Revenue Sharing Grants

The Mat-Su Borough has approved another round of grants called Community Assistance Grants. The Chase Community Council is eligible to receive $31,400 in grant funds for fiscal year 2023. The grant forms can be found on the bottom of this page under 2021 forms

The community assistance grants for 2021 were as follows.

$5039 to Orville James to finish work on Clear Creek trail, from ARR 232 to Snowflake lake.

$750 to the Friends of the Talkeetna Library for teen programs.

$2000 to Kevin and Peg Foster for the tractor maintenance fund.

$2000 to the Talkeetna Elementary PTA for Healthy Life Styles Program.

The community assistance grants for 2020 were awarded they are as follows

Friends of the Talkeetna Library- $750. Supporting Library Reading Programs for the youth.

Kachemak Bay/ Denali Field Trip- $500. Elementary School Field Trips to foster environmental awareness

Talkeetna Elementary School PTA- $1000. Healthy snacks at the elementary school

Clear Creek Trail Improvement- $7839, Fund added to last year’s grant for improvements to the Clear Creek Trail

Susitna River Coalition- $4700- Salmon Habitat Education and Improvement’s

Talkeetna Community Radio- $1000, KTNA Local News

2017 revenue sharing grants funds were awarded

Nodwell Trail improvements were funded under two grants. $5,000 for gravel needed to repair parts of the north end of the trail and $2,000 for general Nodwell trail improvements and fixing drainage problems.

Susitna River Coalition’s will received $4650. For local information, public outreach, educate-inform and research long term protection of our main local river and local speakers and workshops.

Talkeetna Public Library’s grant was funded at $750.for tweens and teens programs

Food Bank’s grant was funded at $500. To purchase and transport food to the pantry site.

The 2016-2017 revenue sharing grant agreement between the Chase Community Council and the Mat-Su borough has been attached to the bottom of this page.

The following are the 2016-2017 revenue sharing grant applications that were funded or partially funded along with the amount and a brief explanation of what the grants were for.

Nodwell Trail Bridges consisting of two bridges on the north end of the Nodwell trail. $3843

Chase Trail Maintenance (from Talkeetna to 232) $5585,

Tractor maintenance, the original money was used to replace the planks on the RR bridge $2000

Friends of the library- to help fund various programs for children. $750

KTNA -radio to help support local news production. $1372

Susitna River Coalition- for local speakers, and help protect our rivers. $5000

Food pantry- to restock food $750.

2016 Revenue Sharing

Chase Community Council has received revenue sharing grant funds for 2016 to be used in 2017.

We got a letter from the borough stating that we are once again able to get revenue sharing funds of $19300. The Board of Directors accepted the funds. If you would like to submit a grant proposal please use the attachment below (2016 Revenue Sharing Grant Application and Instructions). The Instructions explains the process and requirements. The grants must benefit the area residents. The person writing the grant is liable for all of the management responsibilities involved in implementing the project plus project progress reports (Report Forms B and C found attached below please edit the date found on the forms). The Chase Council only approves and provides the funds for the grants.

The following is the grant instructions

The Chase Community Council Inc. will have $19,300 to award for projects that serve the public benefit. These funds are appropriated by the State of Alaska legislature and distributed through the Matanuska-Susitna Borough. Funds must be expended between January 1 and December 31, 2017. This document describes how organizations and individuals can propose projects for potential funding.

The Chase Community Council will accept applications for revenue sharing funds between April 15 and October 15, 2016. It is preferred that applications be submitted electronically if possible, using the form which can be downloaded from the Council’s website at https://sites.google.com/site/chasecommunitynews/ (on the grant page). Please submit completed applications by e-mail to: chasetrail45@gmail.com. It is also acceptable to submit a paper application to: CCC, P.O. Box 205, Talkeetna, AK 99676.

Proposed projects must provide a public benefit in the Chase Community Council area, and funds awarded cannot be used for political advocacy. Projects will additionally be evaluated for:

• Magnitude of the public benefit

• Capacity of the applicant to achieve the project’s goals and responsibly manage the public money entrusted to it.

• The degree to which Chase Community Council’s funding makes a difference in whether the project can occur and achieve the stated benefits.

The Council’s Revenue Sharing Committee will evaluate the proposals, and will provide an

opportunity for applicants to present their projects and answer questions. The Committee will then recommend projects for funding to the Council, which makes final determinations about funding. Awardees can expect to receive funds January/February 2017. Funds must then be spent by December 31, 2017 unless extended by mutual agreement of the awardees, the Chase

Community Council Inc., and the Matanuska-Susitna Borough. Awardees will be required to sign a Memorandum of Agreement and to file semi-annual reporting due on July 10, 2017 and January 10, 2018 using forms provided by the Chase Community Council, Inc. (located as an attachment below Forms C and D) .

Please include as much detail as possible in your application. Thank you for participating.

The grant forms, instructions and full document received from the Borough can be found on this Grants subpage of this web site.

The 2015-2016 revenue sharing grant money was awarded by the Chase Community Board of Directors at the October meeting. The following are the entities that are to receive grant money and the amounts they are to receive. The actual grant requests can be found attached to the bottom of this page for further details of the use of said money. See the grants that specify 2016. The available grant money is $20200.

Added 12-05-2014 The Report Forms required by revenue sharing grant recipients that need to be submitted periodically with the progress of your particular projects are now available on this web site see the attachments below labeled Report Form B and Report Form C.

New for 2014. The state has adopted resolution 14-005, the 2014 revenue sharing program to be administered through the borough please see attachments below for forms and official statement from the borough. Note these funds will not be available till 2015.

2014 Grant Recipients

The recipients of the revenue sharing grants are

Susitna Dam Coalition $4000

Food Bank $500

Talkeetna Library $1000

KTNA $1700

Nodwell Trail Improvement $5000

Maintenance Tractor Building $8000

See the attached grant applications for the details of the grants.

The tractor maintenance building will be a much smaller movable building as we were unable to obtain a reasonably priced location for a permanent building.

2013- Currently the state is giving all community councils that are 501 C1-3 qualified organizations grant money to be used for the good of the community. This page contains the forms, information about filling out the forms and what grants have been awarded.

Currently all the grant money for this year has been awarded.

Grant money was awarded to

Chase trail supervisors for purchase and transportation of a tractor with bucket and grader attachment

Chase trail supervisors for upgrades to the chase trail between the RR Bridge and mile 232

Susitna Dam Alternative

Talkeetna Library

Sunshine Transit

KTNA

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