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December 6, 2022
A homeowner used matching funds from the city’s sustainability grant program last year to help install solar panels. Photo via city documents.
More Prairie Village residents could become eligible for two city grant programs aimed at helping homeowners make exterior improvements to their homes
Catch up quick: City staff recommended city council approve several changes to the city’s exterior grant and sustainability grant programs.
The upshot: These changes proposed by staff are aimed at allow more homeowners to take advantage of the programs.
Key quote: “We feel [at] $2,000 you can still make a pretty good project, and it still meets the spirit of having the homeowner put some skin in the game. But [it] just minimizes that buy-in to the program a little bit,” Deputy City Administrator Nickie Lee told the council Monday night.
In addition to lowering homeowners’ initial investment, city staff also recommended:
What else: Staff also proposes rolling over unused 2022 exterior grant program funding to 2023, which would give the program a total 2023 budget of $90,000 in available funds to share with homeowners.
Logistics: If approved, the programs would open on Feb. 1, a month earlier, to allow for earlier approvals.
What’s next: These changes are set to come back before the city council for final consideration at its Dec. 19 meeting.
Go deeper: More details about the exterior and sustainability grant programs can be found here and here, respectively.
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