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Weslaco staff outline multiple grant bids including $4.16M EDA road project and SAFER firefighter request
Summary
City grant staff described awarded equipment purchases and several active grant applications — including a $4.16 million EDA request for Mid Valley Industrial Park road concrete and a SAFER firefighter staffing application — and said some local matching funds would come from the MEDC and Weslaco EDC.
Gabriel, the city’s grant writer, told the Weslaco City Commission on June 17 that the city has both secured grant-funded equipment and is pursuing several major grant applications.
Gabriel said federal Energy Efficiency Conservation Block Grant funding bought five electric bicycles for the police department and that two Ford Maverick trucks (about $58,506) were awarded to public works. He said those purchases were grant-funded and did not use city general-fund dollars.
The largest project Gabriel described is an Economic Development Administration (EDA) application to rebuild roads in the Mid Valley Industrial Park with reinforced concrete. Gabriel gave a total project cost of $4,162,077.44; a federal share of $3,329,661.96; and a local…
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