Meeting set on sewer project

The sewer project would serve mostly low- and moderate-income people.

WARREN — The Trumbull County Planning Commission will hold a public meeting at noon Tuesday at the county commissioners meeting room on the fifth floor of the County Administration Building, 160 High St. N.W., to discuss state funding for a Brookfield Township sewer project.

The meeting will also include discussion of the county’s 2007 Ohio Department of Development Community Development Block Grant application.

The county plans to apply for $355,000 through the state’s Community Development Block Grant Water & Sewer Program for a $713,000 sanitary sewer project in the Stewart-Sharon Road area in Brookfield.

The Trumbull County Sanitary Engineer’s office believes the remaining $358,000 will be paid for through a zero- or low-interest loan from the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency Water Pollution Control Loan Fund. That money will be repaid by the households located in the project area over a 20-year period.

The project area includes houses on Stewart-Sharon Road between Broadway Avenue and Bedford Road and several houses on Bedo and Woodland avenues. An income survey for this area conducted by the Brookfield Township Trustees indicated that most of the residents there qualify as low and moderate income.

The CDBG program pays for a broad range of activities, including economic development, housing rehabilitation, street improvements, water, sanitary sewer and storm drainage improvements and related activities. The activities must be designed to benefit low- and moderate-income people, prevent or eliminate slums and/or blighted areas or meet urgent community needs.

For more information, call the planning commission at (330) 675-2480.