At the first regular Board of Supervisors meeting of 2025, the Board was asked to award Community Development Block Grants (CDBGs) from a list of proposed projects.

Submitted projects included grant applications from the following projects: Camp Verde City. Yavapai County Development Services Environmental Division. Verde Valley Human Habitat/Northern Arizona Council of Governments (NACOG); Autism Spectrum Education and Neurodevelopmental Center (ASCEND); Hope House in Sedona. Steps to Recovery; Prescott Valley Food Bank. Yarnell Regional Community Center; Yarnell Water Improvement Association; and Meals on Wheels.

Yavapai County is allocated Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds every four years, which must be used to serve low- to moderate-income residents in the county . Funding comes from federal housing and urban development funds through the Arizona Housing Authority, administered by NACOG in northern Arizona. The county’s 2025 CDBG funding process began with a public hearing for project input in fall 2024.

Yavapai County Development Services Director Jeremy Dye said these projects must meet one of three national goals:

1. Benefit low- and moderate-income people;

2. Assistance in the prevention or elimination of slums and epidemics, or

3. Address particularly urgent community development needs.

Yavapai County Manager Maury Thompson said. Note that in previous budgets, the county funded the Yarnell Regional Community Center Meals on Wheels program through so-called outside donations. I would like to look at this year’s endowment and suggest that we address at least some of their needs by increasing our endowment. ”

Selected proposals include:

For more information about Yavapai County, contact David McAtee at 928-442-5509 or