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Riverton to Add $500,000 EPA Brownfields Assessment Grant to Budget; Safe Streets award expected but not finalized
Summary
City staff told the Riverton City Council that the city will add a $500,000 EPA Brownfields assessment grant to next year’s budget and that a Safe Streets for All grant is expected but the formal contract had not arrived.
Riverton city staff told the City Council on May 20 that the city has been selected to negotiate a cooperative agreement for an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Brownfields assessment grant worth $500,000 and that a previously announced Safe Streets for All grant is expected to come through but had not yet been formalized.
The city administrator said the EPA award will allow a consultant to help the city “envision areas that can be revitalized and also remediated,” and that the $500,000 will be added into the draft budget for formal consideration on June 10. The administrator also said staff had been informally told the Safe Streets for All grant would be approved and that formal documents were “moving off of someone’s desk and heading our way.”
Council members and staff discussed how corridor planning supported by the grants could be used to apply for construction and safety funding in later rounds. The administrator said the corridor planning work funded by an initial award would position the city to “aggressively seek grant funding” to improve streets and intersections once the planning was complete.
City staff emphasized that the Safe Streets funds had not yet been contracted and that the grant paperwork remained outstanding. Council did not take an immediate vote on either award at the May 20 meeting; staff said both grants would be incorporated into the budget amendment packet for the public hearing and adoption scheduled for June 10 unless further direction was given.
The council’s discussion also noted procurement rules: demonstrations of new street sweepers or other equipment would be used to develop bid specifications and would not bypass the competitive bidding process required by state statute.
The city administrator characterized the two incoming grants as unplanned revenue that would require formal budget amendments and additional staff work to implement.
Looking ahead, staff said the planning and application work enabled by the EPA assessment would be a prerequisite to seeking construction funds for corridor improvements under the Safe Streets program.
