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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: March 27, 2007 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. _ 'C3! <br />SUBJECT: Orange County Housing Rehabilitation Community Development Block Grant, <br />Program <br />DEPARTMENT: Housing/Comm. Development PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) Yes <br />ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Resolution Tara L. Fikes, 245=2490 <br />Application Summary <br />Addendum -Dwelling Units Without <br />Indoor Plumbing <br />P o receive ci izen commen s concerning a propose ousmg <br />Rehabilitation Program Application and approve a resolution authorizing the submission of the <br />formal application document on or about March 30, 2007 and authorize the Chair to sign the <br />application document on behalf of the Board. <br />BACKGROUND: The County was recently notified by the N.C. Department of Commerce - <br />Division of Community Assistance of the award of $400,000 in Scattered Site Housing <br />Rehabilitation funds under the FY 2007 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program. <br />These grants are no longer competitive, and each interested county in North Carolina is <br />scheduled to receive an allocation every three years to provide housing rehabilitation funds for <br />the county and the municipalities within the county. Orange County received $400;000 in <br />housing rehabilitation funds in 2001 and 2004 and is designated to receive funds in 2007. <br />These grant funds must be used to repair substandard housing occupied by low-income families <br />in the Towns of Carrboro and Hillsborough as well as the unincorporated areas of Orange <br />County.. These funds may not be used in the Town of Chapel Hill since they receive Community <br />Development Block Grant funding directly from HUD. In prior years, these funds have repaired <br />approximately 26 dwelling units in the County. <br />A public hearing was held on March 13, 2007 to receive citizen comments regarding the use of <br />these grant funds prior to the development of the application document. After the hearing, <br />County officials discussed this program with Carrboro and Hillsborough members of the Orange <br />County HOME Review Committee. That committee agreed that this program would continue to <br />be an extension of the current HOME funded Housing Rehabilitation Program; thus, the same <br />waiting list anal program eligibility guidelines would be used for both programs. Further, the <br />Division of Community Assistance requires each community to establish a Selection Committee <br />for this grant. The existing Orange County HOME Review Committee will continue to serve in <br />this capacity. <br />