Madison City PACE panel recommends funding for 1030 Park Ave. and 204 East St.; partial award for 611 W. Second

MADISON CITY — The Madison City PACE Review Committee on May 13 recommended that the Board of Public Works fully fund a dilapidated-structure grant for 1030 Park Avenue and fully fund a rehabilitation grant for 204 East Street, and partially fund repairs at 611 West Second Street, after scoring applicant proposals and applying a minimum qualifying threshold.

Jim Bartlett, a member of the PACE Review Committee, told applicants at the start of the meeting that the city administers three grant types — rehabilitation, dilapidated structure and unsafe-structure grants — and explained the committee’s scoring and funding rules. “36 is the minimum qualifying score for any, for any application that we get,” Bartlett said. He and two other committee members each filled out a score sheet for every represented application; the three scores were…