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Pocomoke City council approves termination of long-standing CDBG encumbrance on city-owned restaurant property
Summary
The mayor and council authorized city and county signatures to terminate a Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) lien that has encumbered the city-owned restaurant property since 2008, freeing the city from ongoing grant reporting requirements for five years and removing state grant strings after that period.
Pocomoke City Mayor and Council voted on Feb. 18 to sign an agreement that terminates state CDBG grant requirements on a city‑owned restaurant property commonly referred to in the meeting as the Dockside property.
Worcester County Chief Administrative Officer Westy Young told the council the property acquisition dated to February 2008 and said the grant carried conditions the current and prior restaurant tenants could not meet. “The ultimate ask to the state was . . . how do we end the grant that we're never going to be able to achieve,” Young said, explaining that, if signed by the…
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