Projects funded during previous rounds …
Through six rounds, grant program nears $200K
COVINGTON, Ky. – Seven neighborhood groups received funding from the City of Covington for improvements ranging from beautification projects to irrigation, the sixth round of a program that has now funneled nearly $200,000 to community groups to help them implement their ideas.
Funding for the newest projects – totaling $24,955 – was approved by the Covington Board of Commissioners recently as part of the Neighborhood Grant Program.
Individual grants ranged from $1,455 to $5,000 and were awarded to neighborhood associations and groups of residents for projects that improve their surroundings. (Businesses, individuals, schools, and religious organizations are not eligible.)
“This program improves the look and energy of Covington’s neighborhoods and also helps build partnerships – not only between the City and its residents but also within the communities themselves, since groups come together to think up ideas and then implement them,” said Brandon Holmes, the City’s Director of Neighborhood Services. “This is the sixth round of funding, and you can see the impact of previous rounds throughout Covington.”
The recipients:
- Eastside+: $3,000 – Neighborhood beautification, with a focus on involving teens.
- ROMA – Residents of Mainstrasse Association: $2,500 – MainStrasse Village beautification.
- Neighbors of Latonia: $4,500 – Beautification of the City’s 30th and Decoursey Park.
- Latonia Uptown & Latonia Elementary Green: $5,000 – Replacement of the hoop house.
- Friends of Peaselburg: $1,455 – Neighborhood beautification.
- Historic Licking Riverside Civic Association: $5,000 – Irrigation of the City’s George Rogers Clark Park.
- Botany Hills Neighborhood Group: $3,500 – “Chicken Steps” beautification.
The funding recommendations were made to the Commission by a 13-member committee that included officials from the City’s Neighborhood Services, Public Works, and Administration Departments, as well as from the non-profit Center for Great Neighborhoods of Covington. The Center helped the City administer the grant program and worked with neighborhood groups to fine-time their applications.
The committee worked to stretch funding across as many projects as possible, Holmes said. Three other applicants weren’t funded but two of those will receive labor help from City workers.
More about the Neighborhood Grant Program can be found on the City’s Neighborhood Services Department webpage.
Since the program was created in 2019, the City has awarded nearly $200,000 for 44 projects in nearly every neighborhood of the City. A map of the previous five rounds can be seen at “CovData: Grants helped …”
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