CURWENSVILLE – Looking at ways to improve Curwensville and the services offered to the community, borough council is entertaining support of several grants.
The Clearfield County Commissioners are seeking grant monies to provide laptops and supporting equipment for police cars in the county. The commissioners requested that in the event of limited funding, local municipalities agree to purchase the laptops for the patrol cars. The grant monies sought by the commissioners would provide the supporting equipment.
Laptops would allow for ease in dispatch as well as retrieval of license plate records and criminal record and outstanding warrant searches.
Estimated cost of each laptop is $1,200. Curwensville has three vehicles.
Borough council requested details from the commissioners in writing.
Looking to improve Irvin Park, the council is working on a matching funds grant for new play equipment. A large poster of the proposed equipment is on display in the borough council meeting room.
The matching funds grant is in need of a volunteer committee to help raise the matching funds to secure this grant.
Council approved the signing of a Department of Community and Economic Development grant offered through state Rep. Camille “Bud” George, D-74 of Houtzdale, for $5,200 to be used in the Irvin Park project.
Hoping to bring another piece of Curwensville up to date, council asked Aaron Keirn from The EADS Group of Altoona to look into possible funding sources for a refurbishing project at the Curwensville Community Center. Council has received an estimate for the project of $200,000.
Two Curwensville properties, the Kent 2 facility and a Howe’s Leather site, are under consideration by the Clearfield County Economic and Development Corporation for “Brownfields Program” grant funding. The funding is not secured at this time.
Taken from the EPA Web site, “A brownfield is a property, the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which may be complicated by the presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant.
“EPA’s Brownfields Program is designed to empower states, communities, and other stakeholders in economic redevelopment to work together in a timely manner to prevent, assess, safely clean up, and substainably reuse brownfields.”
CCEDC requested a letter of support for the grant from Curwensville Borough Council.
Curwensville Borough Council meets next Oct. 8 at 7 p.m. in the borough office building.
