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Union City Council approves $400,000 grant application, paving payments and a package of local grants and administrative motions
Summary
At its June 25 meeting, the Union City Borough Council unanimously approved a $400,000 Multimodal Transportation grant application for a Willow Street bridge, authorized disbursement of paving payments, approved local Renaissance grant awards and a series of routine administrative motions including a new PLGIT account and sale of playground equipment.
The Union City Borough Council on June 25 unanimously approved a series of resolutions and motions covering infrastructure funding, routine financial authorizations and local grant awards.
Councilors passed a resolution approving a $400,000 grant application to the Multimodal Transportation Fund to cover additional costs for the Willow Street bridge replacement. Councilor Osborn moved the resolution and Councilor Kerns seconded; the motion carried unanimously.
The council approved payment of a Cross Paving invoice totaling $104,740.81, directing $92,130.00 from Liquid Fuels funds and $12,610.81 from the General Fund. Councilor Steadman moved the disbursement and Councilor Kerns seconded; the vote was unanimous.
Council also approved applying $15,625 in County Aid toward a payment to Suit-Kote for the 2024 seal-coat project (motion by Councilor Joyce, seconded by Councilor Osborn), and authorized the transfer of approximately $140,000 from the Capital Equipment account at Northwest into a new PLGIT Checking & Prime account to capture higher interest rates (motion by Councilor Kerns, seconded by Councilor Steadman). Both motions passed unanimously.
On local economic-growth spending, council reviewed six Renaissance grant applications totaling $27,127.65 and approved four awards totaling $17,675, leaving $750.49 in the current grant fund; two applications totaling $9,452.65 will carry forward to the 2024–2025 grant period. Councilor Joyce moved approval of the recommended awards; Councilor Osborn seconded the motion, which passed unanimously.
Other formal actions recorded in the minutes included routine approvals of the agenda, prior minutes, the secretary’s report and bills; authorization to post removed playground equipment from Southwest Park for sale on Municibid; and approval to provide 2–3 loads of milled pavement material to the American Legion ballfield. All recorded motions carried unanimously.
According to the minutes, the Borough also received a $100,000 ECGRA Renaissance Grant and the Union City Volunteer Fire Department repaid an ambulance loan in full ($59,250); these items were reported by Borough Manager Cindy Wells as informational updates and were not the subject of separate votes.
The meeting adjourned at 7:21 p.m.; the minutes show an executive session on personnel and contracts followed (7:22–8:17 p.m.) with no action taken.
Votes at a glance: all recorded motions in the minutes carried unanimously; Councilors present were Cross, Joyce, Osborn, Steadman, Uber and Kerns, with Winkler absent.
