Department of Economic Opportunity, Departmental

 

DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY

Notice of Funding Availability

The Florida Department of Economic Opportunity (DEO) announces the availability of funding for non-entitlement units of local government under the Florida Small Cities Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program. DEO will make Federal Fiscal Year (FFY) 2018 funding available for the Neighborhood Revitalization, Housing Rehabilitation and Commercial Revitalization and the Economic Development program areas.

A total of $25 million dollars in FFY 2018 funding will be available to eligible applicants in the four program areas. The FFY 2018 list of non-entitlement units of local government is available on DEO’s website at www.FloridaJobs.org/CDBGApplicantInfo. The application process is conducted in accordance with sections 290.0401 – 290.048, Florida Statutes, and chapter 73C-23, Florida Administrative Code.

The FFY 2018 application cycle for all of the above-mentioned categories of funding will begin (“open”) on March 21, 2019, and end (“close”) at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time (ET) on May 6, 2019, (“the deadline date”). Funding requests must be submitted on the Florida Small Cities CDBG Application for Funding, Form SC-60 (February 2018), and they must be received by 5:00 p.m. ET on May 6, 2019. The application form is available on DEO’s website listed above.

Applications can be mailed or hand-delivered to DEO. 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. ET on May 6, 2019, at the Small Cities CDBG Program office in the Caldwell Building, 107 East Madison Street, Tallahassee. Two copies of the Application for Funding must be submitted, including at least one complete hard copy with original signatures. An electronic copy of the Application for Funding (in Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF format on a CD or USB drive) can be submitted as the second required copy of the application.

If you have questions, please contact Jason Seabolt, Small Cities CDBG Program Manager, at [phone] or [e-mail].