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Auburn staff seek HUD Section 108 loan of up to $3 million to renovate Auburn Resource Center
Summary
City staff proposed applying for a HUD Section 108 loan to redevelop the Auburn Resource Center into a multi‑service facility with community court space and provider offices; staff estimate construction near $2.4 million and plan to repay from annual CDBG entitlement and program income.
Auburn’s human services director and CDBG coordinator asked the City Council on June 9 to approve submitting a Section 108 loan application to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to rebuild the Auburn Resource Center (ARC) and adjacent community court space.
Kent Hay, Human Services Director, and Jody Davidson, CDBG coordinator, said the project would be a public‑facility reconstruction to convert the ARC into staffed provider offices, a secure community court room that doubles as meeting space, and private offices for service providers. Hay said the city applied for a maximum $3,000,000 HUD Section 108 loan because HUD allows borrowers to request up to five times their annual CDBG allocation; Auburn’s current annual CDBG…
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