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City of DaytonDivision Manager - Community Development
Oct. 2023Dayton, Ohio, United States
City of DaytonCommunity Development Supervisor
Aug. 2021 - Apr. 2024Dayton, Ohio, United States• Supervision of 7 FT Community Development positions • Provides expertise and guidance to CD staff on all aspects of HUD grants, including CDBG and -CV, ESG and -CV, HOME, and -ARP, CoC, NSP, and Lead Hazard grants
• Prepares annual budget documents, financial management parameters, financial trajectories and expenditure patterns, and annual allocation plans for the City's HUD Entitlement Grants and staff
• Develops training materials for a wide variety of audiences with differing levels of grant knowledge and project management experience
• Works with HUD Field Office and Headquarters to implement compliant policies and procedures for grant and subrecipient management
•Monitors staff responsibilities to ensure tasks are completed while honing the skillsets of newer employees, supporting staff interests, and adjusting work plans to meet community needs
• Advocates for additional local funding sources via research and grant writing
• Encourages compliance among subrecipients, staff, project managers, and local partners with local, state, and federal regulations and requirements
• Participates in Leadership policy and project development decisions in areas of housing, human services, community development, homelessness, and economic development
• Participates in community boards and organizations, such as CNDAB, via planning, staff support, technical assistance, and presentations
• Completes documentation for the City's annual Entitlements - grant agreements, Consolidated Plans, Annual Action Plans and CAPERs, Competitive Processes, financial monitoring and project funding adjustments to accommodate timelines, presentations and collaboration with community partners to ensure HUD funding best meets community needs.
• Continuation of Community Development Grant Administrator responsibilities to support current staffing levels while additional employees are onboarded
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Sep. 2018Dayton, Ohio, United States
City of DaytonCommunity Development Grant Administrator
Aug. 2018 - Aug. 2021Dayton, Ohio, United States• Support of division staff through continuation of Community Development Specialist responsibilities • Supervision of one FT CDS1 position; oversight of project management responsibilities for 2 CDS1 positions
• Programmatic oversight of the City's CDBG Program
• Management of HUD requirements and annual action plans for Dayton's $6 million CDBG, $1.5 million HOME, and $500,000 ESG allocations. • Implementation of the annual CDBG discretionary process; create discretionary RFP, analyze available
funding, provide technical assistance and program eligibility for applicants, gather applications and
distribute to scoring committee, award projects, and generate contracts
• Administrative oversight of the City’s CDBG, CDBG-CV, and NSP funding; includes annual budgeting,
agreement generation, compliance update to project files and City grant documents, and monitoring of
all CDBG-funded programs and subrecipients for fiscal and programmatic compliance
• Establishment of CDBG best practices for subrecipient file organization, monitoring procedures, invoice
checklists, document standardization for subrecipient-facing information, and centralization of CDBG
project management responsibilities
• Leadership of City efforts to establish written policies and procedures for the CDBG program
• Represents Community Development staff at the Community and Neighborhood Development
Advisory Board (CNDAB) meetings through presentations on Strategic Plan documents, overall grant
administration, and discretionary process updates
• Provides auxiliary staffing for ESG program
City of DaytonCommunity Development Specialist
Dec. 2016 - Aug. 2018Dayton, Ohio, United States• Administration of federal entitlement grant programs and subrecipient contracts for Community
Development Block Grant (CDBG), HOME Investment Partnerships Program (HOME), Emergency
Solutions Grant (ESG), and closeout of the Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP)
• Programmatic oversight of the City's CDBG program, totaling approximately $5 million annually
• Management of CDBG contracts with subrecipients; responsible for agreement negotiations and
execution, invoice management and payment, compliance with federal and local regulations and
policies, and performance monitoring
• Generation of accomplishment reporting tools for CDBG, HOME, and ESG annual data; responsible for
creating and disseminating reports for subrecipients, compiling and verifying data, and coordinating
data inclusion in the Consolidated Annual Performance Evaluation Report (CAPER)
• Creation of new financial reconciliation tools for monthly expenditure tracking and grant balance draw
down from federal systems; responsible for monthly CDBG reconciliations, program income and
applicable credit reporting, quarterly financial reports to HUD, and Cash on Hand reports in IDIS
• Preparation of Strategic Plan documents for HUD Entitlement grants, including 5-year Consolidated
Plans, Annual Action Plans, Action Plan Amendments, and CAPERs; monitoring, analysis, and
dissemination of project performance through accomplishment reporting and financial monitoring
Center for Urban and Regional StudiesResearch Assistant
Jun. 2015 - May. 2016Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States• Collaboration with center leadership to research, draft, and disseminate 'Extreme Housing Conditions in North Carolina,” a publication highlighting Census tracts, counties, and regions where affordable housing and state and federal resources should be focused to combat extreme housing need in North Carolina
• Interpretation of tract-level ACS data to determine areas facing extreme housing need
• Created GIS datasets and maps for tract, county, and regional extreme housing need in North Carolina
Lee County, NC GovernmentGeographic Information System Intern
Apr. 2015 - May. 2016Sanford, North Carolina, United States• Published and maintained emergency management maps documenting school, childcare, medical services, crop, and livestock locations throughout Lee County, North Carolina
• Provided technical assistance, map and application creation, and troubleshooting for existing interface, feature, mapping, and publishing issues preventing proper usage of ArcGIS Online
• Published and maintained enriching documents on current best practices for ArcGIS Online usage
City of DaytonCommunity Development Intern
Aug. 2011 - Aug. 2014Dayton, Ohio, United States• Managed HOME Investment Partnerships Program and general fund contracts for affordable housing rehabilitation, deconstruction, and land surveying totaling $735 thousand
• Collaborated to create a Discretionary Process for CDBG funding, including Discretionary RFP creation and providing technical assistance to applicants and awardees based on HUD guidance and regulations
• Establishment of demolition and revitalization priorities for the City's application to the State of Ohio for additional Neighborhood Stabilization Program (State NSP) funding
• Drafted development plans for city neighborhoods; assisted with creation and review of Consolidated Plan and Special Improvement District amendments; prepared final plans for presentation and approval
• Assisted with the vacant property reutilization program, REAP; performed deed creation and transfers, database management, applicant processing and correspondence, affidavit creation, and land surveys
• Parcel and tract identification through GIS to highlight distressed areas and extreme blight
• Map generation identifying high vacancy, development impacts, and potential development sites; GIS analysis of demographic data to determine growth and development trends
• Created a naturalization statistics running data set for the City Manager and Welcome Dayton Initiative
• Drafted, finalized, and distributed a “Developer’s Tool Kit” for developing historic properties
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