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Board balks at transfer plan for Foothill Terrace grant, orders staff to re-open funding
Summary
After a lengthy public and staff exchange, Calaveras County supervisors declined to amend a subaward that would have treated a 2017 property acquisition as eligible for REAP reimbursement, and directed staff to pursue alternatives including termination of the existing subaward and reissuing a notice of funding availability.
Calaveras County supervisors on Feb. 10 declined to approve an amendment that would have let Stanislaus Regional Housing Authority (SRHA) transfer ownership of the Foothill Terrace property into a limited partnership and thereby qualify a 2017 acquisition for reimbursement from a regional REAP (REIT) grant. Instead the board instructed staff to return with options to terminate the current subaward and reissue a competitive notice of funding availability.
Kathy Gallino, economic and community development director, told the board the county executed a REAP agreement worth $1,747,972.21 in September 2024 to support predevelopment costs for workforce housing and had previously subawarded funds to SRHA in June 2025. Gallino said SRHA later proposed a limited partnership with Great Valley Housing Development Corporation to permit reimbursement for acquisition costs incurred in 2017; she said she sought and received a legal determination from the state Department of Housing and Community…
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