FREMONT – The winners of the Competitive Funding Grant (CFG), a program offered by the Ottawa Sandusky Seneca Solid Waste Management District, were announced at the recent Board of Directors meeting.
This program is designed to provide financial support to local governments, institutions and non-profit organizations for their solid waste initiatives. A fixed amount is reserved annually for this purpose in the budget. A committee within the district, consisting of representatives from each province, reviews all grant applications and then makes recommendations to the Board of Directors.
The OSS board then adopts the grants committee’s recommendations and votes to approve funding for local solid waste reduction initiatives. Subsidy applications are awarded in two equal rounds, in January and June.
Here are the area winners of the January round.
Put-in-Bay Township Parks: A new entrance sign and recycling/waste barrel container for the new preserve – Duff Homestead and Bayfront Preserve, $5,627.
Village of Gibsonburg: The village has been working to transform the previously blighted downtown area into a vibrant park area. They are asking for six banks of recycled content for their project, $6,025.
Bellevue Parks will receive $10,000 in grants
Bellevue Parks and Recreation: Replace old mulch with recycled tire mulch in Robert Peters Park playground, $10,000.
Parish of Our Lady of Lourdes: A poly bench made from 100% recycled plastic milk jugs for Grotto Gardens and Station in Genoa, visited by more than 500 visitors annually, $450.
Habitat for Humanity, Ottawa County: Purchase plastic storage bins made from 100% recycled content (158 in various sizes) to place items in for pickup and storage. They offer homes for low to middle income families, which they can purchase through new construction or renovation of existing homes. In 2024, they will open a store where the public can donate building materials, appliances, furniture and other household items, valued at $2,186.
Carroll Municipality: Establish a boat shrink wrap recycling program in partnership with Carroll Township and the Ohio Clean Marinas Program. Shrink wrap would be collected and sent to CLI in Norwalk for recycling into guardrail bumpers, $7,050.
City of Bellevue: The city has a consolidation site similar to the OSS municipality’s recycling sites, with eight recycling containers maintained by Rumpke. The city requested $10,000 for its budget, $7,000.
The next grant deadline is June 30
The Ottawa Sandusky Seneca Solid Waste District’s upcoming round of competitive grant funding closes on June 30. Local governments, institutions and non-profit organizations operating within the district and interested in applying for the next CFG should prepare their applications early. .
All submitted applications must be completed by June 30. For more information about the CFG, contact OSS Director Gary Baty at gbaty@recycleoss.org or call 419-334-7222 ext. 1.
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