RUMFORD — Selectmen will convene a public hearing at 6:15 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 2, for the 2012 Community Development Block Grant Program’s Housing Assistance Grant.

That meeting and the board’s regular meeting, which follows at 7 p.m., will be held in Rumford Falls Auditorium.

In the latter meeting, selectmen are expected to approve documents for the grant, which will be used to restore dilapidated housing.

Selectmen learned on June 25 that Rumford was awarded its second CDBG Housing Assistance Grant — this one for $300,000 — thanks to the continuing efforts of grant coordinator Phil Blampied.

In 2009, the town won the grant, which provided more than $400,000 in housing repairs and upgrades to properties here.

Rumford applied for the grant this past spring, competing with communities throughout the state for a limited number of grants in the 2012 round.

The Housing Assistance Grant Program provides funding to address housing problems of low- and moderate-income persons.

Earlier this year, Rumford had identified hundreds of thousands of dollars of work needed on properties owned or inhabited by low- to moderate-income residents, Blampied said.

The town argued in the application to the state, “that the aging housing stock, high unemployment and other economic challenges facing the town made the grant money necessary,” he said.

The board is also expected to appoint a town attorney, discuss economic development, and approve the designated fund balance.

Additionally, the Citizen of the Year recipient will be announced.

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