ST. PAUL — Gov. Tim Walz and Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan on Tuesday introduced greater than $20 million in funding for small cities, townships and counties in Minnesota. Small Cities Improvement Program (SCDP) grants can be used for infrastructure and rehabilitation initiatives in 34 cities, townships and counties in Minnesota.
“From St. Peter to Swanville, Minnesota does finest when all of our neighborhoods are thriving,” Walz mentioned in a press launch. “These grants go on to small communities to assist with infrastructure initiatives and preserve our cities rising and thriving. We work to make Minnesota one of the best state to stay, work and lift a household, regardless of the place you reside.
“By investing in initiatives that can proceed to maneuver Minnesota ahead, this program will meet the present and rising wants of Minnesota communities,” Flanagan mentioned within the launch. “Minnesota is in a robust financial place and we’ll proceed to work to ensure all of our cities thrive.”
SCDP grants can be administered by the Division of Jobs and Financial Improvement and are a part of the U.S. Division of Housing and City Improvement’s (HUD) Neighborhood Improvement Block Grant Program. The grants are administered by DEED’s Small City Improvement Program Unit. SCDP grants pay for the rehabilitation of housing and industrial buildings and the updating of public infrastructure in small cities and counties.
The SCDP awards introduced on Tuesday whole $20,820,999 and are for use for owner-occupied housing rehabilitation, rental housing rehabilitation, industrial rehabilitation, public facility enchancment initiatives, group facilities and initiatives of streetscape.
Minnesota communities that can obtain grants embody:
- Ada: $506,000, rehabilitation of owner-occupied housing
- Balaton: $599,955, owned housing and rental rehabilitation
- Bellechester: $600,000, enhancements to public services
- Cannon Falls: $591,675, owner-occupied housing rehabilitation
- Cass Lake: $345,000, rehabilitation of owner-occupied housing
- Cloquet: $483,649, enchancment of public services
- Dalton: $600,000, enhancements to public services
- Danube: $600,000, enhancements to public services
- Concord: $1,017,750, owner-occupied housing and industrial rehabilitation
- Harris: $600,000, enhancements to public services
- Hendricks/Garvin: $1,198,325, owner-occupied housing, rental housing rehabilitation and public facility enhancements
- Jackson: $1,035,000, owner-occupied housing and industrial rehabilitation
- Karlstad $507,380, owner-occupied housing and rental rehabilitation
- Kiester: $600,000, enhancements to public services
- Mahnomen: $600,000, enhancements to public services
- Maynard: $115,000, rental rehabilitation
- Mazeppa: $595,125, house possession and rental rehabilitation
- Mountain Lake: $759,000, owner-occupied housing and industrial rehabilitation
- Newfolden: $880,900, owner-occupied housing and industrial rehabilitation
- Ortonville: $782,000, owner-occupied housing and industrial rehabilitation
- Princeton: $600,000, enhancements to public services
- Rollingstone/Altura: $581,900, owner-occupied housing and rental rehabilitation
- Roosevelt: $132,250, rehabilitation of owner-occupied housing
- Saint-Pierre: $575,000, rental rehabilitation
- Sanborn: $600,000, enhancements to public services
- Sandstone: $517,500, owner-occupied housing and industrial rehabilitation
- Sebeka: $609,500, owner-occupied housing, rental and industrial rehabilitation
- Slayton: $737,840, owner-occupied housing, rental and industrial rehabilitation
- Strandquist: $253,000, rehabilitation of owner-occupied housing
- Swanville: $546,250, owner-occupied housing, rental and industrial rehabilitation
- Swanville: $600,000, enhancements to public services
- Taconite: $600,000, enhancements to public services
- Thief River Falls: $600,000, rental rehabilitation
- Roseau County: $563,500, rehabilitation of owner-occupied housing
- Township of Twin Lakes: $287,500, rehabilitation of owner-occupied housing
Cities and townships with fewer than 50,000 residents and counties with fewer than 200,000 residents can apply for SCDP grants. Eligible initiatives should meet one of many following three aims: profit individuals with low and modest incomes; eradicate slums and degraded situations; or eradicate an pressing risk to public well being or security.
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