The City of Rawlins needs our community’s help to qualify for water and other grants. If you were randomly and anonymously selected, please help us prove that we should receive federal funding to improve our water infrastructure.
The grant agencies randomly selected four hundred fifty residents of Rawlins and Sinclair, and their names were replaced with a Unique Resident ID. These homes will receive a letter later this week. If you receive a letter, you can either call in to respond to the survey or wait for a City representative to visit. No names need to be provided either by phone or in person. If you are visited in person, you can answer the survey and place it immediately into a sealed, confidential envelope. Visits are scheduled to take place the week of October 10th.
The City is planning to apply for two grants of $1 million each for water infrastructure – one for repairs to the transmission line from the springs to the treatment plant (part of Phase 3) and one for a replacement of our treatment plants’ SCADA systems which help monitor and control the water system (Phase 6). These grants are Community Development Block Grants (CDBG), managed by the Wyoming Community Development Authority (WCDA) and the Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
To qualify for these grants, at least 51% of our community must be either low- or moderate-income. Although we did not qualify in 2020, we think there is a chance that our community will qualify again with layoffs and changes to the energy industry.
It is essential that we have cooperation from those randomly selected and confidential citizens – without it, we will not be able to apply for these two grants and potentially many others in the future.
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