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Union City Council applies for $400,000 Willow Street bridge grant, approves multiple funding moves
Summary
At its June 25 meeting, the Union City Borough Council unanimously approved a resolution to apply for a $400,000 Multimodal Transportation Fund grant for the Willow Street bridge and passed a set of financial motions including liquid fuels disbursement, county aid allocation, Renaissance Grant awards, bank-account transfer and property tax-exonerations.
The Union City Borough Council on June 25 unanimously approved a resolution to apply for $400,000 from the Multimodal Transportation Fund to help pay for replacement of the bridge on Willow Street.
The resolution, moved by Councilor Osborn and seconded by Councilor Kerns, was one of several finance-related measures the council passed without dissent. Council also approved two tax‑exoneration resolutions for properties purchased by the Erie County Land Bank at 11 Maple Street and 48 Atlantic Street (motion by Councilor Joyce; seconded by Councilor Steadman); approved payment of a Cross Paving invoice totaling $104,740.81 with $92,130 drawn from Liquid Fuels and $12,610.81 from the General Fund (motion by Councilor Steadman; seconded by Councilor Kerns); and passed a resolution applying $15,625 in County Aid toward the Suit‑Kote seal‑coat payment (motion by Councilor Joyce; seconded by Councilor Osborn).
Council also approved logistics for millings from the paving project, agreeing to provide 2–3 loads of ground millings to the American Legion ballfield to help with driveway issues (motion by Councilor Osborn; seconded by Councilor Joyce), and accepted the Borough Manager’s recommendation on Renaissance Grant awards: four applications totaling $17,675 approved now and two totaling $9,452.65 carried into the 2024/2025 grant period (motion by Councilor Joyce; seconded by Councilor Osborn).
On banking and assets, the council authorized opening a new PLGIT Checking & Prime account to transfer approximately $140,000 from the Capital Equipment account to capture higher interest rates (motion by Councilor Kerns; seconded by Councilor Steadman) and approved posting removed playground equipment from Southwest Park for sale on Municibid (motion by Councilor Kerns; seconded by Councilor Steadman). All motions were recorded as carried unanimously.
Why it matters: the grant application, if awarded, would provide dedicated funds for a local bridge replacement project; the other measures finalize payments and reallocate borough funds for paving, grants, banking and property clean‑up efforts.
Council adjourned at 7:21 P.M.; following the public meeting the council held an executive session on personnel and contracts from 7:22 P.M. until 8:17 P.M., with no action taken during the session.
