Amador County – The Ione City Council last week started this year’s Community Development Block Grant application process. City Manager Kim Kerr said Tuesday the city could apply for $100,000 to work on Americans with Disabilities Act accessibility requirements. Work could include streets around town and improvements to the Ione police station in City Hall, which needs both interior and exterior work. Councilman Lee Ard said Kerr and City Planner Christopher Jordan will be putting together a grant application package, to be submitted in the fall. The grants could include one toward economic development of Main Street and ADA compliance. Ard said the 2 or 3 different CDBG grants have maximums potential values of $40,000 going up to $250,000. Ard said the council doesn’t know which grants it will apply for, and the Tuesday public workshop was not well attended. He said: “We usually don’t get a lot of input.” Kerr and Jordan will work on the ADA grant “for a few months so it’s a quality project,” and it will be submitted in August or September. He said they have to do the City Hall upgrade to make further repairs which should have been made in a 2003 remodel. The project “didn’t bother to make it ADA compliant,” Ard said. The second phase will put in ramps on the back side of City Hall, and finish the bathrooms, which are “sort of ADA compliant.” Ard said Ione applied for another grant with the help of Caltrans, “and we are in the 1st or 2nd position.” Another grant would “start an economic analysis for downtown to see what kind of businesses people in town will shop at,” and gather information, so the city can “make sure we go out and recruit the right kind of businesses.” A “heavy duty economic analysis” will track credit card usage by Ione cardholders, using no names, only resident locations, to see where local people spend their money. “They will actually tell us what businesses will do really well, based on the spending habits of citizens,” Ard said, adding that “Livermore, Pleasanton and Davis are 3 cities that used this type of study to revitalize their downtown.” He said “it’s a $60,000 analysis, so it’s not cheap, but definitely a quality product will be the end result.” Story by Jim Reece This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Tuesday, 25 May 2010 07:35
Ione CDBG Grants Include Business Study For Downtown
Amador County – The Ione City Council last week started this year’s Community Development Block Grant application process. City Manager Kim Kerr said Tuesday the city could apply for $100,000 to work on Americans with Disabilities Act accessibility requirements. Work could include streets around town and improvements to the Ione police station in City Hall, which needs both interior and exterior work. Councilman Lee Ard said Kerr and City Planner Christopher Jordan will be putting together a grant application package, to be submitted in the fall. The grants could include one toward economic development of Main Street and ADA compliance. Ard said the 2 or 3 different CDBG grants have maximums potential values of $40,000 going up to $250,000. Ard said the council doesn’t know which grants it will apply for, and the Tuesday public workshop was not well attended. He said: “We usually don’t get a lot of input.” Kerr and Jordan will work on the ADA grant “for a few months so it’s a quality project,” and it will be submitted in August or September. He said they have to do the City Hall upgrade to make further repairs which should have been made in a 2003 remodel. The project “didn’t bother to make it ADA compliant,” Ard said. The second phase will put in ramps on the back side of City Hall, and finish the bathrooms, which are “sort of ADA compliant.” Ard said Ione applied for another grant with the help of Caltrans, “and we are in the 1st or 2nd position.” Another grant would “start an economic analysis for downtown to see what kind of businesses people in town will shop at,” and gather information, so the city can “make sure we go out and recruit the right kind of businesses.” A “heavy duty economic analysis” will track credit card usage by Ione cardholders, using no names, only resident locations, to see where local people spend their money. “They will actually tell us what businesses will do really well, based on the spending habits of citizens,” Ard said, adding that “Livermore, Pleasanton and Davis are 3 cities that used this type of study to revitalize their downtown.” He said “it’s a $60,000 analysis, so it’s not cheap, but definitely a quality product will be the end result.” Story by Jim Reece This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.Latest from
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