Six Carson City projects receive $492K in community development block grants

Six Carson City and one Lyon County project are among 16 statewide recipients of Community Development Block Grant funding through a federal program administered by the Nevada Governor’s Office of Economic Development, officials announced Monday.

The biggest grant recipient in Carson City is the Carson City, Colorado Street ADA Compliance Improvement Project worth $340,868. Other Carson City recipients include:

— Carson City FISH Transitional Housing Design Project worth $30,583, benefitting 60

— Carson City Nevada Health Center Medical Technology Project worth $31,873, benefitting 7,877

— Carson City Ron Woods Youth Absentee Reduction Project worth $20,000, benefitting 300

— Carson City RSVP Nevada Rural Counties Veterans’ Project worth $20,000, benefitting 175

— Carson City Grant Management Project worth $49,258

— Elsewhere in the region, the Lyon County Walker River Corridor will receive $200,000 for its Economic Development Project.

In all, rural Nevada will receive $3,273,974 in Community Development Block Grant funding. Since 1982, when Nevada began administration of the program, more than $95 million has been awarded to rural Nevada communities.

The CDBG program enables local governments to undertake a wide range of activities intended to create suitable living environments, provide decent affordable housing, and create economic opportunities, primarily for persons of low and moderate income.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development oversees the program and the Rural Community Development Division of the Governor’s Office of Economic Development administers the program for the State of Nevada.

“These 16 awards and projects range from $12,229 for an extrication tool for the Ely Fire Department to $751,500 for a drainage project in Lincoln County,” said Gov. Steve Sisolak. “So important in all of this is the investment our rural Nevada communities make to our great State. I am glad to see that 102,657 Nevadans are estimated to benefit from these projects.”

The next CDBG grant cycle is underway and there are 27 rural cities and counties in Nevada that are eligible to apply for this annual funding opportunity, said Michael Brown, GOED executive director.

Below is the remainder of the those projects receiving CDBG funding:
— Ely Fire Department Extrication Tool Project worth $12,229, benefitting 1,480
— Ely Murry Street Sewer Upgrade Project, Phase II, worth $332,363, benefitting 1,455
— Esmeralda County Emergency Generator Project worth $360,000, benefitting 1,135
— Esmeralda County Goldfield Historical Street Rehabilitation Project, Phase III worth $425,000, benefitting 555
— Lincoln County Pioche Airport Road Drainage Project worth $751,500, benefitting 570
— Nye County Pahrump Fairgrounds Environmental Assessment Project worth $50,000, benefitting 36,110
— Nye County Pahrump Fairgrounds Water and Well System Project worth $500,000, benefitting 36,110
— White Pine County McGill Sewer Pond Lining Project, Phase I worth $75,150, benefitting 1,480
— White Pine County McGill Slag Ditch Study Project worth $75,150, benefitting 1,480

Created during the 2011 session of the Nevada Legislature, the Governor’s Office of Economic Development is the result of a collaborative effort between the Nevada Legislature and the Governor’s Office to restructure economic development in the state. GOED’s role is to promote a robust, diversified and prosperous economy in Nevada, to stimulate business expansion and retention, encourage entrepreneurial enterprise, attract new businesses and facilitate community development.