Public Hearing: Community Development Block Grant Project - July 6, 5:00pm
TOWN OF BRISTOL
Public Hearings Notice
Community Development Block Grant Project
Virtual Hearings
The Bristol Select Board will hold three consecutive Public Hearings during its scheduled meeting on Monday, July 6, 2020, beginning at 5:00pm. Community Development Block Grant funds are available to municipalities through the NH Community Development Finance Authority. Up to $500,000 annually is available on a competitive basis for public facility projects, up to $500,000 for housing projects, up to $500,000 for economic development projects, and up to $350,000 annually is available for emergency activities. Up to $25,000 is available per planning study. All projects must primarily benefit low- and moderate-income persons. The public hearings will hear public comment on the following:
1. A proposed application to the Community Development Finance Authority for up to $500,000 in Community Development Block Grant funds. The CDBG funds will be used for the Central Street Sewer Pump Station Improvements. This pump station currently serves areas located within the Census Designated Place that is primarily low- and moderate-income households.
2. The Housing and Community Development Plan, and
3. The Residential Antidisplacement and Relocation Assistance Plan.
Due to the COVID-19/Coronavirus crisis and in accordance with Governor Sununu’s Emergency Order #12 pursuant to Executive Order 2020-04, the Select Board is authorized to meet electronically.
Please note that there is no physical location to observe and listen contemporaneously to the public hearings & meeting, which was authorized pursuant to the Governor’s Emergency Order. However, in accordance with the Emergency Order, this is to confirm that the public hearings & meeting is open to the public and can be accessed in the ways described below.
We are utilizing the Zoom platform for these electronic public hearing & meeting. All members of the Select Board have the ability to communicate contemporaneously during this public hearings & meeting through the Zoom platform, and the public has access to contemporaneously listen and, if necessary, participate in this meeting through the following ways.
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In the event the public is unable to access the public hearings & meeting, we will adjourn the public hearings & meeting and have them rescheduled at that time.
Please note that all votes that are taken during meetings shall be done by Roll Call vote.
At the end of the meeting, there will be a nonpublic session. The chair will announce this, take Roll Call vote and will then ask that all members of the public adjourn from the meeting.
Informational handouts for the public hearings are available on the Town website at www.townofbristolnh.org.