The Housing Committee heard from Deputy Development Director Kasie Foulk regarding the department’s annual CAPER, with the public hearing on that held afterwards. P-J photo by Sara Holthouse

With the public hearing regarding the Department of Development’s Fiscal Year 2024 Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report to the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development being held Monday night following the housing committee meeting, the housing committee also took the time to discuss what all that entails.

Deputy Director of Housing Policy and Development Kasie Foulk was in attendance at Monday’s meeting, first introducing herself to the new council members before giving more information on the Department of Development’s CAPER.

“For those of you that don’t know, our CAPER is just our annual report for the Department of Housing and Urban Development,” Foulk said. “We hit the majority of our targets this year.”

As far as the CAPER goes, Foulk said there have been no issues this year, though it was submitted a little bit late because of missing the public comment period by a couple of days and the public hearing got pushed back for city budget work. At the time of the meeting, she said everything is set and ready to be submitted following the public hearing.

CAPERs also run a year behind, Foulk said, so that is why the current CAPER is for 2024, even though entering into 2026 she added that that sounds a little funny. Councilman Daniel Gonzalez, D-At Large, asked if the department was able to hit all of their goals for the report.

“For the most part we hit over 100% of our targets,” Foulk said. “Our non-housing community development was a little bit low, which is our public facilities or infrastructure facilities. So, we had to move some money around and shuffle it so it went into the homeowners’ pockets.”

Goals for each year are set in the department’s Annual Action Plan, which Foulk said is coming up for the planning portion for the next year. There will be community meetings and discussions about what the department’s goals will be, which will then be included in the CAPER.

The public hearing on the CAPER was held following the Housing Committee meeting, with no comments from the public.