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Mentor Council reviews shoreline stabilization plan, staff seeks OK to start $340,000 due diligence
Summary
City staff and SmithGroup briefed the Mentor City Council on a proposed shoreline stabilization project for the nature preserve and asked the council to authorize $340,000 of due-diligence work tied to a $104,000 Lake Erie Commission grant and a separate $1.75 million congressional design appropriation. No formal vote on the due diligence is recorded in the transcript.
Mentor City Council members on April 7 reviewed a multi-year plan to stabilize the shoreline at the city nature preserve and were asked to permit an immediate round of technical due-diligence work funded in part by a Lake Erie Commission grant.
Ken Filipiak, the staff presenter, said the council has two related funding tracks: a Lake Erie Commission (LEC) grant that will support $340,000 of investigative engineering and a separate congressional design appropriation of $1,750,000 that carries a 1:1 local match. “We are going to lose more and more of that preserve over time,” Filipiak said, arguing that the city needs to advance studies and designs now to preserve future options and secure construction funding.
Michelle Johnson of SmithGroup said the LEC award is federal money administered through the state and has distinct grant requirements, including a…
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