MONROE — Green County is one step closer to grant money to renovate Pleasant View Nursing Home.

The county is seeking about $2.2 million in funding to replace all windows at the county-owned skilled nursing facility in Monroe and renovate the bathrooms so every resident has a private bathroom. The application is due June 25 for the Community Development Block Grant, a program administered through the Wisconsin Department of Administration in partnership with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

But first, the county has to meet several unrelated state and federal requirements to qualify for the funding.

To this end, county supervisors unanimously approved two resolutions at their monthly meeting April 21. One resolution adopts fair housing policies to “minimize the direct and indirect displacement of persons from their homes.” The other adopts policies to prohibit the use of excessive police force and the barring of entrances or exits for non-violent civil rights demonstrations.

Neither resolution changes county code, said Green County Corporation Counsel Brian Bucholtz. Excessive force by law enforcement, for example, is already against the law.

The policies are “really no-brainers” and meet requirements for the grant application but have no other real practical effect, said Cara Carper, executive director of Green County Development Corporation.

The county needs to “have all our ducks in a row. ... You have to cross your t’s and dot your i’s.”

The Pleasant View facility was built in 1969 and is “in need of some TLC,” she said.

Terry Snow, administrator of Pleasant View, will be giving a presentation on the renovation project at the next county board meeting on May 12. The meetings are open to the public. She expects a decision on the grant to come quickly and, if granted, construction to begin by the end of this year or early next year.

In other business at the April 21 meeting, supervisors also approved a resolution to designate a large swath of county employees as “emergency responders” and “health care providers,” so more will qualify for benefits under the federal Families First Coronavirus Response Act.

It includes all employees of the sheriff’s office, health department, nursing home, coroner’s office, all maintenance and custodial staff and employees in the Green County Human Services Department.

It also allows the county to qualify for federal funding to pay extra personnel working for Public Health, extra expenses at Emergency Management and a part-time employee who’s tracking “all these extra expenses that are coming in” related to the health pandemic, said Art Carter, county board chair.