[Federal Register: June 10, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 111)]
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Part IV
Department of Housing and Urban Development
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Notice of Draft Outcome Performance Measurement System for Community
Planning and Development Formula Grant Programs; Request for Comments;
Notice
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR-4970-N-01; HUD-2005-0011]
Notice of Draft Outcome Performance Measurement System for
Community Planning and Development Formula Grant Programs; Request for
Comments
AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and
Development, HUD.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: On September 3, 2003, HUD's Office of Community Planning and
Development (CPD) issued CPD Notice 03-09 entitled, ``Development of
State and Local Performance Measurements Systems for Community Planning
and Development Formula Grant Programs.'' The notice encouraged CPD
formula grantees that receive Community Development Block Grant (CDBG)
Program, HOME Investment Partnerships Program (HOME), Emergency Shelter
Grants (ESG), or the Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS
Program (HOPWA) assistance to develop and use performance measurement
systems. In March 2004, the Council of State Community Development
Agencies (COSCDA) convened a meeting with representatives from the
National Community Development Association (NCDA), the National
Association for County Community Economic Development (NACCED), the
National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials (NAHRO),
the National Council of State Housing Agencies (NCSHA), CPD, HUD's
Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R), and the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) to discuss the development of a performance
measurement system that would be used by CPD formula grantees to gather
information and determine the effectiveness of their programs. That
meeting resulted in the formation of a working group composed of
representatives from those agencies and associations. The working group
met at various times from June until November 2004 and developed the
appendix entitled, ``Proposed Outcome Performance Measurement System''
which is attached to this notice. This notice solicits comments from
the public and particularly from formula program grantees on the
proposed performance measurement system.
DATES: Comments Due Date: September 8, 2005.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments regarding
this notice to the Regulations Division, Office of General Counsel,
Room 10276, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 Seventh
Street, SW., Washington, DC 20410-0500. Electronic comments may be
submitted through either:
The Federal Rulemaking Portal at http://www.regulations.gov
; or
The HUD electronic Web site at http://www.epa.gov/feddocket.
Follow the link entitled, ``View Open HUD Dockets.''
Commenters should follow the instructions provided on that site to
submit comments electronically.
Facsimile (FAX) comments are not acceptable. In all cases,
communications must refer to the docket number and title. All comments
and communications submitted will be available, without revision, for
public inspection and copying between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. weekdays at the
above address. Due to security measures at the HUD Headquarters
building, an advance appointment to review the public comments must be
scheduled by calling the Regulations Division at (202) 708-3055 (this
is not a toll-free number). Copies of the public comments are also
available for inspection and downloading at http://www.epa.gov/feddocket
.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Margy Coccodrilli, CPD Specialist,
Office of Block Grant Assistance, Department of Housing and Urban
Development, 451 Seventh Street, SW., Room 7282, Washington, DC 20410-
7000, telephone, (202) 708-1577, extension 4507 (this is not a toll-
free number). Hearing- or speech-impaired individuals may access this
number through TTY by calling the toll-free Federal Information Relay
Service at (800) 877-8339.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
CPD Notice 03-09, ``Development of State and Local Performance
Measurements Systems for Community Planning and Development Formula
Grant Programs,'' encouraged grantees to develop state and local
performance measurement systems. In addition, it described the need for
HUD to begin to show the results of the federal dollars spent on the
activities funded by the CDBG, HOME, ESG, and HOPWA programs.
Many CPD grantees have been frustrated by the inability to ``tell
their story'' to their citizens and other stakeholders about the
outcomes of the investments they have made in their communities using
federal, state, and local resources. The inability to clearly
demonstrate program results at the national level, which is the
standard required by OMB's program assessment process, can have serious
consequences on program budgets. The proposed outcome performance
measurement system will enable HUD to collect information on the
outcomes of activities funded with CPD formula grant assistance, and to
aggregate that information at the national, state, and local level. The
proposed outcome performance measurement system described by this
notice is not intended to replace existing local performance
measurement systems that are used to inform local planning and
management decisions and increase public accountability. Grantees that
had a local performance measurement system in place and those who are
developing such a system should continue those efforts and are
encouraged to make it compatible with this framework.
II. Performance Measurement Objectives
The proposed outcome performance measurement system has three
overarching objectives: (1) Creating Suitable Living Environments, (2)
Providing Decent Affordable Housing, and (3) Creating Economic
Opportunities. There are also three outcomes under each objective: (1)
Availability/Accessibility, (2) Affordability, and (3) Sustainability.
Thus, the three objectives, each having three possible outcomes, will
produce nine possible ``outcome/objective statements'' within which to
categorize formula grant activities. Grantees will complete an outcome/
objective statement in HUD's Integrated Disbursement and Information
System (IDIS) by entering data in the form of an output indicator,
seventeen of which have been specified and are described in the
appendix to this notice.
Many of these output indicators already exist in IDIS for one or
more formula programs, and this will be familiar to most grantees.
However, HUD recognizes the need for terminology to be defined so that
grantees, across programs, report data consistently. Some examples of
terms that may require definition include numbers of persons served by
public facilities or public services, area served, subsidized housing
units, first-time homebuyers, and households served.
HUD requests that commenters pay special attention to the output
indicators that are intended to represent most of the eligible
activities carried out by grantees, and to offer definitions for
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terms that may be subject to interpretation.
The list of indicators in the appendix does not attempt to describe
the data collection process as it would appear in IDIS, but rather
attempts to outline the fundamental IDIS data requirements across the
four formula program areas and for each of the various eligible
activities. In this document, the data output indicators are, by
necessity, described in a narrative format that is repetitive. However,
the performance measurement system will be incorporated into the
redesign of IDIS, or any successor system, allowing for simplified data
collection, including drop-lists and yielding performance data that can
be aggregated and reported by HUD Headquarters, field offices, or
grantees.
HUD acknowledges that there are some outcomes that the Department
would like to be able to demonstrate that require more information than
could be provided through the data described in this Notice. An example
is determining whether a household that was assisted was able to
maintain its homeownership. To minimize the burden on grantees, HUD
will endeavor to undertake research and evaluation efforts to address
such issues.
It is hoped that a fully redesigned IDIS would significantly reduce
the overall administrative burden on grantees by folding the
Consolidated Plan, Annual Action Plan, and Consolidated Annual
Performance and Evaluation Report (CAPER) into a single performance
measurement system, thereby eliminating duplicative data entries. In
the interim, elements of the performance measurement system will be
incorporated into the Consolidated Plan Management Process (CPMP) Tool
so that local objectives and outcomes can be entered at the beginning
of the Consolidated Plan or Annual Action Plan development process, and
accomplishments under those objectives and outcomes can be reported in
CAPER. Grantees should continue to encourage citizens and local
organizations to participate in the development of their outcome-
oriented performance measurement plans and reports and make drafts
available for public comment via the Internet, where possible.
The first phase of the IDIS changes, which will be operational by
late 2006 or early 2007, will include many elements of the proposed
outcome performance measurement system. Consequently, the new
performance measurement system is planned to be in place in time for
reporting Fiscal Year (FY) 2007 program year activities. HUD intends to
provide training in the first half of Calendar Year 2006 so that
grantees can include the system's national objectives and outcome
statements as part of their FY2007 Consolidated Plan or Annual Action
Plan submission.
III. Additional Opportunities for Public Participation
HUD is actively soliciting comments from grantees to improve and
fine-tune the design and actual use of this framework. CPD is also
planning five facilitation sessions and one satellite broadcast to
explain the importance of measuring performance and the use of the
proposed outcome performance measurement system to capture those
results. Dates and locations of the facilitation sessions are listed
below. Additional information regarding the sessions can be obtained by
accessing the following Web site: http://www.icfhosting.com/hud/cdbg/registration.nsf
or by telephone, at (703) 934-3392.
Satellite Broadcast, June 30, 2005.
San Francisco, CA, July 18, 2005.
Philadelphia, PA, July 20, 2005.
Detroit, MI, July 26, 2005.
Atlanta, GA, July 28, 2005.
Austin, TX, August 2, 2005.
Persons wishing to comment, particularly program grantees, may use
these sessions to do so, or may send comments directly to HUD using the
contact information provided in the ADDRESSES section of this notice.
HUD intends to analyze the comments received and make any
appropriate revisions prior to issuing final guidance. This will
provide opportunity for grantees to include outcome measurements in
their FY2007 Annual Action Plans.
Dated: June 7, 2005.
Pamela H. Patenaude,
Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development.
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