City of North Las Vegas - CDBG-R

On February 17, 2009, Title XII of Division A of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act) appropriated $1 billion in Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds to states and local governments to carry out, on an expedited basis, eligible activities under the CDBG program.  The grant program under Title XII is commonly referred to as the CDBG Recovery (CDBG-R) program. The term ‘Recovery Act’ refers to provisions of the appropriations statute itself, and the term ‘CDBG-R’ refers to the grants, grantees, assisted activities, and implementation rules.

Funding available under the Recovery Act has clear purposes – to stimulate the economy through measures that modernize the Nation’s infrastructure, improve energy efficiency, and expand educational opportunities and access to health care. In implementing the Recovery Act, Federal agencies are undertaking unprecedented measures to ensure transparency and accountability in the use of the funds.

HUD desires that CDBG-R grantees carefully evaluate proposed projects for consistency with the overarching goals of the Recovery Act, especially the above-cited purposes. To this extent, HUD strongly urges grantees to use CDBG-R funds for hard development costs associated with infrastructure activities that provide basic services to residents or activities that promote energy efficiency and conservation through rehabilitation or retrofitting of existing buildings. While the full range of CDBG activities is available to grantees, the Department strongly suggests that grantees incorporate consideration of the public perception of the intent of the Recovery Act in identifying and selecting projects for CDBG-R funding. 

For these reasons, the City of North Las Vegas has decided to use its entire CDBG-R allocation of $443,222 to fund the City of North Las Vegas Utilities Department Water Lines Bolstering project in the area bounded by Carey Avenue on the north, Donna Street on the east, Orr Avenue on the south and North 5th street on the west.  Water lines in the project area were installed in 1953 and consist of 4-inch asbestos cement pipe and include ‘post” type fire hydrants.  The main size and type of hydrants do not meet current standards and can deliver only 750 gallons per minute (gpm) where 1,500 gpm is required.

The project proposes to replace approximately 2,300 lineal feet of 4-inch water main with 8-inch water main in Lillis Avenue and Glendale Avenue including the replacement of two (2) existing fire hydrants. Funding for the project includes dollars from the following sources:

$443,222 - CDBG-R funds
$100,000 - CDBG funds
$  42,158 - CNLV Utilities Enterprise Fund      
$585,380 - TOTAL