Housing
Construction Management
Infrastructure
Grant Administration
Project Selection
100
This grant program provides low and moderate income first-time homebuyers with up to $40,000 in down-payment assistance.
What is the HOME Homebuyer Assistance Program
100
This 7-member board assists local governments impacted by large-scale coal development or by major declines in the coal industry by providing grants for highway projects, land-use planning, and public schools throughout the state.
What is the Montana Coal Board?
100
This State-funded grant program provides local governments with support for infrastructure projects such as water, wastewater, bridge, solid waste or stormwater.
What is the Treasure State Endowment Program (TSEP)?
100
Grants can be awarded to communities based on the severity of impact from increases or decreases in the development of this natural resource.
What is coal?
100
This federal grant program focuses primarily on job creation and retention.
What is CDBG-ED, or the Community Development Block Grant Economic Development Grant Program?
200
This program provides Montana communities with grant funding to rehabilitate individual homes.
What is the CDBG Housing Stablization Program?
200
Before contractors can work on one our grant-funded projects we must ensure that their business does not appear on this list.
What is debarment?
200
These programs in the Community Development Division can fund water and wastewater projects.
What is the Treasure State Endowment Program (TSEP), Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), and Coal Board?
200
CDD's Program Manager for Community Development Block Grants (CDBG) for Housing and Public Facilities, the Home Investment Partnerships Program (HOME), and the Housing Trust Fund (HTF) Program?
Who is Kathy Plettenberg?
200
This entity has final authority to authorize specific Treasure State Endowment Program (TSEP) awards.
What is the Montana State Legislature?
300
This grant program provides housing specifically for people who are at or below 30% of the Area Median Income.
What is the Housing Trust Fund?
300
This federal law sets wage standards for construction workers on federally funded projects.
What is the Davis-Bacon Act?
300
This planning document is required for water, wastewater, bridge, solid waste, and stormwater projects.
What is a Preliminary Engineering Report (PER)?
300
The automated system used by the Department of Commerce for routing contracts for signatures.
What is DocuSign?
300
CDBG applicants must hold two of these events in order to be considered for funding.
What are public hearings, or public meetings?
400
Fair housing complaints should be referred to these three places agencies
What is HUD, the MT Human Rights Commission and MT Fair Housing?
400
This notification letter from the grantee tells the contractor when it can begin work on a project.
What is the Notice to Proceed?
400
The maximum grant award amount provided to infrastructure projects by the Treasure State Endowment Program (TSEP).
What is $750,000?
400
The date of this letter marks the starting point for grantees to begin incurring project expenses.
What is the Governor’s Award Letter?
400
The percentage of low-to-moderate income (LMI) people that must be served by a proposed project in order to be considered for CDBG funding.
What is 51%?
500
The year that new HOME Program awards began requiring Uniform Physical Conditions Standards (UPCS) inspections instead of Housing Quality Standards (HQS).
What is 2013?
500
This provision of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968 requires CDBG, HOME, and HTF projects to provide job opportunities for low and very low income residents.
What is Section 3?
500
An assessment tool that helps communities determine the rate they should charge residents to help pay for infrastructure improvements in the community.
What is Target Rate Analysis?
500
HUD federal grant programs such as CDBG, HOME, and HTF require grantees to make every possible effort to procure goods and services from businesses with this designation.
What is a Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE), or minority-owned business enterprise / woman-owned business enterprise (MBE/WBE)?
500
$2 million was appropriated for the 2019 biennium in HB 390 from the school facility and technology account for this new CDD grant program.
What is the Montana e-rate broadband program?