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, 0 BOOK 109 PAGE 607 Revitalization. If awarded a grant in one of those three categories, the county may not apply for another grant in any of those three categories until the awarded grant is closed. As indicated previously, the Board of County Commissioners chose to apply for a Neighborhood Revitalization Community Development Block Grant. This type of grant is primarily for potable water and sanitary sewer installation or replacement (including hook-ups), street paving, and drainage improvements in low/moderate income neighborhoods. Funds may also be used to purchase and develop property as sites for low/moderate income housing. Other public improvements to infrastructure are also eligible, but are seldom funded Neighborhood Revitalization grants are awarded to communities on a competitive basis. All grant applications for this category must be received by the Department of Community Affairs (DCA) no later than June 30, 1999. Following is a breakdown of the scoring system used by DCA to rank Neighborhood Revitalization grant applications. Table 1: Scoring Breakdown for Neighborhood Revitalization Category Community -wide needs 250 points Program impact, Scope of Work, I.MI Benefit 650 points Outstanding performance in equal opportunity employment and housing 100 points Total points 1 1,000 points The second group consists only of the Economic Development category. This grant category is independent of the other three categories. In the same fiscal year that Indian River County applies for a grant in a category from the first group, the county may also choose to apply for fiords in the Economic Development category. In fact, the county has approved an application for an Economic Development grant in this fiscal year. A public hearing was held before the Board of County Commissioners on April 20, 1999. At that public hearing, the county's Economic Development CDBG application was approved for submittal to DCA. At the January 19 public hearing, staff had indicated that the Neighborhood Revitalization CDBG application would be for drainage and paving improvements in portions of the Oslo Park Subdivision. Since that public hearing, the county's CDBG consultant has informed staff that a drainage and road paving project anywhere in Indian River County will not receive a high enough score to be fimded. This is a result of the county's low community wide needs score that is used by DCA in its scoring system and the fact that drainage and road paving projects do not receive high program impact scores. To have a chance at receiving grant fiords, the county's consultant has recommended that the county maximize its program impact score. Potable water and sanitary sewer projects receive the highest program impact scores. Since Oslo Park Subdivision is already served by the county water system, staff reviewed other area of the county that are in need of potable water improvements. Staff identified four neighborhoods in the Wabasso area that are in need of potable water improvements. These areas are identified in the following table: Table 2: Proposed Project Area Neighborhood # of Possible Beneficiaries Map John W. Massey Jr. Subdivision 13 Attachment I Hill Side Subdivision 23 Attachment 2 Wabasso Low's Subdivision 11 Attachment 3 An area east of 64" Avenue and north of CR 510 126 Attachment 4 Total # of Possible Beneficiaries 173 While the first three neighborhoods are platted subdivisions, the fourth neighborhood is not platted and does not have any public rights-of-way. Easements will have to be established within that neighborhood in order to lay county water lines in that neighborhood. County staff have already initiated the process to establish the necessary utility easements. JUNE 229 1999 46 0