By Dewey Terrill
JC Post
Beginning Thursday there will be Junction City employees and volunteers conducting a low to moderate income survey in the community. They are taking this action to collect informaion for a federal community development block grant application, which could involve funding through HUD. The City's Public Information Officer Katie O'Shea said, This provides significant funding for infrastructure projects in small cities."
A total of 816 low to moderate income households have been randomly identified for the effort. At least 408 survey responses are needed for the City to qualify to move forward with the CDBG grant application. So far 162 usable responses have been received.
The City employees and volunteers will be knocking on doors Thursday. O'Shea said that they will have flyers with all of the information regarding the surveys and the process to submit it. Options include:
--Fill it out there
--Scan the QR code on the flyer
--Call in to submit your information. The telephone number is listed on the flyer.
--Drop it off at the Customer Service Department in the Municipal Building or if it is not during the 8 to 5 time frame there is a drop box outside of that building.
The questions will require yes or no answers and will take a short time.
O'Shea said, "If we don't receive responses we're potentially leaving millions of dollars on the table each year in outside funding for the city."