The Town is committed to pursuing grants and alternative funding opportunities to support a wide range of projects, acquire specialized equipment, and enhance training efforts. These resources allow the Town to extend beyond the limitations of its operational budget and address the evolving needs of a growing community. To promote transparency and provide clear, up-to-date information, this grant funding page is reset annually on July 1. We are grateful to the funding agencies that continue to recognize and invest in the future of the Town.
The Community Forest Program (CFP) is a competitive grant program that provides financial assistance to tribal entities, local governments, and qualified conservation non-profit organizations to acquire and establish community forests that provide community benefits. Community benefits include economic benefits through active forest management, clean water, wildlife habitat, educational opportunities, and public access for recreation.
The Town of Leland has applied for the Community Forest Program (CFP) grant to purchase property that will be put into conservation. The TOL will allow public access to a natural area or open public space. The acquisition of this property will help preserve a forest and create trails for public access. This will ensure that natural spaces remain an integral part of community life.
If awarded, the Leland Police Department will us utilize the funds to outfit two (2) current Police SUV' s with mini mobile command stations and one multiuse UW. The mini mobile command stations will be utilized to assist with incident command situations ranging from natural disasters to basic calls for service such as missing persons. Being equipped with the mini mobile command station will allow officers to respond to those incidents and immediately set up a command station allowing for more efficient dispersing of resources and timely situation control. The UTV will be utilized for search and rescue situations. The Town of Leland is in a natural disaster-prone area and the need of a UTV to be able to access to the areas where a full-sized vehicle is unable to go. As the Town of Leland' s population continues to grow, the use of mini mobile command stations and the UTV would be vital to the success of search and rescue missions along with the lifesaving efforts during a natural disaster incident.
The Streamflow Rehabilitation Assistance Program (StRAP) provides grants to projects that help reduce flooding and restore streams across North Carolina. The program was created by the NC General Assembly, which approved $38 million in funding for StRAP in the budget appropriations bill for the 2021-2022 fiscal year. StRAP allocates money for projects that protect and restore the integrity of drainage infrastructure of North Carolina’s waterways.
The funding received from this program will assist tin the vegetative debris for Jackeys Creek from Highway 17 to Lanvale Road.
The Leland Tourism Development Authority grant program assists organizations with the marketing, promotion, and execution of projects and initiatives that promote tourism in – and attract visitors to – the Town of Leland.
As our Town grows, Leland Parks, Recreation, & Cultural Recourses is committed to growing and adapting our recreational amenities and programs to meet the expectations of our community. We look forward to increasing the number of performances and events so all ages can interact at the heart of the Town, while creating memories as families, neighbors, and friends.
The NC Division of Public Health is awarding a limited number of bike amenity packages, which include one public work stand and two bike racks for North Carolina communities. Partial awards may be granted based on the number of available items. The public work stands are outdoor self-service repair stations with ADA-compliant design, providing tools that can be used for bikes and other wheeled devices. These amenities can be used to help support North Carolina communities promote physical activity opportunities.
If awarded, the Town of Leland will install the bike racks and bike repair stand at the newly renovated Founders Park.
The Gateway District Utility Resiliency project is the relocation of approximately 4,800 linear feet of existing overhead power and telecommunication lines to underground service conduits. The Gateway District project area is located along Village Road between Andrew Jackson Highway and Oakland Avenue, which includes a primary electric utility substation, as well as many basic service businesses, such as grocery stores, medical facilities, pharmaceutical retailers, fuel centers, and restaurants, and approximately four hundred and fifty (450) directly-served residential units.
The Gateway District Utility Resiliency project, also known as the Village Road Utility Conversion project, will reduce the risk of power line and telecommunication destruction in a natural disaster, sustain existing businesses, reduce obstructions impacting vehicular crashes with possible fatalities, and potentially attract new businesses to the area. Leland, as part of Brunswick County, has been under a Presidentially declared FEMA emergency ten times since 2010. This mitigation project is critical to the resiliency of our community and its citizens.
The initial scoping, feasibility, and preliminary layout phase of the project was completed in 2019 in conjunction with Duke Energy.
The Town of Leland was awarded $750,000 through the FY23 Appropriations process towards the engineering and design portion of this project.