Lenexa planning to pull federal funds from renovating community, senior centers to upgrade Old Town streetlights

The city of Lenexa has an excess amount of federal funding to make community development improvements — and less than two months to spend it.

So city staff has proposed reallocating some of those funds previously earmarked for renovations to the community and senior centers and instead use it to make infrastructure improvements in Old Town.

In total, the city has about $232,000 of federal Community Development Block Grant funds to spend by Aug. 2. If it doesn’t, the city must explain to the housing and urban development department why it hasn’t spent the money, and then work to spend the funds by August 2020.

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