The Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government is accepting applications for the Corridors Neighborhood Enhancement Match Grant Program.
Donor Name: Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government
State: Kentucky
County: Fayette County (KY)
City: Lexington
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 10/01/2023
Size of the Grant: $20,000
Details:
The program aims to partner with neighborhoods and other community-based groups to enhance the corridors that connect Lexington communities and increase awareness of corridor enhancements.
The grant program has $20,000 available to partner with the community to support the Corridors Commission in improving the city’s most traveled roadways.
There are 31 eligible corridors and grant proposals must be for areas that abut a corridor or is on a corridor. Applications should include activities that are open to the public and benefit the whole corridor. Consider the following activities for your grant proposal:
- physical improvements for public or community property;
- activities to plan, promote, or finance voluntary clean-ups and neighborhood improvement efforts;
- activities to enhance the beauty of corridors by the removal of dead or diseased trees;
- litter awareness, prevention and cleanup activities.
Objectives
- To partner with neighborhood and other community-based groups to enhance Fayette County’s corridors.
- To increase awareness of corridor enhancements.
- To allow the Corridors Commission to advance its mission and purpose in a more timely and productive manner.
Eligible Activities
Activities must occur in an area that abuts a corridor or is on a corridor. The applicant is responsible for all ongoing maintenance. The improvements must be open and available to the public and must benefit the whole corridor.
- Physical improvements for public or community property.
- Planting of street trees or landscaping (not in private yards)
- Sidewalk or bike lane repair
- Repair or installation of fencing
- Street furniture such as benches
- Educational, historical significance, neighborhood entrance or wayfinding signage/banners
- Maintenance or installation of public art
- Other improvement projects
- Activities necessary to plan, promote, or finance voluntary general cleanup and neighborhood improvement efforts.
- Street or alley cleanup programs
- Removal of abandoned vehicles
- Demolition of abandoned buildings
- Activities to enhance the beauty of corridors by the removal of dead or diseased trees.
- Litter awareness, prevention and cleanup activities. Applicants are encouraged to incorporate the addressing of litter with their proposal.
Eligibility Criteria
- Incorporated, active neighborhood or homeowners associations.
- Federally recognized non-profit organizations 501(c)(3).
Organizations are not required to be a 501(c)(3) but must be a charitable or non-profit organization and be active and in good standing with the Kentucky Secretary of State.
Ineligible Activities
- Program operational activities.
- Daycare
- Employment services
- Recreation programs
- Other such programs
- Routine maintenance activities.
- Annual pruning of street trees
- Mulching of landscaping (Mulch is allowed if part of new planting)
- Other such activities
- Activities proposing the use of labor and/or materials provided by employees of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government (LFUCG), other than support normally and routinely provided to residents of Fayette County.
- Construction financing, capital financing, or operational financing of businesses along the corridor or of businesses wishing to become established along the corridor.
- Activities involving compensation to residents of the neighborhood or individuals doing business in the neighborhood for any work associated with this program or with other neighborhood development activities, unless such work is secured through a competitive bidding process.
- Acquisition of small portable or moveable equipment/appliances as opposed to permanent fixtures on community or public property.
- Operational expenses of the neighborhood association not directly and exclusively related to the implementation of activities approved in a grant award under this program, except for a one-time grant, not to exceed $1,000, for initial operating expenses of newly formed neighborhood associations.
- Plans/studies/feasibility reports.
For more information, visit LFUCG.
