MEXICO — Selectmen learned Wednesday night that the town likely will not have to repay a $400,000 Community Development Block Grant because more than half its population is low or moderate income.
The money was received in 2003 to develop the River Valley Technology Center with the state requiring 40 jobs be created there or the money would have to be repaid. So far, the 40 jobs have not come about.
But what has happened is a survey of residents showing 59.8 percent are low to moderate income. Because of that, the center is considered a community service site, instead of a job-producing site.
The release from repaying the money will enable Mexico to begin applying for similar grants for the town, Town Manager John Madigan said.
Also on Wednesday, the board appointed two police reserve officers. They are particularly needed now because officer Dan Carrier will soon begin attending the police academy. They are Lawrence Winson, a full-time Rumford police officer, and Michael Grenier, a Bethel Police Department reserve officer.
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