Board approves two $10,000 building-improvement grants including work at former Morton State Bank

The Morton Village Board approved two building-improvement grants recommended by the building and business district. The board approved a $10,000 grant to the Glover Smith Group at 100 South Main for installation of two new signs and landscape replacement, and a $10,000 grant to Amy and Brian Jones for renovation work at 101 South Maine (the former Morton State Bank building).

Village administration described the Jones project as removing roughly 300 bricks, tuckpointing exterior walls, painting the building, and reopening an upper-story window that had been bricked in. The transcript lists the Jones project total cost as "$42,63," which appears truncated in the record; the meeting explicitly records the grant amount as $10,000.

Trustees approved both grants by roll call (Hillyard, Menold, Parrot, Bulooner, Cerilli). The transcript does not record additional grant conditions, matching-fund requirements or timelines for project completion.