Center Township supervisors unanimously approved two resolutions for the Community Development Block Grant Entitlement Program (CDBG) on Monday for a road and storm sewer project in Luciusboro. Supervisors approved resolution 24-3, authorizing the Indiana County Office of Planning and Development (ICOPD) to apply for and administer 2024 CDBG grant funding “on behalf of the township,” according to board chairperson Matthew Housholder. The second resolution, 24-4, was to enter a similar agreement with Indiana County Commissioners.
Both resolutions are to seek approximately $97,587 in CDBG funds to eventually pave and repave roads and construct storm sewer drainage within Luciusboro. “(We’re) going to put new drainage in,” Housholder said. “(And we’re) resurfacing the roads.
There’s like four streets — two of them are dirt and gravel right now, and we’re going to pave them plus repave the two (other) streets.” The $97,587 Center Township is seeking is part of a three-year plan in which the township will apply for CDBG monies each year, through 2026, to acquire funds needed to pursue the paving/sewer project. This is the same approach Center Township used for a similar project in Coy, in which the township accumulated roughly $300,000 in CDBG funds from 2021, 2022 and 2023 to install new drainage and repave roads, according to Housholder.
Although there’s no set timeline, the township is looking to start work on Coy this year, Housholder said. “(The vill.