10. AMENDMENT TO THE 2016-17, 2018-19 AND 2020-21 ACTION PLANS FOR THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT PROGRAM The Federal Housing and Community Act of 1974, as amended, created the CDBG program to return federal funds to local communities for the purpose of developing viable urban communities by providing adequate housing and a suitable living environment and by expanding economic opportunities, specifically for low-and moderate-income persons. Grants are awarded to communities to carry out a wide range of community development activities directed toward neighborhood revitalization, economic development, and the provision of improved community facilities and services. Federal Law related to CDBG programs indicates that HUD will consider an entitlement recipient (City) to be failing to carry out its CDBG activities in a timely manner if, sixty (60) days prior to the end of the current program year, the amount of entitlement grant funds available is more than 1.5 times the entitlement grant amount for the current program year. In order to meet the timeliness threshold required by HUD, the City would need to spend its allocation expeditiously. As such, the Community Development Department is proposing to amend the 2016-17, 2018-19 and 2020-21 Action Plans by reallocating funds from old activities to the Pine Tree Park Improvements project, which is anticipated to progress during the current 2021­22 Program Year.