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Century To Hold Second Public Hearing On Grant Application Projects
May 4, 2025
The Century Town Council will hold a second public hearing this week on several projects that have been identified for a potential grant funding application.
The public hearing will be held at 6:45 p.m. Tuesday at Century Town Hall.
The town plans to apply for a Small Cities Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) from Florida Commerce, focusing on three requests:
- design for potential resurfacing of three streets
- construction of the Carver Community Center on Jefferson Avenue
- a minor home repair program
The street portion of the request would be design only in anticipation of potential paving at a later date for Barnwell Lane, Cedar Street, and both East and West Cottage streets.
The minor home repair program would provide home repairs to address structural code enforcement issues and access issues such as ramps that would allow low or moderate income individuals to remain in their homes for a longer period of time. The town will determine later if roofing repairs or upgrades might be included.
If awarded, grant funds would construct a new Carver Community Center (pictured) on Jefferson Avenue. The town previously received a $3.255 million state grant for a community center on Jefferson Avenue, but most of the funds were clawed back by the state. The town was able to use $514,650 to pay for the engineering, architectural and grant administer expenses that left the town with no building but a complete set of shovel-ready drawings.
The potential dollar figures for the grants is not yet known.
Three members of the public and a council member elect attended the first public hearing and offered input on the potential projects.
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6 Responses to “Century To Hold Second Public Hearing On Grant Application Projects”
People of Century get off your computers complaining and come to these meetings and voice your opinions. Better still get off your duffs and go to the poll and VOTE. Complaining on northescambia will not get anything done! There is so much negativity about Century and no one is stepping up to do anything about fixing the problems. There is a lot to be done. I don’t have answers but I know gripping about them won’t work!
We DO NOT need another community center!!! Fix the streets! More than 3 streets need help! Repave Jefferson between Hecker and Hwy 4 and repave Briggs and Clancy! Make repairs and upgrades and the ballparks! Fix everything else first!
How many times are we bailing them out?????? either take over century or let it go and let it sink!!!
HERE WE GO AGAIN! everyone knows this was and will always be a meeting place to swap or buy drugs! Y’all have sewer problems, y’all have road problems, y’all still haven’t fixed bridges y’all were already paid to fix. There has been shootings here as well if a town was a crack town this would be the top 10! Also didn’t y’all already get paid to do this once if not twice?
How about fix all the sewer pumps stations in century stop wasting money on a building that not everyone will ever use and how about paving some roads that needs it
That community center sounds like a very wise expenditure of taxpayer money; They spent over half million dollars without buying the first board or nail. This project is but one of many that deserve some attention from State auditors. It also begs the question of ; How many community centers does a town the size of Century need? Maybe Century could borrow one of DOGE investigators for a few days and see where the money really goes.