regulation. The thing. 38 on can get to him about that. Secondly. Good evening. Like to call to order a meeting of the Metropolitan Economic Development Committee. And I would like my fellow councilors starting at my far left to introduce themselves. Thank you. MISTER Chair Nic Robertson, strict for thank you, MR. Cherry and Illini District 2. Thank you, MR. Chair Jesse Brown District 13. Thank you, MR. Chair Brian Mowery District. 25. Thank you, MR. Cerraron Gibson District 8. Thank you. CHAIRMAN Andy Nelson District
14. Thank you, MR. Chair John representing District 7. Thank you, MR. Chair Kristin Jones District 18. Thank you, CHAIRMAN. Mostly councilor Jared Evans representing District 17. Thank you, MR. CHAIRMAN Leroy Robinson represent District One. Thank you, MR. CHAIRMAN Maggie Thank you. Of a post lane first item on our agenda is proposing number. 36, which appoints Linda Osborne to the Greater Virginia Avenue corridor, economic improvement board. She went to this evening. And see her present. I do believe this is a and appointment or reappointment. All right. What is a pleasure of this committee? Thank you, MISTER Chair, I think supplement MAY reschedule next scheduled hearing possible. Very good.
Consent. We will reschedule proposal number. 36 to next month's. Nbc meeting. Proposal. Number 37 2026 points. Rory to Woodruff Place. Economic Improvement Board. MR. Bevan. We'd like to hear from you and tell us your thoughts and why you'd like to serve. So my name is So I've been living in which your place for little over 10 years now very involved in the neighborhood and helped with the neighborhood's infrastructure. The fountains, the street lights and I would like to be on the forward to kind of continue the evolution of just kind of supporting my neighborhood kind taking care of. We're live from my Grown continue to grow each day. So Thank you. Are there questions or comments from members of the committee? Was a chair. Just want to say thank you, MR. Bad for stepping up and
being willing to serve. Any additional comments. Is there a motion? All those in favor? Any opposed? All right. Well, MR. Abbott sounds like looks like we will moving you forward to the full council with best recommendation. Thank you for your willingness to Thank you. Thank This next item on our agenda proposal. Number, 38, which approves the amounts locations and programmatic operation of certain projects to be funded from community development. Grant funds. Who's here to speak on that. I am level and the administrator of community investments with the department, a metropolitan development. I am currently working to get the presentation pulled up on the
screens. If it's not working, I believe you all have print outs of the presentation that you can follow along. That makes things a little bit easier for you. We Perfect. Thank you very much. All right. I appreciate all your patience this evening. As we dealt with some technological. So my name is Beth number, like I said, and I'm the administrator of community investments with the Department of Metropolitan Development. I'm joined tonight by a few members of my team who managed the grant programs that will be discussing Tonight Council proposal. 38 is seeking approval of the amounts locations and use a communi about grant funds. So before we get into the specifics of
council proposal, 38 and the annual action plan. I wanted to take a step back and give you all some context for what my team does. We are responsible for the management and oversight of numerous programs related to affordable housing community development and homelessness. This includes the grant funding. That's part of council proposal. 38 as well as the of care. Grant the local housing trust fund the payment of taxes program. New market tax credits section 108, and some covid specific resources as well. The grant programs that are focused on tonight are the Home Investment Partnership program. The Community Development Block Grant Program, Emergency Solutions, Grant and the housing opportunities for Persons with aids program. The amounts for these programs is determined by the federal budget and a formula defined by hud. It's
important to keep in mind that these grant programs come with a variety of complex federal regulations and they must be carried out on a reimbursement basis. So unlike traditional storm topic, grant resources which can be provided on the front end of a project, our partners must in current expense and submit to our team for review in reimbursement. And then I also want to note with the exception of Hopwa which will get into the details in a few slides. These programs are open to organizations and neighborhoods throughout our community. We cannot fund projects located in Speedway, Beech Grove, Lawrence and Southport. But otherwise, any geography with an Indianapolis is eligible. The proposal before you tonight includes those 4 programs which are just a few pieces within the affordable housing spectrum. There are a variety of other programs and funding sources
related to affordable housing, some of which are managed by d-Md. But others are external. Their projects happening throughout the city. They're incentivized through the payment of taxes program. They MAY be arpa funded are welcome housing tax credit funded. But those are not included in the proposal before you tonight. So again, tonight, we're just discussing home cdbg Esg and Hopwa. So as a quick overview of some of those federal grants, the home program can be used for the creation and rehabilitation of affordable rental and homeownership opportunities. It can be used for down payment assistance and tenant base rental assistance. And we received about 4 million dollars annually and home through this program are able to fund affordable rental projects
like Parks night at talking to him, permanent supportive housing projects for people expect exit in homelessness like Hannah Commons and affordable homeownership opportunities to our community-based partners. The cdbg program is our most flexible funding source. And he's focused on benefiting low-income households and low-income neighborhoods. We primarily use it for affordable rental and homeownership opportunities. But it's also used for homeowner a pair public facilities like community centers, demolition and unsafe structures, economic development and job training for use and high barrier adults. Typically receive about 9 million dollars annually in cdbg funding and were able to fund projects
like the Canal tow path Extension. Food access projects likes Cleo's Bodega, historic rehabilitation projects like Tinker Flats affordable housing opportunities. Again to our community-based partners. So home and Cdbg are more focused on development and construction. Yes, gm hapa are more focused on providing high quality services to our most vulnerable residents. The esg program can be used to assist households were experiencing or at risk of homelessness. These funds are primarily used for emergency shelter operations, rapid rehousing street outreach and homelessness prevention. This is one of our smaller grants and we only received about $800,000 annually in esg from hud. And these grants work within the broader homelessness response system within our community. And then finally the hopwa program. It
is unique within our portfolio. The other grants only serve households and projects within the city limits of Indianapolis. But Hopwa statutorily actually has a service area that includes the surrounding counties. Mike Boone, Brown, Hamilton, Hancock, Hendricks, Johnson, Madison, Morgan Putnam and Shelby counties. And this is a unique funding source that can be used for rental assistance, mortgage assistance and housing stability services for individuals and households who are impacted by hiv or aids diagnosis. And we typically receive about a little bit over 2 million dollars annually in Hapa. So when we say affordable housing for our programs, this refers to households were at or below 80% of the area. Median income. So currently for a
household of one, someone has to make a low $62,000 to qualify for programs and a family of 4 would need to make less than $88,550. And so there's kind of 2 components to affordable housing. The folks who access the services and then the rent limits that are set by hud. So it is both income-qualified households and the rent. It's that are affordable to those households. And requires that we go through a number of different processes in order to be eligible to even receive these funds as a city. The first concept to be aware of is our five-year consolidated plan as the name implies we're required to complete this every 5 years. And it involves community engagement to determine our funding priorities. So we brought this last year for approval and it
will last through 2029. The second concept is our annual action plan. So this serves as that annual update to the five-year consolidated plan and includes the projects that will help us work towards those goals identified in the consolidated plan and the 2026 annual action plan is what's before you tonight? Finally, in order to develop this annual action plan, we host a number of competitive funding application rounds. And these include both internal and external non conflicted review committee members to come to those funding decisions. And true those competitive process is the projects are selected. And so we host an application each year in the late summer and early fall. I do want to
highlight a few of our accomplishments from our programs. So the state is actually from our 2024 program year are hud program years a little bit different from the city's fiscal year. So are hud program year runs from APRIL. First until MARCH 31st of each year. So we're actually technically still in our 2025 program here today. So the state is from our 2024 program year. And in that program year, we engaged over 700 adults and 359 youth and job training services we created. 43 new affordable homeownership opportunities. We developed a rehab 195 affordable rental units and 62 of those were permanent supportive housing units for household exiting homelessness. We also provided 463 low-income households with an hiv or aids diagnosis with
rental assistance. We provided 370 households. Homelessness prevention services, which helps them avoid entering the homelessness system entirely. We engaged 409 neighbors experiencing homelessness through street outreach and provided 581 people with overnight shelter. This is not all encompassing but wanted to give you a sense of the work that we do and the skill with which our partners are able to carry out this work. I also wanted to highlight some of our recent success of the city's Essential Home repair program. Our team completed repairs on 50 homes in 2025, including 29 emergency repairs. The dots green on the map completed projects while the dots and gray are currently in progress. And the average cost of these repairs
is about $14,500. I want to point out that our program is focused really on making comprehensive investments to help stabilize a unit over the long term. We also focus on addressing health hazards like radon and lead based paint. So you can really think of our program not only is helping individual homeowners, but also making investments into the long-term viability of the housing stock within our city. Another major accomplishment of 2025 was that we brought on a new team to help build our capacity. 2 responding to lead based paint hazards. That team will be preparing to apply for a large lead hazard reduction grant from hud, which will bring new resources to our community to help remove lead based paint from homes in our community. And we're really excited that late last year.
You all allocated and additional 2 million dollars to this program last year. We way we were able to scale up and in 2025 like I said, we completed 50 repairs on 50 homes and that includes multiple repairs within individual units. Right now we have more than doubled its number of units in our pipeline and are excited to reach even more households in 2026 than we did in 2025. So we want to thank the council for additional funding to add to the program which allows us to expand. But we're doing respond quickly in emergency situations. Finally, I also want to highlight some of the work that our grant teams have done over the last year in 2025. Our team really focused on streamlining processes and reducing barriers for new organizations interested in applying for these funds. We revised our application process and introduced a
simpler letter of intent or lly process she interested. Groups could send us their project ideas in advance and we can use that information to determine eligibility on the front and so that these groups not have to spend a bunch of time putting together an application which can be pretty robust. We also created an online application instead of historically having email submissions, we extended the application window for applicants and lined up our timelines to have share due dates. Our team hosted in-person trainings and an application information session. And we also hosted quarterly projects months around tables. And we regularly meet with prospective applicants outside of application cycles to provide technical assistance
and talk through different grant requirements. So thanks to these updates. We saw an increase in the number of interested organizations for context in 2024. We received 33 applications for home and cdbg funding in 2025. We received wise for to funding. So we know that there is a need for affordable housing throughout our city. And we're looking at our processes to see how we can reduce as many barriers as possible. So that application process is what led us to the recommendations before you tonight in the 2026 action plan. For the home and cdbg development of affordable housing application. We set our priorities based on both neighborhood factors as well as project specific factors. So neighborhood factors included things like proximity
to transit or multi-modal transportation like trails greenways and bike lanes. We also prioritize locations without existing affordable housing and then also proximity to neighborhood amenities like schools, health care and grocery stores. On the project. Specific sector side of things we really prioritize permanent supportive housing for household exiting homelessness as well as projects that have more units available for lower-income households and a variety of bedroom counts. So we're especially interested in Threeand four-bedroom units for families. This slide provides a summary of the proposed 2026 action plan. Budget in Twenty-twenty 6 were planning on allocating approximately 21 million dollars as we've done in prior years. This includes rollover from past year as well as our expected 2026. Award amounts from hud. This is based on
anticipated award amounts. We actually as a reminder, we do not know the actual amounts that we will receive from hud issues that Grant award. But we must move forward with our planning process in order to be eligible to receive these funds each year. So as you can see, the vast majority of funding is going towards affordable rental and homeownership opportunities. And this is a little bit more of a visual representation on the slide. So the dark blue on the right is the amount of funding going towards affordable housing initiatives at 49%, 6% is going towards homelessness services. And I want to note that this is separate from the largest source homelessness assistance funding that we receive. That's the continuum of care grant the funding source before you tonight is complementary to that funding source, which is a separate
15 million dollar pool. 14% of our funding is planned for essential home repair 11% is planned for housing opportunities for persons with aids, about 4% for job training and youth employment. About one percent for demolition and brownfield remediation. About 4% plan for a section on a late payment on prior year. Infrastructure work. 10% plan for city admin and about one percent plan for nonprofit operating costs outside of the program delivery that's already included in those contracts. On this map, you can see the distribution of all of our projects since 2016. The star's on there. It's kind of hard for folks in the audience to see, but apps are a little bit bigger. But the stars include the projects that are for the 2026 action plan. The red Dots are all of the
project since 2016. And I also want to note that this does not include certain programs that are available county wide like a home repair program, affordable mortgage products down payment assistance, job training, youth employment. All of those are available county wide. And this map also does not include yes, you're hopping out. This is just those development grants. So in order to meet the federal requirements for the 2026 action plan and receive these funds from Hood, we released a draft of our action plan for public comment on JANUARY. 15th. That public comment period will end on FEBRUARY. 12th and then we will submit to hud for final approval as soon as we're allowed. So it has to wait until those award amounts from hud are finalized and then we can submit so we will be opening up our application around for 2027 funding the summer. So any organizations that are
interested in applying can keep an eye out for that Lly sometime probably in JULY. So with that, I would like to thank you all for your time this evening. You can use a qr code that will link to our website. We can learn more about our grant programs and sign up for email announcements. And with that, I'm happy to answer any questions from the committee. Thank you very much for your presentation. Comments or questions from counselors. Thank you, MR. Just quick question. So previous years at after this slide. We would get a summary of proposed activity. So you have the big buckets, but it was more of a spreadsheet was like the specific projects. Is that available Yes, yeah. That should be an attachment a on
the council proposal. But if that was included or something along those lines, I can absolutely on that and circulate that around think person. Thank you, MR. Thank you, MR. CHAIRMAN and thank you for your presentation. Counter Cahill, someone ask my question. But then also just in comparison, how does the hopwa dollars compared to last year? Is that decrease? Just curious. So we generally budget pretty conservatively and assume that we will receive a decrease each year and all of our grants historically was actually in the grant that has increased over time when the other grant programs decrease. So it is a program that is well supported by Hood and as definitely one that we anticipate. Like I said, we budget for conservatively. And then if we have additional resources, we allocate to those partners.
Thank Councilor Thank you, MR. Chair I don't know if you have a list of the funding sources for each one of these grants that you're doing what state fund federal fund, local tax are said to be really interested to know. You know, the original of the money and how power, how it's coming into the city. Yes. Are you asking for each of the individual projects kind of the other funding sources that bring those projects to life? Sure. I just know some of its federal interested in like the flow of money, like how much is coming in from the federal government for these programs for much is coming in from the state in and essentially like where it's going. So thank you. Yeah, yeah. So we as part of our underwriting process during application phase, our
team looks into all of the different funding going into these construction projects as well as the social service projects to see make sure that this project can actually get to the finish line that it has enough resources going towards. It will also not over over subsidizing projects either. So as part of our underwriting process. And so we can definitely provide that information for each specific project. What other funds or leverage one of their funds are matched when it comes to dollars. Council gets nothing cuter. Thank you, MR. CHAIRMAN, my question was long lines of COUNCILWOMAN Delaney. What was going on in Washington? I guess how of certain that are. We on the the funding from from Washington. I know like any was housing authority they
make. They taken a major hit from from from what's going Washington. So how confident that we get the kind of funny. They get from Yeah, we actually got really good news last week. So it looks like all of these programs will at minimum remain the same federally next year. So we feel really good about these federal entitlement grants and then we also apply for the coc program. And so that application has been submitted. And we're waiting to hear on that program as well. So at this point in time, it looks like things are going to be business as usual come 2026. The federal level for these grants specifically as encouraging one other question, MR. CHAIRMAN. Well, look at the budget line item for demolition brownfields that demolition or Brown feels about They have to be including the process for the
demolition. It could be demolition or brownfield remediation. And so those kind of come up at an ad hoc basis where if there is a need that arises during our 2026 program year, this pool of funds gives us the opportunity to move quickly as opposed to having to go through full amendment process, which can take many, many months to get hud's approval. If that makes sense. And it could that demolition before. A potential development for affordable housing. Yes, yes. So that could be a pre-development costs for an affordable housing project. Absolutely. And what is the competitive process for that for the demolition? So we have a small pool set aside for dmd in case there is a specific community need otherwise it could apply
through art JULY application around. So if there's a community-based group that has a long-standing blighted property within the community that could apply to that process for funding in 2027. Thank a council Nielsen. Thank you, MR. Thank you for being here. I the question on the homeowner repair program. On slide 12, city complete repairs at 50 homes. You know about how many people that was I don't have that can, but I can to think at that date. I think you And as as a follow-up, a no-win so and spring fiscal. We provided the 2 million dollars for the program. And I know one of the pieces of concern, I think on our and was that and obviously please correct me wrong. Is that the federal program requires that a lien be placed on. The household that's receiving the services. So and part of the reason of
providing some, you know, clean, flexible local dollars was to obviously expand the program. But to get kind of around that that that that requirement. So how has his apartment put this to extra 2 Million? I know in your budget was at like 2.8 So I guess how much of the 2.8 is roll over of the 2 million that we appropriated and then. How are those 2 million dollars being used kind of given those concerns? Yes, and there are a couple different points to that. First thing I do want to clarify is that Dmd is carrying out the program consistently between local dollars and cdbg dollars. So if you're a homeowner, you go through the same application process. You go through the same income qualification process to make sure that homeowners are qualified and that Europe today on our
property taxes. And part of that, too, is that to protect the city's investment in the unit. We do place that 30 year forgivable mortgage on the property. So that if the city is making this investment of $15,000 the very next year, you're not going to sell your house and make a profit on that. It is based on the net sales proceeds. So somebody is not making a profit on the sale of their home that is for given. So we are really only recouping if somebody is making a profit on the sale of their home and selling within that 30 year period. And that is one way that we can recycle these dollars whether bcbg or local dollars for long-term sustainability recognizing that pass point that federally Cdbg has been declining over many decades. And so we just want make sure that this is a resource available to Long term. That was one point I wanted to clarify was that we
do have that same process regardless of if you receive cdbg or if you receive local dollars, you get the same program and you get the same experience going through. That being said, the local dollar do give us a lot more flexibility to respond to emergency repairs. Quickly hud requires that we go through an environmental review process to make sure that we are impacting wetlands that we are impacting any endangered species and that can take up to 90 days to get hud's approval for an emergency repair. And we know that in the wintertime, if it takes 90 days, that is not going help. You Furness when it is this cold out and so the local dollars, let us respond within days to fix that Furness as
opposed to months dollars. So we've really been prioritizing it so that dollars are for those lead based paint repairs that can be pretty large and comprehensive as well as more of the kind of standard repairs if that makes sense. So we have we are trying to treat all clients within our pipeline so that they have the same experience going through the process of the Thank you, CHAIRMAN. So is the 30 year for give them a mortgage on all program, all products that are provided in the plan. The 30 year fixed up a couple to all homeowner appear projects. And that was the other piece just on a repair projects. Not other. Okay, because I mean, the concern is that. And tell you this, but for families that you're serving through this program, if they don't
receive this repair, they're probably going to lose their home and their home is their only source of being able to pass down any kind of wealth to the right. I mean, their air. So I just I I and I recognize the position that the city is in on this. But it seems a little targeted that for, for, again, for households who really have no other option and they're utilizing this program. Mean, you're talking about. 80% below and my for these programs. I China struggling with that that we would choose to collect on someone who would be in that situation. And so I I really don't think that's the intent of the 2 million dollars candidly that we gave the department because we work specifically concerned about this exact
piece. And so I'm really worried about that because I think that's kind of an authentic ul to what we were trying to accomplish. So, no, I don't response you have there, but that's it's a little concerning yeah. And I think that has been a. It has been an ongoing conversation, community partners as well as policy makers for many, many years on how to structure this central program. I think it gives any sort of peace of mind. We only would collect if somebody sells their home and they sell their home for profit. It's something that could be assumed by an air. So if they are saying in that house, we are not collecting on that mortgage. And so I think that's an important piece to keep in mind as well
as that. This is not something that we are proactively going after. It is not structured like a traditional mortgage where their monthly payments is deferred 0% interest only upon the transfer of the property. And so at the point with which the repair is made, the home's assessed. Okay, How are you? How are you calculating the game? Then? So it would be based on what they owe on their first mortgage. Their first mortgage lender. Okay. And then anything that would be left over or not. That would be the next sale proceeds. So it would be based on how much is owed to that first mortgage lender, minus anybody else who's in line in front of us? We are almost always and very, very last position when it came comes that mortgage product. And at that point, there are no
proceeds and it's completely forgive him. So if individual or family owns the House outright, that means if they that the House was sold at any point in time in 30 year period, proceeds to be recoverable. I think you see there. That's where the problem that's I just again, we're not offering that if we provide an individual with affordable housing unit, but we are on kind of the deepest level of need in our housing spectrum. And we know that keeping individuals in the home that they're in is the most. Sure fire. Sure way that we can keep the unit affordable. So it. I just think this is going to be need for further conversation on this because I just don't think that this meets the mandate of what we did in the spring festival. Colleagues, I encourage us to just to get back to work on this little best. Thank you, MR. CHAIRMAN.
CHAIRMAN Birth. CHAIRMAN. Just a quick question on the recent accomplishments. Twin, the 24 program here, looking at the adults and youth engaged in job training services. Do we have the next step beyond that being engaged job? Training services is one step getting employment after that. Do we know if they have employment and then maintain and after that? Yeah, we can get that data. Absolutely for I'm a senior and most touching the adult as opposed to the youth. Okay. Yeah. We can actually get that on my partner on that as employee Indy and they often serve the highest carrier clients. They have other funding sources. They pay for services provided to folks who register for Selective Service and Cdbg is really flexible and that can serve folks any of any level so we can actually get the job retention data as well as well
as the training. And do have. I think someone else has my original question. But just to piggyback off a counselor Nelson. So I I know these grants are extremely important, but also I think it's equally important to understand like a lot of work went into trapped in his language, ensuring that the dollars were spent in a certain manner. So just curious, if this did not pass this evening, what would that do to your timeline again, not wanting to hurt any of those agencies must specifically like I know the folks in that are receiving funding for the hopwa dollars like they've already been hit extremely hard with what's happening at the federal level. So just curious again, what would happen if we did not pass this
out of committee this evening? So I do want to clarify the local dollars a completely separate from this. So this would just be allocating additional cdbg dollars to the program. I do want to clarify to anything related to health is a grant. So anything lead based paint anything radon related. All of that is free to homeowners who participated. Leave him out. Thank Share councils and got me thinking when he's on a question. My question for you is these repairs that year providing to folks and then they're saying a 30 year, we're in on this. I mean, is repairs are actually a 30 year life on their parent mean I'm thinking roof doesn't have a 30 year. The 30 year lifespan water here. Certainly doesn't. Air conditioning. Doesn't what actually actually have a 30
year life for. Yeah. I mean, I think it's really very specific to the individual repairs. A lot of the work we do is also stabilizing a foundation. If we are removing lead from a house that is a permanent fix as well great on mitigation systems. Those require ongoing maintenance, but that is a more permanent fix. To your point, I think that this is one when the city is making an investment into a unit making sure that. Those households are not then turning around and flipping the property, I think is to make sure that we are not unintentionally incentivizing neighborhood change in a similar way. So we want to be sure that we're investing in the long-term stability of these neighborhoods as well. Yeah, I can appreciate that night. I have some similar concerned. Council Nelson is
that. The 30 year seems a bit much for some of these items we might be on foundation are paired would pay. I get that. That's obviously going to be some. He's going to be long-term well over 30 years. However, some of these items I feel like you for doing roof or water heater, acl, whatever MAY be it. That's that's not a 30 year life. And on the product in. They're going actually replacing it a second time, 30 years that there. On the on you, too. So just year or council deals in us, something we look at it. I don't I don't disagree with their needs to be some sort of, you know, agreement. They're gonna not just her own flat that because we're not trying to incentivize somebody is coming in flipping homes and getting the city to pay for it. But county has about the points thank you for your answer. Thank you. The council grant. There was District. 13 and it's rare that district
$0.13 say. Thank you. I did want to it is late in the year 2024. That Purdue Polytechnic High School would actually where there was a federal convening different agencies. And at that convening, they mentioned that apples was the largest municipality in the country that did not yet have the lead hazard reduction capacity-building grants and at that point, you know, as much as the federal government can ever do this, they're basically like we promise you'll get a ton of free money. Why do you do this? But 2 cars to get to point. I know things have changed. The federal government. Do we have a pretty strong feeling that we're going to get substantial amounts of money? Thanks to you're setting up that team. Yes. So that is a really helpful insight. I have not actually been able to attend that. Some to that. So we applied for the lead hazard
reduction capacity building Grant hud released. This is a new program in the last couple of years recognizing the complexity that comes along with a lead hazard reduction grant. So we have that grant now and we have a three-year period to kind of build our capacity bill, the systems, the standard operating procedures in the team to then be able to apply for that grant. At this point, we feel pretty confident that that office is going to be around and that this is going to be a bipartisan support, a program given that it impacts rural urban, everybody has lead based paint within the communities. And so I think that team is actively working to get the program set up and we're feeling good about our competitiveness in the future. All right. Thank you very much. Just a final point. And preface this by saying fighting off a head cold and
so maybe just missing something. But I actually wanted to speak in favor of the forgivable 30 year mortgage because I think that the only way we can actually achieve truly long term affordable housing is by commodified housing and I've seen all over the place in district 13 people who received, you know, grants home grants, et cetera, to create new affordable housing. Not not because there are predators who just like in mustache planning evil, but just when you have an incentive like that, I could make $100,000 selling my house and just moving someplace and times are hard right now. Going to take you up on that. And now all of that federal money want to know what is a market rate house until the
end of time. And so we've just, you know, I mean, if we want to give $100,000 to random constituents, sure, I guess that's a cool program. But it doesn't seem to actually achieve the goal of affordable housing. I know about my house in 2008, thanks to a 15 it was unforgettable, but it was just 0% interest, 10% mortgage. So I was 22 years old. And but thousands still live in today. Change my wife, despite the fact that I had to pay that money back because, you know, understand some of these repairs won't last forever. But if I'm a homeowner today and I need a new hvac system. 10 years from now, I didn't need that hvac system for 10 years and it still costs what it costs. And so. But to me, it makes perfect sense. And I do support it so. Thank you.
Additional comments, council CHAIRMAN. I appreciate dialogue on this issue. I leader Mowery that kind of got a little bit better than I did with. Lining up useful life of repair to maybe the forgivable apart. I point that college, you know, is there other providers who do this and do not require lean as a recipient in order to receive these funds and are not seeing these homes continuously flips. I'm sensitive to what counselor Brown has said, but just wanted to be sure to emphasize that there are other providers that go even deeper to lower level of am I that do not have this lean component to it. And so I do appreciate the leaders. I think time getting my position a little bit tighter, which is being able to at least at the bare minimum line up the useful
life of repair. Having been someone has gone out and worked on some of these repairs like oftentimes it is. Towing on extra set of pain or is paring some boards and doing some of those other things that I don't believe have a 30 year useful life. Can I just disagree should be recoverable by the city after they reached their useful life. Thank you, MR. CHAIRMAN. Additional comments. I have a few questions myself. What are the number of units that we have in line right now with the additional 2 million dollars that have been provided. Specifically for home repair. Yes. So we have about 1.5 million in the pipeline. In terms of the number of projects that have been approved. So their income qualified to not yet complete
in our system is 184. And that's as of last week's that MAY change a little bit. What would our capacity if there were additional funds that were secured? We would think struggle the most with contractor capacity. Right now we have issued an rfq for contractors who want to be part of this program and one of the biggest challenges is finding those lead certified contractors. And that's part of that capacity-building grants is making sure that we have enough contractors who can carry out this work. I think there is absolutely a need within the community and our team could absolutely deliver be able to provide these essential repair services to homeowners in need. I think the winter time is particularly busy for our team. We do the most emergencies this time of year. But then during the summer to somebody sewer, lateral collapses or something like that, that some of their way that we can move really quickly with local dollars to
be able to address community needs. If you could just estimate. What you think our capacity could be given the contractors that we currently work with. What number would we be looking at? In terms of number of households to be able to be served in Twenty-twenty 6. Yes. If you time, maybe we can. You can send something to to the addict. If you don't mind if you take a look at I'm here because there's a great deal of effort to raise additional funds for for this work. There's a great need. And so many of neighborhoods. And before cup runneth over, would like to know what the rim of the Cup looks like. And then just based on early conversations, this unit at
the meeting this evening, know that we do have certain requirements on the federal, you know, dollars. But I think this and keeping that all the same Israeli by practice, it's not it's not a requirement. Is that correct? 30 year? That is correct. So and I have spoken with a number of residents in my in my district about this over the course of the last few months. And have asked why many have not applied. They have said. In the majority that it's a disincentive for. And I know with the director about this over the course of the last few months. And while I understand that I too am concerned about the 30 year component on repairs of things
that have a shorter lifespan. So I think that there is an opportunity for all of us to have a discussion amongst council members and with your staff. To look at either the scrapping event for the 2 million or reduction in number. Because when I hear constituents say that it is a disincentive, but I don't want something on my house for 30 years. You I'm 75 years old. I'm 80 years old. It's very meaningful. So I think there's room for us to have a discussion on what makes sense and what best practices there are across this country. On on products such as this. So I just wanted to put that in front of you will before we go on. Are there any additional counselors? Maui? PRESIDENT Asked to abstain from this vote tonight for a couple of
inches. Thank you. Very good. Thank you. Alright counselors. Before we open the floor to public comment, we would like to remind committee members and the public few ground rules so everyone can have a fair chance to speak and be heard. It is important that each observe the following rules. First, each speaker will be limited to 2 minutes. Second, any public comment most reasonably relate to the agenda item under consideration. Speakers from straight away from the item under consideration or become. Bully repetitious MAY be asked to move on to their next point or conclude their comments. Finally attendees who caused disruptions that prevent the committee from proceeding to tonight's agenda in a reasonably efficient manner will be removed. Please remember that some types of
burning speech or enticement to violence are not protected by the First Amendment at all. We will deal with those issues if they come up. And first, we have the wind to Drake. Just want to ask for permission to speak for 2 minutes on related to the proposal. Is that okay? I can wait if you don't mind strike if if we can get through this proposal next one and okay. Fiu. Both tall. CHAIRMAN Team members of the Council. My name is Phil phone call. And I'm the acting near North Development Corporation. For more than 40 Community development, corporations have used federal home and cdbg subsidies to make affordable housing projects possible in Indianapolis. And we do really appreciate the relationship
and the partnership we have with the city staff adm, they they help if they help make our job easier and they share our mission and in doing affordable housing in urban neighborhoods. Just as an example of one one of the kinds of projects that we've done with federal funding over the years we had 19 new units that we built for first time home buyers. We use $961,000. And I think it was cdbg subsidy and that made those units affordable to the buyers who were less than 80% area. Median income. They matched that funding with 2 and a half million dollars in mortgages. That project also brought in over $600,000 in private funding. That was also part of
the project. And that all happened in the Crown Hill neighborhood. Also want to talk Cdbg project we're pleased to have developed a pilot program using cdbg to assist landlords who house lowto moderate-income renters to make repairs to keep their properties affordable to those writers. And there is an affordability period with those funds as well. And I just want to say none of these developments or none of the projects that we do in Indianapolis would be possible without the federal funds, specifically home and Cdbg. Thank you for your time. A figured. Thank you very In questions. I'm happy to try respond to. And questions of Misrata. Thank you very a test. Next. We have need have a brand. Good evening. I'm Amy held a brand and the ceo of hp
a f of Indiana helping veterans and families for more than 30 years. We've been providing housing hope and self-sufficiency to veterans facing homelessness here in Indianapolis. I'm here tonight in support of the 2026 action plan, specifically the assistance that it provides to homeless service providers like Hba f we serve nearly 1400 veterans annually in our housing employment. Basic needs assistance programs. Emergency solutions grant fills an important gap in funding for veterans, especially the National Guard and reserve who are not entitled to federal assistance if they become homeless. We use this grant to provide rapid rehousing assistance. So we work with veterans who are literally homeless here on the streets of Indianapolis. We find them a safe and
affordable apartment provide time-limited rental assistance to stabilize that family. So thank you for your support of the work that we're doing. The emergency solutions Grant, as I said, fills a critical gap. This contributed to a 70% reduction in veteran homelessness over the last 10 years is very important to agencies like Hpf. Thank you. Thank you very much. The council counselors. A good Good evening. My name is Miley Kennedy and I'm executive director. That's right. Free clinics. Proud to be here as a recommended recipient of the emergency solutions, grant funding. And thank you to the community investments for your leadership and for recognizing. Programs that stabilize some of our community's most vulnerable residents, janessa, tough recovery homes. And we have 3, designated emergency shelters that provide medical respite care for individuals
experiencing homelessness. And who are also too ill to recover on the streets or in traditional shelters. But no longer require hospitalization. Clients an average of 60 days during which they receive safe place to heal medication, support. Care, coordination and intensive case management services that prepared them for success. The need for this level of care continues to rise. And the unprecedented demand for medical respite services underscores both the growing medical need and the complexity of the population we serve and it's critical roles like these that we play and preventing hospital readmissions and supporting the system's ride officiant. Seats Esg funding is budget relieving and essential to
sustaining the work that we do. These dollars offset overhead expenses, including utilities support the direct services. And the time that registered nurses and case workers provide daily stabilize in guide our residents. I respectfully urge you all to support the community Investment fund recommendations. This ensures that medically fragile neighbors have the opportunity to recover with dignity, law, strengthening the health and housing systems, our entire community depends on. Thank you. Thank you very much. And it comes from counselors. Additional comments. Still a
counselor. Motion. Council Gibson. MR. CHAIRMAN, I move that Weise and propose a number. 38 to the full Council for final adoption. Second. Mission's improperly moved and seconded. All those in favor. Please signify by high. Any opposed. Alright, that motion carries. Thank you. The next item on agenda is proposing 39, amends chapters 7, 47. 41 and 7.42 of the code pertaining to flood control storm water management and that will feel the secondary district of the consolidated Zoning and Subdivision control ordinance. It was here to speak on that. MISTER CHAIRMAN, Shannon
Norman from the Department of Metropolitan Development, principal planner for ordinances uncover a vision. We worked through anything technological here. Thank you for your time and attention tonight I appreciate it because they think that ordinance amendments are kind of dance. I put my of Lincoln teary slide in for all of the aaf about soup. That is to come between the federal, state and local agencies. I do apologize. We go. So tonight here to talk to you about proposed amendments to in the rezone, which is the consolidated Zoning and subdivision ordinance for Indianapolis, Marion County. General Ordinance proposal. 39 specifically deals with flood control, district's storm water management and wellfields as related to the Wellfield secondary District. And again, how lot of alphabet
soup. But I hope you can use the presentation as a guide to understand some of those things have to go through. So the facts of the case in this in terms of this amendment are very simple. All of the amendments being proposed to this legislation have been prompted by regulatory changes departments like the business and neighborhood Services and dpw Work with Dmd. To make sure that any time we have a structured permit with a state or federal agency. We continue to update the ordinance, the zoning ordinance to reflect those changes in their revised code as well. And many of you on this committee have heard the changes to the flood control prevention ordinance
in top 2024. And this seeks to mirror some of those changes and a sort of decouple what was once just part of the zoning ordinances. Now, part of the revised code. Rezone works in sync with federal and state regulations. When these regulations change, we MAY need to change the zoning ordinance to do 2 things to prevent or to mitigate any conflict with what is written in those permits. Add that the city has applied for a minute warning. So what guided these proposed amendments? We started working on this in 2024. Because the Department of Business and Neighborhood Services sought to create a stand alone ordinance to address flood control and
prevention the updated fema guidelines, the Federal Emergency So that agencies use me prompted us to think about flood Plains in terms of what permitting looks like for says what just development standards looks like. And as I said, you remember that the revised Co's was updated to add Chapter 5.65 in 2024. In the same vein, the Pub Department of Public Works recently updated the city's storm, water design and construction specifications. Spaniel per guidance from ida him doing so in updating the permit was necessary to look at the zoning ordinance and make sure that the language either mirrored or curved to space for these regulations for stormwater design and construction in the subdivision ordinance. And
also recent updates from epa and I them regarding injection. Wells prompted updating of the Wellfield secondary district to make sure that our will fill district language actually met up with with what is required from the federal government was an increasingly important issue through our wellfield review with Department of Business in neighborhood services and are technically qualified person, which is also in the zoning ordinance. So these guiding regulations, as I mentioned, we have a flood control, secondary district or some people MAY know it is overlay. This secondary district establishes rules for developing in a flood control area and at
present it also regulates permitting for those areas. But as we know, bn as through their flood, plain administrator, actually, it ministers those do coupling it from the zoning ordinance. Only makes sense because we now have actual regulations in the revised code to handle that permitting. The same thing is true with the Wellfield secondary district. Epa said standards that must be met in the permitting process in the review process. And we simply are amending the ordinance. So it doesn't stand in the way of fully realizing those technical reviews that aren't necessarily done by planners and emd. But our colleagues in Bns. And then again, the storm water management standards as the
council heard last year, there was a complete fiscal analysis done for the changes in the storm, water, construction and specifications manual detailing the effects of those changes potentially 2 homeowners or to businesses that had to comply with federal regulations and in doing so. That document was approved for the Department of Public Works. So one of the things we sought to do during the process of revising the ordinance was work with our sister agencies, Bns and dpw and also a consultant to make sure that when we were creating zoning portion of
this, we actually had language that mirrored in sync up with the 2025. Permits, which is very important to us. So there are a lot of questions asked in dc gave us a lot of great questions. We're able to answer and I provided those to you ahead of time with the packet. We've also had a public comment period open since DECEMBER. The 3rd to capture anything that MAY come in from folks. And that was reflected in the packet as well. The main thing I think was this took a village to explain the technical aspects, folks from engineering firms dpw gave us a lot of great support on understanding what these changes could mean to
the work, the dpw and Bns do along with rezoning petitions are variance petitions. So it's very important to make sure that we had all of eyes dot and t's crossed in that process. So we're here before you tonight with the digestive. Those changes which you received in your packet for a full hearing on questions, you MAY have things that MAY be different from other regulatory bodies. I'm happy to talk to you about that. We hope to answer those questions for this committee move forward this evening to the full council. With that, we'll take any questions. Thank you very much. The questions. CHAIRMAN, Thank you. Thank you, Shannon. All the supplemental material you provided is very detailed and I appreciate that. Just it the highest possible level? What
is coming online with? Other requirements? Is that is that accurate? 100%? That is accurate. Cut. I was going to say just very getting those permits from epa. I didn't. Requires timely audits for this city and all of these proposed ordinance revisions. Were results of those audits. So at the highest level, we want to comply with state and federal regulations and then on the city level, create a parody, a similarity amongst the language of all of our regulatory documents. And I believe that's accomplishes that. But the biggest issue I have regarding flooding is rocky ripple, which I've working on for quite a long Didn't go looking through
here. Doesn't seem like that would affect that project. Is that correct? I don't believe so. I don't believe that anything that is currently in the pipeline would be affected by these changes. This would be from adoption So again, it's about compliance. It's about being able to participate in the National Flood Insurance Program. Those things moving forward. But I don't believe that it would affect a project that is currently in the pipes. I'm not a technical expert and some of these matters. But just looking to it doesn't appear that it would be. And just my biggest concern when it comes to any changes regarding flight controls that I would further delay any planning in right here, So it seems like that's fine. So thank you. Good condition. Counselors. The 2 men.
Before we open the floor to public comment. We would like committee members in public a few ground rules so everyone can have a fair chance to speak and be heard. It is important that we deserve each of the following rules. First, each speaker will be limited to 2 minutes. Second. Any public comment most recently relate to the I urge him to item under consideration. 3rd speakers to stray away from items consideration or become unduly repetitious MAY the axe to move on to the next point or conclude their comments. Finally attendees who costs disruptions that prevent the committee from proceeding to tonight's agenda in a reasonably efficient manner will be removed. Please remember that. That some types of good in speech or enticement to violence are not protected by the First Amendment at all. We will deal with those issues if they come up. And first we have Belinda
Drake. Yeah. A can. Good evening. Members of the council. Think is a good opportunity for me to say just a few remarks as being was mention. And again, my name is going to try a community leader center township and I again, appreciate the opportunity. Just to say a few words today and a promise to be brief. Thank you all for the opportunity to have served 5 terms the of business a neighborhood services, it has been a true honor to serve our city and I'm grateful for the trust that you all place to me. As I stepped down today, I'm proud that our work stay grounded and fairness, Responsive Service and accountability. That showed up in code enforcement, including highways and grass. It MAY seem small, but we all know it improves. Safety protects property values and helps our neighbor. Neighbors feel care for. Also want to take a moment to thank doctor
director of brand. So it's not here today, but some of her colleagues are and the entire being as team for their professionalism, responsiveness and commitment to good government has been truly a pleasure working alongside each of you. Well, I am stepping down from this role today. I do want to say that I remain committed to the city of Indianapolis and to supporting safe neighborhood, strong consumer protections and the city government that works for everyone. Thank you all again for the opportunity to be of service. Thank you very much. Straight for your service. Any additional comments? Joe Bowling. All right. Very good. Additional comments from
council ease. PRESIDENT. Thank you, MR. Proposal number 39 to the full council. They do pass recommendation. Motions been properly moved and seconded. Of those in favor. Please signify by saying Aye. Aye, any opposed nay. Very good motion carries. Is there any additional business for this evening? All right, hearing none. MAY I have a motion to adjourn. All right. Thank you very much.