Grant committee meets to scope over $20 million granted to City

  • Attending the kickoff meeting for grant projects are, from left, Blaine Holt, Jared Taylor, Mayor Ronnie Williams Jr., Nick Verret, D’lon Spurlock, Joseph Montalvo and Jonathan Lachney.
    Attending the kickoff meeting for grant projects are, from left, Blaine Holt, Jared Taylor, Mayor Ronnie Williams Jr., Nick Verret, D’lon Spurlock, Joseph Montalvo and Jonathan Lachney.

    Mayor Ronnie Williams, Jr. hosted “kickoff” meetings Wednesday for two major grant projects for which the City was awarded a total of over $20 million in federal funding.

    Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development District 08 officials were in Natchitoches for a scoping meeting for the Natchitoches Safe Streets Revitalization project, for which the City was awarded $17.2 million in Fede…