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Commission approves urban-agriculture grants and a FEMA sewer assessment award
Summary
Commissioners approved a combined set of agreements funded largely by an Eagle environmental justice grant (two urban agriculture contracts totaling $150,000) and accepted a $412,500 FEMA hazard-mitigation grant (with $137,500 city match) for a Plaster Creek sanitary sewer assessment.
On April 28 the commission approved several funding agreements that combine philanthropic and federal aid to support urban-agriculture projects and critical infrastructure assessment work.
Parks staff (Laura Claypool, speaker 10) described a $67,000 agreement with Access of West Michigan to implement a community-led urban agriculture project at Joe Taylor Park, funded by an…
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