Joan Wells and her husband, Dane, owned the Queen Victoria Bed & Breakfast in Cape May until they retired in 2004 and moved to Philadelphia.But Joan Wells found she missed the gardening and began looking for a way to offer her skills. For the past seven years, she’s been part of a small group of dedicated volunteers who plant, weed, and help maintain several small, historic parks, sometimes .
City Looking to Hire Summer Laborers Using Street Funding Monies
The City may be hiring summer laborers thanks to additional public works monies. Mayor
Eddie Sundquist said the
New York State Department of Transportation confirmed labor costs are reimbursable under some of the new street funding coming into Jamestown. Sundquist said a resolution to hire seven positions for 12 weeks at a cost of $40,000 will be presented to council for consideration.
Sundquist said that
Public Works staff is still trying to finalize the summer roadwork list, especially now that there is more money coming to spend. He said the increase in funding included CHIPS being up 23%, or $1.1 million, Extreme Winter Recovery up $212,999 or 54%, and Pave New York up $304,000, or 49%,
So how do you make the rest of downtown look like Main Street?
Thatâs a question that groups like the Downtown Development Authority have had on their minds for years and now seem poised to tackle.
Worries of economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic have subsided, revealing a healthy city budget, federal relief funds filling both residentâs pockets and government coffers and, importantly for Downtown Grand Junction, new businesses taking root just off Main Street.
Amid the confluence of events, it seems the DDA could be closer to finding their answer than ever before.
âI think thereâs a lot of money out of the federal, state and city budget. I donât think anyone knows the full extent of where those dollars at the federal and state level will go, either,â said Brandon Stam, executive director of the DDA. âI think thereâs opportunity for projects that may have been too big to bite off. This might be a rare opportunity to have funding for s
So how do you make the rest of downtown look like Main Street?
Thatâs a question that groups like the Downtown Development Authority have had on their minds for years and now seem poised to tackle.
Worries of economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic have subsided, revealing a healthy city budget, federal relief funds filling both residentâs pockets and government coffers and, importantly for Downtown Grand Junction, new businesses taking root just off Main Street.
Amid the confluence of events, it seems the DDA could be closer to finding their answer than ever before.
âI think thereâs a lot of money out of the federal, state and city budget. I donât think anyone knows the full extent of where those dollars at the federal and state level will go, either,â said Brandon Stam, executive director of the DDA. âI think thereâs opportunity for projects that may have been too big to bite off. This might be a rare opportunity to have funding for s