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Board Announces Small-Business Grant Winners; Reviews Municipal Infrastructure Allocations
Summary
The board named three small-business grant awardees and discussed municipal infrastructure grant allocations and qualifying rules; some towns have not completed reporting needed to receive local allocations.
The Kane County Economic Development Board announced three small-business finalists to receive grant awards and reviewed municipal infrastructure grant allocations for towns in the county.
Speaker 2 said the board selected Once Upon a Time Museum (expansion), Always Adventure (expansion), and Rome (a new visitor center in Orteville) as the three small-business grant recipients. The board will disburse half of each grant upfront and the remainder upon completion; winners are required to provide at least a 50 percent match and several of the recipients indicated larger matches. Speaker 2 said Rome’s visitor-center project may total roughly $1,000,000.
On municipal infrastructure grants, Speaker 2 and other members noted the board has a first tranche ($20,000 referenced) and a second tranche; distribution requires qualifying projects and reporting from each town. Speaker 2 cited Kanab City receiving approximately 75 percent of one allocation and Big Water’s share around $8,858; Alton had not yet provided business-license counts, which has delayed its distribution. Board members reminded towns that parks and recreational lighting (for example, baseball lights) are not eligible uses under the program’s parameters.
The board also discussed localized infrastructure needs: Speaker 3 raised safety concerns about single-lane cattle guards near a visitor-center access road and proposed widening them (estimated materials cost roughly $20,000), noting available volunteer labor. Speaker 6 suggested the CEO/board might consider additional infrastructure funds for qualified projects.
Speaker 2 said more grant funds (another $200,000 cycle) will arrive near the end of the year and encouraged communities to identify qualified projects and submit necessary reporting.
