The Franklin County Community Development Committee (FCCDC) approved a number of grants at its recent meeting. The committee awards grants out of Tennessee Valley Authority in lieu of tax monies.
In addition to the specific grants enumerated below, the FCCDC transferred $5,000 to a fund to support future economic development, something the committee began last year.
The grants were released to the media last Friday by FCCDC board member Brad Bolton.
The largest grants were $5,000 each, from Rep. Johnny Mack Morrow (D-Red Bay) and Sen. Larry Stutts (R-Tuscumbia), for purchase of an elevator lift at the Red Bay Museum.
Other approved grants included:
•Tharptown High School gymnasium lights: $1,638.50 funded by Stutts and $1,638.50 funded by Rep. Ken Johnson (R-Moulton).
•Tharptown High School golf team: $100 Stutts, $100 Johnson.
•Tharptown High School classroom grant for government/economics and geography: $125 Stutts and $125 Johnson.
•Tharptown High School classroom book purchases: $137.50 Stutts, $137.50 Johnson.
•Red Bay High School purchase of Dell Chrome books: $700 Stutts, $700 Morrow.
•Tharptown Junior High School basketball team grant: $125 Stutts, $125 Johnson.
•RBHS FFA National Convention grant: $125 Morrow, $125 Stutts.
•American Legion Post #120 Veteran's Day grant: $2,016.35 Morrow, $500 Stutts.
•RBHS football team trip: $125 Stutts, $125 Morrow.
•THS library book purchase: $375 Stutts, $375 Johnson.
•THS computer cart purchase: $600 Stutts, $600 Johnson.
•Franklin County Soil and Water Conservation Enivrothon grant: $250 Stutts, $200 Morrow, $50 Johnson.
•THS JAG class Pantry Project: $125 Stutts, $125 Johnson.
•Belgreen High School softball program grant: $500 Stutts, $500 Morrow.
•Franklin County Chamber of Commerce overhead projector purchase: $1,162.50 Stutts, $930 Morrow, $232.50 Johnson.
Additionally, the FCCDC pledged after-project funding to the Town of Vina for an additional storm shelter purchase in the amount of $2,062 from Stutts and $2,062.50 from Morrow after completion of the project and receipts presented for total expense. The FCCDC also pledged after-project funding of a stage curtain at Phil Campbell High School with a commitment of $1,500 after project completion from Stutts and $1,500 from Johnson.
