MATTAPOISETT — The town had planned to use two grants to improve Industrial Drive and build a bike path from there to the Marion town line. However, it did not receive one of those grants and must get Special Town Meeting approval in January to move forward with the project.

Selectmen voted at a Dec. 27 meeting to approve a warrant for a Special Town Meeting on Jan. 14 at Old Hammondtown School that will resolve the issue.

At Mattapoisett’s Oct. 21 Special Town Meeting, voters had approved an article that specified that work on the project would only continue if “the town is in receipt of a Mass Works Grant and a US Economic Development Grant both totaling $1,470,000.

The town did not get the Mass Works grant that it applied for, so a new Town Meeting article would strike that portion of the article and add that the town’s share of $1,665,000 will be matched using other federal and state grants.

Town Administrator Michael Gagne said that he has been working with the state Department of Transportation and the town’s Representative and that they the may be able to secure the funding for the new grant as early as July.

He called the Special Town Meeting change mostly “housekeeping,” but said that the Economic Development Administration, which awards the other grant, had told him that he should have the workings of the grant in line in January to avoid losing the funding.

Selectman Jordan Collyer asked what the amount of the grants will be in July.

Gagne responded that it will likely be just about the same amount as the Mass Works grant would have been, somewhere between $650,000 and $750,000.

The bike path project is still in the design phase and not yet out to bid. Gagne plans to proceed with the project and review the nearly-completed plans next week.

He also said that the Friends of the Mattapoisett Bike Path had donated $50,000 to the design work for the project.