Sarah C. Gracey, Urban Forestry Coordinator

Kentucky Division of Forestry

- Components: National Themes, State Assessments and a Competitive Grant Program

http://www.fs.fed.us/spf/redesign - 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 ArchitectureTraditional ArchitecturePlanningImplementation

Big Sandy, Kentucky River and Cumberland Valley Area Development Districts

First field visit with communities – gather data, maps, host community meeting

Jackson County123 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 4,456Pathfinders GreenwayCity Hall ParkCoal Miners MemorialLiberty StreetHighland AvenueGorman Hollow

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

ArtPlace grant - $50,000Educational Foundation of AmericaHave 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 playgroundTour 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:

http://www.arc.gov/counties

Sarah GraceySarah.gracey@ky.gov