A project in Tidioute and another in Clarendon are potential focuses for the county’s 2023 Community Development Block Grant funding.

Both would bring stormwater improvements – High Street in Clarendon and Sheridan Street in Tidioute.

“We did the left side of High Street a few years ago,” Danielle Flasher, the county’s grants administrator, said. “(The municipality is) now asking for the right side.”

Flasher said the work would take about five weeks and cost roughly $200,000.

The other would install stormwater on Sheridan Street in Tidioute.

“They do not currently have a stormwater system,” Flasher said.

The proposal would install the service from Pleasant Street down to Main Street.

Flasher said no estimate is yet available for that project but said she cautioned borough officials that it may be a project funded through more than one year’s CDBG allocation.

Commissioner Jeff Eggleston said there have been efforts to get a CDBG project in Tidioute for a while.

“I really think from the commissioner’s perspective (we should) do everything we can to support it,” he said. “(It) would be a really great step in assisting them.

The two proposals will now go before a public hearing on Wednesday. Should the commissioners favor the projects, they would then be included with the county’s application for funding.

A third project was proposed — curbing and sidewalk improvements on Center Street in Clarendon — but Flasher said a modification to an existing street reconstruction there.

“By the end of that project next year,” Flasher said, “all money outside of fiscal year 2023 will be spent.”

That can prove tricky at times given some of the strings that CDBG dollars come with.

It’s a funding stream that is relatively limited in scope and is specifically targeted to benefit low-to-moderate income individuals.