Dane County  
Minutes - Final Unless Amended by  
Committee  
Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Commission  
Consider:  
Who benefits? Who is burdened?  
Who does not have a voice at the table?  
How can policymakers mitigate unintended consequences?  
Tuesday, August 6, 2024  
5:00 PM  
Hybrid Meeting: Attend in person at the City County  
Building in Room 354; attend virtually via Zoom.  
A. Call To Order & Roll Call  
Supervisor Glazer welcomed Supervisor Michael Engelberger to the CDBG Commission.  
Chair Taylor Brown and Vice Chair Jeremiah DeGollon were absent from the  
meeting. Therefore, Supervisor Jeff Glazer was appointed by Chair Taylor  
Brown to call the meeting to order. Meeting was called to order at 5:04pm with a  
quorum present.  
Supervisor Glazer asked for nominations to elect a Chair Pro Tem to run the  
August 6, 2024 CDBG Commission meeting. Commissioner Ron Johnson made a  
motion to nominate Supervisor Jeff Glazer as the Chair Pro Tem for this meeting.  
There were two more calls for nominations; with no other nominations. Motion  
passed by acclamation with no objections.  
Staff Present: Joanna Cervantes, Cindy Grady, Michelle Bozeman, Caleb Odorfer  
6 -  
Present  
RON JOHNSON, GODWIN AMEGASHIE, TERESITA TORRENCE, MARTIN  
LACKEY, JEFF GLAZER, and MICHAEL ENGELBERGER  
3 - JEREMIAH DEGOLLON, TAYLOR BROWN, and KATHERINE KAMP  
Excused  
B. Consideration of Minutes  
07-09-2024 CDBG COMMISSION MINUTES  
2024  
MIN-167  
Attachments: 7-9-24 CDBG Minutes  
Motion was made by Johnson and seconded by Torrence to approve the 7-9-2024  
meeting minutes. No discussion and no opposition. Motion passed unanimously.  
C. Action Items  
SEPTEMBER CDBG COMMISSION MEETING DATE - CHANGE TO 9/10/2024  
1. 2024  
ACT-092  
Staff explained the reasons for moving the September CDBG Commission meeting date.  
The original date of September 3rd falls immediately after the Labor Day Holiday and  
some Commissioners would not be at the meeting. In addition, staff needs to publicly  
post for 30 days the public hearing on the 2025 CDBG/HOME Funding  
Recommendations. If the preliminary funding recommendations are approved by the  
commission at tonight’s meeting, a 30-day notice would allow for a public hearing at the  
September 10th CDBG Commission meeting.  
Motion made by Johnson and seconded by Amegashie to move the September  
CDBG Commission meeting date to September 10th. Motion passed unanimously  
by voice vote.  
2025 CDBG/HOME PRELIMINARY FUNDING RECOMMENDATIONS FOR  
2025 ANNUAL ACTION PLAN  
2. 2024  
ACT-093  
Attachments: 2025 CDBG-HOME Funding Recommendations  
Cindy Grady gave background on the 2025 CDBG/HOME and HOME-ARP RFP and  
application process. The RFP categories and scoring criteria were previously approved  
by the Commission, and the Application Review Team (ART) used this same criteria  
when evaluating and scoring the applications. Applicants were also invited to an interview  
conducted by the ART. Subsequently, the ART met to discuss the preliminary funding  
allocations based on the applicants’ scores and ranking. All applicants, reviews and  
scoring were done in Dane County’s online system, OpenGov. ART members consisted  
of Kathy Kamp (Chairperson), Ron Johnson, and Martin Lackey.  
Ron Johnson provided additional information, including the number of applicants per RFP  
category. The ART submitted their scores in OpenGov; then were provided the average  
scores and rankings of each applicant at their last meeting to determine the funding  
allocations. There was significantly more funding requested than what was available. ART  
members agreed to fund agencies at their minimum requests based on the ranking of  
their scores, when possible. ART also discussed contingencies if more funding was  
available.  
Staff thanked the ART for their time and efforts in reviewing and scoring the applications  
and interviewing the agencies.  
Discussion included information that some applicants’ have minimum eligible requests,  
which are less than the original minimum request. This is due to some budget items  
being deemed ineligible and therefore some costs were removed. ART members and  
CDBG staff discussed this with the agencies.  
All applicants will be notified of their preliminary funding recommendations, and of the  
public hearing scheduled for September 10th.  
Motion made by Johnson and seconded by Torrence to accept the 2025  
CDGB/HOME and HOME-ARP funding recommendations, as part of the 2025  
Annual Action Plan. Motion passed unanimously by voice vote.  
D. Future Meeting Items and Dates  
September 10, 2024 at 5:00pm, City-County Building Room 351.  
This will be a Public Hearing for the 2025 CDBG/HOME and HOME-ARP Final Funding  
Recommendations and the 2025 Annual Action Plan.  
E. Public Comment on Items not on the Agenda  
None.  
F. Adjourn  
Motion made by Amegashie and seconded by Torrence to adjourn the meeting at  
5:34pm.