Wednesday, 29 August 2007 00:44

Historical Projects Win Big in State Grant Process

One more step forward for three Historical projects, located within Amador County, on their quest for state historical funding grants. The Fiddletown Preservation Society, the Kennedy Mine Foundation, and the Knight Foundry in Sutter Creek have made it through round four of the California Cultural and Historical Endowment and now have some dollars reserved by the state for their projects.
Now an important time clock begins giving the three organizations one year to complete the state’s approval process. This entails positive documentation of the matching funds required and compliance with the environmental protection law, the California Environmental Quality Act, or CEQA( say see-kwa). The three projects have already submitted their matching and in kind fund proposals as part of their application processes so now they must confirm the availability and move forward. The Fiddletown project to restore 3 Chinese settler buildings has been awarded 207,964.00 dollars, nearly all of the 225-thousand dollars originally requested. The Kennedy Mine Archives project requested 150-thousand dollars and was reserved the amount of 145-thousadn, also a big win for the county. Next is the Sutter Creek Knight Foundry with a request of 1-million,74-thousand –plus dollars. This project received the lowest amount of their request, however it is still a big boost to the project with a reserved dollar amount of $870,000.