Grants, Grants, and More Grants

In the last year, the City of Cherryvale has been awarded over $950,000 in grants for a variety of uses.

Last Friday, the City of Cherryvale was awarded a $400,000 Brownfields Assessment Grant by the Environmental Protection Agency to complete a community-wide environmental assessment of Cherryvale.

The grant will help to assess, clean up and redevelop abandoned and contaminated properties known as Brownfields. Brownfields are sites where expansion, redevelopment, or reuse may be complicated by the presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant. Grant recipients are selected through a national competition. The Brownfields program encourages development of America's estimated 450,000 abandoned and contaminated waste sites.

The City of Cherryvale has also been awarded a $160,000 grant for new waterlines and meters as part of a $812,000 water infrastructure project.

Through a partnership with USD 447, the City of Cherryvale was awarded a $72,000 grant for a security camera upgrade for the USD 447 campuses.

In late 2008, the City of Cherryvale also recieved a $320,000 grant from the Kansas Housing Resource Corperation to rehabiltate houses within the City of Cherryvale.

The City of Cherryvale will continue to seek out and recieve additional grant funds. The City currently has an additional $600,000 in grant applications still outstanding.