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Public hearing on CDBG 2025 action plan spotlights concerns over use of funds for fire station bond

3804832 · June 11, 2025
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At a June 10 public hearing, City of Muskegon staff presented the 2025 Community Neighborhood Services annual action plan and fielded commissioner questions about the long-running use of CDBG dollars to help pay the central fire station bond.

The City of Muskegon held a public hearing June 10 on the Community Neighborhood Services 2025 Annual Action Plan (the city’s CDBG annual plan), where staff described program priorities and commissioners questioned the use of Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds to help pay a central fire station bond.

Sharonda Carson, director of Community Neighborhood Services, explained that the annual action plan is the city’s yearly element of a five-year consolidated plan started in 2021 and that roughly 50%…

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