Improvement projects funded by block grants

By the Salina Journal

Forty-four Kansas communities will share a total of $13,081,660, including $4,370,331 in federal stimulus dollars, through the Community Development Block Grant program, the Kansas Department of Commerce announced.

About $21 million in federal community development block grant funds have been awarded to Kansas communities this year.

The program provides federal funds to local governments for development of housing, public facilities and economic development. To be awarded funds, local government entities must meet at least one of three objectives: benefit low and moderate-income persons, prevent or eliminate slums and blight, or resolve an urgent need where local resources are not available to do so.

The Kansas Department of Commerce has distributed more than $245 million in community development block grant funding since 1998.

Grant recipients from central and northwest Kansas included:

nBird City -- $308,740 to rehabilitate 12 housing units and demolish three dilapidated unsafe residential structures.

nCawker City -- $381,500 to rehabilitate 15 housing units and demolish four dilapidated unsafe residential structures. The city is providing $2,000.

nEllis -- $251,600 to rehabilitate 10 housing units and demolish two dilapidated, unsafe residential structures.

nGlasco -- $188,040 to rejuvenate several streets through a lasting slurry seal process. The city is providing $19,000.

nGraham County -- $19,855 to purchase and install a storm siren for Nicodemus Township.

nMorland -- $143,550 to remodel a building owned by the Morland Community Foundation to allow the opening of a community-owned grocery store.

nNorton County -- $165,000 to buy a full-size ambulance/emergency vehicle for the department's Norton station.

nOsborne County -- $109,670 to buy a new brush fire truck for Osborne County Rural Fire District No. 3.

nRawlins County -- $400,000 for renovations at the Rawlins County Health Center, including construction of a new entrance. The Rawlins County Health Center will provide $101,905.

nSalina -- $382,600 to rehabilitate 16 housing units. The city will provide $2,000.

nTampa -- $82,500 to make improvements to the existing sewer system, including work on the lagoons. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment will provide $82,500.

nVictoria -- $500,000 to replace water mains. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment will provide $270,000.

nWaKeeney -- $353,980 to rehabilitate 14 housing units and demolish five dilapidated housing units.

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