The Village of Centerburg has received a $117,000 grant from the federal CARES Act to cover enforcement costs related to the COVID-19 pandemic, Mayor Gregory Sands told the Mount Vernon News.
The grant covers law enforcement payroll and other COVID-19-related expenses incurred by the city, including personal protection equipment.
“Most of that funding was to reimburse costs that we had already incurred,” Sands said. “Due to COVID, we’ve had expenses we would not normally have had, and we have had to do things that we would not normally have done on a day-to-day basis.”
The grant money will be used to benefit the citizens of the community, the mayor said.
“We were fortunate and very blessed to get what we got,” he said.
Centerburg has also applied for a $194,000 grant from the Ohio Public Works Commission to improve parts of South Hartford Avenue.
“Basically, what it would amount to is to improve the road so it drains better,” Sands said. “It is is currently inverted in a certain way so that the water doesn’t get away from it. If it’s approved, that money would be used by probably raising the level of it and getting it to drain properly.”
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