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Madison opens procurement responses for owner-occupied rehab grant; two bids announced
Summary
City staff announced two responses to procurement requirements for an OCRA owner-occupied rehabilitation grant: a radon/home-inspection bid from Hoosier Radon Remediation and a grant-administration response from the regional planning commission. The city applied for about $350,000 and expects an award in late April–early May.
Erica Klein, a city staff presenter, told the council the city of Madison submitted an application to the Office of Community and Rural Affairs (OCRA) for an owner-occupied rehabilitation grant and must publicly open procurement responses as part of OCRA’s process. "The city of Madison received two responses to the procurement process that OCRA has," Klein said, reading proposals at the council meeting.
Klein said the city received one response for radon and home inspections — from Hoosier Radon Remediation — and one response for grant-administration services from the Southern Indiana Regional Planning Commission (named in the transcript as SERPSEY and also described as the regional planning commission). She said the grant application seeks roughly $350,000 and that OCRA told the city to expect a decision in late April or early May.
Klein urged residents to apply or complete the survey linked on the city website and the planning commission’s site, noting that if the city is not awarded the grant, survey responses help document community need. She also said that combining the potential OCRA award with PACE program dollars and redevelopment-commission contributions would yield about $1 million for preservation work this year, with approximately two-thirds of that targeted at low- and moderate-income households. "If you combine that with our PACE program and contributions from the redevelopment commission, we'll have a million dollars to spend on preservation this year and about two-thirds of it is targeting low to moderate income households," Klein said.
The city will review the RFQs internally and with OCRA; no council action was required at the meeting beyond the public opening of proposals. Staff said application materials and survey links are available at city hall and on the city and regional planning commission websites.
Next steps: the city will await OCRA’s award decision (staff expected notice in late April or early May) and will review the two proposals with OCRA and internally before any selection or contract award.
