Brookville Vice Mayor James Zimmerlin asks city manager Sonja Keaton if council can address some of the citizen comments that appeared on the city’s future survey that was recently conducted.
Terry Baver | The Register-Herald
BROOKVILLE — City manager Sonja Keaton informed council the first-year requirements for the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) grant are complete.
“We recently finished our first-year requirements for the ARPP grant, which included an assessment of our first year and our developing Brookville’s blueprint planning for the future survey I shared with council,” Keaton said.
Keaton, at an earlier council meeting, indicated the city applied for and was awarded a $10,000 grant from the Dayton Foundation’s Del Mar Healthcare fund for the project.
Keaton said the city received the first $5,000 to begin the assessment stage of the AARP Livable Age Friendly Communities multi-year planning effort.
“The community survey touches on some of the eight domains of AARP’s livability framework,” Keaton said.
Keaton indicated the survey consists of questions on housing and economic development, mobility, parks and recreation, utilities and public safety.
Keaton said the survey also contains general questions.
Keaton indicated the surveys were sent to Wright State University to be analyzed.
Keaton said now that the first half of the project is complete, the survey results were shared with the Dayton Foundation.
Keaton also said a request was made for the city to receive the additional $5,000 for the second half of the program.
“We’ll be working on that project for the next four years,” Keaton advised.
Vice mayor James Zimmerlin asked Keaton if there is an opportunity for council to address some of the citizen comments on the survey results.
“There is a lot of misinformation in a lot of the feedback,” Zimmerlin said.
“I’d love to have an opportunity, in some way, to address some of that feedback,” Zimmerlin continued.
“We can look into that,” Keaton replied.
“We can address some of the comments in one of my reports to council,” Keaton said.
In other business, council approved a fourth change order for the main street waterline replacement project.
“This change order is a decrease of $4,268,” Keaton said.
Keaton said the fourth change order is an adjustment to quantities for the entire project. Keaton indicated the amended contract price with change orders for the first three was $357,445.36.
“With change order number four, the new and final contract price is $353,177.36,” Keaton said, adding the project is now compete.
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