$76M Approved for Counties at Board of Public Works Meeting Today

Today during the Board of Public Works meeting $76M was approved for projects in five counties and Baltimore City from state agency loans and grants, Program Open Space, and the Rural Legacy Fund.

At a regularly scheduled meeting of the Board of Public Works (BPW) members approved a little over $76M for local jurisdiction projects. The substantial portion of funding – $73M – went to Baltimore City in the form of loans and grants from the Maryland Department of the Environment for repairs and maintenance on various locations of the sewer system. The next largest tranche came from the Maryland Department of Aging and went to four jurisdictions to support projects for senior resident services. The remaining amounts came from the Rural Legacy Fund and Program Open Space for $1.2M and $200K respectively.

See more projects details below.

Baltimore City

  • A request from the Maryland Department of the Environment for new funding up to $30,370,652 ($25,797,621 loan + $4,573,031 grant) to the Maryland and City Council of Baltimore for  rehabilitation and point repair of various sewer lines in the Jones Falls Sewershed. The work will involve approximately 137,000 linear feet of cure-in-place pipe lining (CIPP), open cut point repairs, along with sanitary sewer manhole rehabilitations.
  • A request from the Maryland Department of the Environment for new funding up to $28,809,584 (24,437,228 loan + $4,372,356 grant) to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore for a project that entails the rehabilitation and point repair of various sewer lines in the Herring Run Sewershed. The work will involve approximately 135,000 linear feet of cure-in-place pipe lining (CIPP), open cut point repairs, and sanitary sewer manhole rehabilitations.
  • A request from the Maryland Department of the Environment for new funding up to $13,353,528 ($10,523,191 loan + $2,830,337 grant) to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore for a project that entails the rehabilitation and point repair of various sewer lines in the Jones Falls Sewershed. The work will involve approximately 37,000 linear feet of cure-in-place pipe lining (CIPP), open cut point repairs, along with sanitary sewer manhole rehabilitations.

Baltimore County

  • A request from the Department of Aging to approve a $800,000 grant to Baltimore County to be used to support the renovation and expansion of the Woodlawn Senior Center, 2120 Gwynn Oak Avenue, Baltimore.

Calvert

  • A request from the Department of Aging to approve a $800,000 grant to Calvert County to be used to support the renovation and expansion of the Calvert Pines Senior Center, 450 West Dares Beach Road, Prince Frederick.

Charles

  • A request to provide a $1,227,103.09 grant to Charles County from Rural Legacy Funds for the acquisition of a 287.29-acre conservation easement in the Zekiah Rural Legacy Area (The Heinze Family Limited Partnership property). Acquisition of this easement will preserve agricultural fields, forested land, and wetlands, as well as 3,200 linear feet of forested buffers on an unnamed tributary of Newport Run, which flows to the Wicomico River in the Potomac River watershed. It will also protect over 1,800 feet of scenic viewshed along Budd’s Creek Road. The easement will be held by the County Commissioners of Charles County. The Grantee is paying compliance costs. Easement value: $4,581.61/acre 

Howard

  • A request from the Department of Aging to approve a $800,000 grant to Howard County to support the replacement and expansion of the East Columbia 50+ Center, located at 660 Cradlerock Way, Columbia.

Queen Anne’s

  • A request from the Department of Aging to approve a $265,000 grant to Queen Anne’s County to be used to replace the roof at the Kent Island Senior Center, 891 Love Point Road, Stevensville.
  • A request from the Department of Natural Resources (“DNR”) to commit $191,940 from the Program Open Space funding allocated to Queen Anne’s County for a new comfort station at White Marsh Park.

The next meeting of the BPW will take place on Weds, Dec. 17.