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Rochester City Council to choose grant projects
Mon, Sep 24th, 2012
Posted in Rochester Government
Posted in Rochester Government
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Several nonprofit organizations made their case to the Rochester city council to have Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funding allocated to their projects.
CDBG funds are administered through the Federal department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The city is expecting approximately $500,000 in CDBG funding in 2013.
Of that amount, $250,000 was requested to fund the Rochester/Olmsted planning department’s single family rehabilitation 2% program, which awards low-interest loans of up to $30,000 to low to moderate income families who would like to make improvements to their homes. Approximately the same amount of CDBG funds were approved for this program last year.
The Rochester Parks and Recreation department, which did not receive CDBG funding this year, has requested $155,000 to go toward improvements at McQuillan Fields, Foster Arends, as well as Essex and Goose Egg parks. Up to $100,000 may go toward administrative purposes, and city departments have requested $90,000 for these purposes.
If city department requests are granted, it would leave precious little to the many non-profit groups to go for, having collectively requested $665,000.
“All of these requests are so valid and the money so small,” said council member Sandra Means. “It’s going to be a challenge to make the recommendations.”
A sampling of these requests includes Family Service Rochester’s request for a new van for the Meals on Wheels program and the Boys and Girls Club’s request of $85,000 to go toward renovation of its Center Street location.
The council voted unanimously to require that four of the six council member vote in favor of the final allocation of CDBG funding.
Mayor Ardell Brede noted that Rochester received about $800,000 in CDBG funding as recently as seven years ago, and that the grants are an important issue to the League of Cities, an organization that Rochester has membership in.
“There’s been talk at the Federal level that they’re going to get rid of it altogether,” said Brede. “You can see the need just this community has.”
The council plans to vote on the allocation of CDBG money during a hearing on October 1st.
CDBG funds are administered through the Federal department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The city is expecting approximately $500,000 in CDBG funding in 2013.
Of that amount, $250,000 was requested to fund the Rochester/Olmsted planning department’s single family rehabilitation 2% program, which awards low-interest loans of up to $30,000 to low to moderate income families who would like to make improvements to their homes. Approximately the same amount of CDBG funds were approved for this program last year.
The Rochester Parks and Recreation department, which did not receive CDBG funding this year, has requested $155,000 to go toward improvements at McQuillan Fields, Foster Arends, as well as Essex and Goose Egg parks. Up to $100,000 may go toward administrative purposes, and city departments have requested $90,000 for these purposes.
If city department requests are granted, it would leave precious little to the many non-profit groups to go for, having collectively requested $665,000.
“All of these requests are so valid and the money so small,” said council member Sandra Means. “It’s going to be a challenge to make the recommendations.”
A sampling of these requests includes Family Service Rochester’s request for a new van for the Meals on Wheels program and the Boys and Girls Club’s request of $85,000 to go toward renovation of its Center Street location.
The council voted unanimously to require that four of the six council member vote in favor of the final allocation of CDBG funding.
Mayor Ardell Brede noted that Rochester received about $800,000 in CDBG funding as recently as seven years ago, and that the grants are an important issue to the League of Cities, an organization that Rochester has membership in.
“There’s been talk at the Federal level that they’re going to get rid of it altogether,” said Brede. “You can see the need just this community has.”
The council plans to vote on the allocation of CDBG money during a hearing on October 1st.
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