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Mayor: Prattville's LRAP has helped about 40 seniors and used roughly $70,000 of $100,000 budget
Summary
Mayor reported that the city's Lateral Rehabilitation Assistance Program (LRAP) has served about 40 senior citizens and spent roughly $70,000 of a $100,000 budget this year; councilors were asked to refer qualifying residents to public works.
Mayor (unnamed in the record) reported to the Prattville City Council that the Lateral Rehabilitation Assistance Program, or LRAP, has assisted about 40 senior citizens this year and that roughly $70,000 of the program—s $100,000 budget has been spent to date.
The mayor described LRAP as a lateral rehabilitation assistance program and asked councilors to refer residents in need to the public works department for assistance. He tied the program to recent storm response, noting that functioning sewer laterals help prevent wastewater overload at treatment facilities and reduce costs for the city.
Discussion: the mayor framed LRAP as one of several infrastructure- and public-works-related responses to recent heavy rain; no council motion or formal vote was recorded on LRAP during the meeting. Direction: councilors were asked to share program information with constituents and refer eligible residents to public works.
The transcript does not provide a line-item breakdown of expenditures, the criteria for eligibility or the exact number of remaining applicants; the mayor provided the approximate figures stated above.
