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Board names three small-business grant winners; reviews municipal infrastructure allocations
Summary
The board announced three small-business grant winners (Once Upon a Time Museum, Always Adventure, and Rome's visitor center in Orteville), described matching and payment terms, and debated municipal infrastructure grant distributions and qualifying project rules.
The Kane County Economic Development Board announced three winners of its small-business grants and discussed municipal infrastructure grant follow-up and town allocations.
Staff identified the three finalists the board selected for funding support: Once Upon a Time Museum (expansion), Always Adventure (expansion), and Rome (a new visitor center in Orteville). The board said each award will be paid half up front and half upon completion; recipients are expected to provide at least 50% match, and at least one winner is contributing substantially more than the minimum match. Staff estimated the Rome visitor center project could be a roughly $1,000,000 undertaking.
Separately, the board discussed municipal infrastructure grants and follow-up reporting. Staff reported outreach to towns that have not yet applied or cashed their allocations, noted a July reporting deadline, and described distribution examples (staff cited an $8,858 figure for Big Water and said one allocation proposal would send about 75% of a tranche to Kanab City). Members clarified eligible uses under the county's parameters: workforce development, business expansion/retention/recruitment, and capital infrastructure, but not city parks or baseball lights.
A member asked whether towns must report back on how they used funds; staff said towns need to state intended uses up front and report on utilization. The board discussed using the funds for projects such as sidewalks, equestrian arena panels, and visitor-center planning and suggested the CEO or board might consider additional funding for qualified projects.
Board members asked staff to follow up with towns that had not confirmed projects and to prepare any required documentation so funds may be disbursed to qualified projects.
