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• , <br />• <br />has extended drainage pipe located on the east side of the Santa Fe Depot, <br />and as you know, there is a basement at the Depot which water has been <br />pumped out of the basement that goes down the drainage -way, and that is <br />in with the Heritage Park, which will eventually be parking and part of the <br />park in that area, and that is the reason for extending the drainage pipe <br />further south out past the Depot building. <br />City Manager Malone announced that Dr. Hayden has his Heritage Center <br />open, and if anyone has an opportunity to, or wishes to have an opportunity, <br />he would be happy to put them in contact with Dr. Hayden. City Manager <br />Malone said this is a very beautiful structure that Dr. Hayden has renovated <br />and it is his understanding that there is work about to be underway on the <br />Lamar County Historical Society Museum Building that is a part of that <br />complex. <br />City Manager Malone advised the City Council that the City of Paris has <br />received a grant for over $800,000.00, which is also a TXDOT Enhancement <br />Grant to replace all of the sidewalks around the square and fountain, to <br />install street lighting and landscaping. <br />City Manager Malone said for about twenty years the City of Paris has been <br />involved in various grant programs, and we have the Home Buyers <br />Assistance Program Grant, which is the second grant for this program and <br />has helped more than sixty people secure home ownership by loaning them <br />$5,000.00 as a down payment to be paid back after their first mortgage is <br />paid off. <br />City Manager Malone said the City has had some Owner Occupied <br />Rehabilitation Programs, and will be applying for another grant next month <br />to do rehab or build new homes for low and moderate income citizens within <br />the city. He told the City Council that the current grant should be finished <br />within the next sixty days. City Manager Malone said with this grant money, <br />there will have been seven new homes built and rehabilitation of <br />approximately ten other homes under that grant. <br />City Manager Malone advised the City Council that the Housing <br />Infrastructure Grant is the one that has been discussed in recent meetings <br />and he was expecting that a subdivision be constructed this summer. There <br />will be 38 houses built in the $60,000.00 range for certain income level <br />