Fort Walton Beach Resolution — 2025-13 Resolution Adopting the FY 2025-30 CDBG Consolidated Plan & FY 2025-26 Annual Action Plan — reading text

support upward economic mobility; provide connections to health and behavioral health care services; and link people to a range of other programs and systems that support strong and thriving communities, such as quality child care, schools, family support networks, and other resources. Encourage state and local efforts to implement a flexible array of behavioral health services that impact housing stability, including quality case management and care coordination, peer supports and navigation services, intensive in-home services, mobile crisis and stabilization services, and other home- and community-based services. Encourage partnerships between housing providers and health and behavioral health care providers, such as health centers, to co-locate, coordinate, or integrate health, behavioral health, safety, and wellness services with housing and create better resources for providers to connect patients to housing resources. Encourage partnerships with sources of public resources that can fund housing and related interventions, or that can prioritize or serve those experiencing homelessness to strengthen the community-wide approach that ensures that homelessness is a brief experience in any community. Support increasing on-the-job training and apprenticeship opportunities, supported employment, and other strategies that offer access to employment and career pathways for people with histories of homelessness and other significant barriers to employment, including people with disabilities. Strengthen coordination between early childhood, education, housing, employment, and homelessness services providers as part of a whole-family approach to improve both child and family outcomes through meaningful connections to community-based programs and resources that target and prioritize the assessed needs of the entire household, including infants and young children, for sustained housing stability and economic mobility. Strengthen the focus on income and employment within coordinated entry systems to effectively target and connect individuals and families to opportunities and services needed to attain and sustain income and employment, including job training and apprenticeship programs that create access to career pathways, primary and behavioral health services, early childhood education and child care programs, and resources for young children and youth available through schools and post-secondary institutions. Improve discharge planning from healthcare, mental health facilities, and Department of Corrections by using coordinated entry, in-reach, and housing navigation. The community has formed the “ Okaloosa Walton Crisis Intervention Taskforce” which meets bi-monthly and consists of representatives from City of Police Department, Bridgeway Center-the local behavioral health provider, County Dept of Corrections, Big Bend Community-Based Care (Managing Entity), Fort Walton Beach Hospital’s Psychiatric Unit, and Homelessness & Housing Alliance (CoC Lead and Coordinated Entry Lead). The purpose of this taskforce Consolidated Plan FORT WALTON BEACH 87 OMB Control No: 2506-0117 (exp. 09/30/2021)  is to improve discharge, in-reach, and access to housing and long-term care as needed. The Taskforce has implemented new strategies to end high-utilization of community resources and linkage to the coordinated entry system prior to discharge. The City law enforcement agencies have received CIT training from HHA and have been educated on jail diversion, coordinated entry, and local housing interventions. Housing Navigation is available through the CoC for any household at risk of exiting facility-based care or Dept. of Corrections. Consolidated Plan FORT WALTON BEACH 88 OMB Control No: 2506-0117 (exp. 09/30/2021)  SP-65 Lead based paint Hazards – 91.215(i) Actions to address LBP hazards and increase access to housing without LBP hazards The city hosts the HUD “ Protect Your Family from Lead in Your Home” ( March 2021) guide on the city website. City customers are encouraged to review the information contained. Additionally, the city will post links to this guide on the city social media sites periodically to improve knowledge on the issue. How are the actions listed above related to the extent of lead poisoning and hazards? The extent of Lead Based Paint hazards is unknown. A large portion of the homes in Fort Walton Beach are over 40-years old and therefore have a higher probability of exposure. How are the actions listed above integrated into housing policies and procedures? The city attempts to identify any in-home work permits that could cause issues with Lead Based Paint. When the city identifies these issues, citizens are encouraged to review the information provided. Consolidated Plan FORT WALTON BEACH 89 OMB Control No: 2506-0117 (exp. 09/30/2021)  SP-70 Anti-Poverty Strategy – 91.215(j) Jurisdiction Goals, Programs and Policies for reducing the number of Poverty-Level Families Fort Walton Beach’s strategy to reduce the number of poverty-level families is multi-faceted and relies on the cooperation of numerous partners throughout the County. These partners include County departments, public service providers, the Homeless and Housing Alliance and Continuum of Care, housing authorities, public and private organizations, and other stakeholders in community development activities. These stakeholders work in concert to address a variety of interrelated social issues, including disparities in education and training, unemployment, limited access to healthcare, family instability, criminal background, inadequate housing, and deteriorating neighborhoods. How are the Jurisdiction poverty reducing goals, programs, and policies coordinated with this affordable housing plan The majority of CDBG funding that Fort Walton Beach received is directed to address concerns that our low- and moderate-income population are facing. This approach will allow low- and moderate-income households to either obtain or maintain affordable housing. Additionally, as stated previously, the city is examining policy changes and surplus properties to possibly incentivize affordable workforce housing. Consolidated Plan FORT WALTON BEACH 90 OMB Control No: 2506-0117 (exp. 09/30/2021)  SP-80 Monitoring – 91.230 Describe the standards and procedures that the jurisdiction will use to monitor activities carried out in furtherance of the plan and will use to ensure long-term compliance with requirements of the programs involved, including minority business outreach and the comprehensive planning requirements Program evaluation and monitoring is the means by which the City provides administrative oversight and performance testing of activities undertaken through HUD assistance under this Consolidated Plan. Evaluation and monitoring applies to both activities directly undertaken by the City as well as sub- recipients and other work or services performed on a contractual basis. Monitoring of the CDBG program will be carried out in-house by the City’s Growth Management Department staff with the intent of providing technical assistance in program administration and activities. Monitoring will be used to ensure that activities carried out are in furtherance of the plan and meet the goals and objectives set forth in the Consolidated Plan. It is the intent of monitoring activities that they be conducted in a positive and proactive manner, identifying and resolving problems early during an activity, providing technical assistance when feasible and necessary, maintaining communication and feedback on performance, any required reporting, and ongoing compliance with terms of the assistance and contract. Education, particularly in the case of sub- recipient types of activities, is an important element of the monitoring process. Prior to execution of a sub-recipient or other agreement, requirements are further reviewed with an explanation to the parties, including compliance and performance measures, and additional materials or information is provided as appropriate. Ongoing evaluation is the primary mechanism for tracking performance and compliance. In the case of individual activities and sub-recipient agreements, disbursement of funds is tied to maintenance of compliance through each disbursement, including proper documentation of cost through that disbursement. Ongoing compliance is measured against the specifics of the particular agreement. Satisfactory resolution of any compliance or performance difficulties at the time of a planned disbursement is required prior to disbursement. In the case of sub-recipient and other forms or agreements or contracts for individual activities, the measurement of progress will vary depending upon the type of activity and the specific schedule, reporting and other benchmarks established for the particular activity The City continues to concentrate its efforts in funding activities that are directed at making improvements and a visible impact to the community for low- to moderate-income families. The City will successfully utilize CDBG dollars to address needs identified in the Consolidated Plan. This is supported by the outcomes reported under each separate activity identified throughout this report. The Consolidated Plan FORT WALTON BEACH 91 OMB Control No: 2506-0117 (exp. 09/30/2021)  expenditure of the city’s CDBG funding will be used for projects and strategies that are eligible and meet a national objective, and in doing this the overall benefit certification will be achieved. Expected Resources AP-15 Expected Resources – 91.220(c)(1,2) Introduction Program Source Uses of Funds Expected Amount Available Year 1 Expected Narrative Description of Annual Program Prior Year Total: Amount Funds Allocation: Income: Resources: Available Remainder of ConPlan CDBG public Acquisition The City plans to use Admin and the funds in Planning & federal Planning Admin, Public Facilities, Economic Public Services, and Development Housing/ Rehabilitation. Housing Public Improvements Public Services 132,070.00 0.00 0.00 132,070.00 0.00 Anticipated Resources Table 55 - Expected Resources – Priority Table Explain how federal