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Taylorville City Council Meets To Discuss Grant

The Taylorville City Council met for a special meeting on Wednesday to review a summary of a special grant available called the Rebuild Downtown and Main Streets Capital Grant Program. The purpose of the grant is to support improvements and encourage investment in commercial areas that have experienced downtime especially because of COVID. Bill Sleeman, with Benton and Associates, says that the grant will help make these commercial areas more attractive for investment.

 

 

Sleeman says that the grant is funded by the Department of Commerce and Economic Development. While there is no match required, it is strongly suggested. The Government is asking you to match 20% and the more you put in, the higher your score is.

 

 

With allowable expenses including design engineering, construction, and construction engineering, improvements have to be bondable. Anything to bring people to your commercial areas. Sleeman says getting letters of support will be huge for the project area that will be done. 

 

 

The board didn’t take any action on it. They agreed to re-meet on December 20th for a public information meeting.

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