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BENNINGTON â Four projects in Bennington County will receive a total of $600,000 in federal funding through the state Department of Housing and Community Development, part of the $2.9 million in grants announced last week by Gov. Phil Scott and the Department of Housing and Community Development.
The largest of the four grants â $500,000 in Community Development Block Grant money â has been awarded to Shires Housing to set up new shelter for families in transition. After purchasing a historic house in Bennington, Shires intends to renovate the residenceâs seven units and construct two new units for clients of the Bennington County Coalition for the Homeless.
Journalists are taught to shy away from superlatives we canât back up with hard numbers, but I feel safe calling this the sleepiest budget season I have ever covered on the City Hall beat.
Members of the Board of Aldermen did not find much to quibble with in Mayor David Allaireâs deliberately lean budget proposal, and most of the different sections flew through committee untouched. It wasnât even controversial when the Public Safety Committee cut â temporarily â another officer from the chronically understaffed police department.
The Board of Aldermen voted this week to send a finalized budget of $22,202,608 to the voters in March. Alderman Sam Gorruso cast the sole dissenting vote.
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BENNINGTON â Several projects in Windham County and elsewhere throughout the state will receive federal funding through the state Department of Housing and Community Development as part of the $2.9 million in grants announced last week by Gov. Phil Scott and the Department of Housing and Community Development.
The Department of Housing and Community Development awards approximately $7 million annually in competitive grants to Vermont cities and towns. The grants are funded through the federal CDBG program, administered by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Funding is targeted to address the needs of lower-income Vermonters.
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Vermont Business Magazine Governor Phil Scott and the Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) has announced over $2.9 million in Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) awards to 10 communities in seven different counties and $243,853 in CDBG CARES Act funding (CDBG-CV) awards to eight communities throughout the state.
DHCD awards approximately $7 million annually in competitive grants to Vermont cities and towns. The grants are funded through the federal CDBG program, administered by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Funding is targeted to address the needs of lower income Vermonters and represents a true partnership between the federal, state and local government.
Three locally based agencies, the Mentor Connector, the Turning Point Center and the Homeless Prevention Center, were chosen to receive grants from the Bowse Health Trust, an organization with ties to Rutland Regional Medical Center.
Jamie Bentley, community impact coordinator for the community health improvement team at the hospital, said the COVID-19 pandemic made things different this year causing a delay in the process.
COVID was added to the list of priorities when assessing the applications.
Members of the trust committee use the Community Health Needs Assessment to identify priorities. But the last was done in 2018 before the pandemic.
COVID joined priorities that already had been determined through the assessment like housing and health care; supporting the aging community; child care and parenting; and mental health including substance abuse.