The City of Bemidji was awarded $600,000 in Minnesota DEED’s latest round of funding.
According to a release, nearly $35 million in grants were awarded to 15 Minnesota cities and counties from the “Small Cities Coronavirus Community Development Block Grant” program.
This is part of the first round of federal stimulus spending, the CARES Act, with a special allocation to address community needs to prevent, prepare for, and respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Most of the funding will be used for broadband development projects.
Other uses of the funding could be housing assistance, food shelf assistance, and retrofitting buildings and commercial rehabilitation projects.
Bemidji’s grant was designated for building retrofitting.
