The City of Danville plans to amend its budget to receive an EPA grant of more than 983 thousand dollars. The grant will be used to clean up a brownfield site at the southeast corner of Vermilion and Fairchild Streets according to city engineer Sam Cole.
The brownfield portion is part of a larger site the City is preparing for future commercial growth. The cleanup is largely to remove soil with chemicals from a former dry cleaning business. The Public Works Committee was told it will likely be a year before any work begins on the project.
The committee Tuesday okayed purchase of a tandem dump truck for 275 thousand dollars. The new truck will have a plow and spreader.
The committee also approved a grant to improve a strip mall on Gilbert Street. Community Development Administrator Logan Cronk says it would help the developer improve the building.
Aldermen also approved providing a grant of some 19 thousand dollars for improvements to the Danville Rescue Mission. Cronk said the money will be used to update electrical wiring and panels.
The committee also signed off on a 90 thousand dollar expense for recent emergency sanitary sewer repairs. The work was done in the 700 block of Oak and along Myrtle drive.
All of the committee’s actions will go to the full city council next week.
