Title
Resolution Authorizing Match Grant Application for 2016 Lead Based Paint Hazard Control Grant Application to the US Department of Housing and Urban Development
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Department: Neighborhood Development Services
Council District: All
Public Hearing: N/A
Advertising Date/By: N/A
Contact 1 and Phone: Barbara Harris, Interim Assistant City Manager, 336-373-2002
Contact 2 and Phone: Cyndi Blue, Neighborhood Development Services Community Planning Manager, 336-433-7376
PURPOSE:
The Neighborhood Development Services Department is responsible for operating grant programs that provide opportunities for low income residents to get housing upgrades through various grant and loan programs. The Department applied to the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for its fifth Lead Grant in April. The Lead Grant is a match grant and requires Council approval.
BACKGROUND:
The focus of our community's lead program is to eliminate childhood lead poisoning as a major public health problem and incorporate an expanded healthy homes component in the households we serve. The City has received four HUD lead remediation grants over the past 14 years and applied for a fifth grant to HUD in late April. The grant is for $2.5 million and includes a 10% match of CDBG funds. An additional $400,000 in the application will supplement the healthy homes. The program goal is to remediate lead based paint hazards in housing that predates 1978. The funding priority supports households with children under six years old.
The three-year grant project total is $2,900,000. The $390,000 match requirement will be leveraged through the Department's Community Development Block Grant Funds. An additional $251,000 in Nussbaum funding will be used to expand program implementation. The grant will fund five full-time staff positions to conduct the work of the program. The grant project involves collaboration of various agencies including the Guilford County Heal...
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