizaton

Increase Case Management Promote Individual Dignity/Self Worth

APPENDIX C - CHECKLIST1000 Long-Term (5 Year) Goals/Objectives - Unit of Measurement: Persons 5 Year Est. Funding = $45,000

_500 Short-Term (Current Year) Goals/Objectives1000 Expected Units of Accomplishments Upon Completion of Project ActivityTBD Actual Units of Accomplishment Upon Completion of Project/Activity

_200 Expected Units of Accomplishment During Each Program Year of the Project/ActivityBELOW Actual Units of Accomplishment During Each Program Year of the Project/Activity___% Aggregation of Actual Units of Program Year Accomplishiments to Short-Term and Long-Term Numeric Goals/Objectives_00_ Current Year Outputs Resulting From HUD Funding Are Shown Separately - Sole Source of Funding: CDBG Funded


_01_ One or More Actual Outcome(s) __X_ Yes, ____ No 1ST YEAR GOAL 1ST YEAR ACCOMPLISHMENT__ If So, Which Indicator is Used? Accessibility 500

__ Contributing Public Service Agencies: Easter Seals Florida, Inc.; Greener Pastures, Inc.; Brevard Alzheimer's Foundation, Inc.FY 11/12 Results FY 12/13 Results FY 13/14 Results FY 14/15 Results FY 15/16 Results


PUBLIC SERVICE: Job Training, Job Placement Services

Goals: Inputs: Activities: Outputs: Outcomes: Sustainability

Employment Training Federal FundingClient Intake/Eligibility

Screening # of Clients Served Reduced Unemployment

Assist the Homeless Qualified Low/Mod Applicants Applicant Approval Assistance $ Spent Reduced Handicapped Dependence

Assist the Handicapped Qualified Training Programs Program Monitoring Reduced Homelessness

Job Placement Services End of Year Reporting Improved Quality of Life

Improved Self Worth


100_ Long-Term (5 Year) Goals/Objectives - Unit of Measurement: Persons 5 Year Est. Funding = $420,000

__0_ Short-Term (Current Year) Goals/Objectives

_50_ Expected Units of Accomplishments Upon Completion of Project ActivityTBD Actual Units of Accomplishment Upon Completion of Project/Activity

_20_ Expected Units of Accomplishment During Each Program Year of the Project/Activity


___% Aggregation of Actual Units of Program Year Accomplishiments to Short-Term and Long-Term Numeric Goals/Objectives 00_ Current Year Outputs Resulting From HUD Funding Are Shown Separately - Sole Source of Funding: CDBG Funded

_01_ One or More Proposed Outcome(s) __X_ Yes, ____ No__ If So, Which Indicator is Used? Sustainability


__ If So, Which Indicator is Used? Sustainability 0

__ Contributing Public Service Agencies: Easter Seals Florida, Inc.; Daily Bread of Life, Inc.; Diamond Community School, Inc.



PUBLIC SERVICE: Public Safety

Goals: Inputs: Activities: Outputs: Outcomes: SustainabilityReduce Drug Sales in

Neighborhoods Federal Funding Public Service Monitoring # of Clients Served Improved Living EnvironmentIncrease Police Presence /

Protection

Defined Low/Mod

Neighorhoods


Reporting Assistance $ Spent Improved Quality of LifeReduce Speeding in

Neighborhoods Assigned Staff Safer Neighborhoods


400_ Long-Term (5 Year) Goals/Objectives - Unit of Measurement: Persons 5 Year Est. Funding = $75,000

100_ Short-Term (Current Year) Goals/Objectives

500_ Expected Units of Accomplishments Upon Completion of Project ActivityTBD Actual Units of Accomplishment Upon Completion of Project/Activity



___% Aggregation of Actual Units of Program Year Accomplishiments to Short-Term and Long-Term Numeric Goals/Objectives_00_ Current Year Outputs Resulting From HUD Funding Are Shown Separately - Sole Source of Funding: CDBG Funded




__ Contributing Public Service Agency: Public Safety Officer



PUBLIC SERVICE: Transitional Housing

Goals: Inputs: Activities: Outputs: Outcomes: Accessibility

Target the Homeless Federal FundingClient Intake/Eligibility

Screening # of Clients Served Reduced Homelessness

Provide Assistance Programs Qualified Applicants Applicant Approval Assistance $ Spent Improved Quality of Life

Increase Transitional Housing

For Very Low-Income Persons Appropriate Properties/ProgramsProgram Monitoring Domestic Violence Shelters

Provide Financial Aid for Food /

Rental Deposits Public Service Counseling

Quarterly and End of Year

Reporting

Decent, Safe & Sanitary Transitional

Housing

Drug / Alcohol Abuse Programs


__12_ Long-Term (5 Year) Goals/Objectives - Unit of Measurement: People 5 Year Est. Funding = $14,882

__6__ Short-Term (Current Year) Goals/Objectives

__12_ Expected Units of Accomplishments Upon Completion of Project ActivityTBD Actual Units of Accomplishment Upon Completion of Project/Activity

__3_ Expected Units of Accomplishment During Each Program Year of the Project/Activity


___% Aggregation of Actual Units of Program Year Accomplishiments to Short-Term and Long-Term Numeric Goals/Objectives____ Current Year Outputs Resulting From HUD Funding Are Shown Separately - Sole Source of Funding: CDBG Funded



__ If So, Which Indicator is Used? Accessibility 6

__ Contributing Public Service Agencies: Prevent of Brevard, Inc; St. Vincent de Paul; Salvation Army


PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEMDownpayment Assistance ProgramGoals: Inputs: Activities: Outputs: Outcomes: Affordability

Increased Homeownership Federal/State Funding

Client Intake/Eligibility

Screening # of Customers Served Revitalized Neighborhoods

Preserve Housing Stock Qualified Homebuyers Education/Counseling # of Loans Processed More Homes in Code Compliance

Better Educated Homebuyer Qualified Properties Initial Inspection # of Newly Constructed Homes Vacant Land Developed

Reduced Predatory Lending Client $ Participation In-House Cost Estimate # of Homes Rehabilitated Increased Tax Base

Staff Contractor Eligibility/Selection # of Homes Foreclosed

Contractors Work Write-Ups # of Predatory Lending Complaints Improved Quality of Life

Realtors/Lenders Contractor Award Assistance $ Spent Increased Homeownership

Title Companies Housing Rehabilitation Matching Private Investment Reduced Predatory Lending

Surveyors Final Inspection

Counselors Loan Approval

Home Inspectors Closing

Appraisers Program Monitoring

Training Materials End of Year Reporting


_50_ Long-Term (5 Year) Goals/Objectives - Unit of Measurement: Households 5 Year Est. Funding = $800,000

_10_ Short-Term (Current Year) Goals/Objectives




___% Aggregation of Actual Units of Program Year Accomplishiments to Short-Term and Long-Term Numeric Goals/Objectives____ Current Year Outputs Resulting From HUD Funding Are Shown Separately - HOME/SHIP Funded

_01_ One or More Proposed Outcome(s) __X_ Yes, ____ No__ If So, Which Indicator is Used? Affordability


__ If So, Which Indicator is Used? Affordability 10


PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEMHomebuyer Education ProgramGoals: Inputs: Activities: Outputs: Outcomes: AccessibilityBetter Educated Homebuyer State Funding Education/Counseling # of Customers Served Improved Quality of Life

Reduced Predatory Lending Qualified Homebuyers End of Year Reporting # of Predatory Lending Complaints Better Educated Homebuyers

Staff Reduced Predatory Lending

Contractors

Realtors/Lenders

Title Companies

Counselors

Home Inspectors

Appraisers

Training Materials


__200 Long-Term (5 Year) Goals/Objectives - Unit of Measurement: Persons 5 Year Est. Funding = $1,500

___0_ Short-Term (Current Year) Goals/Objectives

__200 Expected Units of Accomplishments Upon Completion of Project ActivityTBD Actual Units of Accomplishment Upon Completion of Project/Activity



___% Aggregation of Actual Units of Program Year Accomplishiments to Short-Term and Long-Term Numeric Goals/Objectives__0_ Current Year Outputs Resulting From HUD Funding Are Shown Separately - HOME Funded



__ If So, Which Indicator is Used? Accessibility 0



Code Compliance Officer

Goals: Inputs: Activities: Outputs: Outcomes: SustainabilityReduce Overgrown Lots, Yards

and Roadsides Federal Funding Monitoring # of Clients Served Improved Living EnvironmentReduce Abandoned Cars and

Junk in Yards

Defined Low/Mod

Neighorhoods/Areas


Reporting Assistance $ Spent Improved Quality of LifeReduce Litter and Junk on

Vacant Lots and Roadsides Assigned Staff Improved Neighborhoods

Remove Abandoned and

Dilapidated Homes Existing Housing Stock Preserved


_400_ Long-Term (5 Year) Goals/Objectives - Unit of Measurement: Persons 5 Year Est. Funding = $75,000





___% Aggregation of Actual Units of Program Year Accomplishiments to Short-Term and Long-Term Numeric Goals/Objectives_00_ Current Year Outputs Resulting From HUD Funding Are Shown Separately - Sole Source of Funding: CDBG Funded




__ Contributing Agency: Code Compliance Officer



Housing Rehabilitation Program

Goals: Inputs: Activities: Outputs: Outcomes: Sustainability

Increase Home Values Qualified Homeowners


Screening # of Homes Rehabilitated Improved Housing Stock

Reduce Code Violations Qualified Homes Initial Inspection # of Liens Improved Older Homes

Preserve Housing Stock Staff In-House Cost Estimate # of Cases Completed Code Compliance

Better Educated Homebuyers Counselors Contractor Eligibility/Selection # of Homeowners in Classes Increased Tax Base

Contractors Final Work Write-Up Assistance $ Spent

Home Inspectors Bid Process Owner Participation $ Improved Quality of Life

Appraisers Contractor Award Better Educated Homeowner

Training Materials Contract Signing/Lien New Pride in Homeowners

Coded Enforcement Work Commences Increased Living Standard

Federal/State Funding Progress Inspections

Final Inspection

Contractor(s) Paid

Homeowner Maintenance Class

Work Complete

Case Closed

Program Monitoring

End of Year Reporting


_20_ Long-Term (5 Year) Goals/Objectives - Unit of Measurement: Housing Units 5 Year Est. Funding = $200,000





___% Aggregation of Actual Units of Program Year Accomplishiments to Short-Term and Long-Term Numeric Goals/Objectives__0_ Current Year Outputs Resulting From HUD Funding Are Shown Separately - CDBG Funded






Rental Occupancy Assistance Program

Goals: Inputs: Activities: Outputs: Outcomes: Affordability

Reduced Homelessness State FundingClient Intake/Eligibility

Screening # of Clients Served Reduced Homelessness

Improved Quality of Life Qualified Renters Eligible Deposits Assistance $ Spent Improved Quality of Life

Increased Rental Occupancy

For Very Low-Income Persons Qualified Properties Applicant ApprovalIncreased Rental Occupancy For Very

Low-Income PersonsDecent, Safe & Sanitary Rental

Housing Landlord Participation Program Monitoring Decent, Safe & Sanitary Rental Housing

Staff End of Year ReportingSouth Brevard Sharing

Center


__50_ Long-Term (5 Year) Goals/Objectives - Unit of Measurement: Households 5 Year Est. Funding = $50,000

__50_ Short-Term (Current Year) Goals/Objectives

__50_ Expected Units of Accomplishments Upon Completion of Project ActivityTBD Actual Units of Accomplishment Upon Completion of Project/Activity



___% Aggregation of Actual Units of Program Year Accomplishiments to Short-Term and Long-Term Numeric Goals/Objectives_00_ Current Year Outputs Resulting From HUD Funding Are Shown Separately - Sole Source of Funding: HOME Funding





PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEMUtility Hook-Up Assistance ProgramGoals: Inputs: Activities: Outputs: Outcomes: AccessibilityIncreased City Water/ Sewer

Connections State Funding Client Intake/Eligibility Screening # of Customers Served Expanded Infrastructure

Improved Quality of Life Qualified Homeowners Initial Inspection # of Loans Processed City Water/Sewer Availability

Improved Environment Qualified Properties Contractor Eligibility/Selection Utility Revenues Improved Roads

Increased Utility Revenues Staff Bid Process Assistance $ Spent Added Bond Revenues For Expansion

Plumbing Contractors Final Work Write-Up

Inspectors In-House Cost Estimate Improved Environment

Contractor Award Better Drinking Water

Plumbing Connections Reduced Pollution

Final Inspection Healthier Waterways for Humans

Loan Approval Healthier Marine Life

Closing

Program Monitoring


APPENDIX C - CHECKLIST_10_ Long-Term (5 Year) Goals/Objectives - Unit of Measurement: HOUSEHOLDS 5 Year Est. Funding = $100,000

_00_ Short-Term (Current Year) Goals/Objectives_10_ Expected Units of Accomplishments Upon Completion of Project ActivityTBD Actual Units of Accomplishment Upon Completion of Project/Activity

__2_ Expected Units of Accomplishment During Each Program Year of the Project/ActivityBELOW Actual Units of Accomplishment During Each Program Year of the Project/Activity___% Aggregation of Actual Units of Program YearAccomplishiments to Short-Term and Long-Term Numeric Goals/Objectives_00_ Current Year Outputs Resulting From HUD Funding Are Shown Separately - Sole Source of Funding: UNFUNDED SHIP

_01_ One or More Proposed Outcome(s) __X_ Yes, ____ No___ If So, Which Indicator is Used? Accessibility

_01_ One or More Actual Outcome(s) __X_ Yes, ____ No 1ST YEAR GOAL 1ST YEAR ACCOMPLISHMENT___ If So, Which Indicator is Used? Accessibility 0


PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEMEconomic Development Grant ProgramGoals: Inputs: Activities: Outputs: Outcomes: SustainabilityCreate/Retain Low/Mod

Income Jobs Federal Funding


Screening

# of Customers Served/

Counseled Quality Small Business Expansion

Create New In-Line

Businesses

Qualified Low-Income

Entrepreneurs Client Eligibility

# of Newly Opened

Businesses

Increased Better Educated/Quality Small

Businesses

Expand Existing Small

Businesses Qualified Business Locations Education/Counseling

# of Low/Mod Income Jobs

Created/Retained Expanded Quality Small Businesses

Better Educated Business

Owners Staff Business Plan Review # of Loans Processed Increased/Retained Low/Mod Employed

SCORE Counselors Marketing Plan Review Assistance $ Spent Increased Tax Base

Training Materials/Handouts Cash Flow Review Owners' $ Investment

Loan Approval Improved Quality of Life

Loan Closing Better Educated Business Entreprenaurs

Client Monitoring Increased Low/Mod Business Owners

Program Monitoring


APPENDIX C - CHECKLIST_25_ Long-Term (5 Year) Goals/Objectives - Unit of Measurement: Jobs 5 Year Est. Funding = $500,000

_05_ Short-Term (Current Year) Goals/Objectives_25_ Expected Units of Accomplishments Upon Completion of Project ActivityTBD Actual Units of Accomplishment Upon Completion of Project/Activity

_05_ Expected Units of Accomplishment During Each Program Year of the Project/ActivityBELOW Actual Units of Accomplishment During Each Program Year of the Project/Activity___% Aggregation of Actual Units of Program YearAccomplishiments to Short-Term and Long-Term Numeric Goals/Objectives_00_ Current Year Outputs Resulting From HUD Funding Are Shown Separately - CDBG Funded

_01_ One or More Proposed Outcome(s) __X_ Yes, ____ No___ If So, Which Indicator is Used? Sustainability

_01_ One or More Actual Outcome(s) __X_ Yes, ____ No 1ST YEAR GOAL 1ST YEAR ACCOMPLISHMENT__ If So, Which Indicator is Used? Sustainability 5


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