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Boone council adopts housing needs assessment, removes wellness center language from CDBG application
Summary
The Boone City Council adopted a community development and housing needs assessment needed to advance a Community Development Block Grant application, removing an unintended reference to a wellness center from the document. The action clears the way to seek roughly $1 million in water and wastewater grants over two years.
The Boone City Council adopted a community development and housing needs assessment required for a Community Development Block Grant application and voted to remove language referencing a wellness center that was left in the document in error.
Councilman Moorman moved to remove the wellness center language and the council approved the amendment and the resolution adopting the assessment. City staff said the change removes references appearing on pages 2 and 3 of the draft assessment.
City Administrator Andrea Scherer explained the purpose of the assessment and the next steps. "This is for the Community Development Block Grant. What this allows us to do is it's one of the multiple steps that we have to do," Scherer said, noting the city’s initial survey showed 55% of respondents met the low- and moderate-income threshold needed to proceed. She said the city must demonstrate that local needs and planned projects are described to grant reviewers.
Scherer summarized the projects the city intends to submit: a first-year application for about $500,000 to rehabilitate an over-100-year-old ground water reservoir and a second-year application for roughly $500,000 for aerated-basin improvements at the wastewater plant, together totaling about $1 million if both grants are awarded. She told the council that a downtown paving item had already been removed from the assessment and that the wellness center reference was an erroneous carryover from a prior template.
After no written or oral public comments during the hearing, the council approved Resolution No. 3348 to adopt the community development and housing needs assessment and set a separate public hearing on the CDBG application for April 7, 2025 at 5:30 p.m.
The council’s vote on the assessment and the public-hearing scheduling was unanimous.
Officials said the assessment and the subsequent grant applications are an early administrative step and that award decisions, funding timelines and related project designs would be determined if and when grants are awarded.
