Tuesday, March 11, 1997 | 11:59 a.m.
Eleven agencies which assist the local poor, disabled and otherwise disadvantaged have each collected $150,000 or more in annual federal grants through the city of Las Vegas.
The City Council Monday approved nearly $1.8 million in Community Development Block Grants and $1.6 million in Housing and Urban Development federal and state home grants.
Only the Economic Opportunity Board of Clark County secured grant money from both CDBG categories -- $1.14 million in capital projects allocations and $647,700 in public service allocations -- and the HUD funds.
Still, the $205,498 the EOB received -- $115,000 for CDBG capital projects, $70,000 from HUD home grants and $20,498 from CDBG public service monies -- placed it just seventh on the list of local money recipients.
Variety Day Care, led the way with $395,000 -- $370,000 from CDBG capital project allocations and $25,000 from CDBG public service allocations.
EOB plans to use the capital projects money to build an 841-square-foot addition to the Hollyhock Center to provide emergency medical assistance to its aging clients. The CDBG public service money will go to EOB's Project Home, a transitional housing program for the homeless. The HUD home grant money will be used by the EOB to provide low-income families with assistance in purchasing homes.
Variety Day Care plans to use the CDBG capital projects money to expand its child care center by adding three classrooms and a training room for infants and toddlers and increase the number of professional care providers. The CDBG public service money will be used to provide child care scholarships to assist working parents.
Rounding out the top 10 grant-getters were:
2. D. Miller Foundation, $368,802, all from HUD home grants; 3. Community Health Centers of Southern Nevada, $280,000, all from CDBG capital projects funds; 4. Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada, $265,000, all from HUD home grants.
5. Accessible Space, Inc., $250,520, $205,520 in capital projects money and $45,000 in home grants; 6. Nevada Homes for Youth, $230,000, $160,000 in home grants and $70,000 from capital projects money; 8. The Key Foundation, $204,500, all in home grants.
9. Las Vegas Indian Center, $188,098, $163,115 in home grants and $24,983 in public service monies; 10. Habitat for Humanity, $150,000, all in home grants, and Nevada HAND, Inc., $150,000, all in home grants.
In all, 23 organizations received a piece of the CDBG public service grant pie, seven organizations shared money from the CDBG capital projects allocations and 10 organizations got money from the HUD home grants.
The CDBG public service grants were among the most hotly contested and, as a result, were relatively small. The largest was $43,874 for the Stupak Community Center's Youth Together program.
Representatives of the Brinley Community School noted that the $24,300 it received was insufficient to run its Safekey program, which provides after-school activities for poor latch-key children.
Community Health Centers got the second largest CDBG capital projects grant and will use it to build a 4,000-square-foot dental clinic to provide care for children of low-income families. Accessible Space got the third largest capital projects grant and will use it to obtain a 25-unit complex for disabled people.
The home grants will provide help with the purchase of homes for folks ranging from war veterans, to the disabled to youth to low-income families, the homeless and other similarly disadvantaged people.
The D. Miller Foundation received the largest chunk of this money and will use it to develop and construct an affordable housing development that will provide tenants with low to moderate incomes affordable homes.
Catholic Community Services will use the second largest HUD home grant to build 120 units of affordable housing. The Key Foundation, which provides transitional housing for homeless military veterans, will use the third largest allocation of this grant money to buy two houses for its transitional housing program.
Other CDBG money distributed by the city Monday included $873,600 for administration, planning and fair housing; $808,680 for the home ownership zone; $275,000 to housing rehabilitation; $275,000 to the affordable housing administration; and $250,000 for economic development and the revolving loan fund.
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