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INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, FLORIDA MEMORANDUM TO: Jason E. Brown; County Administrator THROUGH: Stan Boling, AICP Community Development Director THROUGH: Sasan Rohani, AICP Chief, Long -Range Planning FROM: Bill Schutt, AICP Chief, Long Range Planning DATE: February 21, 2019 SUBJECT: Request for Authorization for the Board Chairman to Sign a Department of Economic Opportunity/Indian River County Housing Rehabilitation Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Agreement It is requested that the following information be given formal consideration by the Board of County Commissioners at its regular meeting of March 5, 2019. BACKGROUND On July 10, 2018, the Board of County Commissioners (BCC) authorized the Community Development Director to submit a Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) application in the Housing Rehabilitation category to the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity for its consideration. Since then, county staff and Guardian Community Resource Management, Inc., the county's prior CDBG grant administration consultant that agreed to prepare the grant application at no cost to the County, prepared the proposed Housing Rehabilitation CDBG application, and the Board approved its transmittal to DEO for consideration. Recently, DEO notified staff that Indian River County's CDBG application for Housing Rehabilitation funding in the amount of $750,000 was approved. On February 15, 2019, DEO sent the County a proposed DEO/Indian River County CDBG agreement. That agreement, once executed, will constitute a contract between DEO and the County, setting forth each party's responsibility with respect to grant implementation. Associated with this CDBG housing grant, staff has prepared a separate BCC agenda item for a contract with the selected consultant, Guardian Community Resource Management, Inc., for grant administration services. 61