Fiscal Year 2025-2026 Program Descriptions and Funding Recommendations
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CITY OF CHANDLER FISCAL YEAR 2025–2026 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT (CDBG) PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS AND FUNDING RECOMMENDATIONS CDBG Public Services: COC Community Development and Resources – Community Navigation and Client Services Recommendation: $164,928 Funding to continue to provide community navigation and client services to individuals experiencing unsheltered homelessness in Chandler. This funding helps to identify and establish relationships; coordinate care and communications with appropriate service providers; facilitate access to housing; and provide support and advocacy necessary to maintain housing. COC Housing and Redevelopment – Public Housing Youth Program Recommendation: $50,000 Funding to continue to provide after school and intersession programming to youth, ages 6- 18, who reside in Chandler’s four Public Housing family sites. Activities include academic support; mentoring; youth development; arts; books and reading services; and sports and recreation. Programming is offered Monday through Friday on regular school days at each public housing site. During intersession, youth from all four sites come together to participate in regular programming and special events. In the summer months, activities are offered in the morning for younger children, in the afternoon for all ages, and in the evening for teens. CDBG Capital Projects, Housing, and Neighborhood Revitalization: COC Community Development and Resources – Homeowner Rehabilitation Operations Recommendation: $75,000 Funding to continue support for staff who identify, assess, and prepare single-family Chandler homeowners with low- and moderate-income that have significant housing rehabilitation needs to receive assistance. The city will process client applications to determine eligibility for program assistance. The Homeowner Rehabilitation program works in tandem with a third- party contractor which provides emergency repairs, minor repairs, ADA modifications and exterior improvements. The city is evaluating the ability to include additional eligible services that are covered under the housing rehabilitation program. Homeowner Rehabilitation Program Activities Recommendation: $125,000 Funding to continue emergency repairs, minor repairs, ADA modifications and exterior improvements for eligible Chandler residents with low- and moderate-income who own and occupy a single-family home. Programs benefit households by: (1) addressing the health, safety, or welfare of households; (2) making improvements or modifications to remove accessibility barriers; and (3) elevating neighborhoods. The city is evaluating the ability to include additional eligible services. Public Facilities and Infrastructure Improvements Recommendation: $881,356 Funding will support public facility and infrastructure improvements in low- and moderate- income areas within the City of Chandler. COC Neighborhood Preservation - Code Enforcement in Low–Mod Neighborhoods Recommendation: $100,000 Funding to continue the systematic, proactive inspection program in CDBG eligible areas, with an emphasis on north Chandler. The program supports a Code Inspector specifically assigned to low- and moderate-income areas to initiate code enforcement inspections and take necessary enforcement actions to remediate neighborhood degradation. Residents receive an advisory notice providing information about common code violations for self-evaluation and correction prior to inspection.