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Bullhead City to move CDBG funds to Hancock ADA ramp project after police remodel found ineligible
Summary
Council work session concluded that a planned police department remodel no longer qualifies for CDBG funding; staff will reallocate about $500,000 in local CDBG dollars to replace 53 ADA ramps along Hancock Road, supplementing a separate $1.5 million state grant.
Bullhead City held a special council work session Aug. 18 to discuss reprogramming Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds after a proposed police department remodel was determined ineligible for that federal program.
Denise Bishop, who works on the city's CDBG grants, told the council the police project failed to meet the CDBG low- to moderate-income threshold. "It was determined that we don't meet the 51% low to moderate income in order for us to make this a community wide, project which it has to meet 3, requirements in order to be funded," Bishop said at the podium.
The council discussed shifting available CDBG dollars to a sidewalk and accessibility project on Hancock Road. City staff described the proposed scope as replacing 53 Americans with Disabilities Act-compliant curb ramps along a roughly 2.5-mile stretch of Hancock from Highway 95 to Colorado Boulevard, including saw cutting and removing existing ramps, soil work, new ramp pours, curb-and-gutter work, and matching sidewalks. Bishop said the Hancock work meets one of CDBG’s eligible objectives — barrier removal — and that the environmental review and application for that project are complete.
City staff said the Hancock project will be funded with a recently secured state award of $1,500,000 and the city's available CDBG allocation of about $500,000. "So we'll have that money in the bank. And then we also have about this $500,000 where we could use for Hancock," a city staff member who opened the session said, describing the funding picture and timeline for formal action.
Council members and staff discussed design details and potential ancillary elements. Staff said the work could include installing a pedestrian crossing device (the ADOT "hawk" crossing signal) at a long gap between existing crossings near Safeway and the river if funding allows. Bishop noted the corridor's proximity to social services, the food bank and senior services as part of the project's benefits.
Council members asked technical questions about the existing tactile/yellow truncated-domes and pavement transitions; staff confirmed the project includes replacing substandard ramps and correcting slope and gutter elevations to meet current ADA standards.
The police remodel remains in the city's budget, but staff said it cannot proceed under CDBG and will require a separate funding plan. "We would have to come back to you. I would have to come back with Captain Harms or whomever from PD. And we'll have to figure out, okay, how do we fund that? We can fund a little bit of that out of contingency," said Toby, a city staff member who led the work-session presentation. Bishop said she would explore other funding avenues for specific security items and added she planned to "check with Homeland Security and and the Department of Justice to at least get the level 3 ballistic panels and glass in place in the reception area of the PD." That work, she said, would be pursued separately from CDBG.
Staff told the council the Hancock ADA ramp project will appear on the regular council meeting agenda later that night as an action item for formal approval and contracting.
The work session closed with a motion to move into executive session; the council voted "7 in favor of the motion. Motion carries." The reallocation of CDBG funds to the Hancock ADA ramps is expected to return to the council for formal vote on the agenda item referenced by staff.
