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 Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE) program helps communities around the country carry out projects for surface transportation infrastructure with significant local or regional impact.
The Town of Leland is applying to the U.S. Department of Transportation RAISE program to fund the planning, preparation, and design of road extension projects. The Town is seeking funding for planning, preparation, and design to include environmental analysis, feasibility studies, benefit-cost analysis, and other pre-construction activities such as survey, wetland delineation, geotechnical explorations, etc. for the extensions of roadways.
Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) supports states, local communities, tribes and territories as they undertake hazard mitigation projects, reducing the risks they face from disasters and natural hazards.
The program’s guiding principles are supporting communities through capability and capacity building; encouraging and enabling innovation; promoting partnerships; enabling large infrastructure projects; maintaining flexibility; and providing consistency.
The South Navassa Road Pump Station is increasingly vulnerable to flooding as climate change is affecting storm surge, high-tide, and rising sea levels. The requested FEMA BRIC grant will fund relocation of the South Navassa Road Sewer Pump Station to reduce potential flood hazards.
A "brownfields site" is an abandoned, idled or underused property where the threat of environmental contamination has hindered its redevelopment. The North Carolina Brownfields Redevelopment Section, which is administered by the Division of Waste Management, is the state's effort to break this barrier to the redevelopment of these sites. The Brownfields Property Reuse Act of 1997 sets forth the authority for the Department of Environment and Natural Resources to work with prospective developers to put these brownfields sites back into reuse. The prospective developer, as defined under the statute, is any person who desires to buy or sell a brownfields property for the purpose of redeveloping it and who did not cause or contribute to the contamination at the property.
The Town of Leland applied for a grant through NC DEQ, and funded by the EPA, to perform evaluation and testing deemed necessary to establish a Brownfields Agreement, outlining future approved use of affected properties. The Town currently meets all eligibility requirements and has received confirmation of acceptance into the project. This includes the receptor survey, utility locates, drillers, site work, laboratory analytical, work plans, and reporting. All work necessary to establish Brownfields agreement is part of the EPA grant funding.
The Charging and Fueling Infrastructure (CFI) Program will accelerate an electrified and alternative fuel transportation system that is convenient, affordable, reliable, equitable, accessible, and safe. The CFI Program will also help put the U.S. on a path to a nationwide network of at least 500,000 EV chargers by 2030 and improve networks for vehicles using hydrogen, propane, and natural gas. This grant aims to strategically deploy electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure located on public roads or in other publicly accessible locations.
Perry Avenue, which is currently a dead end road, will be extended in order to fully connect Village Road with Old Fayetteville Road. This will aid in traffic flow by giving some relief to Town Hall Drive, which runs parallel to Perry Avenue. Founders Park will be framed on both sides with Perry Avenue and Town Hall Drive, aiding in traffic flow around park. The road improvements will also allow the addition of parallel parking and resurfacing, which will enhance the appearance and durability of the road.
The Town of Leland has partnered with PARTF to keep pace with our fast-growing community’s desire and need for improved and expanded recreation opportunities and facilities. This exciting project will update and transform Founders Park from a basic municipal park to a hub of community activity and engagement for all Leland citizens by adding unique amenities not found elsewhere in the area.
Founders Park Phase I will add the first splashpad in northern Brunswick County, fitness stations, an amphitheater, a veterans memorial, an improved walking trail, additional parking, restrooms, and associated site furnishings.