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Commissioners approve CDBG application, blight declaration and associated documents for downtown Abilene commercial-rehab project
Summary
Dickinson County authorized the county to apply for CDBG funding for a commercial rehabilitation project on Northwest Third Street in Abilene, approved a contract for administration, a blight declaration and related assurances, and recorded an applicant cash match of $76,031.
Dickinson County commissioners approved a package of motions authorizing a Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) application and related documents for a commercial rehabilitation project at 109–113 Northwest Third Street in Abilene.
County staff said the action formally makes the county the CDBG grantee and permits the county chairman to sign application documents and related forms. The project application includes an applicant cash match of $76,031, county staff said in the meeting's presentation.
Janelle Dockendorf, Dickinson County administrator, and county planning staff reviewed the set of forms required for submission. The items before the commission included a contract for administration (to be executed if the project is funded), a resolution to apply, a blight-declaration resolution (used to meet CDBG eligibility under "blight" criteria), an anti-displacement plan, and supporting documents such as a statement of assurances and a determination of level of environmental review.
A county planning presenter summarized the paperwork and the timing: "What is before you today are basically the forms that require signature that go into the application... The application fee, paid to us for preparing the application and then also the environmental review is being paid for by the property owner... This will be on the budget under the grant fund side of the budget," the presenter said. The presenter also said the application would be submitted the following week.
The commission voted to: - Approve the contract for administration that will be used if the project is funded. - Adopt Resolution 091825 (resolution to apply) authorizing the county to submit the CDBG application and authorizing the county's chief elected official to sign application documents. - Adopt Resolution 091825A, a blight declaration for the property that establishes the project's eligibility under CDBG blight criteria. - Adopt the CDBG-required anti-displacement plan and sign supporting documents (statement of assurances, determination of level of environmental review, disclosure report and county attestation).
The minutes record the votes as carried after voice votes: "All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Motion carries." The record shows unanimous approval on those items.
County staff said the applicant will provide a letter documenting the cash match and that if the project is funded the county will post contracts and the eventual construction contract will be added to the grant file.
Staff noted several administrative points for the public: some of the documents can be signed by the county chairman without separate motions once the resolution to apply is adopted; the county, as the grantee, will be responsible for overseeing federal CDBG compliance should the award be made. County staff also said a previously discussed additional resolution listing property-owner operational-maintenance assurances was not required after discussion with CDBG staff.
Commissioners approved the package of items and directed staff to sign and submit the application.
