Speaker 1: 553, which is under final. Final. Okay. Madam Secretary, do you have all that? All right, let's start with Council Bill 601. Councilor, now, what would you like to do with this question? All right, Councilman Espinosa. Comment question. Just a question. Okay, great. Councilman. No, go ahead.
Speaker 4: Is Amy Webb or he's already here?
Speaker 1: Anyone from OED. Oh, great, Susan.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Susan. Basically the same question about 601, two and three. And just looking at the funding, you know, this is $6.5 million block grant funding. You know, this, I guess, for just January, I guess, is this fiscal year here, January through December there, right?
Speaker 3: That's correct.
Speaker 4: Okay. And just wanted to get an understanding of how much block grant funding we had last year compared to what they gave us this year.
Speaker 10: I have that.
Speaker 3: Wonderful.
Speaker 10: The block grant money is down about 2% year over year. It's more helpful, though, I think, to give you a little bit of context. I brought the numbers that span 2010 to 2016, and that's where I think you.
Speaker 3: Really see.
Speaker 10: The more disturbing trend from 2010 to 2016. CDBG went down from 9.6 million to 6.6. So we're about two thirds where we were in 2010.
Speaker 4: What about home and state housing?
Speaker 10: Hopper is stable. 1.6 million. It was the same last year. The whole money this year is up about 6%. But of course, that's a single digit again. Home from 2010 to 2016 has been cut by about half. Yeah, 4.4 million in 2010. 2.3 million today.
Speaker 4: All right. Thank you, Susan. This just shows, you know, housing is one of the greatest needs we have here in the city. And I'm so glad that the city is stepping forward to create this permanent fund for affordable housing. And and I think the federal government can step up to the plate a lot more than is doing now to help cities like Denver. So thank you for sharing that information.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Susan. Once you stay up here. Thank you, Councilman. New Councilman Espinosa.
Speaker 3: Yeah. And I'm the same way.
Speaker 1: And are you the same way on six, six, oh, one, two and three.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Okay. So but I'm just going to request because I don't think you have it. You, you just mentioned what you did. Can I get all funds, whether they even go back this far or not for the last? Could you just forward to my office the last 12 years of these federal block grants and in funds.
Speaker 10: Yes, I can. Yeah. Thank you. Not sure how soon. That's not at my fingertips, but we'll work on it.
Speaker 3: Ideally, yeah. Before we get into the meat of the which. So it's two weeks of the affordable housing discussion because like Councilman knew these funds go to affordable housing and basically many of the programs that are funded by these federal monies are going to be part of what the Affordable Housing Permanent Affordable Housing Fund would basically supplement or replace if these were ever to go away. So I'm curious to see how these numbers play out over time. Right.
Speaker 10: Care home funds are specifically dedicated to housing, whereas CDBG.
Speaker 3: Of course, goes.
Speaker 10: To a number of neighborhood projects. And CDBG cannot be used for the construction of new.
Speaker 3: Housing, but they can go to the the down payment assistance and other things, can't they?
Speaker 10: I believe they can. It's also rehabilitation of existing properties, but I think maybe it would be helpful in the information we're gathering for you to include some of those parameters as well because they vary fund to fund.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that would be great. Actually, at the last affordable housing meeting committee, we mean a committee meeting. We had a breakdown of the how the 15 million would be spent. Be curious to see how these funds have been used in those allocations for the last 12 since essentially the inception of the I. Thank you. You bet. Thank you.
Speaker 4: You say that all those two. Can you say that same information?
Speaker 1: Of course. Okay. So we it looks like we have six. So one taking care of. I want you to stay up there because 602 and 603 are taking care of four. Espinosa knew, but Ortega had a question.
Speaker 0: I don't know what question I need them called out for a vote for the purpose of abstaining. I'm on the board of a nonprofit group that receives dollars from both of these pots of money. And so I'm going to abstain from the vote.
A resolution approving and providing for the execution of proposed grant agreements between the City and County of Denver and the United States of America concerning the "Community Development Block Grant FY16” program and the funding therefor.
Approves a performance grant agreement with the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fiscal Year 2016 allocations for Community Development Block Grant program (201629649).  The last regularly scheduled Council meeting within the 30-day review period is on 9-19-16. The Committee approved filing this resolution by consent on 8-11-16.