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Avery County approves closeout of 2021 CDBG Neighborhood Revitalization grant after partial completion
Summary
Officials adopted the closeout for the 2021 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Neighborhood Revitalization Program (grant 20-C-3626). The county received $750,000 in 2021; $514,692.25 was spent on three replacement homes and $206,890.64 will be returned to the Department of Commerce.
Avery County commissioners adopted documents closing out a 2021 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Neighborhood Revitalization Program grant on Jan. 6, stating the county had been awarded $750,000 in November 2021 to provide housing repair assistance to very low- and low-income residents.
A staff presentation said three homes were replaced using program funds. The county expended $514,692.25 for reconstruction services and $28,417.11 for planning and administration. The presentation said $206,890.64 remained in the project budget and will be deobligated and returned to the North Carolina Department of Commerce for future CDBG programs.
County staff explained procurement problems limited the number of completed rehabs. According to the presentation, the original plan selected six homes: three for replacement and three for rehabilitation. The county could not secure contractors for the three rehabilitation projects, and the required sole-source negotiation requests submitted to the Department of Commerce took several months to be approved. The presentation says a sole-source permission request submitted in February did not receive approval until July 11, and the county’s extension window left little time for procurement before a later hurricane affected some properties.
The closeout summary listed an average cost per replaced home of $168,564.80. The county stated it will seek additional CDBG funding in future cycles and noted possible disaster-related funding from the governor and the Department of Commerce.
County Manager Philip Berry Jr. and other staff described the effort as time sensitive and said procurement delays limited work on the planned rehabs.
