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Port St. Joe approves CDBG grant applications for MLK Boulevard and Washington neighborhood center; council pledges matching funds
Summary
The Port St. Joe City Commission unanimously approved resolutions to apply for state Community Development Block Grant funding for an MLK Boulevard revitalization project and renovations at the Washington Neighborhood Community Center, and recorded a $25,000 city match for each application.
The Port St. Joe City Commission on April 15 voted to submit two state grant applications — one to revitalize Martin Luther King Boulevard and another to renovate the Washington neighborhood recreation complex — and approved related resolutions that pledge local matching funds.
Pat Howard, the city's grant manager, told commissioners the MLK Boulevard proposal would cover sidewalks, street paving, new lighting, landscaping, irrigation, crosswalks and burying utilities. "The bottom line is it came to a total of a little over $1,800,000," Howard said. He said the city has pledged $25,000 as a local match and that the grant request for MLK was listed at "$1,780,790." Howard said unmet needs — work on additional blocks — were listed as secondary priorities if funds remain.
Howard described the Washington Neighborhood Community Center (referred to in the meeting as the Washington Gym project) scope to include replacement windows and HVAC, stage remodeling and lighting, refinished gym flooring and new bleachers, kitchen upgrades and electrical and…
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