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Court considers single grant agreement to pair $1M CDBG and $600K ARC for Hilltown sewer extension
Summary
A county-sanitation district agreement would let Clark County combine a Community Development Block Grant and Appalachian Regional Commission funds to streamline environmental review and drawdowns for a sewer extension to Hilltown Mobile Home Park; court discussion provided a construction timeline and rough cost estimate.
The Clark County Fiscal Court considered an agreement to let the county and the Clark-Payne Sanitation District implement one combined grant agreement covering a $1,000,000 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and roughly $600,000 in Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) funds for a sewer extension project serving the Hilltown Mobile Home Park.
The agreement would transfer administrative responsibility for the grants so the sanitation district can receive the funds under one set of documents and complete a single environmental review for the project’s area of potential effect. "The agreement that you got in front of me pertains to the community development block grant for the sanitation district that's already been awarded to fiscal court as well as ARC funds that are being repented to the sanitation district by way of an award that should be approved soon," Bryson told the court.
Bryson said design by Palmer Engineering is roughly three-quarters complete and that the sanitary sewer would extend from the Stroke Creek wastewater treatment plant up Rockwell Road to serve about 187 lots in the Hilltown Mobile Home Park. He described an anticipated procurement schedule that could place construction bidding in the spring and estimated the construction period at roughly 16–18 months after award.
Bryson gave a preliminary order-of-magnitude cost estimate and funding status. "I would anticipate April, May of this year fitting the project and potentially being able to let for construction," he said; later he summarized estimated project costs in the transcript as in the tens of millions (transcript language: "it's going to fall somewhere between $8,012,000,000"), and said Palmer had included a substantial contingency in the estimate. He also said aside from the ARPA moneys the fiscal court had dedicated, the rest of the project funds are grant funds and do not require local financing.
Magistrates asked for a brief public explanation of scope and schedule; Bryson provided a short summary and said the court would return in the next couple of months to finalize documents needed to release CDBG and ARC funds.
A motion to approve the agreement was made and seconded; court discussion followed. The transcript records the motion and second but does not include a recorded final tally for that vote.
If finalized, the combined agreement would allow one set of administrative draws and one environmental review to streamline implementation and move the sanitation district toward construction procurement later in 2025.
Ending: Court members said they expect to see additional contract and drawdown materials in the coming months and that staff would return with paperwork to move toward bidding and construction.
