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Port Jervis moves to combine water filtration upgrades into $3 million project, accepts $1.5M CDBG award
Summary
The Port Jervis Common Council authorized city officials to accept a $1.5 million Community Development Block Grant and pursue county and state infrastructure funding to combine three phases of water filtration upgrades into a single $3 million project.
The Port Jervis Common Council authorized city officials to accept a $1.5 million Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and to pursue additional county and state infrastructure funding to consolidate three planned phases of water filtration upgrades into one $3 million project.
City leaders said the action will allow the city to combine previously separate work on the water filters, the intake system, and the intake house and controls into a single project rather than seeking funding for each phase separately.
The resolution, introduced during the Community Development Agency report, directs the mayor or the mayor’s designee to execute and submit the annex grant contract with the Housing Trust Fund Corporation for the $1.5 million CDBG award, subject to the review and approval of corporation counsel. Council members voted to approve the motion; the meeting record shows the motion carried.
Council members also voted to authorize the mayor or designee to prepare and submit a New York State Empire State Development County Infrastructure Grant Program application to Orange County for $1,000,000, with a proposed city cash contribution of $500,000 toward a $3,000,000 total project cost. The council approved that motion as well.
According to the council discussion recorded in the meeting, Orange County indicated it would contribute an additional $1.5 million in CDBG funding, enabling the city to combine the three phases under one contract and reduce the need to “chase funding” across multiple grant rounds. The council report said the work will still proceed in the same sequence: water filters first, then the intake, then the intake house and controls.
The resolution references a planned sequence of improvements at the Port Jervis Water Filtration Plant and instructs city leadership to move forward with executing grant paperwork and applying for the county infrastructure grant. The resolution and the grant-application authorization were approved without a detailed roll-call vote listed in the meeting transcript.
