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The Community Development Manager is the City’s primary liaison with NNRHA in the planning,
execution, assessment and evaluation of CDBG and HOME activities and any other programs funded by
HUD on a daily basis. This individual’s experience, knowledge of these programs, actual community
development operations in targeted areas, knowledge of service providers and available non-profit
services greatly facilitate the review of activities and an assessment of planned versus actual
accomplishments. This individual from the city, facilitates bi-weekly meetings, either in-person or
virtually, between City and NNRHA staff to better focus on ongoing activities and encourage consistent
progress toward projected goals and to discuss challenges if necessary.
The daily, but more routine oversight is undertaken by mid-level staff in concert with top-level
management at the City and NNRHA. In addition to bi-weekly meetings of the mid-level staff, related
quarterly performance meetings are also coordinated by the City’s Department of Development and
attended by the City’s Director of Development, the City’s Community Development Manager, NNRHA’s
Executive Director and Director of Community Development and other key NNRHA and City staff. The
primary topic at such meetings is the review of planned versus actual activities and related expenditure
of monies along with both local and Federal funding, potential obstacles and strategies to be successful
in completing activities.
NNRHA staff usually conducts annual monitoring of CDBG public service funded activities. The City also
normally performs annual monitoring of NNRHA, sometimes including an on-site file review but regular
electronic monitoring of project information is on-going. Full on-site monitoring by NNRHA and the City
was affected the past several years by the person-to-person contact limitations advised due to COVID-19
and was not fully reinstated because of electronic review access improvements. Monitoring was delayed
and done on a remote or electronic basis over the past few years. However, constant communication
regarding project status and review of information included in a shared electronic repository file allows
oversight on a continuous basis by the city.
Citizen Participation Plan 91.105(d); 91.115(d)
No changes have been made to the Citizen Participation Plan in the last year. City and NNRHA staff
members are committed to following the Plan.
Describe the efforts to provide citizens with reasonable notice and an opportunity to
comment on performance reports.
A draft of the Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report (CAPER) will be made available for
citizen review and comment at all public libraries, the Newport News Department of Development, and
the NNRHA Administrative Office and their website. The public comment period is scheduled to begin on
October 10, 2025, and end on October 24, 2025. The availability of the CAPER will be announced in the
newspaper of record, the Daily Press, on October 10, 2024.Jump to an indexed page (39 of 39)