Henderson City Manager Ray Griffin reported during yesterday’s regular meeting of the city council that the city is developing a Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) application for the Embassy Foundation’s proposed performing arts center.
He reported to members that city staff has met with the North Carolina Department of Commerce’s Division of Community Assistance (DCA) to find out how the application must be amended.
According to Griffin, it will be necessary to have a new public hearing to re-open the David Street CDBG Project. After that has been accomplished, the project itself will have to be amended.
The city council closed the project during the council meeting of August 18, 2008, apparently under the misapprehension that a new grant application for the performing arts center was to be developed and sent to the DCA.
Griffin also reported that the DCA has requested additional information on programming for the proposed center, information on how the center would work for low to moderate income residents, and updated information on the construction budget for the project as well as an updated operating budget for the center.
The city manager cited a need for the information to be in Raleigh by Thanksgiving.
Griffin asked for and received permission from the council to advertise and hold a public hearing “at an appropriate time” regarding the project.