Longmont will consider reallocating remaining COVID-19 funds to ensure that 80% can be spent by July 9.
The 2020 Community Development Block Grant related to COVID relief requires that 80% of funds are expended by July 9. To ensure that the city reaches that deadline and avoid recapture of funds by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, city staff is requesting that the city council on Tuesday allow a reallocation of funds.
Of these $768,364 COVID relief dollars, the city has spent $335,277 as of Dec. 31, according to staff documents. $279,415 must be spent by July 9, with the remaining $153,673 to be spent by Dec. 31, 2026.
The city will be reallocating $100,000 from the already-approved Recovery Café at the Suites Supportive Housing to instead go toward accessibility improvements at the Longmont Housing Authority, Center for People with Disabilities and Veterans Community Project.
“While the Recovery Café project is moving along and meeting its milestones, it will not have
enough architectural design work completed in time to meet the July 2023 expenditure deadline,” staff said.
The funds are being swapped for a new project that can expend the funds more quickly to meet the spending deadline, and the Recovery Café will apply for regular Community Development Block Grant funding instead, according to staff documents.
Council will decide Tuesday whether to approve these changes.
