Community Development

FY24 ACTION PLAN

30-Day Comment Period

The City of Dover, has adopted the FY24 CDBG Action Plan. The Action Plan identifies how the City plans to use federal CDBG funds during the next fiscal year beginning July 1, 2023 to meet the goals and objectives that were approved as part of Dover’s CDBG Consolidated Plan.

The Dover City Council held a public hearings and voted to approve the FY24 Action Plan on March 8, 2023. The Action Plan is available for a public review and comment. The final day for this comment period will be April 24, 2023 after which time all comments received will be forwarded along with the FY24 Action Plan to the U.S. Department of HUD for their 45-day review. All persons wishing to submit comment on the FY24 Action Plan should do so in writing to: Planning and Community Development Department, Attn. Dave Carpenter, 288 Central Ave., Dover, NH 03820 or by email to d.carpenter@dover.nh.gov.

Copies of the FY24 Action Plan are available in the Dover Planning Office, Dover City Library or by clicking here.

CDBG Overview

The City of Dover is an entitlement community that receives Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). CDBG funds may be used to carry out a wide range of community development activities directed toward revitalizing neighborhoods, economic development, and providing improved community facilities and services for lower-income residents.

Eligible Activities:

• The proposed activity or project meets one of the following HUD National Objectives:
  1. benefit low and moderate income persons;
  2. activities that aid in the prevention of slums or blight; or
  3. other community development needs to address a federally declared emergency.
• The proposed activity or project qualifies as an “eligible activity” pursuant to HUD regulations.
• The project or activity directly addresses one or more of the Goals and Objectives that will be adopted as part of the FY21-FY25 Consolidated Plan. See “Goals” below.
• Through the application, the applicant and the proposed project or activity, demonstrates capacity to comply with all HUD and CDBG related requirements
• Public facilities projects, as demonstrated through the application process, have a high likelihood of beginning within the year and being completed within two years.
• Seventy percent (70%) of the clientele for the proposed project or activity will qualify as “presumed benefit” or very low, low or moderate income.
• A minimum of 51% of the clientele for the proposed project or activity will qualify as “presumed benefit” or very low, low or moderate income.

Presumed Benefit Clientele: Abused/neglected children, homeless persons, persons with /HIVAIDS, elderly persons , severely disabled adults, migrant farm workers, battered spouses/domestic violence victims, illiterate adults.

Eligible Expenses: The cost of labor, supplies, and/or materials required for the provision of services to agency clientele.

Tracking of Expenses: Grant recipients must be able to specifically identify and document how the CDBG funds were expended on an eligible activity.

DOVER CONSOLIDATED PLAN GOALS FY2021-25

Goal #1: Access to Services

Goal Description: To provide increased opportunities to residents of the City who require education, health, recreation, shelter, transportation and related human services.

Goal #2: Renter and Homeowner Assistance

Goal Description: Weatherization and energy efficiency, Housing unit rehab, security deposit assistance, Lead based paint hazard.

Goal #3: Public Improvements

Goal Description: Development and improvements related to facilities and housing units utilized by qualifying populations and individuals.

Goal #4: Economic Development

Goal Description: Improvements, and the support of efforts, intended to promote economic development and to enhance economic opportunities for qualifying business, populations and individuals.

Goal #5: Accessibility and Transportation

Goal Description: Access to social services and employment and removal of architectural barriers.

Important Community Development documents can be viewed below: