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Development (HUD) which includes dollar allocations and activities to be funded with federal Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG), and HOME Investment Partnership Program (HOME) resources during the abovementioned five-year period and incorporates the City's FY20 Annual Action Plan which serves as the City's application to HUD for FY 2020 CDBG, ESG, and HOME funds. (Referred to Finance Committee 3/2/20) (pg. 6) Councilmember Bullock made a motion, seconded by President O'Malley to adopt Resolution 2020-18. Discussion: President O'Malley noted how critical CDBG and ESG funds have been in the past and highlighted their importance during this budget crisis. Councilmember Bullock added that passing this piece of legislation is one of the steps that the city needs to take in order to accept federal COVID relief dollars in the future. On the motion: A roll call vote was taken as follows: Yeas —Bullock, Kepple, Litten, O'Malley, Neff, Rader, Shachner Nays —None The motion passed. Resolution 2020-18 was adopted. 8. Health & Human Services Committee regarding meeting held April 20, 2020. (to be provided) Vice President Litten read the following report into the record: The Health & Human Services Committee met this evening and all members of the committee, along with other members of Council and the administration were present virtually, including Terry Allan from the Cuyahoga County Board of Health. We started off with an update from Director Allan on COVID related topics. Cuyahoga County is now past its peak of cases. At its peak, 80 cases were being identified a day, and that is now trending downward. Testing has been expanded and their major focus now is on clusters in nursing homes, hospices, etc. We are about a year away from having a vaccine. Chief Dunphy updated the committee on all that the Fire Department is doing during the crisis. Everybody on the department is wearing masks as much as possible while they are on duty. They treat anyone they come in contact with as a potential COVID-19 patient, following universal guidelines. Mayor George gave some updates as well and I asked some questions about upticks in domestic violence calls that the police were receiving. That is something Chief Malley predicted early on in this process. Councilmembers had questions about masks and antibody tests. Director Gelsomino also gave updates on all that Human Services staff has been doing to get seniors fed and connected. We approved the minutes from our March 16'h meeting.