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Council directs staff to seek new peer grant activity to allow public building for gateway hub

5771538 · July 18, 2025
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Summary

Council voted to ask Oregon Housing & Community Services' peer committee to add an economic development activity to the city's CDBG peer grant so the grant could support construction of a public building (gateway hub/incubator); staff described federal rules and LMI job tests.

The Talent City Council on July 2 directed staff to request that the regional peer committee authorize a new activity under the city's CDBG peer grant that would allow use of funds to construct a public building to house a business incubator or gateway hub.

Staff reviewed two alternatives discussed previously: (1) spend existing infrastructure-eligible grant funds on public infrastructure that would support the site, or (2) ask Oregon Housing and Community Services (OHCS) to add an economic-development activity that would authorize construction of a building for a business incubator. Staff said OHCS responded to questions about reporting and…

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