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INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, FLORIDA <br />MEMORANDUM <br />TO: Jason E. Brown; County Administrator <br />THROUGH: Phillip J. Matson, AICP, Community Development Director <br />THROUGH: Bill Schutt, AICP, Chief, Long -Range Planning <br />FROM: Matt Kalap, Long Range Planner <br />DATE: December 7, 2020 <br />SUBJECT: REQUEST TO APPROVE THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK <br />GRANT (CDBG) APPLICANT LIST FOR CONFLICT OF INTEREST AND <br />THE SECOND SET OF HOUSING REHABILITATION BIDS (4 BIDS) FOR <br />THE COUNTY'S HOUSING REHABILITATION CDBG <br />It is requested that the following information be given formal consideration by the Indian River <br />County Board of County Commissioners (BCC) at its regular meeting of December 15th, 2020. <br />DESCRIPTION AND CONDITIONS <br />On July 10' 2018, the BCC authorized the Community Development Director to apply for a Housing <br />Rehabilitation Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) for the unincorporated portions of the <br />County. Subsequently, the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity (DEO) awarded a $750,000 <br />grant to the County and the County hired a CDBG consultant, Guardian Community Resource <br />Management to administer the grant. <br />Since then, the consultant has worked with county staff to undertake the required steps to proceed <br />with block grant implementation. These steps included soliciting and obtaining intake application <br />forms from homeowners in the unincorporated portions of the County (during the month of October <br />2019), ranking those applicants, procuring services from abstractors, lead-based paint inspectors, and <br />general contractors, soliciting for qualified contractors to bid on rehab projects, soliciting and <br />awarding bids for several of the housing units, and undertaking rehabilitation of those housing units. <br />124 <br />