West Lafayette council adopts emergency resolution to apply for USDA water/wastewater technical-assistance grant

The West Lafayette village council unanimously adopted Resolution 2025-70 to authorize the village administrator and the mayor to submit an application to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development Water and Wastewater Disposal Technical Assistance and Training Grant Program.

The village administrator told the council the grant opportunity was announced that day and has a two-week application period; the administrator asked the council to pass the resolution and declare it an emergency to suspend the three-reading requirement so the village could file promptly. "I have a resolution that's for us to apply for a grant that just came out today and only has a two week application period," the administrator said.

Council members moved, seconded and recorded affirmative roll-call votes to suspend the rules and adopt the resolution during the same session. The transcript records the emergency action as Resolution 2025-70; a later spoken reference truncated the number (appearing as "2025-7"), which appears to be a transcription error corrected in the official motion record.

The record does not detail the proposed amount to be requested, or the specific projects or technical assistance activities that would be funded; the resolution authorizes filing an application but does not itself commit local matching funds in the segments provided. Next steps would typically include preparing the application materials and returning with any required acceptance or match commitments if the grant is awarded.