Community Development Block Grant - Recovery (CDBG-R)
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) was signed into law by President Obama on February 17th, 2009, and includes measures to modernize our nation's infrastructure, enhance energy independence, expand educational opportunities, preserve and improve affordable health care, provide tax relief, and protect those in greatest need. The Department for Local Government (DLG) is the prime recipient of $7.2 million in Recovery funding through the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The funding is referred to as CDBG-R. DLG’s plan for distribution of these funds was approved by HUD on July 29, 2009. Most local governments are using this investment to rehabilitate affordable housing and improve key public facilities-stabilizing communities and creating jobs locally. Seventy percent (70%) of the CDBG-R funds must be expended for activities that principally benefit persons of low and moderate income.
Projects will be administered by DLG’s Office of Federal Grants according to Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) regulations with a few special additions. The additions include extra reporting requirements and Buy American provisions. Subrecipients will be required to report to DLG on a quarterly basis during project implementation on projects status, vendors used and jobs created or retained. Reporting begins with the quarter ending September 30, 2009. The report is available at CDBG-R Quarterly Report Format
Buy American provisions require that each subrecipient must ensure that all iron, steel and manufactured goods used in construction, alternation, repair, or maintenance of a public building or public work project assisted with CDBG-R funds under the Recovery Act must be produced in the United States unless the Secretary of HUD finds that: (1) the requirement is inconsistent with public interest; (2) those goods are not reasonably available or produced in sufficient quantity in the U.S.; (3) or the use of the goods will increase the project cost by more than 25 percent.
Projects have to be on a fast track and completed by September 30, 2012. A training session was held on August 17, 2009, for DLG’s subrecipients and that the presentation is available at CDBG-R Powerpoint . Other items for CDBG-R subrecipients can be found in the DOWNLOADS section of this website. Please visit this page again for additional administrative direction for HUD. You may also email Marilyn Eaton-Thomas, Public Facility Branch Manager, at marilyn.eaton-thomas@ky.gov, or call (502)573-2382.
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Amount of Funds Expended
A total of $7,070,295 in CDBG-R funding as been expended on projects as of April 6, 2012. This figure represents 97.15% of Kentucky’s $7,277,180 allocation.
Pendleton County CDBG-R Project is First to Closeout
Pendleton County received preliminary approval on August 6, 2009 to provide public water to an LMI area in the eastern portion of the county and today they received full closeout of the project.
Their application for funding noted that the county had been hard hit by the recession. Their unemployment rate was at 12.6 %, above the state average of 9.7%. Without CDBG – R, the 44 homes in the community would not have been financially able to afford to construct the project.
CDBG staff congratulates Judge/Executive Henry Bertram and his certified project administrator, Bill Mitchell for a job well done. Jennifer Peters ably served as the DLG project advisor.
Pulaski County CDBG-R Project Achieves Closeout
Pulaski County received preliminary approval on August 6, 2009 for $250,000 in CDBG-R funding with which to purchase equipment to be used by the Kentucky Regional High Growth Training Center in the training of lineman for the power industry. They received closeout (pending audit) at the end of September, 2010.
ARRA CDBG-R funding provided the last piece of the puzzle to support all four Modules of the Lineman Training Certification Program. South Kentucky Rural Electric Cooperative Corporation (SKRECC) certified the numbers of jobs created by the program to date, a total of 13 jobs are already directly attributable to the ARRA CDBG-R funding. 61.5% of those jobs were filled by LMI persons. Hopefully many more jobs will occur from this training facility. There were several compliments at the closeout public hearing. Pulaski Judge/Executive Barty Bullock expressed his appreciation for the project and noted its importance to the region. This project which includes many partners received the Spirit of Kentucky Award at the Governor’s Local Issues Conference in September 2010.
Henderson County Women’s Addiction Recovery Manor Project
is 3rd to Close
The Recovery project in Henderson expended all funds and met all goals for closeout except audit in February of 2011. They have now completed the audit and are receiving full closeout in June of 2011. They expended the grant of $189,929, created 19 jobs and benefitted 189 persons.
Christian County Trilogy Recovery Center for Women Awarded
Phase II Funding
DLG granted another $250,000 to Christian County to support the work of the Recovery Center for another year. This brings their total funding to $431,930. The extra funding was derived from money originally budgeted for state administration of the program.
Additional Information
Grantees shall post notice of rights and remedies available to employees under Section 1553 of Title XV, Subtitle D of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. This section refers to the whistleblower protection, please see Whistleblower Poster.
HUD is requiring CDBG-R recipients to electronically report the status of all environmental review determinations via the Recovery Act Management and Performance System (RAMPS). Future guidance is forthcoming.
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There are several state and federal websites that provide information on the use and administration of Recovery funds.
www.HUD.GOV/Recovery
www.kentuckyatwork.gov
www.recovery.gov
www.whitehouse.gov
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