Housing & Community Development

The Consolidated Plan (CON Plan) is a five year strategic plan that identifies the City's goals for federal funding programs provided through HUD, including the CDBG, HOME, and ESG. The CON Plan provides a framework for identifying priorities and programs to address affordable housing, community development needs, homelessness and public services for extremely low- up to moderate-income families, persons with disabilities, seniors, and youth.

Understanding the needs of a community is critical to planning the use of federal grant funds. As part of the 2020-24 Consolidated Planning process, staff engaged the community using various methods to gather information about housing, community spaces and infrastructure, and public service needs in Salinas. The CON Plan is carried out through Annual Action Plan, which provide a concise summary of the actions, activities, and the specific federal and non-federal resources that will be used each year to address the priority needs and specific goals identified by the CON Plan.

CON Plan FY2020-24(PDF, 29MB)

The Annual Action Plan (AAP) provides a concise summary of the actions, activities, and the specific federal and non-federal resources that will be used each year to address the priority needs and specific goals identified by the Consolidated Plan (CON Plan). The purpose of the AAP is to review and update those assessments presented in the CON Plan; to inventory resources that will be available during a given program year (fiscal year); and to identify the specific actions that will be taken in that program year to meet the city’s Housing and Community Development needs, and to implement the strategies set forth in the CON Plan. The AAP is submitted to HUD annually, prior to May 15th each year.

• AAP Draft FY2024-25(PDF, 2MB)
• AAP Draft FY2023-24(PDF, 2MB)
• AAP Draft FY2022-23(PDF, 8MB)
• AAP FY2021-22(PDF, 2MB)(PDF, 29MB)(PDF, 29MB)
• AAP FY2020-21(PDF, 491KB)

As a federal Entitlement City, Salinas receives funds from the HUD, and is required to report and monitor spending through the Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report (CAPER). The City is required to submit an Annual Performance Report to HUD within 90 days of the close of a grantee’s program year (fiscal year), in accordance with the CON Plan regulations.

Annual Performance reports are used to meet three basic purposes:

1. Provide HUD with necessary information to assess each grantee’s ability to carry out its programs in compliance with applicable regulations and requirements; 
2. Provide information necessary for HUD to report to Congress; and
3. Provide grantees with an opportunity to describe its program achievements with their citizens. 

• CAPER Draft FY 2022-23(PDF, 1MB)

• CAPER Draft FY-2021-22(PDF, 2MB)
• CAPER FY2020-21(PDF, 3MB)

From time-to-time, it may be necessary for the City to process a “Substantial Amendment” to the Five Year Consolidated Plan or the Annual Action Plans to allow for new CDBG, HOME, or ESG funded activities; modification of existing activities; or other CPD program administrative actions.

An Amendment is defined as:

• For larger projects, over $200,000, an increase of 25 percent or more in project funding. Changes that are less than $50,000 are not considered substantial.
• An increase of 25 percent or more in project beneficiaries (i.e. income groups, limited clientele groups, residents of a targeted area) or a change in purpose, scope or location which would change the project beneficiaries by more than 25 percent or,
• A determination by the Community Development Director, that the change is substantial even though it falls below the standards in Section 1 and 2 above.
• For ESG components, as long as the maximum 60% threshold for Street Outreach and Emergency Shelter is not exceeded, funding can be moved within the other components to meet expenditure requirements without a substantial amendment.

The City, in consultation with the Housing and Land Use Committee will select alternate housing projects during each funding cycle which can be implemented if an approved project does not achieve milestones set at the time of funding, the project is discontinued or postponed, or for whatever other reason an approved project is unable to perform in a timely manner.

Substantial Amendments to the Fiscal Years 2017-18, 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21, and 2022-23 Annual Action Plans Summary

City-of-Salinas-FY-22-23-AAP-Substantial-Amendment-Summary-11.04.23.pdf(PDF, 222KB)

Updated: November 3, 2023

The Citizen Participation Plan (CPP) sets forth policies and procedures to provide for and encourage participation by the residents of the City in the development of the City’s Consolidated Plan (Con Plan), Annual Action Plan (AAP), Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report (CAPER), Neighborhood Revitalization Strategy Area (NRSA), Section 108 and Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice (AI).

On May 26, 2020, the City Council approved amendments to the CPP to incorporate flexibility to hold meetings virtually, use streamlined notice periods in cases of emergency, and update the CPP per current federal regulations.

CCP FY 23-24(PDF, 357KB)