A struggling local charity is getting a boost from the City of Bradford.

No Feline Left Behind is a group that traps, fixes, vaccinates and returns feral cats to the neighborhood where they were captured. This, eventually, leads to population decline of free-roaming felines. The all-volunteer group posted on social media that without a huge influx of donations, they may have to close by October.

At Tuesday’s meeting, Bradford City Council approved a donation of $4,800 to the charity. Mayor Tom Riel challenged other municipalities to do the same.

“To my knowledge there is only one other municipal government in McKean County that supports this organization. Just in the City of Bradford they’ve helped more than 2,000 stray and feral cats,” Riel said. “It’s shameful that they do so much throughout McKean County and so many other municipal governments don’t do anything to help them. What they do, no other entity does including the SPCA of McKean County.”

Kane also donates to NFLB.

Since the charity’s announcement, many people, groups and businesses have stepped up to hold raffles, contests and sales to benefit NFLB. See a related story in today’s edition.

Also at the council meeting, by a vote of 3 to 2, members struck down two certificates of appropriateness from the Historical Architecture Review Board for work on properties with public nuisance designations. One was for Wilbur Wright at 39-43 Mechanic St., while the other was for Rubinov Group LLC at 14 Pine St.

Those who voted against the measures were Fred Proper, Tim Pecora and Kris Goll.

The Mechanic Street property has been before the Board of Health multiple times, but Wright hasn’t met deadlines the board agreed upon. The work that had been approved by HARB was replacing the roof and the first-floor storefront with period-correct design; removing second floor windows, and repairing and repainting surfaces.

The second project would have involved renovations to the former Moose Club on Pine Street, including demolishing the addition at the back of the building.

In other business, council approved advertising for requests for proposals for investment management of the pension plans for police, fire department and non-uniformed city workers.

Council approved using Community Development Block Grant funds to pay for part of a sidewalk improvement and for decorative traffic signals at the intersection of West Washington and Mechanic streets, as part of a Pennsylvania Department of Transportation project.

The next council meeting is scheduled for 6 p.m. Aug. 26.