The Colonia Fund Construction provides eligible applicants with grants to fund water and wastewater improvements, housing rehabilitation for low- to moderate-income households, the payment of assessments levied against properties owned and occupied by persons of low and moderate income to recover the capital cost for a public improvement and other improvements including street paving and drainage.
Donor Name: Texas Department of Agriculture
State: Texas
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/03/2024
Size of the Grant: $500,000 to $1 Million
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The goal of the Texas Community Development Block Grant (TxCDBG) Program is to develop viable communities by providing decent housing and a suitable living environment, as well as by expanding economic opportunities, principally for persons of low-to-moderate income. In awarding funding pursuant to Texas Government Code, Section 487.351(c), the Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA) shall give priority to eligible activities in the areas of economic development, community development, and rural health to support workforce development.
The objectives of the TxCDBG Program are:
- To improve public facilities to meet basic human needs, principally for low-to-moderate income persons;
- To improve housing conditions, principally for persons of low-to-moderate income;
- To expand economic opportunities by creating or retaining jobs, principally for low-to-moderate income persons; and
- To provide assistance and public facilities to eliminate conditions hazardous to the public health and of an emergency nature
Funding Information
Awards maximum of $1,000,000.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible to apply for or to receive funding under the TxCDBG Program, a community must meet all of the following criteria, in accordance with Title 24, Part 570 of the Code of Federal Regulations and Title 4, Part 1, Chapter 30, Subchapter A, Sections 30.4 and 30.6 of the Texas Administrative Code (TAC), and program requirements:
- Qualify as a unit of general local government (UGLG).
- An UGLG is a city, county, town, township, village, or other general purpose political subdivision of the state, or as otherwise defined in 42 U.S.C. §5302. Special purpose political subdivisions are not eligible as TxCDBG applicants.
- Qualify as a non-entitlement community.
- Only communities NOT identified as part of the federal CDBG entitlement program may apply for TxCDBG funding. Entitlement communities are listed in Appendix B. Municipalities located within an entitlement county may elect to participate with either the county program or the state nonentitlement program, but not both, for each three-year period; please contact the entitlement county to confirm eligibility for the current year.
- Levy and collect a local property tax or local sales tax option in the current fiscal year.
- Meet Progress Thresholds for existing TxCDBG grant agreements.
- Applicants must demonstrate current compliance with progress threshold requirements for
existing TxCDBG grant awards to be eligible for additional rounds of TxCDBG funding. - Progress Threshold #1: Existing Grant Agreements beginning on or before the date identified
in the chart below must have satisfied all Group B requirements prior to the Community
Application due date. - Progress Threshold #2: Existing Grant Agreements beginning on or before the date identified in the chart below must be completed and have submitted both the Project Completion Report (PCR) and the final payment request prior to the Community Application due date.
- Applicants must demonstrate current compliance with progress threshold requirements for
- Details regarding documentation for meeting these thresholds can be found in the TxCDBG Project Implementation Manual.
Fund Specific Eligibility
- An eligible applicant for the CFC Program must be a county within 150 miles of the Texas-Mexico
border that:- is NOT part of a metropolitan statistical area with a population exceeding 1,000,000;
- has adopted Model Subdivision Rules (Section 16.343 of the Texas Water Code); and
- is participating in the TxCDBG 2022 Colonia Planning and Needs Assessment.
All or part of the following counties are located within 150 miles of the Texas-Mexico border and have confirmed their participation in the Colonia Fund programs: Bee; Blanco (Part); Brewster; Brooks; Cameron; Concho (Part); Crane; Crockett; Culberson; Dimmit; Duval; Ector; Edwards; El Paso; Frio; Gillespie (Part); Glasscock (Part); Goliad (Part); Hidalgo; Hudspeth; Irion; Jeff Davis; Jim Hogg; Jim Wells; Kenedy; Kerr; Kimble; Kinney; Kleberg; La Salle; Live Oak; Loving;; Maverick; McMullen; Menard; Midland (Part); Nueces; Pecos; Presidio; Real; Refugio; Runnels (Part); San Patricio; Schleicher; Starr ;Sterling (Part); Sutton; Terrell; Tom Green; Upton; Uvalde; Val Verde; Ward; Webb; Willacy; Winkler (Part); Zapata; Zavala
For more information, visit Texas Department of Agriculture.
