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The Housing CDBG application requires the County to adopt a CDBG Housing Assistance Plan (HAP) that outlines all applicable standards and guidelines that will apply to housing rehabilitation and replacement activities that may be funded with CDBG funds. The County HAP must be submitted to the state with the County's CDBG application. To meet this requirement, a proposed HAP was drafted and is included as Attachment #3 to this item. In addition to addressing the proposed use of regular CDBG Housing Rehabilitation funds that are part of the attached grant application, that HAP also addresses use of potential future funding through special allocations from the CDBG Disaster Recovery Initiative (DRI) program. This includes potential CDBG DR (Disaster Recovery) funding related to Hurricane Irma. At the July 10, 2018 second public hearing, the Board must obtain public input on the county's proposed Housing Rehabilitation CDBG application, and to move the application forward must approve the application and approve the HAP for submittal to DEO. ANALYSIS CDBG Application Recently, county staff and Guardian Community Resource Management, Inc., the county's prior CDBG grant administration consultant that has agreed to prepare the grant application at no cost to the County, prepared the proposed Housing Rehabilitation CDBG application (Attachment #2). As drafted, the CDBG application requests approval of a $750,000 grant for the rehabilitation of a minimum of eleven (11) owner -occupied housing units in unincorporated Indian River County for very low and low to moderate income households. The below table lists the proposed activities for which CDBG funds will be used. Proposed Activities Activity Budget (Approximately) Housing Rehabilitation $615,500 Temporary Relocation $22,000 Administration (Up to 15% of overall grant) $112,500 TOTAL CDBG BUDGET $750,000 Matching Funds By contributing a financial match to the project, the county has the opportunity to improve its application score. With the maximum match of $50,000, the county can gain 25 additional application points and, therefore, improve the project's chances of being funded in this fiscal year. In the proposed CDBG application, the county commits $50,000 in SHIP funds to the proposed 42