MOULTRIE, Ga. — A representative of the Georgia Department of Community Affairs will participate in a meeting to discuss a home repair grant the City of Moultrie is receiving.

The meeting, sponsored by the community group It Takes a Village and The Villagers, will be held at 6:30 p.m. Monday, July 24, at the Ryce Center on Seventh Street Northwest.

At a May meeting, the Moultrie City Council approved some actions to clear the way to receive the grant. Since then, very little information has come out, and that’s why the group — which includes Moultrie City Councilwoman Susie Magwood-Thomas — has scheduled Monday’s meeting.

The Observer announced the meeting in Wednesday’s newspaper. On Friday, MaryBrown Sandys, director of marketing and communications with the Department of Community Affairs, emailed the newspaper. She said Gina Webb, the DCA’s regional representative, planned to attend the meeting, and other staff may as well but hadn’t yet been confirmed.

“The bottom line is, the City of Moultrie received a 2017 CHIP award,” Sandys wrote. “The grant term is August 1, 2017-July 31, 2019. Moultrie had to apply for this award, and when they did the city identified an area where they proposed to apply the funding.”

Sandys said the grant administrator is Brenda Wade of the Southwest Regional Commission, and she’s been the DCA’s contact as they clear contract conditions and begin the grant.

“After the contract conditions are cleared, the next step will be to advertise the program and begin accepting applications from homeowners,” Sandys said.

Sandys’s email included a press release, dated Feb. 10, that announced the award of 12 grants from the Community HOME Investment Program (CHIP). That release said Moultrie was to receive $306,000 for the rehabilitation of six homes.

During comments at the May city council meeting, Dillard said the grant provides for a maximum of $50,000 per home but that the city planned to use it for smaller projects so that it would benefit more homeowners.