McMinnville has been waiting for a Community Development Block Grant for more than three years. The grant is worth $500,000 and was applied for in January 2010.“We just now got the letter to go out for bids,” said McMinnville Public Works director Bill Brock, who is interim director of the Water and Sewer Department. “It seems like a long time to work on a project, but it’s a CDBG sewer rehab grant.”The $500,000 grant was applied for by former director Carl Davis to the Tennessee Department of Economic & Community Development and will be used to replace 5,000 feet of old dilapidated 8-inch pipes with new pipes of the same size in the Skyline area using a process called “pipe bursting.”Pipe bursting is touted as the ideal technique to use for the rehabilitation and replacement of utility lines.