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Kansas Commerce approves CDBG extension for Commercial Street; city to review 30 ARPA grant applications
Summary
City manager reported Kansas Department of Commerce approved a time extension for the Commercial Street CDBG project and said 30 nonprofit applications for ARPA grants will be reviewed by EDAG.
Atchison City Manager Mark Westhoff told the commission that the Kansas Department of Commerce has formally approved the city's request to extend the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) deadline for the Commercial Street project to March 31, 2025.
"We have the January 2025 financial report with the Atchison Library Board minutes from November 2024, and we have an approval letter from the Kansas Department of Commerce CDBG for the request we made for time extension on the project, here on Commercial Street," Westhoff said. The manager added that the extension had already been informally approved and the letter made that approval official.
The nut graf: The deadline extension gives the city more time to finish the Commercial Street project funded by CDBG; at the same time the city is preparing recommendations for how to allocate ARPA nonprofit funds after receiving 30 applications.
Westhoff also said the city received 30 applications from nonprofits for ARPA grants and that the Economic Development Advisory Group (EDAG) will review those applications at its meeting tomorrow and make recommendations to the commission at the next meeting. "We received 30 applications from nonprofits, for those ARPA grants. EDAG is going to review those tomorrow at their meeting and make recommendations to the city commission for your next meeting to look at," he said.
Other communications included the January 2025 financial report and Atchison Library Board minutes from November 2024. Westhoff encouraged job-seekers to check the city website for open positions ranging from seasonal parks and pool work to full-time office and field positions, and reminded residents the community survey remains open at atchisonsurvey.org. He also said staff are investigating intermittent livestreaming problems: "Sometimes it's bandwidth, sometimes it's Facebook, has their own problems. We chief was able to run a whole kind of reboot of the system this week, ran a 3 hour test, and there were no problems. And then tonight, Facebook didn't wanna livestream it." The city said it will continue to pursue fixes.
Ending: EDAG will review ARPA applications and forward recommendations to the commission at its next business meeting; the commission did not set dates for grant awards during the communications item.
