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Committee hears plan to transfer $1.5M in local match to tap $1.5M community crossing grant for street paving
Summary
Councilman Kenneth Whitson, at-large, introduced CPO 2025-27, an ordinance to revise MVH-restricted appropriations and establish a Community Crossing grant budget that pairs $1.5 million in city match with a $1.5 million grant for local street paving, creating a revised Community Crossing budget of $3,075,000.
Councilman Kenneth Whitson, at-large, introduced CPO 2025-27, an ordinance to revise 2025 appropriations in the Motor Vehicle Highway (MVH) restricted fund and to establish a Community Crossing grant budget. City Controller Salida Green described the proposal as a transfer of appropriations from capital outlay into grants and subsidies, including a $500,000 transfer that brings the city match portion to $1.5 million; that $1.5 million, she said, would be used to match a $1.5 million grant to be received from "NERV C" for paving. Controller Green said the revised Community Crossing budget would be $3,075,000, up from an earlier $1.5 million baseline.
City Engineer William Allen told the committee the Community Crossing program is used to repave city streets and that the program is structured as a 50-50 match: "Every year we use it to repave streets. This year, actually last year as well, there's a $3,000,000 total opportunity, half of which is the grant, half of which we match," Allen said. Allen said the city typically focuses on milling-and-pave projects rather than full reconstruction because milling and paving are more cost-effective and require less design time.
Green outlined the line-item changes. The committee transcript shows a total of $495,000 being reallocated among line items, with $435,000 moved to machinery and equipment and $60,000 to other materials. Controller Green said the transfers would free up the required match to pair with the grant award.
Allen said the city has a pavement assessment completed last year that identifies streets in immediate need; he said staff are developing a 10-year pavement plan and expect the plan to be completed "this year," likely within a few months, though he did not give an exact date. When asked whether the Community Crossing money would pay for Broadway at 25th Street, Allen said the Community Crossing funds are limited to local roads and would not be used on state-owned routes: "This money will only be used on local roads," Allen said; the council noted Broadway is a state road.
No formal committee vote on CPO 2025-27 is recorded in the transcript. The ordinance was presented as sponsored by Mayor Eddie Melton and discussed by Controller Green and City Engineer William Allen; the transcript records staff explanation and council questions but not a roll-call or final action.
