At the last December Crescent City Council meeting, councilors adjourned as the Crescent City Authority and unanimously and conditionally approved the awarding of 70 project based vouchers to the Battery Point Apartment project.
The units are divided into 40 senior and 30 family units. The residential units are all Section 8 approved. The proposal was submitted by the non-profit Synergy. When all funding is secured, Battery Point Apartments will total 160 units with different scaffolding of financial support For tenants.
As part of the award, Synergy will need two additional funding components before construction can commence by February 2024.
Battery Point Apartments plans to build the units on a vacant five acre parcel located off Gary Avenue and G Street.
On other agendized items, Chief Richard Griffin welcomed recent College of the Redwoods Academy graduate Connor Sperling to the Department and congratulated Officer Alex Pearson on his promotion to sergeant.
Sheriff Garrett Scott addressed the Council and updated councilors on the status of the Del Norte Sheriff’s Department. Sheriff Scott began his new four year term, January 3, when the sheriff assumed Animal Control from county agriculture.
The sheriff reported the filling of several open roster positions. Currently there are 15 sworn patrol deputies. Other vacant positions of bailiff, corrections and dispatch are being addressed with strong effort and respectable results. Sheriff Scott is also the coroner; he reported 236 death certificates were recorded this year.