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Xenia council approves H2Ohio grant and emergency appropriations for Central State campus monitoring, legal fees and housing loans
Summary
City council approved an emergency ordinance to appropriate a $147,455.67 H2Ohio grant for telemetry/engineering work at Central State University and approved related appropriations including $40,000 for outside legal fees and $43,037.38 in returned housing-loan funds to the county program.
Xenia City Council on July 10 approved an emergency ordinance to accept a $147,455.67 H2Ohio grant administered by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency and to appropriate that money for telemetry work and an engineering study at Central State University’s campus, along with two other appropriations for legal fees and returned housing-loan proceeds.
Finance Director Ryan Duke told the council the H2Ohio funds are 100% reimbursable and would be used first to install a SCADA/telemetry connection to Central State’s elevated water tank and then to fund a study of the university’s water and sewer infrastructure. Duke said the grant will be reimbursed to the city and “no city dollars” from the water fund would be used for the work.
The ordinance package also added $40,000 in appropriations for specialized…
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