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County hears CDBG overview as officials plan 2025 project review
Summary
Tanya Troop, project coordinator for CDECOG, told the Northumberland County Board of Commissioners on June 3 that the county receives roughly $600,000 to $700,000 a year in Community Development Block Grant funding and that the program supports a wide range of housing, infrastructure and public-service projects.
Tanya Troop, project coordinator for CDECOG, told the Northumberland County Board of Commissioners on June 3 that the county receives roughly $600,000 to $700,000 a year in Community Development Block Grant funding and that the program supports a wide range of housing, infrastructure and public-service projects.
The presentation explained CDBG’s origin in federal law and how funds in Northumberland County are split between entitlement jurisdictions and “on behalf” allocations to non-entitlement places. Troop said the program’s three principal national objectives are benefit to low- and moderate-income persons, elimination of slum and blight, and urgent need. She told commissioners, “Northumberland County gets roughly 6 to 700000 dollars a year in CDBG funding,” and that the county now records projects using 2020 census tract data.
The program’s local footprint, she said, includes 24 projects currently in various phases — environmental review, engineering, bidding or nearing substantial completion — totaling about…
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