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Show Additional Funding Boosts County Housing Needs By TOM BLSSELBERG FARM INCJTON - ll gets hard to administer a program without any administrative money, but Da is County's mayors and count1, commissioners have remedied that, helping solidify a program that could help a couple dozen households across the country. BY APPROVING an' extra S20.000 for the Davis County Housing Authority in the federal community block grant program, upping the total to $100,000. a vastly vast-ly expanded housing rehabilitation program can move forward, explained ex-plained Authority Director Rosemary Rosem-ary Davis. Some S300.000 is anticipated for November. 1984-October. 1985. up substantially from S 1 7 1 .950 for this past year, w here 10 homeowners homeow-ners were able to make repairs ranging from roofs to plumbing. EIGHTEEN families, all with incomes in-comes four-fifths of median income in-come or below, or under S2I.200 for a family of four, are on the waiting wait-ing list and come from nearly every city in the county. Through the federal-funded program, repairs up to S27.000 can be made. Mrs. Davis said, with three percent loans possible pos-sible depending on income, up to nine percent. Payback on a S 15.000. 20-year loan, for instance, would be reduced re-duced from S192 a month at 14.5 percent interest to S83 for three percent, she told the mayoral council coun-cil of governments. TO BE eligible, a participant must both own and live in the house, with repairs possible for chipping and peeling paint, faulty plumbing, hazardous wiring, leaking leak-ing roof, deteriorated foundation, inadequate heating to broken windows. win-dows. "There are houses often really in bad shape," Mrs. Davis said, whose owners may, "no matter how badly want a man not be eligible eli-gible due to income under conventional conven-tional procedures and through the loans, not only individual houses but communities can benefit. HOUSES ARE inspected prior to gaining approval by a building inspector in-spector while Missy Peterson is overall program administrator. In other business before the council of governments, last week, mayors, county commissioners and city councilmembers from across the county were treated to a multi-screened slide show show-casting show-casting Davis County's economic development package. OUTLINED by County Planning Director Rick Mayfield. a 45-minute 45-minute presentation was delivered at Farmington Junior High School to a far smaller turnout than, had been expected. Some 15.000 economic development develop-ment agencies dot the country, he said, noting Davis County's efforts were highlighted along with other Utah entries at an international exposition ex-position in San Francisco, where several other Western states showed their wares, trying to entice en-tice new business. Foreign countries coun-tries represented included the United Un-ited Kingdom. Ireland.- France. New Zealand and Japan. UTAH'S combined expenditure, of about S500.000 was dwarfed by Washington State's nearly double expense, he said. Next week, a detailed de-tailed account of the county's plan, and reasons behind it. will be related. |