Brownton City Council orders preliminary report on improvements
The Brownton City Council agreed to spend up to $48,000 with Short Elliot Hendrickson (SEH) Inc., its engineering firm, to develop a preliminary engineering report on proposed infrastructure improvements.
Dan Ehrke of SEH told the City Council at its Nov. 5 meeting that the preliminary engineering report is needed as the city begins applications for funding from the United States Department of Agriculture’s Rural Development program.
Ehrke said the Rural Development program could provide up to 40 percent in grant funding for needed improvements. The rest of the improvements will be paid for with low-interest loans that will be repaid with general obligation bonds, assessments and other funding sources.
The City Council has not determined to what extent it will make infrastructure repairs, but hopes to have a program in place by 2016, when some of its current bond issues will be paid off.
For more from the meeting, see the Nov. 12 print ediiton of The Chronicle.