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Town of Canton moving forward with $195K brownfield grant

Posted 9/17/18

CANTON -- The town board has approved a memorandum of understanding regarding the village’s takeover of managing and application of a state grant the town received. The village recently agreed to …

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Town of Canton moving forward with $195K brownfield grant

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CANTON -- The town board has approved a memorandum of understanding regarding the village’s takeover of managing and application of a state grant the town received.

The village recently agreed to take over the responsibility for the state Brownfield Opportunity Area (BOA) grant that the town applied for last year. The $195,555 grant requires a 10 percent municipal share.

The town will continue to receive payments from the grant fund, but will then funnel that money to the village to reimburse that municipality for projects it has initiated under the grant guidelines.

Those projects are outlined in Canton’s Brownfield Opportunity Area Pre-Nomination Study completed in 2011.

Some of those projects include a town wide housing and marketing assessment, feasibility studies and conceptual design for three sites, phase one environmental assessments for up to five other sites, funding for potentially moving the county DPW building and streetscape enhancement along Gouverneur Street (a corridor into the village). Projects also include redevelopment plans for another area and a review of the village’s zoning and funding to research ways landowners, with the help of the village, can mitigate blight within the BOA.

The town board sign the MOU at its meeting Sept. 12. The documents outlines the village’s and town’s responsibilities relative to the arrangement.

The village is to oversee the hiring of project contractors and other management, working with the Canton Economic Development Department, a shared department between the two municipalities.