CDBG presentation scheduled
LEWISBURG - A comprehensive overview of the commonwealth's Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program will be presented at Tools for Compliance, a two-day training session in Lewisburg, July 19 and 20. It is being offered by SEDA-COG, which has nearly 30 years of CDBG experience.
"County and municipal officials know how complex the CDBG program can be," said Bill Seigel, who heads SEDA-COG's community development program. "There are monitoring requirements, compliance issues and a number of related concerns. At Tools for Compliance, we'll look at every aspect of the CDBG program, and respond to questions about specific, local situations," he said.
The agenda for the first day includes:
- Program history and regulations.
- Eligibility and fundability.
- Grant administration and citizen participation.
- Environmental review.
Topics on the second day are:
- Minority and women's business enterprises.
- Section 3.
- Procurement.
- Davis-Bacon and related acts.
"The agenda has primarily been designed for elected officials, CDBG grant administrators and CDBG grant recipients," Seigel said. "Participants will also receive a bound desk reference and a CD containing hundreds of pages of model documents, guidelines and procedures developed through the experience of SEDA-COG's community development program."
Tools for Compliance will be held at the Union County Government Center, 155 N. 15th St. Registration is $275, for which the deadline is Tuesday, July 12. The registration form can be found at http://www.seda-cog.org/pages/communitydevelopment.aspx. Individuals may also contract SEDA-COG directly at 524-4491.