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Shawnee to reprogram CDBG funds toward infrastructure to protect federal entitlement status
Summary
City staff recommended and commissioners approved a substantial amendment to Shawnees CDBG consolidated plans to shift funding from individual home rehabilitation to community infrastructure (parks, sidewalks, water/sewer) after capacity problems threatened entitlement status.
Shawnees commission approved a substantial amendment to its Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) consolidated and action plans to move the majority of CDBG funding from individualized housing-rehabilitation projects to larger community infrastructure and public-works projects.
CDBG manager Kellen Wincy told commissioners staff made the change because staff reductions and a lack of qualified contractors had made…
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