Consolidated Plan Improvement Initiative

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One of the program initiatives in the President's Management Agenda that the Office of Community Planning and Development is implementing is the Consolidated Plan Improvement Initiative. The Office of Management and Budget asked that HUD work with local stakeholders to streamline the Consolidated Plan, making it more results-oriented and useful to communities in assessing their own progress toward addressing the problems of low-income areas.

This initiative is designed to:

	reduce meaningless compliance burdens
	streamline the plan into a concise, readable document that is easy to understand
	make plan more useful and results oriented, linking the plan to performance reporting
	make better use of technology to make the process less burdensome
	promote use of the plan a management tool for tracking results

Tasks we expect to implement:

identify burdensome aspects of the planning process

	identify aspects of the planning process that are useful, not useful, and solicit suggestions for improvement
	work with stakeholders to define alternative planning requirements that would be more useful to communities and States
	identify areas for streamlining and explore alternative planning procedures
	define grants management system requirements to support local goal setting and tracking of performance relative to national program goals
	design and carry out pilots of alternative planning procedures
	propose legislative and/or regulatory changes to implement reformed, results-oriented planning and reporting system nationally

A number of working groups reviewed the current process and recommended that HUD provide suggested templates or formats for reporting information regarding progress toward meeting multi-year goals and objectives. The following templates are based on useful formats that a number of jurisdictions have provided to HUD.

	Draft Annual Action Plan Template
	CONPLAN and APR Template

We also welcome written correspondence to the Office of Community Planning and Development via regular mail at 451 7th Street SW, Room 7154, Washington, DC 20410 as well. Please contact Salvatore Sclafani at (202) 708-1283 ext. 4364 if you have any questions or comments.