Cave City approves resolution for $350K GRANT for Boys and Girls Club, other business in May 31 meeting
By Damon Stone, Freelance Reporter
The Cave City Council held a special session on Friday, May 31, with all members present except for Clifton Parsley and Kevin Houchens.
The council held their reading of Resolution 24-5-31A, which is the adoption and approval of a contract with the Transportation Cabinet.
The contract, titled the Municipal Aid Co-op Program Contract, will begin for the fiscal year beginning on Monday, July 1, and will accept all streets referred in the contract as being city streets, and ratifies and adopts all statements, representations, warranties, covenants, and agreements contained in the contract.
The contract was unanimously approved by the council, and they expressed that the contract is the same as it has been between the city and transportation cabinet.
The council approved Resolution 24-5-31B, which authorizes the completion and filing of a Government Resources Accelerating Needed Transformation, or GRANT, program for the Boys and Girls Club.
The resolution will see $350,000 go to the project to help it move forward on behalf of the residents of Cave City and Barren County.
Matt Pedigo from the Barren River Area Development District, or BRADD, helped to push forward the resolution.
“This is the first funding cycle,” Pedigo said. “The first of each month is the deadline for each funding run. (…) My understanding from the cabinet of economic development, which is who administers this particular program, is that they’ll let us know the (time frame) within 30 days.”
Through the resolution, Cave City has submitted an application for a US Department of Housing and Urban Development Community Development Block Grant to access federal grant resources that are in the public interest and for a public purpose.
“In our small towns, like Cave City, Horse Cave, and so many in the BRADD area, it’d be almost impossible without the help of BRADD and grants, and (Community Development Block Grant) programs,” Dwayne Hatcher, mayor of Cave City, said. “Whatever the grant may be, for us to progress and get some of the very much needed things in our community without the help of grants and state and federal money, it’d be nearly impossible without them.”
Mayor Dwayne Hatcher explained that the contents of the meeting were time sensitive, specifically being Resolution 24-5-31B, which authorizes the use of a GRANT program to provide funds for the Boys and Girls Club. Photo | Damon Stone, Freelance Reporter
The council also approved Resolution 24-5-31C, which sees the federal-aid highway program locally administered funding in the amount of $240,418 for the Wall Street Sidewalk project, for the preliminary engineering, environmental and design engineering for sidewalks on Wall Street.
Included in the resolution was an amendment between the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet and Cave City, in which the budget and scope of work of the agreement is the total of $137,500 for Cave City, and the total is $10,000 for the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet.
The council held the appointment for the new Code Enforcement Officer, Karisa Waddle, citing her as an “outstanding asset” in the office.
Cave City Council met on May 31 for a special session where they approved several resolutions that required action before the regularly scheduled council meeting. Present members of the council included from left to right, Beverly Ford, Denny Doyle, Brandon Wright, Bonita Hendren, Mayor Dwayne Hatcher, City Attorney Bobby Richardson, and Peggy Pippin. Photo | Damon Stone, Freelance Reporter
