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Council adopts 2025 CDBG action plan; adds senior snow-removal vouchers and new nonprofit recipients
Summary
Mentor City Council adopted the 2025 Community Development Block Grant action plan and authorized a HUD subrecipient agreement, adding a Cleveland-based crisis center’s Mentor location, Birthright Lake County, and a $10,000 Council on Aging snow-removal voucher program for income-eligible seniors.
Mentor City Council approved the city’s federal fiscal year 2025 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) action plan and related subrecipient agreement with HUD at the July 1 meeting.
City staff told council there are three notable additions to the year’s plan: a Cleveland-based crisis center’s Mentor location (name not specified in the meeting record), Birthright Lake County for office improvements, and a $10,000 award to the Council on Aging to implement a winter snow-removal voucher program for income-eligible Mentor seniors. Under the Council on Aging program, eligible Mentor residents would receive vouchers usable for up to three snow pushes per winter season; the Council on Aging will administer eligibility, solicit contractor bids and distribute vouchers.
Staff said the crisis-center organization visited the city and subsequently applied and qualified for CDBG funding for services in Mentor; council supported the city’s decision to add the nonprofit to the action plan. The plan and subrecipient agreement (Ordinance No. 25-067) were approved by roll call vote.
Councilmembers praised the senior snow-removal program as a way to assist low-income older residents who struggle to pay or coordinate private contractors, and staff said the grant award is intended to respond to frequent requests from seniors for help clearing driveways and sidewalks.
The action plan approval authorizes the city manager to enter into the HUD subrecipient agreement and to allocate the cited CDBG funds to the specified subrecipients per the approved program-year budget.
