Friday, March 5, 2021 - 6:08 am
OGDENSBURG – Ogdensburg City Council is asking state and federal officials to help offset costs of the Wastewater Treatment Plant by converting existing loans to grants.
“As presently funded, the ratepayers of Ogdensburg cannot afford $22.4 million in loan repayments, and certainly not the additional $5 million in alternate improvements that are still needed to complete the project and have not yet been awarded,” a letter issued to Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, Sen. Charles Schumer, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and State Sen. Patty Ritchie says.
“We request your assistance with identifying a source of $5 million in grant funding to implement the remainder of this project and respectfully ask that one of the loans for the project be converted as a grant under criteria for disadvantaged communities,” the letter says.
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