{"id":1318205,"date":"2020-02-12T15:18:59","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T22:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=993506"},"modified":"2020-02-12T15:18:59","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T22:18:59","slug":"garfield-county-fmld-now-accepting-spring-2020-grant-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/garfield-county-fmld-now-accepting-spring-2020-grant-applications\/","title":{"rendered":"Garfield County FMLD now accepting spring 2020 grant applications"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The town of New Castle, city of Glenwood Springs and RFTA received a joint FMLD grant last year in the amount of $700,000 for the LoVa Trail pictured here along the Colorado River.<\/strong>
Thomas Phippen \/ Post Independent<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

The Garfield County Federal Mineral Lease District\u2019s spring 2020 grant cycle is currently open to eligible applicants.<\/p>\n

Garfield County\u2019s Federal Mineral Lease District was established in 2011, and awarded its first grant dollars shortly thereafter in 2012.<\/p>\n

To date, the district has awarded over $25 million to various entities and has two grant cycles per year, one in the fall and one in the spring.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn each of those grant cycles we have two grant programs,\u201d Andrew Gorgey, Garfield County Federal Mineral Lease District general counsel, said. \u201cWe have a traditional grant program and we have a mini grant program.\u201d<\/p>\n

The traditional grant program awards a maximum of $1 million to any given entity and has a matching requirement of 30%. The mini-grant program awards a maximum of $25,000 per recipient and has no matching requirements but does not fund planning grants.<\/p>\n

According to Gorgey, the law specifies that only the state or its political subdivisions will be considered eligible for FMLD grant dollars.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, that\u2019s a city or town, or school district or special district,\u201d Gorgey said. \u201cIt\u2019s not a requirement that they have to be in Garfield County but as a matter of history we\u2019ve never awarded a grant to any entity that wasn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

Additionally, eligible applicants may apply for one traditional grant and one mini grant per grant cycle.<\/p>\n

A three-person board of directors consisting of Board President Gregg Rippy, Garfield County Commissioner Mike Samson and Steve Rippy ultimately decide where to allocate grant dollars.<\/p>\n

The deadline to apply for either a traditional or mini Garfield County FML District grant as part of the spring cycle is noon Feb. 28.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have to have it in our hands by that day and time,\u201d Gorgey said.<\/p>\n

The 2020 spring grant application can be downloaded here.<\/a><\/p>\n

According to Gorgey, the board of directors has approved $1.4 million for the 2020 spring grant cycle and recipients will be announced no later than April 15.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery cycle is always very competitive,\u201d Gorgey said. \u201cThe district has never awarded all of the grant amounts requested.\u201d<\/p>\n

During the 2019 spring traditional grant cycle the board awarded over $1.32 million in grants to entities ranging from the Roaring Fork School District to the Garfield County Housing Authority.<\/p>\n

mabennett@postindependent.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The town of New Castle, city of Glenwood Springs and RFTA received a joint FMLD grant last year in the amount of $700,000 for the LoVa Trail pictured here along the Colorado River.Thomas Phippen \/ Post Independent The Garfield County Federal Mineral Lease District\u2019s spring 2020 grant cycle is currently open to eligible applicants. Garfield […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1318205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-05 22:26:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1318205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1318205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1318205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1318205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}