Hocking County approves $120,000 in CDBG allocation matches for Laurelville, Logan grant applications

Hocking County commissioners voted to allocate $120,000 in federal Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) allocation funds on May 20 to support two competitive state grant applications, county meeting minutes and the meeting transcript show. The county will earmark $82,400 to help the Village of Laurelville make a Critical Infrastructure (CI) grant application viable and $37,600 as the county match for the City of Logan’s Neighborhood Revitalization Grant (NRG) application.

The recommendation came from HACAP community development coordinators Jeff (HACAP) and Nathan Simons, who presented options to the commissioners and described timelines. “The CI grant has a ceiling of 500,000. So in order to make that project viable, Laurelville is requesting $82,400 in allocation funding to match that grant,” Simons said during the presentation. He also said the county’s available CDBG allocation for project funding is $120,000.

Why it matters: the county’s allocation funds are intended to be leveraged as local matches to secure larger state or federal grants. HACAP noted that if both competitive applications are successful, the county’s $120,000 could leverage roughly $1.25 million in project funding, according to comments during the meeting.

Details of the requests and alternatives

HACAP said the Village of Laurelville’s estimate for the CI-type work is about $582,400; because the CI grant…