DEPARTMENT: Physical Development Administration
FILE TYPE: Consent Action
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Approval Of Amendments To 2021 Dakota County HOME Consortium Program
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PURPOSE/ACTION REQUESTED
Approve substantial amendments to the 2021 HOME Investment Partnerships (HOME) Program.
SUMMARY
The Dakota County Community Development Agency (CDA) administers the HOME Program on behalf of Dakota County and the Dakota County HOME Consortium, which includes the counties of Anoka, Dakota, Ramsey, and Washington and the City of Woodbury. The HOME Program requires that 15 percent of a jurisdiction's HOME allocation be used for eligible HOME activities by nonprofit organizations that qualify as Community Housing Development Organizations (CHDO) and the Dakota County HOME Consortium has set aside these funds to be used by certified CHDOs.
There are three types of substantial amendments to the CDBG and HOME Programs permissible by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD): the creation of a new activity or cancellation of an activity; increase or decrease of an activity budget by $100,000 or more at one time; and change to the location and/or national objective of an activity.
The 2021 HOME CHDO funds for the Dakota County HOME Consortium were pooled and budgeted to be used for a rental project in Washington County by the Community Action Partnership Agency of Ramsey and Washington Counties (CAPRW), a certified CHDO. The 2021 CAPRW CHDO activity will not be moving forward, and the purpose of this amendment is to cancel the 2021 CAPRW CHDO activity and transfer $362,653 of 2021 CHDO funds to a newly created 2021 CHDO Rental activity for an unspecified rental project. Both Dakota County and Ramsey County are working with their respective Community Action Partnership Agencies to identify potential CHDO activities, but no commitments have been made at this time.
The CDA Citizen Participation Plan requires public notification of substantial amendments for the HOME...
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