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Mount Clemens approves fiscal sponsorship with Advancing Macomb for Shadyside Park water feature
Summary
The commission approved a fiscal sponsorship allowing Advancing Macomb to receive and administer grant funds — including a $75,000 Kaboom Foundation award — to build an artistic water feature at Shadyside Park. The city will manage construction and the grant will cover early maintenance; final design, location and additional fundraising remain pending.
The Mount Clemens City Commission on March 1 approved a fiscal sponsorship agreement with the nonprofit Advancing Macomb to accept and manage grants for a proposed artistic water feature at Shadyside Park.
Diane Banks, executive director of Advancing Macomb, told the commission the group has been awarded $75,000 from the Kaboom Foundation and is pursuing additional funding to reach an estimated project cost of $215,000. Banks said the project is “not a traditional splash pad” but an artistically designed interactive water feature. She said the grant and fundraising plan include about $36,000 in maintenance funds for the first three…
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