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Committee reviews CDBG and ARPA amendments; city to reprogram repaid HUD funds
Summary
Community development staff asked the finance committee to approve moving prior-year Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and coronavirus-era funds into current projects, explained HUD repayments and reprogramming rules, and described several projects that will use the funds.
Williamsport's finance committee on May 20 considered resolutions to amend multiple years of the city's CDBG and CDBG-CV annual action plans so previously obligated or repaid funds can be reprogrammed into current projects.
Valerie Fessler of the community development department and Jamie Trotter, who prepared the amendments, explained that HUD monitoring required the city to repay some funds that were determined ineligible. "When the funds are repaid, then they go back into the year…
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