The Dunkirk Common Council will be asked for its approval of the city's proposed Community Development Block Grant 2010 spending plan when it meets Tuesday.
Resolution 16-2010, sponsored by Second Ward Councilman Kevin Muldowney, would give that council approval to the city's 2010 CDBG Annual Action Plan and direct that the plan be submitted to the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development for its approval.
The $574,750 total is divided into four categories, with administration of the plan taking $87,500. The $257,500 for economic development is broken into four areas, with $180,000 for economic development funding-revolving loan fund, combating blight of commercial buildings, waterfront redevelopment and for profit assistance grant funding. The decent housing category gets $188,750 under the plan with $82,500 for owner-occupied rehabilitation; $40,000 for residential demolition and acquisition and $35,000 for code enforcement. Both sidewalk replacement and a COI rent-own program get $15,000 while $1,250 is set for a smoke detector program.
The remaining $41,000 is for the suitable living category with $20,000 for streetscape work; $6,000 for the Meals on Wheels program and $5,000 for the summer day camp program.
Both the Boys & Girls Club and a crime prevention and awareness program will get $4,000 and $1,000 goes to sports clinics while $500 goes to both the Dunkirk Little League and the Cool School-Reading Enrichment Program.
Resolution 17-2010 would authorize City Clerk William Tuggle to donate all unused cell phones to the nonprofit organization Cell Phones for Soldiers, which would provide prepaid shipping labels.
Fourth Ward Councilwoman Stacy Szukala sponsored the resolution that would donate phones the city no longer uses after switching from AT&T Wireless to Verizon Wireless as the sole provider of cell phone service for the city.
There are five pre-filed communications and petitions on the agenda.
A request for permission and support for an April 18 duathlon (bike/run) that would require the use of certain city streets and Memorial Park. According to the request, the event will be part of an Earth Week series of events.
The 14-mile bike route would begin on Central Avenue in front of the SUNY Fredonia Business Technology Incubator and eventually find its way to Brigham Road and eventually the city pier and Memorial Park area. The run would proceed from Memorial Park to Point Gratiot and back. Memorial Park would be the staging area for the event and have tents set up for vendors, refreshments, entertainment and final awards ceremony.
Registration would be begin at 8 a.m. at the Incubator site on Central Avenue with the bike race scheduled to start at 9:30 a.m.
Dunkirk Senior High School Principal Paul Lyons wrote to request the presence of two police officers at the school's Valentine's dance Feb. 13.
A request to use the city's Lucas Avenue garage facility for a rabies immunization clinic was submitted by the Chautauqua County Health Department. The clinic would run from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. on March 29.
A notice of claim for $2,651 in damages was submitted by State Farm Fire and Casualty Company for an incident that occurred Dec. 9. at 767 Park Ave. According to the notice submitted by claims representative Sandra Silvers, the damages, "arose in the following way: To WIT: Tree owned by city that was dying fell on policyholder's home and vehicle."
Tuggle wrote to notify Mayor Richard Frey and the council he has appointed Christine McGraw to the position of Deputy City Clerk and Deputy Registrar of Vital Statistics for the city. McGraw replaces Clara Donaldson, whose last day of work in the clerk's office before retiring was Jan. 29.
The council workshop is set for 6:30 p.m., the regular meeting at 7 p.m.
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