PROJECTED USE OF FUNDS
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT PROGRAM
HOUSING AND INFRASTRUCTURE
1. General Administration
$90,000
The function of this City activity is to provide necessary staffing to develop, implement and monitor the overall
performance of all Community Development Block Grant programs within the City.
2. Neighborhood Planning Administration
$108,391
This City function provides the necessary management to conduct specific studies related to the overall program
design of the comprehensive planning process and the development of the Consolidated Plan, involving
Neighborhood Planning Councils, civic organizations, individuals, and other boards, commissions and
committees.
3. Code Enforcement
$270,000
The purpose of this activity is to provide effective staffing for the City’s Neighborhood Code Compliance
Division to continue its efforts to provide the citizens of Battle Creek with effective code enforcement, and to
complement other Community Development activities in blighted and distressed areas. This activity will serve
to arrest a decline in targeted areas due to housing code violations, vacant and abandoned properties, citizen
complaints regarding refuse and weed control and health and safety issues related to rental properties.
4. Housing Rehabilitation – Minor Home Repair
$408,564
This City of Battle Creek activity will provide grants and deferred loans to homeowners for necessary repairs.
The primary focus will be exterior repairs for cited code violations and health and safety issues. All work will
comply with HUD and EPA regulations including those that address the treatment of lead-based paint hazards,
or potential hazards, and asbestos hazards. This activity also provides necessary funding to cover subsidies and
defaults on all outstanding lender originated rehabilitation loans.
5. Rental Rehab Program
$175,000
This proposed activity will provide funds to support the development or rehabilitation of quality rental housing
for use by low and moderate income families. Rental projects will generally be limited to properties for which
rental housing is the highest and best use. Projects will prioritized that increase the housing density and
enhance the vibrancy of mixed use neighborhoods, providing housing that is walkably connected to shopping,
parks, jobs, schools and other community amenities.
6. Demolition Program
$10,000
This proposed project will provide funds for the demolition of a blighted vacant or abandoned building. These
funds will be used in conjunction with code and housing rehab activities with the goal of arresting decline in
areas targeted by the City as blighted and distressed.
7. Lead Hazard Assessment Program
$20,000
This proposed activity will provide funds for lead assessments in CDBG target areas for low and moderate
income households with children under the age of six. This activity will help identify lead hazards in home and
as needed will result in referrals to the City’s minor home repair, the Calhoun County Health Department or the
State of Michigan’s Healthy Homes Program.

TOTAL CDBG ENTITLEMENT FUNDING (Estimated)
TOTAL REALLOCATED CDBG FUNDS
TOTAL PROPOSED CDBG BUDGET

$991,955
$90,000
$1,081,955

HOME INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM
8. General Administration
$19,898
The function of this City activity is to provide necessary staffing to develop, implement and monitor the overall
performance of all HOME programs.
9. Home Owner Rehabilitation
$118,082
This activity will provide grants and forgivable loans to very low- and low-income homeowners up to
rehabilitate their homes and remediate lead-based paint hazards.
10. Acquisition/Development/Resale
$35,000
This activity will provide gap funds for acquisition, rehabilitation, and/or resale of one or more dilapidated
properties within the City by a certified Community Housing Development Organization (CHDO). Upon
completion of rehabilitation, these properties will be made available for purchase to low- to moderate income
homebuyers.
11. Tenant Based Rental Assistance
$26,000
This activity provides short term rental assistance (three to six months) to eligible low-income households
experiencing a housing emergency and also participating in housing case management, employment training or
another self-sufficiency program.
TOTAL HOME ENTITLEMENT FUNDING (Estimated)
TOTAL REALLOCATED HOME FUNDS
TOTAL PROPOSED HOME BUDGET

$198,980
$0
$198,980

Copies of the Proposed Budget will be available for public review during normal business hours in the City’s
Community Development Office, City Hall, Suite 117, 10 N Division Street, Battle Creek, MI. Citizens
wishing to make comments should do so in writing, by March 8, 2017, to: Chris Lussier, Community
Development Supervisor, City of Battle Creek, Community Development Department, City Hall, Suite 320, 10
North Division Street, Battle Creek, MI 49014.