Loyalsock Township Supervisors and Kristin McLaughlin, senior program analyst with SEDA-Council of Governments, discussed the final steps to submitting an application for the 2019 Community Development Block Grant on Tuesday.

“You are receiving $160,996 in CDBG funds for 2019,” McLaughlin said. “We had selected the following projects at the following amounts: curb cut reconstruction at $40,000, Loyalsock Township building vestibule removal of architectural barriers at $41,446, Loyalsock Township building bathroom RAB at $60,000 and lastly administration with $19,550.”

There were three other items that needed to be approved by the board to continue with the block grant including the approval of the Fair Housing Resolution, approval for the 2019 CDBG application and lastly the approval of an update to the township’s procurement policy.

The Fair Housing Resolution is required to be signed to receive federal funds.

“The policy states that there cannot be discrimination in housing,” McLaughlin said.

The township’s procurement policy is not related to the application for the block grant program but provides updated federal regulations to how the township operates financially.

The final block grant application, the updated policy and the Fair Housing Resolution were unanimously approved by the board.

With that, McLaughlin also recommended making revisions to the 2015 and 2017 budgets to move money from older budgets to newer ones, giving more funds to newer projects.

“I recommend we move $27,027.50 from sidewalk improvement project of 2015 into the Center for Healthy Aging project,” she said. “I am recommending that we also make a revision to the 2017 budget to move the same amount from the Center for Healthy Aging from 2017 to the 2019 project for the township building bathroom. The Center for Healthy Aging is getting funded through the 2018 budget and the sidewalk program still has money left over.”

The goal with these revisions is to use up all of the past block grant program money to complete past and future projects.

These revisions were also approved unanimously by the board.