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Board adopts language access plan, hears change to CDBG plan for public health facility
Summary
County staff told commissioners the CDBG application will seek $1 million to repurpose an existing building under a 10-year purchase-lease with Village Partners LLC; the board adopted a language access plan required for the grant application.
Melissa presented updated information on the county's Community Development Block Grant application for a public health facility, saying the county shifted from buying land and building new to a purchase-lease of an existing building owned by Village Partners LLC (the former Fred's/church site).
Melissa said the lease would be $12,400 per month for 10 years and that the contract includes an option to purchase in January 2035; the purchase price would be the average of an appraisal done December 2024 and a second appraisal to be done in December 2034. She said the CDBG application seeks $1,000,000 to repurpose and reconstruct the building for the health department and that the Georgia Department of Community Affairs granted pre-award cost approval, meaning eligible procurement costs spent in advance may be reimbursed if the grant is awarded. "Now the approval is in no way a guarantee that we get it," Melissa said, "but it will make sure that anything we do between now and October '25 when the award is made...will be able to actually still submit those reimbursements."
After questions about next steps, the board held the public hearing (there were no public speakers) and adopted the required language access plan by motion. Chair asked staff to sign and return the plan to GMRC, the agency preparing the application.
The action was procedural and intended to clear a grant-application requirement; the board did not take a vote on the grant itself during the meeting.
