Funding+Hearings

=Hearing Schedule for FY 2015-16 Funding= = =
 * Technical Advisory Committee** - Monday, March 9, 2015 1:30 to 5:30 pm (Capital and HOME Projects)


 * Community Development Committee** - Tuesday March 10, 2015 8:30am to 5:00pm (Public Service Projects)

//**Committee Application Review**// - Whether your program(s) has received a staff recommendation for funding or not, you are required to be represented (during your published timeframe) for the purpose of answering questions posed by the Committee members. __Please make sure you send staff who are most knowledgable about the operations of your agency and proposed program to answer these questions. Applicants without representation will be automatically disqualified from the application process.__

//**CD Committee Deliberations**// - Your agency is __strongly urged__ (but not required) to have representation at the deliberations which are anticipated to begin at approximately 3:00 pm. There have been instances where the committee members making the funding recommendations ask for additional clarification abuot the project or budget while deliberating and have made note when there was nobody present to answer last minute questions.

The agenda for the March 10, 2015 hearing can be downloaded here and is as follows:

**8:30 AM**
 * PUBLIC HEARING AGENDA**
 * 1) **Call to Order and Roll Call**
 * 2) **Public Comments**
 * 3) **Approval of Minutes**
 * 4) No items. (February 10 / February 24, 2015 minutes will be presented for approval on April 14, 2015)


 * 1) **County Fund for Housing (CFH)**
 * 2) Potential Reprogramming of CFH Loan Funds

**__8:45 AM__** i. Fair Housing ii. 2015-16 Recommendations (non-Fair Housing Programs)
 * 1) **Public Service Funding Proposals for Fiscal Year 2015-16**
 * 2) Staff Report
 * 3) Public Hearing
 * 4) Applications #1 – 17
 * 5) Recess for Lunch
 * 6) Applications #18 – 34
 * 7) Committee Discussion

iii. 3-year Funding


 * 1) Opt-out Opportunity


 * 1) Contingencies for Years 2 and 3
 * 2) Recommendations


 * 1) **Adjournment**
 * NOTES: **
 * a) ** The Public Comment period referred to under Section 2. above is the appropriate time for members of the public to make remarks regarding any subject which will not be considered during the Public Hearings under Section 4.
 * b) ** During the Public Hearing under Section 4, applicants may be invited to answer questions from the CD Committee regarding their proposal in the order in which the proposals are listed in the Community Development Commission’s Staff Report. //Applicants are **__required__** to attend the public hearing. The Committee will not consider a proposal for funding if a representative of the applicant is not present at the public hearing. After all applicants have been heard the Chairperson will ask for comments from the audience before closing the Public Hearing.//
 * c) ** A Staff Report and a copy of all submitted proposals have been prepared and made available for public review at the SCCDC office at 1440 Guerneville Road, Santa Rosa, between 8 am and 5 p.m., Monday – Friday. Electronic copies of the primary Staff Report were distributed to all applicants prior to the public hearing.
 * d) ** **__ Final Approval of Funding Recommendations: __**
 * May 5, 2015 at 8:30 a.m., Board of Supervisor’s Public Meeting for final funding approval **

** NEXT REGULAR MEETING & CONCURRENT PUBLIC HEARING ** Public Hearing Room 1440 Guerneville Road Santa Rosa, CA
 * APRIL 14, 2015 **
 * 3:30 pm **