GREENFIELD, MA (FRANKLIN COUNTY NOW) — On Friday, Governor Maura Healey, Lt. Governor Kim Driscoll, and the Secretary of Housing and Livable Communities announced the Community Development Block Grant, CDBG, awards. Franklin County towns received nearly $4 million in this round of CDBG funding:
- Buckland, Colrain and Ashfield: $1,375,000 for the purpose of rehabilitating 16 housing units
- Greenfield: $925,000 to support the Downtown water main replacement design, microenterprise assistance, to rehabilitate 4 housing units, and provide social services (elder services, ESOL, homelessness prevention, food pantry)
- Montague: $938,328 to support the Montague public parking lot repaving project, to rehabilitate 7 housing units, and provide social services (ESOL, elder meal services, elder self-sufficiency, substance abuse counseling)
- Orange: $689,464 to support the Architectural Barrier Removal (audible pedestrian signal chirp boxes), rehabilitate 4 housing units, provide social services (elder self-sufficiency, elder meal services, advocacy services for people with disabilities, food pantry, adult education), and planning (Slum and Blight Study)