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Prescott City Council Regular Voting Meeting May 13, 2014 Page 5 Council Appointment Committee recommended Mr. Petrovsky for appointment to the Fire Board of Appeals. MAYOR PRO TEM LAMERSON MOVED TO APPOINT SEYMOUR PETROVSKY TO THE FIRE BOARD OF APPEALS, TERM TO EXPIRE MARCH 2O16; SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN ARNOLD; PASSED UNANIMOUSLY. C. Adoption of the 2014/2015 CDBG Annual Action Plan and adoption of Resolution No. 4224-1433 authorizing application for Community Development Block Grant funds Shaun Rydell, Community Program Manager, was available to answer questions. Councilwoman Wilcox noted that $140,000.00 of the CDBG funds will be used for street projects. She asked if there was consideration by the committee to ask the City to use the streets tax for that project and instead use the CDBG money for housing rehabilitation or other CDBG projects. Ms. Rydell said there was discussion regarding this project in program year 2013. She said CDBG funds were used for engineering planning. The facility shows that it is ready to be built in program year 2014. There was not any discussion beyond leveraging the One Percent Sales Tax dollars against the project. It was staff's recommendation to use CDBG funds for projects that were ready to be built. Craig McConnell, City Manager, said that the objective is that if this is done it will provide an opportunity for Habitat for Humanity to develop some low to moderate income housing. Councilman Arnold said he understood there was not a competing project for the same classification. Ms. Rydell said he was correct. Councilman Arnold asked if there was a percentage requirement that had to be spent on that type of project with no competing project being applied for during the process. Ms. Rydell said yes. Councilman Kuknyo gave his support for the project. He said it was a great improvement to the street. Councilman Arnold said this was the end of the cumulative plan, and the new committee was looking at the next five year plan. He said his hope was that staff could fully publicize and prioritize projects. Mayor Kuykendall asked if the recommendation was unanimous from the committee. Ms. Rydell said yes.