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Amendment due to grant received
DAVENPORT – The most exciting part of council’s Aug. 11 meeting may have been Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office deputy Jon Evans jokingly threatening to ticket councilmember Cory Hollis for tuning in to the meeting via Zoom while driving a harvester. Otherwise, council quickly passed two action items relating to budgets and grants before adjourning after 25 minutes.
The first resolution was to repeal the previously approved Resolution 2021-09 and replace that with a new authorization for mayor Brad Sweet to enter a grant agreement with the Federal Aviation Administration.
City staff found an error in previous resolution language and amended that to reflect that an FAA Supplementary Discretionary Grant from the FAA will fund the $800,000 airport construction project, including construction and construction management.
City administrator Steve Goemmel said paving is expected to begin on the runways at the municipal airport in mid-September.
A public hearing was held on the resolution before council passed it unanimously. No comments were heard from the public.
Council also approved a first reading of an ordinance to repeal Ordinance 1167 and amend the 2021 budget because of funds received in the American Rescue Plan Act. To consolidate funds, the city plans to add $243,417 in ARPA grant funds to the current expense fund instead of spreading those dollars across several funds.
The reasoning for this, Goemmel said, is to make it easier to identify those funds and where they were spent if the city gets audited. The ways the money can be spent didn’t change.
Before adjournment, councilmember Nathan Hansen said he’s received multiple comments from citizens wondering why the old Lion’s Park on the east side of town is overgrown with weeds. That land is where the new Family Dollar is going, and Goemmel said the company is working on plans for construction…the city no longer owns that property.
Drew Lawson is the editor of the Davenport Times. He is a graduate of Eastern Washington University.
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