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Show HUD Beats Summit County At Their Own Game requirements. The county may set its own standards under the HUD grant, he said. The Commissioners must still decide whether to complete a final application for the $25,000 or let the grant die. Greenhalgh said there is not much hope of getting HUD funds in the future to renovate the Memorial Building, but that President Carter's proposed public pub-lic works program could make money available. The program is currently being considered by the U.S. Congress. In the meantime, said Greenhalgh Green-halgh , the county hopes to generate money from the new Memorial Building bowling alley to make "piecemeal"' repairs. The building, currently managed man-aged by the county, needs an estimated $300,000 in renovations. renova-tions. Greenhalgh urged anyone interested in-terested in applying for part of the $25,000 grant to contact the county commissioners or the county planning office. Hopes of federal funding for renovation of Park City's Memorial Me-morial Building were dimmed last week by a Housing and Urban Development (HUD) decision to approve only a small part of a requested $300,000 grant for Summit County. According to County Planner Max Greenhalgh, the agency approved just $25,000 of the grant, which must be used for renovating low income housing and can't be applied to the Memorial Building. "Last year we came close to getting a grant, but missed it because they were looking for renovation of housing," said Greenhalgh "This year we tried to beat the Feds at their own game by including $25,000 in our gTant application for that purpose," he said. "We even stipulated 12 houses in Park City." Instead, he continued, "the Feds beat us at our own game." The HUD decision leaves the county commissioners in a "qu-andry," "qu-andry," said Greenhalgh, since they already have received two state grants for renovation low income housing. "We've had a difficult time getting rid of that," he said. Greenhalgh hopes the federal grant will be more successful, however, since homeowners don't have to comply to strict state |