Sunbury council approves 2025 CDBG application, adopts fair-housing and Section 504 resolutions
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Summary
Sunbury City Council approved a package of resolutions to submit a 2025 Community Development Block Grant application, adopted a fair-housing resolution and designated the city clerk as the city’s Section 504 compliance officer; the package identifies roughly $308,916 in proposed allocations.
Sunbury City Council voted to adopt resolutions to submit an application for the city’s 2025 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and to adopt required fair-housing and Section 504 measures.
At a public hearing before the vote, staff described the draft CDBG budget total as $308,916 and listed proposed project allocations including curb cuts ("Phase 1") for $25,000, fire-department air packs for $207,016, and $50,000 for administration. The record also references a line item transcribed as "straw out improvements" with an amount given in the meeting transcript; the council summary staff presented said the city would review and formally adopt the full application as part of the regular meeting.
The adopted resolution authorizes the city to submit the CDBG application to the state subrecipient/BCED program, affirms the city’s citizen-participation efforts, confirms the city’s legal authority under the cited state act to apply for the funds and authorizes the mayor to sign grant documents. The resolution, as described in the hearing, also states the city must repay any CDBG funds later determined ineligible under program rules.
Council also adopted a fair-housing resolution, described in the hearing as affirming the city will not discriminate in sale, rental, leasing, financing or brokerage of housing on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion or other protected characteristics identified in the recorded statement. Staff told the council the fair-housing resolution also directs residents how to report alleged discriminatory actions through the city clerk’s office.
Separately, the council adopted a Section 504 resolution and accompanying grievance procedure and plan. According to staff, the Section 504 action designates an office and person in the city to receive and handle complaints about accessibility of city-owned facilities and programs; the meeting record identifies the city clerk as the designated Section 504 compliance officer.
Council seconded the motion and approved the set of resolutions during the regular meeting. Recorded affirmative responses at the roll call portion of the vote included members who answered "yes" in the transcript (for example: Savage, Roshes/Roche's, Rumbaugh and Isaac); no "no" votes were recorded in the public transcript excerpt.
The resolutions are required by the CDBG application process and federal nondiscrimination and accessibility rules; the council’s approvals allow staff to file the application and proceed with any further application steps required by the state program.
