The Board of Public Works on Nov. 13 approved a series of City of Evansville Department of Metropolitan Development (DMD) contracts funded primarily through the city’s 2025 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) allocations, totaling approximately $1,071,845.

DMD staff (Speaker 3) described the awards as part of the city’s 2025 CDBG allocations to support homelessness prevention, housing, youth programming and other social services. “This is one of our 2025 CDBG allocations for HUD, for Advantage for YouthBuild,” Speaker 3 said during discussion of the YouthBuild contract.

The largest single award was $400,000 to Memorial Community Development Corporation for an emergency home-repair program for low- and moderate-income Evansville homeowners. Other notable awards included $150,000 to Hope of Evansville for down-payment assistance, $90,000 to Memorial CDC for a Child Care Ministries program, $50,000 each to Advantech’s Development Corporation (YouthBuild) and Echo Housing Corporation (Lucas Place permanent supportive housing), and $40,000 to Echo Housing for Promise Zone economic development operating costs. Smaller awards approved ranged from $3,000 to $40,000 for services such as housing counseling, low-vision screening, family-services coordination and youth programs.

The board approved each contract by motion without roll-call vote counts recorded in the transcript. Several items included IDIS reference numbers in the agenda; some IDIS strings in the transcript are garbled or partially transcribed (recorded in clarifying details). Where staff provided context, they said the five-year market-study contract provides the market research used to calculate HUD-required metrics such as area median income.

The actions approved in this package (motion text drawn from agenda language) included: a $50,000 YouthBuild contract with Advantech’s Development Corporation; an $80,000 contract with the Evansville Association for the Blind for the Blind Disabled Workers program; $10,000 for low-vision screening; $32,000 to The Arc Inc. for a Safe Haven program; $13,000 to Aurora Inc. for street outreach crisis intervention; $12,000 to Aurora Inc. for voucher program operations (operations only); a $15,500 five-year market study with National Research LLC (Bowen); $15,000 to the Boys & Girls Club for Fulton Square; $10,000 to Evansville ARC Inc. for communication assessment and training; $150,000 to Hope of Evansville for down-payment assistance; $3,000 to Hope to certify buyer compliance; $40,000 to Hope for housing counseling; $15,000 to Memorial CDC for a family services coordinator; $90,000 to Memorial CDC for Child Care Ministries; $400,000 to Memorial CDC for emergency home repair; $16,345 to Memorial CDC for a civic journalism program; $50,000 to Echo Housing for Lucas Place permanent supportive housing; $40,000 to Echo Housing for Promise Zone economic development; and $30,000 to Echo Housing to operate the Family Enrichment Center.

Board members moved and seconded each item in sequence and the chair declared the motions passed. The transcript records staff identifying many of these as 2025 CDBG or HUD contracts.

Next steps: the contracts will proceed to execution per the city’s administrative process. The transcript does not record individual roll-call votes or implementation timelines for each contract.