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Community Development Block Grant ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT for Entitlement Communities March 2011 Participating in the Webinar Call will last approximately 90 minutes. All callers are muted due to the high number of participants.

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Community Development Block Grant

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT for Entitlement Communities March 2011

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Participating in the Webinar

  • Call will last approximately 90 minutes.
  • All callers are “muted” due to the high number of

participants.

  • The slides are posted on the Community

Connections website at:

http://www.comcon.org/programs/economic.html

  • Webinar will be recorded for future use and

made available for viewing /downloading.

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Participating in the Webinar

  • If you are having audio difficulties, use telephone instead of

your computer.

  • If you have questions on the material that is covered today,

you are welcome to submit them throughout the presentation using the “questions” function on the GoToWebinar toolbar.

  • A resource advisor will forward some questions to presenters

to answer at the end of the webinar.

  • HUD will be developing additional guidance on Economic

Development.

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Community Development Block Grant

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT for Entitlement Communities March 2011

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Overview of Today’s Presentation

  • Eligible Activities
  • National Objectives
  • Underwriting Guidelines
  • Public Benefit Standards
  • Other Requirements

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Eligible Economic Development Activities

  • Special economic development activities
  • Technical assistance to businesses
  • Microenterprise activities
  • Commercial rehabilitation
  • Community-based development organizations
  • Infrastructure to assist businesses
  • Job training

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SPECIAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES

  • Recipient or subrecipient activities

– Acquire, construct, rehabilitate, reconstruct or install commercial/industrial buildings or equipment

  • For-profit assistance
  • Economic development services in

support of economic development activities

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SPECIAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (cont)

  • Special economic development provides

flexible business assistance:

  • Grants
  • Loans
  • Loan Guarantees
  • Technical Assistance & Support Services
  • May meet several different national
  • bjectives; depends on business and location
  • Triggers the requirement for public benefit

standards

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TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO BUSINESSES

  • Helps reduce risk of business failure
  • Often focused on business plan development,

legal, and/or accounting issues

  • Often in conjunction with financial assistance
  • Critical for programs directed to start-ups

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TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO BUSINESSES (cont)

  • Under CDBG:

– As part of special economic development

  • Caveat: Must meet public benefit standards

– As a public service – Through a CBDO

  • Must also meet public benefit standards

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COMMERCIAL REHABILITATION

  • Rehabilitate publicly or privately-owned

commercial/industrial buildings - §570.202(a)(3)

  • If building is private for-profit business:

– Rehabilitation limited to exterior of building and correction of code violations

– Other improvements must be carried out under the

special economic development category §570.203

  • Not subject to public benefit standards if

carried out under §570.202(a)(3)

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MICROENTERPRISE ASSISTANCE

  • CDBG can fund microenterprise assistance
  • Microenterprise =

– Owners or persons who work toward developing, expanding, or stabilizing a business – A commercial enterprise, with employees (including the owner)

  • Note: this definition differs from SBA

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MICROENTERPRISE ASSISTANCE (cont)

  • May provide assistance as loans, grants and
  • ther forms of financial support
  • Other support activities eligible:

– TA, advice, and business services to owners and persons developing microenterprises – General support to owner and persons developing microenterprises – Training and TA to build recipient and subrecipient capacity

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MICROENTERPRISE ASSISTANCE (cont’)

  • Can do TA and training to increase capacity of

recipient/subrecipient to do microenterprise programs

  • No limit on amount or type of CDBG

loan/grant to each microenterprise

  • Not subject to public benefit test if separate

program under §570.201(o)

  • Owner not required to be LMI, but remember

must meet a national objective

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COMMUNITY BASED DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATIONS

  • CBDOs may carry out three kinds of projects:

– Community economic development – Neighborhood revitalization – Energy conservation

  • If job training done through a CBDO, doesn’t

count against public services cap

  • CBDO economic development activities do

trigger public benefit standards

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INFRASTRUCTURE FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

  • Roads, streets, sewers that are:

– Leading to business location – Within an industrial park – On a business site

  • If public facility must be owned by public

agency/nonprofit

  • If owned by business, conduct as special economic

development

  • Triggers the public benefit standard if using the jobs

national objective standard and spend more than $10,000/job

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JOB TRAINING

  • Help unemployed or under-employed gain

skills to meet labor market demands

  • Linked to job placement
  • TA and entrepreneurial training to owners
  • f micro-enterprises

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JOB TRAINING (cont)

  • As a public service -- §570.201(e)
  • As part of special economic development

project -- §570.203 (c)

  • By CBDOs -- §570.204
  • As part of micro-enterprise activities --

§570.201(o)

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Economic Development National Objectives

Every CDBG Activity Must Meet A National Objective:

  • Principally Benefit Low/Moderate

Income Persons

  • Eliminate Slums/Blight
  • Address Urgent Need

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ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: LOW/ MODERATE INCOME JOBS

  • Economic development projects typically fall

under Low/Mod Job Creation/Retention

  • 51% of jobs must be for LMI persons
  • Based on family income, not salary of the job
  • Full-Time-Equivalent, and permanent positions

– 2 half-time jobs = 1 FTE – Not construction/spin-off/indirect jobs – Seasonal jobs OK if the person’s principal source of

yearly income

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ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: LOW/ MODERATE INCOME JOBS

  • Jobs Created and/or Retained
  • Documentation of Retained jobs:

– That jobs would actually be lost w/o assistance – Lost to the employees, not just to the grantee

  • Jobs Taken by LMI persons vs. Jobs Made

Available to LMI persons

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LMI JOB CREATION:

  • May presume employee is LMI if:

– Lives in Census tract with 70% LMI – Lives in Census tract within EZ/EC – Lives in Census tract with 20% poverty rate (30%

poverty if it includes the CBD) and evidences pervasive poverty and general distress

– Business/job is located in EC/EZ; OR area with 20%

poverty rate (30% if area includes CBD) and evidences pervasive poverty and general distress

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ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: LOW/ MODERATE INCOME JOBS

  • General Rule: Each business assisted is a

separate activity; 51% LMI jobs must be met business-by-business

  • Aggregation of jobs across businesses allowed

for certain types of E.D. activities

  • Track job creation/retention by business for as

long as jobs are still being created by the assisted activity

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OTHER NATIONAL OBJECTIVE CRITERIA

  • Some activities may qualify under other LMI

Benefit national objective criteria:

– Microenterprises (limited clientele) – Job training (limited clientele) – Neighborhood retail businesses (area benefit)

  • Some E.D. activities may meet Slum/ Blight

national objective:

– Activities must address conditions of deterioration – Ensure remaining activities meet the 70% low/

moderate income benefit requirement

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EVALUATING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS

  • Evaluation and selection of economic

development projects has two parts:

  • Voluntary underwriting guidelines
  • Mandatory public benefit standards

Determinations must be in writing §570.200(e)

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VOLUNTARY UNDERWRITING GUIDELINES

  • Grantees should ensure that:

– Project costs reasonable – All sources of financing are committed – CDBG not substituted for non-federal – Project is financially feasible – Return on investment reasonable – CDBG funds distributed pro-rata

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PUBLIC BENEFIT STANDARDS

  • Mandatory for:

– Special economic development projects -- §570.203 – CBDO projects, as applicable -- §570.204, and – Public improvement or facility projects classified under Low/Mod Job Creation/Retention where more than $10,000/job in CDBG assistance

  • Not applicable to microenterprise activities --

§570.201(o), or commercial rehabilitation -- §570.202(a)(3)

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CALCULATING PUBLIC BENEFIT

  • Two options for determining benefit:

– Jobs created or retained – Goods or services provided to LMI persons

  • Projects must meet individual test
  • Entire program must meet aggregate test
  • Applied at time of CDBG obligation, and
  • Assessed upon completion, based on actual

achievements

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INDIVIDUAL STANDARDS

  • May not exceed $50,000 per FTE permanent

job created or retained OR

  • May not exceed $1,000 in expenditure per LMI

person to which goods or services are provided

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APPLYING THE INDIVIDUAL STANDARDS

  • Activities that create both jobs and LMI

services are disqualified only if amounts exceed both standards

  • Standards applied at time of obligation
  • When job-training only activity, jobs

considered created or retained for applying standards

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AGGREGATE STANDARDS

  • Create or retain at least one full-time (FTE)

permanent job per $35,000 of CDBG funds OR

  • Provide goods and/or services to at least one

LMI person per $350 of CDBG expenditure

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APPLYING THE AGGREGATE STANDARDS

  • Applies to all activities obligated in a given

CDBG program year

  • Depending upon activity, applicable to job

creation or LMI goods/services, but not both

  • When training only activity, jobs considered

created or retained

  • Certain activities may be excluded from

aggregate standards

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PROHIBITION ON USE OF CDBG FUNDS FOR EMPLOYER RELOCATION ACTIVITIES

  • Job pirating is prohibited

– If grantee assists in the relocation of a plant, facility or operation AND – Relocation will result in a significant loss of jobs in another geographic area of the U.S.

  • Significant Loss is defined as:

– The number of jobs lost is equal or greater than 1/10th of 1% in the labor market area OR a loss of 500 or more jobs; projects with 25 jobs or fewer are exempt

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PROHIBITION ON THE USE OF CDBG WITH EMINENT DOMAIN

  • FY 2006 and subsequent appropriations
  • CDBG and other Federal funds restricted when

a Federal, State or local grantee seeks to use eminent domain, except for a public use

  • Public use does not include economic

development primarily benefiting private entities

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CONCLUSION AND LIST OF RESOURCES

Resources

– E-mail box for March 30 webinar CDBGEDquestions@hud.gov – CDBG Statute and the Code of Federal Regulations http://www.hud.gov/offices/cpd/lawsregs/index.cfm – Federal Register Notices on Job Relocation and Eminent Domain http://www.hud.gov/offices/cpd/economicdevelopment/toolkit/Job_Pira ting_Final_Rule.pdf http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2006/pdf/06-6258.pdf – Economic Development Toolkit http://www.hud.gov/offices/cpd/economicdevelopment/toolkit/ind ex.cfm

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CDBG ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES

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Eligibility Category National Objective - 570.208 Public Benefit Standards - 570.209 (b) Records to Maintain 570.506(a) & (b) Special Economic Development 570.208(a)(1) – LMA 570.506(b)(2) Grantee/Nonprofit 570.208(a)(4) – LMJ YES 570.506(b)(5)/(6)/(7) 570.203(a) 570.208(b)(1) – SBA 570.506(b)(8) Special Economic Development 570.208(a)(1) – LMA 570.506(b)(2) For-Profit Businesses 570.208(a)(2)(iv) – LMC YES 570.506(b)(3) 570.203(b) & (c) 570.208(a)(4) – LMJ 570.506(b)(5)/(6)/(7) 570.208(b)(1) – SBA 570.506(b)(8) CBDO Community ED Project 570.208(a)(1) – LMA 570.506(b)(2) 570.204(a)(2) 570.208(a)(iv) – LMC YES 570.506(b)(3) 570.208(a)(4) – LMJ 570.506(b)(5)/(6)/(7) 570.208(b)(1) – SBA 570.506(b)(8) Microenterprise Development 570.208(a)(1) – LMA 570.506(b)(2) 570.201(o) 570.208(a)(2)(iii)/(iv) – LMC NO 570.506(b)(3) 570.208(a)(4) – LMJ 570.506(b)(5)/(6)/(7) 570.208(b)(1) – SBA 570.506(b)(8) Public Facilities 570.208(a)(1) – LMA 570.506(b)(2) 570.201(c) 570.208(a)(4) – LMJ YES & NO (1) 570.506(b)(5)/(6)/(7) 570.208(b)(1)/(2) – SBA/SBS 570.506(b)(8)/(10) Commercial Rehabilitation 570.208(a)(1) – LMA 570.506(b)(2) 570.202(a)(3) 570.208(a)(4) – LMJ NO 570.506(b)(5)/(6)/(7) 570.208(b)(1)/(2) – SBA/SBS 570.506(b)(8)/(9)/(10)

(1) When the public facility undertaken will result in the creation of jobs, and the cost (in CDBG funds) LMA – Low/Mod Area Benefit per job is $10,000 or more, the assisted activity must comply with the PBSs at 570.209(b). LMC – Low/Mod Limited Clientele (2) For training or other employment support services, a LMC national objective can be met when the LMJ – Low/Mod Job Creation or Retention proportion of total project cost borne by CDBG is not greater than the proportion of the total SBA – Slum and Blight Area number of persons who are Low/Mod. SBS – Slum and Blight Spot