From Patrick McGrady, Mayor of Aberdeen
How would you spend $279,153 to improve Aberdeen? The Aberdeen City Council wants to hear your ideas!
Please attend the Public Hearing on Monday, February 22 at Aberdeen City Hall at 7PM and bring your ideas and plans. If you cannot attend the hearing, CLICK HERE to fill out a survey about how you think we should spend it.
As the result of a City Revolving Loan program being ended by the State Government, the City has access to $279,153 to spend to improve Aberdeen– and Mayor McGrady and the Aberdeen City Council want your ideas!
In order to approve the plan to spend any of this money, the Aberdeen City Council will have to vote on it, but we need to hear from YOU.
The money has to be spent in a way that complies with 1 or more of the following:
“Benefit low and moderate income persons and households;
Aid in the prevention or elimination of slums or blight;
Meet other community development needs of an urgent nature, or that are an immediate threat to community health and welfare.”
So please join us at City Hearing on Monday February 22 at 7PM at Aberdeen City Hall or CLICK HERE to fill out a survey about how you think we should spend it. At the public hearing, everyone will have the opportunity to speak for 5 minutes about their ideas.
If you have any questions, please call Mayor Patrick McGrady at 410.357.1234 or email at PMcGrady@Aberdeen-md.org.
The official notice of public hearing is below:
CITY OF ABERDEEN
NOTICE OF SECOND PUBLIC HEARING
The City of Aberdeen will conduct a Public Hearing to obtain the views of citizens on community, economic development, and housing needs to be considered for submission of an application to the Maryland Community Development Block Grant Program (CDBG). Citizens will have the opportunity to discuss proposed projects and to provide input on other needs to be considered. The hearing will be held at the Aberdeen City Council Chambers, 60 North Parke Street, Aberdeen, MD 21001 at 7:00 p.m. on Monday, February 22, 2016.
Citizens will be furnished with information including but not limited to:
The amount of CDBG funds available to the City of Aberdeen;
The range of activities that may be undertaken with the CDBG funds; and
The proposed project(s) under consideration by the City of Aberdeen.
The Maryland CDBG Program is a federally sponsored program designed to assist governments with activities directed toward neighborhood and housing revitalization, economic development, and improved community facilities and services. It is administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development.
The Maryland CDBG Program reflects the State’s economic and community development priorities and provides public funds for activities which meet one of the following national objectives, in accordance with the Federal Housing Community Act of 1974, as amended:
Benefit low and moderate income persons and households;
Aid in the prevention or elimination of slums or blight;
Meet other community development needs of an urgent nature, or that are an immediate threat to community health and welfare.
Efforts will be made to accommodate citizens with special needs with ten (10) days advanced notice to Monica Correll, City Clerk at 410-272-1600 ext. 211.
PHYLLIS G. GROVER
Director of Planning and Community Development
Bulldoze it.
Spend it on an attorney to start the process of un-incorporation.
In the end, everybody wins by paying less taxes! 🙂
Hire a City Manager?
Bulldoze the brick office space and parking lot next to Target and plant trees.
I’ve never understood why a bunch of simple minded imbeciles worry so much about a building that was constructed by a private company using their own money, their own time, and their own resources. Somehow idiots such as you try to make it a government boondoggle when it’s simply not so. That building doesn’t cost any taxpayer any money in any way, shape, or form. Bumpkins such as yourself have never understood that, and never will.
How the hell did you relate my post to anything government, taxpayer, et al? Personal insults?
Right, someone wasted a lot of money on it, years later it’s no profit to anyone hence my post.
Why leave something derelict standing?
I was just speaking out loud, not particular about this specific article too.
Can you reply without personal insults?
Jubal Early, let me guess? Another jump to instant conclusion overweight middle aged paranoid white male, scared of your own shadow?
Well….the City actually makes money from Aberdeen Corporate Park in the form of property taxes. In fact, the City actually make a lot more since the property has been developed (taxes are based on the value of the property). So even if the building is vacant, the City still reaps the benefit of increased property tax revenue. Additionally, Aberdeen Corporate Park is probably paying a quarterly minimum Water & Sewer bill (even if they aren’t using any)!
Yes, they certainly do.
You should speak with some developers in regards to Aberdeen, you will get the same answer.
Buy Perrywood Garden Apartments and demolish them
Perrywood Gardens is NOT in Aberdeen.
We had a Mayor that condemned drug houses on Washington Street, paid the owner $40k for the lot, Burnt the houses down, gave the lots to Habitat, they built new houses and the worst street in Aberdeen is now one of the best.
Mr. Mayor, please use the money wisely.
Right on – More of this, please. Focusing on efforts like this helps the entire town whether they realize it or not. Couldn’t hurt to get some work done on these roads, either – tough winters take a toll and we can all feel it when our cars and trucks slam into a pothole.
Are you saying that Washington St. is one of the best on Aberdeen?
Give it to Harford Family House and the Boys & Girls Club of Harford County. Both are located right in Aberdeen.
Go to the park and the train station and pick up the sit and sip people, put them on a bus or a train or a plane with a 1 way ticket to anywhere but here. That pretty much covers all 3 of the categories that they can use the money for. Certainly will benefit all income level persons and households, elimination of blight, and it’s a pretty urgent threat health and welfare.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glTkvGJOpWA
Mayor McGrady said “The poor will always be with us…there’s nothing we can do about that.”
But Jesus said : “The poor will always be with us. And you can help them anytime'” (Mark 14-7)
I agree about giving it to Harford Family House and Boys & Girls Club. Both programs better the people they serve and their communities. But I also wish that money was enough to tear down that god-awful monstrosity overpass/underpass at the train station. It looks hideous and is a hangout for winos, and the underground portion with the steps is a haven for gang members writing on the walls and people using it as a public bathroom.
I agree with the train station idea but they need to ship the undesirables out, they can pretty things up but those same ones destroying it now will destroy something new. Maybe nobody says anything because it’s not politically correct.