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2001 Fall Awards SCOTT COUNTY REGIONAL AUTHORITY 1 2001 - FALL CYCLE GRANT AWARDS APPLICANT / PROGRAM AWARD NON-PROFIT Ballet Quad Cities 39,200 Bringing "Salute to the Quad Cities" to Iowa audiences Center for Active Seniors 30,000 Redecoration of main hall & public areas Community Health Care, Inc. 25,000 Parking lot & landscaping for newly renovated Dental Building Davenport East Pony League 7,500 Tractor DeLaCerda House, Inc. 2,700 Parking pad & floor refinishing Ecumenical Housing Development Group, Inc. 26,500 New windows for multiple locations & rehabilitation of 1018 W. 6th Street Edgerton Women's Health Center 8,300 Stork's Nest - incentive vouchers for participants Edgerton Women’s Health Center 14,496 Upgrade of "Medical Manager" billing & information system Friendly House 30,000 Acoustical ceiling tile & floor covering for gymnasium Garden Growers (The) 3,600 Build raised garden beds for Goose Hollow Garden Generations Area Agency on Aging 17,795 Family Caregiver Support Kits Generations Area Agency on Aging 19,320 Plates & trays for elderly home delivered & congregate meals Genesis Health Services 6,048 Hope Dental Clinic Gospel Sound Promotions 5,000 Quad City Gospel Music Festival Handicapped Development Center 33,463 Document & film duplicators Humane Society of Scott County 4,813 Training, shelter equipment & animal care equipment 11/26/01 SCOTT COUNTY REGIONAL AUTHORITY 2 2001 - FALL CYCLE GRANT AWARDS APPLICANT / PROGRAM AWARD Humility of Mary Housing, Inc. 20,996 Window replacement for 8 apartments Interfaith Housing Ltd. 32,000 Rehabilitation of East 6th Street facility John Lewis Coffee Shop, Inc. 31,628 Energy efficiency improvements for shelter/transitional housing Meal Service of Scott County, Inc. 5,000 Donor Meals MidCoast Fine Arts 5,500 Multiple Community Arts Initiative Mississippi Valley Blues Society 10,000 Compilation Blues CD to accompany "Up the River" anthology Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center 40,000 Enhanced mobile donor service Mississippi Valley Neighborhood Housing Services 40,000 Building acquisition Project Renewal 40,000 Program house purchase Quad City Botanical Center 35,000 Educational greenhouse winterization Quad City Sports Center Association 15,600 Renovations & updates to existing meeting room Quad City Rowing Association 38,900 New rowing shells Quad City Arts 9,200 'Buffalo Carp' - a literary magazine Quad City Arts 6,000 Books for Super Author Residency - Richard Rodriguez Quad City Sailing School, Inc. 23,300 Safety/Instruction equipment Salvation Army 10,000 Replace roof on emergency shelter Schuetzenpark Gilde 4,070 Public amenities & access improvements 11/26/01 SCOTT COUNTY REGIONAL AUTHORITY 3 2001 - FALL CYCLE GRANT AWARDS APPLICANT / PROGRAM AWARD Scott County Family YMCA 8,000 Camp assistance United Neighbors, Inc. 5,000 DREAM Home Buyers Program - down payment assistance Valley Shelter Homes, Inc. 43,576 New roof for 910 Marquette Street shelter Vera French Housing Corporation 21,200 Replace furnaces, repair sidewalks & fencing WQPT-TV 40,000 Programming/traffic software WVIK 22,000 Supporting "A Prairie Home Companion" in 2002 TOTAL NON-PROFIT AWARDS $780,705 GOVERNMENT Bettendorf Public Library 25,000 Popular fiction collection Blue Grass Community Club 16,000 Replace heaters & install air conditioning Blue Grass Fire Department 11,000 Self-contained breathing apparatus City of Durant 17,900 Installation of & equipment for new ball field City of Bettendorf 23,700 Development of Centennial Gardens City of Bettendorf 260,000 Purchase of Eagle's building, 2850 18th Street City of Eldridge 25,000 Outdoor skatepark City of Long Grove 7,409 Basketball & skateboard surface Davenport Museum of Art 25,000 11/26/01 SCOTT COUNTY REGIONAL AUTHORITY 4 2001 - FALL CYCLE GRANT AWARDS APPLICANT / PROGRAM AWARD “Defining Craft” - art exhibition (August 10 - November 3, 2002) Dixon Volunteer Fire Department 7,000 Pager replacements Fair Underwriters, Inc. 25,000 Renovation of Grand Stand restrooms Family Museum of Arts & Science 18,980 Biodiversity 911; Saving Life On Earth program Junior League of the Quad Cities 30,000 Universally accessible playground equipment for Rocket Park Maysville Volunteer Fire Department 32,500 Apparatus replacement New Liberty Volunteer Fire Department 30,000 New Firehouse Project - concrete Princeton Volunteer Fire Department 16,926 Turn-out gear & S.C.B.A. units Putnam Museum of History & Natural Science 50,000 IMAX Theatre Expansion Scott County Sheriff's Office 3,500 Quad Cities Police Senior Citizens Holiday Lights Tour Scott County EMS Association 48,200 Replacement of outdated equipment, radios, & training Scott County Conservation Board 50,000 New campground addition at Scott County Park Scott County Library System 50,000 New library & headquarters facility Walcott Police Department 2,490 Body armor TOTAL GOVERNMENT AWARDS $775,605 11/26/01 SCOTT COUNTY REGIONAL AUTHORITY 5 2001 - FALL CYCLE GRANT AWARDS APPLICANT / PROGRAM AWARD EDUCATION Bennett Community School District 9,300 Renovating existing science classroom Bennett Community School District 2,600 Books for early literacy program Bettendorf Community School District 25,000 Grant Wood Elementary - new playground Bettendorf Community School District 7,936 Middle School - gym improvements Bettendorf Community School District 9,555 High School - equipment for lab application of biotechnology & physics Bettendorf Community School District 40,000 "Breakthrough to Literacy" Bettendorf Community School District 2,900 Duck Creek Nature Preserve Study Bettendorf Community School District 29,236 Equipment for TV tech classes Davenport Community School District 12,823 Eisenhower Elementary - furniture project Davenport Community School District 3,000 Truman Elementary - non-fiction books for K-2 students Davenport Community School District 3,790 Harrison Elementary - multi-purpose youth sports facility Davenport Community School District 9,309 TAPP/2001 Alternative Program - 5-station computer lab for math program Davenport Community School District 23,661 North High - equipment & supplies for science department Davenport Community School District 25,000 Fillmore Elementary - kindergarten reading skills program Davenport Community School District 50,000 Updating band and orchestra instruments Davenport Community School District 3,000 Purchase new coats & dry clean used winter coats for Dr. David E. Lane Memorial Coats for Kids 11/26/01 SCOTT COUNTY REGIONAL AUTHORITY 6 2001 - FALL CYCLE GRANT AWARDS APPLICANT / PROGRAM AWARD Davenport Community School District 25,000 North High - grand piano for auditorium Diocese of Davenport 3,989 Lourdes - "Sounds of Music" Diocese of Davenport 30,000 Holy Family - extended children's care programs - media center rehabilitation Diocese of Davenport 49,799 Assumption - renovation of auditorium Diocese of Davenport 28,000 Sacred Heart - "Expressing Yourself Summer Camp" Diocese of Davenport 7,809 St. Alphonsus - new phone system Durant Community School District 25,000 Construction of Durant-Bennett all-weather track Holy Trinity Mission School 36,500 Curriculum/Fine Arts - resource renewal Mississippi Bend Area Education Agency 21,500 Housing Dr. David E. Lane Coats for Kids Program Mississippi Bend Area Education Agency 11,160 Equipment to improve hearing services for students in Scott County North Scott Community School District 10,000 Virgil Grissom Elementary - books for guided reading program North Scott Community School District 9,655 Alan Shepard Elementary - "Reading Comes Alive" North Scott Community School District 16,000 Alan Shepard Elementary -" Math Curriculum Enrichment Initiative" North Scott Community School District 25,000 Early literacy in kindergarten classrooms North Scott Community School District 21,200 Edward White Elementary - books & manipulatives to expand primary literacy room North Scott Community School District 5,251 High School - purchase of classroom set of microscopes & one digital microscope for teacher 11/26/01 SCOTT COUNTY REGIONAL AUTHORITY 7 2001 - FALL CYCLE GRANT AWARDS APPLICANT / PROGRAM AWARD Pleasant Valley Community School District 30,716 High School - Instrumental Music enhancement & expansion project Pleasant Valley Community School District 50,000 Outdoor recreation facilities project Pleasant Valley Community School District 29,300 Developing Lifelong Learners Scott Community College 29,220 Instructional equipment for Automotive & HVAC student training St. Ambrose University 50,000 Educating St. Ambrose University student leaders TOTAL EDUCATION AWARDS $772,209 TOTAL FALL 2001 GRANT AWARDS $2,328,519 11/26/01 .
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