TRUMBULL COUNTY Officials: Use CDBG funds for sewer line installation

The grants are supposed to help low- and moderate-income people.
WARREN -- Trumbull County commissioners plan to use more than half of the money automatically available through a state program for sewer line installation in the West Hill section of Brookfield.
Commissioners proposed dividing the $573,000 allocated to the county through the Community Development Block Grant program on seven projects. The greatest portion, $300,000, will go toward the West Hill project, now being designed.
Officials are seeking an additional $1 million in competitive grants for the project, which has an estimated total cost of $2 million.
Actual work is expected to begin next year, Thomas Holloway, sanitary engineer, said at Wednesday's commissioners' meeting.
Also on the list
Other projects on the commissioners' list, to be reviewed at a public hearing June 18 at noon, are:
UMain Street curbs and sidewalks in Cortland, $21,000.
UMaplewood Park street improvements, Hubbard Township, $71,350.
UStreet improvements in northeast Hubbard City, $40,000.
UEast River Gardens street improvements, Newton Falls, $27,000.
USupplies for a new roof at the St. Vincent DePaul Society dining room in Warren, $2,700. Labor to fix the roof will be provided by volunteers, officials said.
UWarren-Trumbull Urban League, $15,000 to continue monitoring whether fair housing laws are being followed in the county.
UAs well, the proposal included $85,950 for the Trumbull County Planning Commission for administering the CDBG program, and $10,000 to study and prioritize future projects.
In order to qualify for CDBG grant funding, a project must benefit primarily people considered having low or moderate incomes. Earlier this month, trustees in Brookfield canvassed the 178 homes in the West Hill area to confirm that residents fell beneath income guidelines.
In order to qualify, more than half of the households must get by on less than 80 percent of the median income in the county. For a family of two, that means an income less than $32,400.