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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, Planner, Long -Range Planning <br />DATE: April 7, 2021 <br />SUBJECT: REQUEST TO APPROVE THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK <br />GRANT (CDBG) THIRD SET OF HOUSING REHABILITATION BIDS (3 <br />BIDS) FOR 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 April 2& 2021. <br />DESCRIPTION AND CONDITIONS <br />On July 10th 2018, the BCC authorized the Comm unity 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 courity staff to undertake the required steps to proceed <br />with block grant implementation. These steps included soliciting and obtaining intake application <br />forms from income qualified homeowners in the unincorporated portions of the County (during the <br />month of October 2019), ranking those applicants, procuring services from abstractors, lead-based <br />paint inspectors, and general contractors, soliciting for qualified contractors to bid on rehab projects, <br />soliciting and awarding bids for several of the housing units, and undertaking rehabilitation of those <br />housing units. I <br />23 <br />