Sarah C. Gracey, Urban Forestry Coordinator Kentucky Division of Forestry

- Components: National Themes, State Assessments and a Competitive Grant Program - Partnership with Virginia Department of Forestry

To expand community planning and participation in developing conceptual plans and long-term strategies to conserve, enhance, connect and protect community natural resources and encourage forest based recreation and eco-tourism.

Need for Assistance in Southeastern KY Comprehensive, cohesive plans lead to grant opportunities for the communities Community involvement

Community Design Assistance Center (CDAC) Landscape Architecture Traditional Architecture Planning Implementation

Big Sandy, Kentucky River and Cumberland Valley Area Development Districts First field visit with communities – gather data, maps, host community meeting

Jackson County 123 acre campus with five nonprofits Reached out to community as a whole

$45,000 Grant for addition

$270,000 Total Grants for Lincoln Hall

Perry County, population 4,456 Pathfinders Greenway City Hall Park Coal Miners Memorial Liberty Street Highland Avenue Gorman Hollow

“…to see that it was a vision and actually see that it could be a real possibility…..”

ArtPlace grant - $50,000 Educational Foundation of America Have used the plan to leverage more than $250,000 of grants “Create a community where we will want to live and where people who live here will want to stay here.”

$20,225 Recreational Trails Program, walking trail around softball field $52,465 softball field, still pending Applying for…. $30,000 KY Colonel Grant 100% Handicap accessible playground Tour SE KY grant

“There is nothing that we do where we don’t reference the whole plan or part of it.” $88,700 Recreational Trails $18,400 Tour Southeast Kentucky $5,000 Center for Rural Development

Eligible counties for 2015: Sarah Gracey