NA - Grant - Orange County Community Development Block Grant Program – FY 2010 Scattered Site Housing Rehabilitation Program - $400,000

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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: November 4, 2010 Action Agenda Item No. (o - b SUBJECT: Orange County Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program - FY 2010 Scattered Site Housing Rehabilitation Program - $400,000 DEPARTMENT: Housing, Human Rights, and PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) Yes Community Development ATTACHMENT(S): Resolution Application Summary INFORMATION CONTACT: Tara L. Fikes, 919-245-2490 PURPOSE: To receive public comments regarding a proposed FY 2010 Housing Rehabilitation Program Application and approve a resolution authorizing the submission of the formal application document on November 15, 2010 and authorize the Chair to sign the application document on behalf of the Board. BACKGROUND: The County was recently notified by the N.C. Department of Commerce - Division of Community Assistance of the award of $400,000 in Scattered Site Housing Rehabilitation funds under the FY 2010 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program. These grants are no longer competitive, and each interested county in North Carolina is scheduled to receive an allocation every three years to provide housing rehabilitation funds for the county and the municipalities within the county. Orange County received $400,000 in housing rehabilitation funds in 2001, 2004 and 2007. These grant funds must be used to repair substandard housing occupied by low-income families in the Towns of Carrboro and Hillsborough as well as the unincorporated areas of Orange County. These funds may not be used in the Town of Chapel Hill since it receives Community Development Block Grant funding directly from HUD. In prior years, these funds have repaired approximately 36 dwelling units in the County. Families with incomes at or below 50% of area median income that own and occupy deteriorated housing are eligible to participate in the program. For the purpose of this program, deteriorated housing are dwelling units that that have existing housing code violations including houses that lack indoor plumbing. In order to receive this funding, the County must conduct two public hearings. The first hearing was held at the Board's October 5, 2010 regular meeting and provided an opportunity for public comments prior to developing an application. After the hearing, County staff discussed this program with Carrboro and Hillsborough members of the Orange County HOME Review Committee on October 14, 2010. That committee agreed that this program would continue to be an extension of the current HOME funded Housing Rehabilitation Program; thus the same waiting list and program eligibility guidelines would be used for both programs. Further, the