Wayne County committee approves reallocation of CDBG funds to projects in Grosse Hill Township and Southgate

The Wayne County Economic Development Committee voted to approve an amendment to the program year 2024 annual action plan to reallocate Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds to two local projects in Grosse Hill Township and the city of Southgate.

Stephanie Case, senior program manager for community development, told the committee the request would reallocate funds to two projects whose bids exceeded their original awards. She said the bid for Southgate came in about $60,000 over the award and the Grosse Hill Pool project about $42,000 over, and that staff planned to shift some projects from 2025 into 2024 to use remaining economic development funds (which staff described as roughly over $400,000 remaining).

The amendment is intended to cover bid shortfalls and to reassign unspent economic development allocations and program income to these projects. Assistant Director Fields asked whether monetary amounts could be included in the resolution to reduce downstream procurement questions; county counsel and staff said adding specific reallocation numbers to the resolution would be acceptable.

A motion to receive and file the notice of a proposed amendment to the Detroit master plan of policies preceded this item. For the CDBG reallocation, the committee moved and seconded the request for approval and adopted the amendment by voice vote. The meeting record states the motion carried.

The approval allows staff to move forward with updated agreements and procurement steps; the committee did not record a roll‑call vote or a breakdown of yes/no votes in the transcript. The committee next took up an unmanned aircraft systems readiness assessment contract with the Downriver Community Conference.