Application Process and Administrative Requirements

 

DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY

Division of Community Development

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73C-23.0041Application Process and Administrative Requirements

Notice of Funding Availability

The Department of Economic Opportunity (DEO) announces funding availability under the Florida Small Cities Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program. The Department will make Federal Fiscal Year (FFY) 2013 funding available for the Neighborhood Revitalization ($9.06 million), Housing Rehabilitation ($4.10 million) and Commercial Revitalization ($0.73 million) program areas. In order to be eligible to apply in these categories, units of local government cannot have an open CDBG grant in any of the three program areas or an open Planning and Design grant.

The Department also has approximately $8.88 million available in the Economic Development (ED) program area for job creation/retention activities. A total of $22.78 million in FFY 2013 funding will be available to eligible applicants in the four program areas.

Local governments must meet specific population requirements to be eligible to apply and cannot be participants in a CDBG Urban Entitlement Program. The population requirements are: cities with not more than 50,000 residents and counties with not more than 200,000 residents in the unincorporated areas. The application process is conducted in accordance with Sections 290.0401 – 290.048, Florida Statutes, and Chapter 73C-23, Florida Administrative Code.

The Federal Fiscal Year 2013 application cycle for all of the above-mentioned categories of funding will begin (“open”) on January 27, 2014, and end (“close”) at 5:00 p.m. EST on March 12, 2014, (“the deadline date”). Applications must be submitted on the forms that are available on the Department’s website and must be received by 5:00 p.m. EST on March 12, 2014. Mailing address: Florida Small Cities CDBG Program, Department of Economic Opportunity, 107 East Madison Street – MSC 400, Tallahassee, Florida 32399-6508. Hand-delivered applications must be received by

5:00 p.m. EST on March 12, 2014, at the Small Cities CDBG Program office, currently located in Room 243, Collins Building, 107 West Gaines Street, Tallahassee. An electronic copy of the application in Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF format (on a CD) can be submitted as the second copy of the application, as long as one complete hard copy with original signatures is submitted.

In the event that funds remain available in the Economic Development category after the application deadline date, ED applications submitted after the deadline date will be reviewed, and eligible applications will be awarded funding on a first-come, first-served basis.

An additional $0.60 million has been designated as Emergency Set-Aside funding for state-declared emergencies. These funds will be available for emergencies that occur between April 1, 2013, and March 31, 2014. Any funds in the set-aside for which a notice of intent to submit an emergency application has not been received by March 31, 2014, will be reallocated in accordance with Section 290.044(4), Florida Statutes.

If you have questions, please contact the Small Cities CDBG grants management staff or Roger Doherty, Planning Manager, at [phone] or by email at [e-mail].