Public Notices and Advisories
NOTICE OF AMENDMENT TO
F.Y. 2020 ACTION PLAN
ADDITION OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT
CORONAVIRUS (CDBG-CV) FUNDS
CITY OF CHESTER
The City of Chester was allocated an additional $285,451.00 in Community Development Block Grant Coronavirus (CDBG-CV) funds to assist the City with its response to the effects of the coronavirus-related public health crisis. The City hereby gives notice that it plans to amend the F.Y. 2020 Action Plan in connection with the Community Development Block Grant Program to add the following projects to assist with immediate needs being faced by homeowners in Chester as follows:
Mortgage and Utility Assistance for low/moderate income homeowners
The Chester Community Improvement Project will administer an Emergency Mortgage and Utility Assistance Program to assist low to moderate income eligible Chester homeowners who have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic through actions such as lay-offs, furloughs, or reduced work hours. Mortgage assistance will be for a maximum of three (3) months capped at $4,000 per family. Utility assistance will be for a maximum of three (3) months capped at $1,000 per family. The Program is expected to serve approximately 48 homeowners and will be available to Chester residents only. The budgeted amount for this Program is $260,000.
Administration and Planning
Oversight, management, monitoring and coordination of Projects. The budgeted amount is $25,451.
This Notice is intended to provide sufficient detail to enable citizens to determine the scope of the projects to be funded and to comment on such projects. Written questions or comments may be submitted during the comment period of October 21, 2020 to November 6, 2020, to the Chester Economic Development Authority, P.O. Box 407, Chester PA 19016, to the attention of Mrs. Jo Ann Ruark or by email to [email protected]. Telephone inquiries can be made by calling CEDA at (610) 447-7854.
The City will undertake the required environmental review of the projects in order to determine if the projects will have a significant impact on the human environment and any effect on historic and archaeological resources.
A virtual Public Hearing on this Amendment will be held at 9:30 a.m., prior to the regularly scheduled City Council meeting, in Council Chambers, 1 Fourth Street, Chester, PA, on Wednesday, October 28, 2020. For public health reasons, the virtual Public Hearing will be live streamed on the City Facebook Live platform. Questions or comments can be submitted during the Public Hearing by calling (610) 447-7700, Extension 7951. If special arrangements need to be made for accommodations in order to participate in the public hearing, such as translation services or accommodations for persons with a hearing, speech, or visual disability, please contact Mrs. Jo Ann Ruark at the above phone number or email (dial 711 for the hearing impaired), to make arrangements at least three (3) calendar days prior to this meeting, and assistance will be provided. Cualquier persona que no habla Inglés que desean asistir a la reunion pública deben comunicarse con la Sra. Ruark tres (3) dias del calendario antes de la reunion y un intérprete de lenguaje se proporcionará.
City Council will take formal action on the proposed Amendment at the City Council meeting on Thursday, November 12, 2020, and intends to submit the above-referenced Amendment to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development on or about November 18, 2020. All comments received by November 6, 2020, will be considered.
Thaddeus Kirkland
Mayor of the City of Chester
Community Alert
Stack Blast/Demolition at Kimberly-Clark
As part of ongoing construction at Kimberly-Clark, located at 1 Avenue of the States, an implosion will take place on this Saturday, September 19, 2020 at 7am to remove the Smoke Stack onsite.
HOW WILL THIS IMPACT ME?
- you may hear loud noises during the implosion and a siren/air horn warning before the implosion
- you may feel slight ground vibration during the implosion
This blast WILL NOT affect local traffic.
Updated 9:07 PM EST | October 13, 2020
(CHESTER, PA) – The city of Chester will continue to live stream its Deliberative and Council Meetings on Facebook through the end of October.
While the building is open to the public Monday through Friday from 9:00am – 2:00pm, city officials want to continue mitigation efforts to reduce the spread or exposure of COVID-19 in City Hall. “Our desire is to reevaluate where the infection rate numbers are in October,” said Mayor Thaddeus Kirkland. “We are eager to get back to our normal public meeting structure and will do so when the numbers indicate it is safe for us to do so.”
The city of Chester is scheduled to hold four Deliberative and four Council Meetings between the months of September and October. The four scheduled Deliberative Meeting dates have changed and will now take place on the same day that corresponds with the bi-weekly Wednesday Council Meetings.
Meeting times/changes are listed below:
Wednesday – September 9, 2020:
Deliberative Meeting (7pm)
Council Meeting (approximately 7:30pm)
Wednesday – September 23, 2020:
Deliberative Meeting (10am)
Council Meeting (approximately 10:30am)
Wednesday – October 14, 2020:
Deliberative Meeting (10am)
Council Meeting (approximately 10:30am)
Wednesday – October 28, 2020:
Deliberative Meeting (10am)
Council Meeting (approximately 10:30am)
The Deliberative/Council Meetings’ agendas for September 9 will be posted to the City’s website and Facebook page on Tuesday, September 8. The Deliberative/Council Meetings’ agendas for September 23 will be posted to the City’s website and Facebook page on Tuesday, September 22. The Deliberative/Council Meetings’ agendas for October 14 will be posted to the City’s website and Facebook page on Tuesday, October 13. The Deliberative/Council Meetings’ agendas for October 28 will be posted to the City’s website and Facebook page on Tuesday, October 27.
Residents or taxpayers of the city of Chester who wish to provide a public comment for the September 9, September 23, October 14 or October 28 meetings can submit their comment via email starting the Thursday before each meeting until 9:45am on the meeting date.
Any person submitting a public comment must include the same information that is requested at a public meeting. This information includes a person’s name and address.
Email submissions can be sent to:
In the subject line of the email, please include:
Public Comment Submission for October Council Meeting
Any resident or taxpayer that does not have access to email can call in their public comment. Public comments made via phone will be accepted at the start of each Council Meeting at approximately 10:30am until the meeting is adjourned. Persons calling in their comment must provide their full name and address.
Phone submissions will be received at the below number during this time:
(610) 447-7700 ext. 7951.
All public comments will be read into record during the meetings. Chester City Councilmembers will offer a response to these comments, if warranted.
If a public comment is received without the requested information or if the comment is deemed inappropriate, it will not be read into record or accepted as an official submission.
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- Consolidated Annual Performance & Evaluation Report (CAPER)
- Community Alert: Stack Blast at Kimberly- Clark
- Facebook Live Streaming of Chester City Council Meetings to Continue Through End of October
- Evita El COVID-19 Chester City
- FREE COVID-19 Testing
- COVID-19 Rental/Utility Assistance Program
- Free Smoke, Fire & Carbon monoxide Detectors
- Citizen Participation Plan (Amendment)
- Availability Amended Citizen Participation Plan (Notice)