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Community
Development Block Grant Entitlement Program
2008
Entitlement Action Plan | Back to Main Page
Since
its inception in 1978, the Town of Colonie Community Development Block
Grant (CDBG) program has received $15,104.303. The Town of Colonie is
an entitlement community and is allocated a specified amount of CDBG
funds each year based on a formula which includes population (must exceed
50,000), extent of poverty, growth lag, housing overcrowding, and age
of housing. Community Development Block Grant Entitlement funds may
be used for residential rehabilitation, public facilities and improvements,
removal of architectural barriers, and public services. To be eligible,
all projects must either benefit low or moderate-income persons, prevent
or eliminate slums or blight, or meet the criteria of an urgent need.
Slums and blighted areas and urgent needs must be so designated by the
Town. At least 70 percent of the funds must benefit low-moderate income
persons that is those persons whose income is under 80 percent of the
Albany Schenectady Troy area median income.
2008
Entitlement Action Plan
PUBLIC
SERVICES:
1
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School
Age Child Care Scholarship Programs
Operated by Colonie Youth Center, Inc.
Townwide |
$23,000 |
2. |
Bright Horizons Adult Day Services
Operated by Colonie Senior Service Centers, Inc.
Townwide
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$13,500 |
| 3. |
Big Brothers Big Sisters Youth Mentoring Program Operated by Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Capital Region, Inc. Townwide. |
$8,000 |
| 4. |
Village of Colonie Handicap Accessible Senior Van Purchase of a handicap accessible senior citizen van
Census Tract139.01, 139.02 |
$13,960 |
PUBLIC FACILITIES AND IMPROVEMENTS
| 1. |
Village of Menands Clifford Road Sewer Line Project Replacement of the sewer line on the south side of Clifford Road.
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$10,000 |
REHABILITATION
ACTIVITIES:
| 1. |
Residential
Rehabilitation Assistance to qualified low- and moderate-income
owner/occupied households in the Town and Villages
Townwide |
$243,385
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| ADMINISTRATION |
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$
77,900
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TOTAL
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$
389,745
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URL:
http://www.colonie.org/commdev/blockgrant.html
last updated 8/12/08
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