From the transcript

The program itself is designed to encourage community self-sufficiency, reduce the cost of essential community services, reduce and eliminate conditions that are detrimental to health and safety. Um, CDBGs can only be awarded to communities that have a majority of low and moderate income folks that live there, which Whittier has. The program awards grants, um, a max— to a maximum amount of $150,000. The grant can fund things like community facilities, such as health clinics, daycares, homeless shelters, water and sewer systems, flood and drainage facilities, docks and harbors, electric distribution lines, and other types of utilities. It can also fund transportation improvements such as roads, boardwalks, barges, It can fund access to public facilities and structures, so getting rid of things that might block the way or help folks that are handicapped or elderly get into public buildings or facilities.

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