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Grants
Elyria was awarded more grants in the last four years than the
previous fifteen years combined. Grant money was used for police,
fire, parks, city planning and environmental clean-up. The most
significant was a six million dollar federal grant to construct
the long awaited Industrial Parkway.
Grants
Fire Department
Federal Personal Protective Equipment grants,
(1,800 awards out of 30,000 applicants,
Elyria was one of only three cities to receive 2 grants)
Fitness....................................................................
Breathing Apparatus .............................................. |
$ 35,276
$174,804 |
Computer equipment and software, Federal Emergency Management
Agency grant $45,006
Trees along State Route 57, state
grant ..................
Planning Grant (to hire assistant planner) ................ |
$12,500
$50,000 |
US Economic Development Administration, Department of Commerce
Parks and Recreation
Cascade Park Upper Falls Trail,
state grant............
West Falls-Two Falls Connector Bridge, state grant
Downtown River Walk, federal grant East Falls......
River Walk
Lorain County Solid Waste District grant ...............
US Community Development Block Grant .............
West Park ball field lighting, state grant .................. |
$ 96,818
$150,000
$500,000
$200,000
$400,000
$ 43,000 |
Tappan Plant, environmental study and environmental clean-up grants
to make property eligible for economic development
USEPA Brownfield Demonstration
Pilot Grant .......
Ohio Department of Development grant .................
USEPA Brownfield Demonstration Pilot Supplemental Grant................................................
Clean Ohio Revitalization Fund, Ohio Department of Development Discretionary
Fund
Grant .............
Industrial Parkway
Federal Grant .......................................................
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$200,000
$300,000
$150,000
$616,000
$5,890,000
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(This is Elyria’s first federal grant for new roadway construction
in
three decades. Construction is scheduled to start at the end of the year.)
“Grace promised in 1999 to
pursue grant money, and the $8 million
brought in over the past
three years is more than the city collected
during the previous
15 years combined.” – The Chronicle Telegram,
April 27, 2003
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