NS - Housing Community Development Block Grant Award - Housing Rehabilitation Program

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7~ • to the grant for a period of five years following the completion of all close-out procedures. All original files shall be maintained at the Local Goverrunent offices for access purposes. 7. Project Savings. The recipient is obligated to contribute 100 percent of its pledged cash contribution to the CDBG project even if the project experiences a savings after authorized activities are completed. Any project savings accrue to the CDBG program. Substitution of in-bind contributions for cash is not allowed. 8. Expenditure ofNon-CDBG Funds. The recipient must ensure that non-CDBG funds are expended along with CDBG funds, following the implementation schedule described in the approved application and modified by the Performance Contract, and shall report on non- CDBGexpenditures with each Annual Performance Report, consistent with Section .1100 PERFORMANCE of the program regulations (4NCAC 19L}. 9. Method of Payment. The Department of Commerce uses the Office of State Controller (OSC) to make CDBG payments to units of local government. The Electronic Payment Form from OSC must be completed for fiends to be electronically transferred. Arrangements must_ he made with the Finance Officer in the Division of Community Assistance if a recipient does not want to use the electronic fiends transfer. 10. Fair Housing. For each grant year that a CDBG is active, a recipient must describe the actions it will take in the areas of enforcement; education and removal of barriers and impediments to affirmatively further fair housing. Guidance for developing a Fair Housing Plan can be found in DCA Bulletin 93-4. . 11. E~aual Employment and Procurement Opportunity. A recipient must describe the actions it will take annually while the grant is open in the areas of enforcement, education and removal of barriers and impediments that affirmatively further equal access in employment and procurement. This includes a description of steps to be taken in the areas of advertisement, compliance azid complaint tracking. 12. Local Economic Benefit (Section 3 Re lgii ationl. For each year that a CDBG is active, a recipient must describe a strategy whereby opportunities in employment and procurement arising out of a CDBG assisted project are identified and made available to low-income residents within the CDBG assisted area to the greatest extent feasible. This strategy must include (1) identification of training and technical assistance resources to prepare low-income residents for employment and procurement opportunities, (2) attempts to reach the numerical targets for, new hires set forth in the Section 3 regulation, which applies to recipients receiving $200,000 or more in non-administrative line items expended for construction contracts of at least $100,000 per contract, and (3) education oflow-income residents within the CDBG assisted area about the components and opportunities of the program. 13. Section 504 and ADA. Recipients must complete the Section 504 Swvey and Transition Plan. This plan will not satisfy all the requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act, but it will meet the minimum requirements for a CDBG assisted project.