Clinton County to apply for 2025 CDBG funding for accessibility and blight control
September 29, 2025 | Clinton County, Pennsylvania
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Mr. Gibson, a county presenter, told the Clinton County Board of Commissioners at their Sept. 29 work session that the county will file a 2025 application for Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds.
The application would include projects to remove architectural barriers in the boroughs of Flemington and Mill Hall and would direct the remaining grant funding to the county redevelopment authority for blight-control work, Gibson said. He listed a package of required resolutions that the board will consider before submission: a resolution to apply for 2025 CDBG funds, a fair-housing resolution, a Section 504 compliance officer and grievance-procedure resolution, an appointed-agent resolution naming a regional applicant preparer, an appointed language-access coordinator resolution (normally Beth Witte), and adoption of the CDBG master plan that covers anti-displacement, citizen participation, financial management, minority- and women-owned business elements, procurement, program income, Section 3 and Section 504 notice procedures.
The timeline for the award, Gibson said, is the application deadline in October, followed by review by Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED) staff over winter and spring. "Normally, around April or May, you'll be notified, as long as everything goes well," he said, and award letters are typically followed by subrecipient agreements between the county and each municipal or redevelopment authority recipient.
A commissioner asked whether municipalities and the redevelopment authority could expect funds in the same season as award notifications; Gibson reiterated the April–May notification window and said that, if problems appear in an application (for example, floodplain issues), the timeline can slip. No formal votes or approvals on the resolutions were recorded during the work session.
Why it matters: CDBG grants are a common source of federal housing and community development funds deployed at the county level. The package of resolutions Gibson described establishes the county's legal and administrative readiness to apply, names the local implementing agents and lays out procedures required to meet federal program requirements.
The board is expected to place the listed resolutions on its upcoming meeting agenda so the application can be submitted in October; if the county is awarded funds, project-level subrecipient agreements would follow the award notification in spring.
The application would include projects to remove architectural barriers in the boroughs of Flemington and Mill Hall and would direct the remaining grant funding to the county redevelopment authority for blight-control work, Gibson said. He listed a package of required resolutions that the board will consider before submission: a resolution to apply for 2025 CDBG funds, a fair-housing resolution, a Section 504 compliance officer and grievance-procedure resolution, an appointed-agent resolution naming a regional applicant preparer, an appointed language-access coordinator resolution (normally Beth Witte), and adoption of the CDBG master plan that covers anti-displacement, citizen participation, financial management, minority- and women-owned business elements, procurement, program income, Section 3 and Section 504 notice procedures.
The timeline for the award, Gibson said, is the application deadline in October, followed by review by Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED) staff over winter and spring. "Normally, around April or May, you'll be notified, as long as everything goes well," he said, and award letters are typically followed by subrecipient agreements between the county and each municipal or redevelopment authority recipient.
A commissioner asked whether municipalities and the redevelopment authority could expect funds in the same season as award notifications; Gibson reiterated the April–May notification window and said that, if problems appear in an application (for example, floodplain issues), the timeline can slip. No formal votes or approvals on the resolutions were recorded during the work session.
Why it matters: CDBG grants are a common source of federal housing and community development funds deployed at the county level. The package of resolutions Gibson described establishes the county's legal and administrative readiness to apply, names the local implementing agents and lays out procedures required to meet federal program requirements.
The board is expected to place the listed resolutions on its upcoming meeting agenda so the application can be submitted in October; if the county is awarded funds, project-level subrecipient agreements would follow the award notification in spring.
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