Scottsburg Board OKs environmental review contract tied to stormwater grant

The Scottsburg City Board of Works voted Jan. 2 to approve an environmental review and professional services contract designed to support a stormwater grant application. The board asked that the mayor sign the contract so grant-writing and related technical work can proceed.

Speakers described persistent flooding in residential and public-right-of-way areas, identifying Lovers Lane and Larry Lane and sites north of those streets — along county-maintained roads and near the armory — as among the most affected. "This primarily is for our storm water. Our storm water, is being headed up by Meredith Woods here and and, doing fantastic job," one meeting speaker said during discussion.

The contract authorizes hiring a grant writer and related environmental-review services to document flooding and assemble the application. Meeting remarks said staff collected photographs and field information over four days to support the grant narrative.

Board members moved and seconded the item and the motion carried with ayes. The approval authorizes the mayor to sign the contract, enabling staff to finalize and submit the grant application; no dollar figure for the contract or the requested grant amount was stated on the record.

City officials did not provide a timeline for grant award decisions at the meeting. Next procedural steps discussed were executing the contract and continuing the documentation and application work led by Meredith Woods.