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Committee removes duplicate CDBG ordinance from calendar and recommends council approve FY2025 CDBG application
Summary
The committee voted to remove an ordinance that would have required monthly CDBG steering-committee meetings because the mayor's ordinance already codifies that requirement, and it recommended that the full council support the city's FY2025 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) preliminary application, which is due April 14.
The Economic and Community Development Committee on March 14 voted to remove an ordinance from its calendar that would have required monthly meetings of the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) steering committee, and the committee voted to recommend that the full city council support Gardner’s preliminary FY2025 CDBG application.
President Tyrus explained that a mayor-submitted ordinance codifying the CDBG program already included a procedure for monthly steering-committee meetings and a bypass provision when no update is required, making the proposed committee ordinance redundant. "Because of this redundancy now and…
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