14 Oregon City Organizations Receive Grants To Enhance The City

From the City of Oregon City:

14 organizations in Oregon City receive grants to enhance the City

Projects to support enhancement throughout Oregon City such as reducing homelessness in youth, upgrading heritage sites, rehabilitating or upgrading natural resource areas, increasing safety, improving neighborhoods and enhancing access to art in the city are among the 14 recipients of the Community Enhancement Grants awarded June 13, 2019.

The Community Enhancement Grant Program receives funding from Metro, which operates the South Transfer Station located in Oregon City at the corner of Highway 213 and Washington Street. Metro, through an Intergovernmental Agreement with the City of Oregon City, compensates the City by distributing a $1.00 per ton surcharge for all solid waste collected at the station to be used for enhancement projects throughout Oregon City.

Grants support non-profits working with underserved populations, schools or institutions of higher learning and local government to educate, encourage, and provide beautification, education, training or safety and enhancement to Oregon City residents.

The grants are awarded on yearly cycles by a committee of elected officials and community members. There were twenty-four applicants requesting a total of $722,794 and fourteen were awarded a total of $405 thousand. Projects awarded funding will enhance work to support the goals of the following agencies :

Ecology in Classrooms and Outdoors - Newell Creek Enhancement and Service Learning Project

Park Place Neighborhood Association, Service Committee - Park Place Playground Refurbishment

Downtown Oregon City Association - Clean Streets and Placemaking Downtown

Clackamas Heritage partners – Native American Movie

Clackamas County Historical Society – Window replacement at Museum of Oregon Territory and Grounds Improvement

Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon -Second Home Program for displaced youth

Latourette Park Core Team – Latourette Park Phase III construction

Clackamas Workforce Partnership – Connect 2 Careers

Village at the Falls – Program to benefit seniors in Oregon City

Clackamas County Arts Alliance – Youth Stories for Change

Rivers of Life Center – Cove water quality channel and mitigation lands improvement

Oregon City Public Works Department – Molalla Avenue cross street banner pole installation

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