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AACS, Inc. Progress Reports

American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009

Several AACS program departments participate in the ARRA 2009

Details are continuing to emerge, but it now appears that AACS, Inc. will be receiving a total of $27,481,962 from the ARRA recovery legislation. What is known to date is shown below in greater detail.

AACS ARRA grants' respective report pages are included to provide even greater detail and for the ARRA's month-by-month reporting on AACS progress, outcomes, results and services under the ARRA.

ARRA Reporting: Two overarching themes of the American Recovery and reinvestment Act of 2009 are TRANSPARENCY and ACCOUNTABILITY. Recovery Act (Public Law 111-5) reporting cannot be combined with any other reporting, nor does it replace or substitute for normal reporting requirements in other programs. Noncompliance with ARRA reporting requirements is considered a violation of award terms.

Grantee reporting to FederalReporting.gov is done electronically by authorized grantees. ARRA information on that site will not be directly available to the public but will be reported, most likely on the Recovery.gov website, state and state agency websites, and this website.

Reporting will be CUMULATIVE, each quarterly report building onto the previous one. Quarterly reports are due to begin October 10, 2009 and continue for the duration of the ARRA funding.

Community Services Block Grant ... $775,925
Service/subcontract proposals were received from prospective partners;
AACS' summary CSBG "stimulus" proposal to the state office was provisionally approved August 13, 2009 and finally/fully approved August 24, 2009 by the Cabinet for Health and Families; sub-recipient contracts have been let and are reflected on the CSBG ARRA web page.

Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Families
Office of Community Services, Administration for Children & Families (ACF)
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Audubon Area's Counseling Services Department, which administers CSBG, also administers an AmeriCorps*VISTA program. Six slots are funded as agency regular VISTA slots; TWO (2) additional VISTA slots are ARRA-funded.

Corporation for National and Community Service

Child Care Development Block Grant ... $5,250,000

($30 million statewide) The 34-county Audubon Service Region usually gets 17.5% of the statewide total in child care payments, which amounts to some $5,250,000 expected to come to AACS' region.

Child Care Division, Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Families
Child Care Bureau, ACF, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Head Start / Early Head Start ... $7,407,103

ARRA COLA/Quality, $934,821 — Includes a 3.06% COLA permanent increase only for Head Start staff. A 1.8% COLA enhancement was also provided, but this will, unless Congress extends it, expire as September 30, 2010.

AACS Head Start Expansion Grant, $1,693,200 Includes $400,000 start-up and $17,000 T/TA.

Early Head Start Expansion Grant, $4,779,082 (estimate)
Awaiting ACF formal grant announcement. Includes $976,635 Start-up

Office of Head Start, ACF, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Weatherization Assistance Program ... $2,290,423
Kentucky's ARRA-funded Weatherization Assistance Program has been converted into a 30-month service project. The FY2010 portion of Green River Area ARRA project funds is $848,126. Additional funds attributable to this region, but unspecified, are being retained at the state level for training support and services. The total sum shown above for the 7-county AACS, Inc. region came from the State Plan, which also called for AACS to deliver 352 weatherized units over the life of the ARRA-funded Weatherization project.

Community Action Kentucky
Kentucky Housing Corporation
U.S. Department of Energy

Tax Credit Exchange Program ... $7,587,485
Kentucky Housing Corporation administers the Tax Credit Assistance Program, Section 1602 of ARRA. This program authorizes KHC to substitute a cash grant in place of tax credits previously awarded through competitive proposals. This cash grant supplements qualifying affordable housing developments unable to otherwise secure financial commitments in the weak equity market. The funded project must be placed in service by February 16, 2012.

This cash grant substitutes for the 945,419 housing credits reserved for AACS' Presidents Place project approved by KHC in January 2009.

Presidents Place is a 60-unit scattered site senior housing development on Friendship Drive (behind The Springs) off Highway 54 East in Owensboro, Kentucky. The apartments will be divided among thirteen buildings in a scenic setting on the 12-acre site. The property will also feature a large community building that will house the Community Non-profit Resource Center, which will serve as a "home" for unhoused non-profits, civic organizations,and ad hoc community groups. The facility will provide both office and meeting space, and in addition will have a full service commercial kitchen and meeting roum that can feed groups up to 140 persons.

Kentucky Housing Corporation
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Green River Intra-county Transit System (GRITS) ... $4,114,000

Parking Garage, Phase II, $3,4000,000

Hybrid Vehicles (Seven [7]) , $665,000

Electrical Generator, 500-watt (Portable), $49,000

Office of Transportation Delivery, Kentucky Transportation Cabinet
Federal Transit Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation

Senior Community Service Employment Program ... $57,026
+ 5 (new) senior employment job slots

Cabinet for Health and Families | U.S. Department of Labor

AACS, Inc. Progress Reports American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009

AACS, Inc. Progress Reports

American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009