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Strafford County seeks fast-moving CDBG-CV and tax-credit options to support warming center operations
Summary
Commissioners discussed applying for special COVID-era CDBG funds that can pay operating costs for warming centers and shelters, reviewed obstacles to using regular state CDBG dollars for a facility on county property inside Dover, and asked CDFA staff for a rapid follow-up to determine eligibility and prepare a Dec. 1 application if feasible.
Commissioner George (County commissioner) and other Strafford County commissioners discussed federal and state funding options on Oct. 9 after CDFA staff joined by Zoom to explain Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) rules and a limited round of pandemic-era CDBG-CV funds.
Molly (CDFA staff) told commissioners that regular state CDBG allocations typically cannot fund projects located inside HUD entitlement communities and that mortgage of beneficiaries matters: "the federal regulations ... say that entitlement jurisdictions may only receive incidental benefit from a state CDBG funded activity," meaning a majority of beneficiaries must be from non-entitlement areas. She added that the normal public-facilities rounds are competitive and generally cap requests at $500,000, while the typical statewide annual allocation yields roughly $1.3 million to $1.4 million for public-facilities awards.
That constraint matters because the county's proposed new warming center would be on county-owned land inside the City of Dover, and…
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