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'X ■<'' S» ■ m-te’C' .'!i‘|i.'§:. teiv i'"^- 0- wp-ftfc' 'u- it- ~i--‘-'*.'.'.: ;■ i> ^ li' -V '^r > - ■ -; - ■ ',' ‘„‘Ti :,i'ri-'fe.:-; ■1^:- ;-i .• •' :i^-. V ii'*^;'K. -S'i5^.:-'' - Nvi"’ 1?^ 'S\; f' Si'-”"' .•A -To Dates Mayor Peterson and Orono City Council Ron Moorse, City Administrator March 20, 1992 COUNCIL MEETING MAR 2 3 1992 CITY OF ORONO Subjects Community Development Block Grant - Funding Allocations Attachments s A* Memo from Larry Blackstad, Hennepin County's CDBG Coordinator concerning Orono's CDBG program funding history B.Letter from Interfaith Outreach and Community Partners requesting funding for a project The Council continued the CDBG hearing from the March 10th meeting to enable staff to research the issue of the 15% cap on public service funding and to contact the lOCP regarding a funding request. The 15% cap on funding for public services is a requirement of the CDBG program. This cap is applied to the total of $2,7 million in CDBG funds received by the County. Because the amount allocated by Orono toward public services is a very small percentage of the total cap, Orono does have some flexibility in exceeding the 15% cap. However, both the City and the public service agencies should be careful about creating an ongoing reliance on a funding source that, although it has been stable for quite a few years, is not guaranteed into the future. This is why many of the projects funded by CDBG are one time projects. The lOCP has requested a grant of $2,000 to match a grant from the Minnesota Housing Finance Agency to hire a project manager for a low income home buyership program. Several possible allocations of the $25,700 CDBG funding amount are as follows: Aqencv/Proiect WECAN Westonka Intervention lOCP Bousing Rehabilitation Park Planning A $ 1,000 1,000 1,000 20,000 2,700 $25,700 B $ 1,000 1,000 2,000 20,000 1,700 $25,700 C 1,'900 1,900 1,900 20,000 $25,700 The Housing Rehabilitation Grant cap is $10,000 per home. Most requests are very close to the cap. Larry Blackstad has recommended that allocations for Housing Rehabilitation be made in increments of $10,000, otherwise odd amounts will not be sufficient to fund a project and will be held until the next funding allocation is made. If the Council determines that the Housing Rehabilitation amount should be $10,000 vs. $20,000, there would be an additional $10,000 available to allocate to other projects. Projects approved in the past have included neighborhood park improvements and community planning. Isv