[OMS_MANAGERS] FW: [New post] Revitalize Ontario! Successfully Navigates the Grant Process
Charlotte Fugate
charfugate at fmtc.com
Sat Feb 4 15:41:15 PST 2017
Thanks
On 1/24/2017 1:32 PM, Dala Johnson wrote:
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> You rock Ontario, nice to see the small communities succeed.
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> Successfully Navigates the Grant Process
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> Nice Job Ontario!! It's so exciting for you and your community to
> start seeing those changes!
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> Kelly
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> Downtown Dayton
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> On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 11:32 AM, STUART Sheri * OPRD
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> oregonheritage posted: "By Charlotte Fugate, President of
> Revitalize Ontario!, an Oregon Main Street network community and
> recipient of a 2016 Oregon Heritage Diamonds in the Rough Grant
> Ontario is a small rural community of about 11,500 and we rely on
> agriculture for our main "
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> /By Charlotte Fugate, President of Revitalize Ontario!, an Oregon
> Main Street network community and recipient of a 2016 Oregon
> Heritage Diamonds in the Rough Grant/
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> Ontario is a small rural community of about 11,500 and we rely on
> agriculture for our main industry. We border the Snake River and
> Idaho and we are on the far eastern side of the state. The town
> was platted in 1883 just after the railroad came to Oregon. Two
> years ago we organized a grass root group, Revitalize Ontario!
> <https://www.facebook.com/RevitalizeOR/>, to develop and promote a
> healthy prosperous downtown within the context of cultural and
> historic preservation. To this end we started working with
> Oregon’s Main Street Program
> <http://www.oregon.gov/oprd/HCD/SHPO/Pages/mainstreet.aspx>.
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> After setting our boundaries and phases, we formally joined Main
> Street as an “Exploring Downtown” member. We identified a cluster
> of large buildings in the core of our old town, two were in good
> shape, the third not so much. We selected the “not so much”
> building, the Lackey Building, to revive because it would have the
> biggest impact in enhancing our
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> before-competition
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> The Lackey Building before the facade improvement.
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> historical downtown. We leveraged three different grants,
> including Oregon Heritage’s Diamonds in the Rough Grant, to take
> the building back to 1967 (although the Lackey Building was built
> in 1906). We couldn’t afford to take it back any further but felt
> we would preserve the building for future generations and the
> bones would be visible once again.
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> The grant application was relatively easy to fill out. I would
> suggest that you review what information is required before
> tackling the process and try to gather as much of the information
> as possible before starting. Kuri Gill, the Grant and Outreach
> Coordinator, was always available and walked us through the
> process. When our application was completed, Sheri Stuart, the
> Oregon Main Street Coordinator, reviewed our application and made
> a few suggestions that made our efforts more cohesive. The most
> difficult part was gathering old photos to show examples of our
> goals. Fortunately, a business that occupied the building in 1967
> had an extensive photo album which they shared with us. We waited
> with great anticipation for the grant committee to review our
> application, then came the announcement… we were selected!
>
> In the next few weeks we awarded the bids, set the construction
> schedule, and had a meeting with the major contractors and
> volunteers. We didn’t get off to a very good start since the
> volunteer who was going to demolition all the faux shingles and
> faux brick decided that he needed to be paid. We figured we could
> make that up with having volunteers do some of the paid tasks. We
> had to borrow $10,000 from the bank to cover one of the
> contractor’s bills, since they wanted to be paid when their work
> was complete. We had a visit near the project’s completion from
> Oregon Heritage's Restoration Specialist, Joy Sears, to see our
> finished project and she was very pleased.
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> downtown-after
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> Downtown Ontario after the work was completed on the Lackey
> Building (right).
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> We completed our façade grant in four months (coming in under
> budget) and sent in our final report along with copies of
> invoices, receiving a reimbursement check within three weeks. I
> can’t praise the Oregon Heritage grant staff enough. They were
> helpful, encouraging, conscientious and really cared about our
> mission. A great group to work with! As for the Ontario community,
> we get accolades every day for the beautiful building and the
> improvements to the downtown. We have had several more downtown
> businesses take applications for city facade grants and have had
> one building owner inquire about the process to get their building
> on the National Historical Register
> <http://www.oregon.gov/oprd/HCD/NATREG/Pages/index.aspx>. We are
> on our way!
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> /Oregon Heritage has 5 grants currently open for applications,
> including a new grant only available to communities in the Oregon
> Main Street network. For more information visit here
> <http://www.oregon.gov/oprd/HCD/FINASST/Pages/grants.aspx>. There
> are several free upcoming grant workshops available across the
> state. Visit the calendar
> <http://www.oregon.gov/OPRD/HCD/pages/calendar.aspx>to find one
> near you. You can also contact Kuri Gill, Grants and Outreach
> Coordinator, at Kuri.Gill at oregon.gov <mailto:Kuri.Gill at oregon.gov>
> or (503) 986-0685 <tel:%28503%29%20986-0685>./
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