Conway City Council approves resolution sending more than $400,000 in grant funding to community development

CONWAY, Ark.- Conway will receive an estimated $476,652 from the Community Development Block Grant, which will benefit low- to moderate-income families.

Resolution No. R-24-20 was passed 5-0 at Tuesday night’s Conway City Council Meeting.

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According to the meeting agenda, the estimated budget will be broken down into three sections: Administration (20%), Project (65%) and Services (15%).

“We received roughly each year about $300,000 to $480,000 in funding and we have not received our current numbers this year so the numbers you are currently seeing on your page last year so we use them as estimates for the year,” Conway Community Development Director Shawanna Rodgers said.

According to the Action Plan and Program Year 2024 Budget, the administration covers “all costs associated with the overall CDBG program, including but not limited to salary, benefits, training, office supplies, travel, equipment, and software.”

The amount expected to be allocated according to the budget is $95,330.40 and the amount expected to be sent to services is $71,497.80.

Services include a group of nonprofits: FC Council on Aging, Independent Living Services, Boys and Girls Club, CAPCA, Bethlehem House, and Milestones.

The last allocation is to projects for $309,823.80, which will go toward the Central Conway Revitalization and Housing Rehabilitation Program.

“We are working on our housing in Conway and as you know from CDBG money we recently opened our homeless shelter… and then we have a number of nonprofits that we partner with through our city with housing,” Conway Mayor Bart Castleberry said.

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Section A-4 of the meeting agenda holds the full resolution which can be read online.

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