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Mission Statement To create "Partners in Preservation" and "Parks for People" through the Land Stewardship Program by providing funding for ecological restoration of publicly-owned natural lands and sustainable development of passive recreation parks in an expeditious manner and ensure that the managing entity will "Keep it Green" through a monitoring compliance program. |
Land Stewardship Program
Through the $400 million Safe Parks & Land Preservation Bond Program, Broward County acquired natural lands and open space sites. The Land Stewardship Program originated to properly manage the acquired sites in perpetuity for future generations and to expedite the development of open space sites to meet the passive recreational needs of county residents. The Land Stewardship Program will provide ongoing monitoring and oversight of bond acquired and other natural lands, throughout the county and its municipalities through the "Keep it Green" Compliance Monitoring Program. The Land Stewardship Program will also provide funds for the ecological restoration of natural lands by creating the "Partners in Preservation" Grant Program and will provide matching funds for the development of bond program sites through the "Parks for People " Grant Program, which advocates water conservation and "green components" initiatives.
The cycles for both grant programs will run once a year; final timelines for application submission, revision and award processes will be announced and posted in this website.
The Land Stewardship Program provided a workshop for the "Parks for People" and "Partners in Preservation" grant programs on April 24, 2008 at Volunteer Park Community Center, in Plantation. For current updates and information on this years application cycle please call 954-519-1297.
The current cycle of application dates, for 2009-2010 posted May 19, 2009
Application/review schedule for 2009-2010 cycle of grants pdf (43 kB).
Parks for People at a glance
Parks For People Grant Submittal Period: June 1 to July 31, 2009
The Natural Resources Planning and Management Division of the Broward County Environmental Protection and Growth Management Department has initiated the Land Stewardship Program, a five-year capital improvement program to partially fund the development of bond acquired Open Spaces that include "green component" (PDF file 14kB) standards through the "Parks for People" Grant Program. This Program will provide $500,000 a year with a proposed maximum grant of $75,000 per project to supplement the development of Open Space Sites. Qualified applicants are municipalities that own Open Space sites acquired through the 2000 Bond Program with development funding already allocated in the municipality's 5 year Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) interested in using "green construction" standards as described in this program.
Parks For People 09 Grant Information and Application Second Cycle (Closed)
Partners in Preservation at a glance
The Land Stewardship Program will fund the ecological restoration of natural lands within Broward County through the "Partners in Preservation" Grant Program. This program will provide $500,000 a year for five years for the removal of invasive non-native vegetation and replanting with appropriate native plants on public properties in Broward County that contain one or more defined native vegetative communities (PDF file 28 kB). The proposed maximum grant is $50,000 per project. Qualified Applicants are municipalities and county agencies that own and manage natural lands with native vegetative communities that have not previously requested county funding for public land impacted by invasive non-native vegetation. This program has no match requirement, however consideration will be given to those entities providing a match if funding is insufficient to award all applicants. The applicant's cost-share match can be direct (actual) or in-kind contributions (e.g. equipment, material, expenses or labor).
Partners In Preservation General Grant Information Second Cycle (Open)
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Contact Information
For more information please contact:
Paul Krashefski
954-519-1297
Environmental Protection and Growth Management Department -
Natural Resources Planning and Management Division
Land Preservation Section
1 N University Drive, Suite 301 - Plantation - Florida 33324
Phone: 954-519-1230
Last update May 2009