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On Wednesday, the county Planning and Economic Development Committee discussed the requested funding of $5,000 from the 2 percent occupancy tax reserves, which currently has $232,382, to assist Dunkirk with the cost to mitigate the weeds.
United States Department of Housing and Urban Development Regional Administrator, Lynne Patton, tours sites in Jamestown, NY and Dunkirk, NY that are annually provided HUD funding through Community Development Block Grants and other HUD programming. The City of Jamestown received $1,056,212 and the City of Dunkirk received $448,163 in direct CDBG funding as entitlement cities.
U.S. Senators Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, D-NY, have announced over $4 million in funding for educational programs for low-income children in Chautauqua County.
While the idea of a Spanish-speaking firefighter was brought forward with the idea of diversity in mind, the resolution to make it happen was more than the city bargained for. On Tuesday, the Common Council rectified this by approving a separate resolution, 65 of 2017, which changed the language to make a requirement that at least one firefighter be fluent in both English and Spanish in order to best serve the city's Hispanic community.