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Linn County signs letter returning $125,000 STARS youth job-training grant after income-verification shortfall
Summary
The county approved a formal letter to return a $100,000 CDBG award and the county’s $25,000 match for a STARS youth job-training project after insufficient income survey responses prevented meeting CDBG low/moderate income requirements.
The Linn County Board of County Commissioners voted May 12 to sign a letter formally returning a Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) award tied to the county’s STARS youth job-training program because income surveys showed the required 51% low- to moderate-income threshold could not be verified.
Carrie Spoon of the Southeast Kansas Regional Planning Commission told the commissioners the award—$100,000 from CDBG and a $25,000 county match budgeted for administration—had…
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