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Jamestown Urban Renewal Agency approves 2025 service contracts, salary adjustments and key appointments
Summary
The Jamestown Urban Renewal Agency approved its 2025 service contracts with the city and partner corporations, authorized routine administrative steps and approved modest salary-range adjustments for two management positions; it also appointed legal counsel and confirmed its executive secretary.
The Jamestown Urban Renewal Agency on an omnibus series of votes approved 2025 service contracts, designated bank depositories, confirmed audit engagement and approved modest management salary-range changes, then appointed legal counsel and its executive secretary.
The approvals included a 2025 contract for services with the City of Jamestown for $435,000 to allow the agency to continue administering HUD entitlement programs — including the HOME program and Community Development Block Grant funding — plus office and parking space in the Jamestown Municipal Building. Crystal, the agency executive secretary, told board members, “This is actually a slight increase from last year. It's definitely not what we asked for,” and said the funding covers administration of HUD entitlement funds, code enforcement, building and zoning inspections and economic development activities.
Why it matters: these contracts fund the agency’s core administrative work and its role in managing federal entitlement and grant funds for the city.
Other contract actions: the agency approved a contract for…
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