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White Oak approves grant application for storm-sewer cleaning; record shows different project amounts
Summary
White Oak Borough Council voted to adopt Resolution 2025-07 to request a Pennsylvania Small Water and Sewer Program grant for storm sewer cleaning and televising. Engineering staff earlier described a $500,000 project with a 15% ($75,000) local match; the adopted resolution requests $425,000 and the resolution text does not state the match.
White Oak Borough Council on April 21 approved Resolution 2025-07 to request a Pennsylvania Small Water and Sewer Program grant for cleaning and closed-circuit televising of the borough storm sewer system.
The grant request passed by voice vote after a short discussion. The borough solicitor presented Resolution 2025-07, described in the meeting as a request to the Commonwealth Financing Authority for $425,000 to fund storm sewer cleaning and televising work.
The matter drew attention because borough engineering staff, earlier in the agenda, described the same project as a $500,000 closed-circuit televising and cleaning effort and said the borough would commit to a 15% local match of $75,000. During the resolution discussion a council member asked whether the resolution specified the match; the response from staff was that the resolution itself did not show the match amount.
Council President Davis presided over the vote. The solicitor, identified in the record as Ashley, moved forward the resolution for council action; the record shows the motion and a second, and council approved the resolution by voice vote.
The engineer noted grant application deadlines and that the borough would work with council and the borough manager to finalize applications. Council did not amend the resolution on the floor to include the 15% match figure described earlier by engineering staff. The transcript does not record a named mover or a roll-call tally for the resolution; the outcome recorded in the meeting minutes is that the motion passed.
The approval allows borough staff to submit the application and pursue any subsequent steps required by the Commonwealth Financing Authority. The transcript does not record the next procedural steps, project schedule, or a finalized funding breakdown beyond the two amounts discussed in meeting remarks ($500,000 project cost with a 15% match and a separate $425,000 grant request in the resolution).
