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Lowcountry COG outlines CDBG funding rounds, deadlines and eligible projects
Summary
Lowcountry Council of Governments staffer Michelle Knight reviewed Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program priorities, competitive set-asides, deadlines and eligibility at the Feb. 11 meeting, including infrastructure, community facilities, business development and regional planning funding and application timelines.
Michelle Knight of the Lowcountry Council of Governments gave an overview Feb. 11 of the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program and related HOME consortium activities and deadlines available to Bluffton and other local governments.
Knight summarized four community-development set-asides for the state competitive round: a spring community-infrastructure round (water, sewer, drainage, roads) with a March 21 request deadline and an April 21 full-application deadline (applicants may request up to $1 million, minimum $50,000); a community-enrichment set-aside (facilities, demolition, sidewalks, larger public projects) with a mid-August request deadline and mid-September full application deadline (max $750,000); a local-priorities set-aside for smaller projects (max $300,000); and a noncompetitive “ready-to-go” pool ($500,000 maximum) for shovel-ready projects. Knight also described a separate business-development set-aside (for infrastructure supporting private employers with job-creation requirements) and a $50,000-per-region regional-planning set-aside administered through councils of governments.
Knight noted national objectives (benefit to low- and moderate-income households, elimination of slum/blight, or urgent community need), a 10% minimum match requirement on projects and competitive bonus points for opportunity-zone projects. She encouraged municipalities to identify projects early and flagged the Lowcountry HOME consortium’s April action-plan schedule for single-family rehabilitation and new-construction priorities; she asked Bluffton staff and council to contact Lowcountry COG if the town wants the consortium to consider specific housing or infrastructure projects.
