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Allegany County holds public hearing on $700,000 request to expand Archway Station recovery housing in Cumberland
Summary
County commissioners hosted a required public hearing on a proposed $700,000 amendment to a Maryland Recovery Housing Grant to renovate a building at 125 Fayette St. in Cumberland for Archway Station's women's recovery housing project.
The Allegany County Board of Commissioners held a public hearing on a proposed amendment to a Maryland Recovery Housing Grant that would add $700,000 in Community Development Block Grant funding to renovate a building for Archway Station's recovery housing project in Cumberland.
County staff read a description of the Maryland Recovery Housing Program and said the program is federally funded through Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and is administered in Maryland by the Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development. The county is the required applicant and Archway Station Inc. would serve as the subrecipient for a project to house women moving from treatment into recovery housing and reunite them with their children.
The amendment under consideration would provide $700,000 for additional renovation costs at a property listed by staff as 125 Fayette St., Cumberland. Jim Rowley, identified in the meeting as the executive director of Archway Station, was in the room and available to answer questions, the staff statement said.
County staff said a public notice for the hearing was advertised in the Cumberland Times-News on Saturday, March 15, 2025, and that the original application was made available for public review from Monday, March 17 through Friday, March 28 during normal business hours at the Allegany County Department of Economic and Community Development.
The public hearing opened; no members of the public registered substantive comments or questions during the hearing, and the staff member closed the hearing at the conclusion of the public comment opportunity. No formal vote or action to amend the grant agreement occurred at the meeting; the hearing record will be part of the county's process for requesting the additional CDBG funds from the Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development.
Ending: County staff directed members of the public to contact the Allegany County Department of Economic and Community Development to review the application and to submit comments during the advertised review period.
