ROTHBURY — The Village of Rothbury has been approved for a $150,000 Recreation Passport grant from the Department of Natural Resources, village clerk Brandy Williams announced during Tuesday's village council meeting.
The grant will help fund a renovation of Czarny Park. The village applied for the grant earlier this year in hopes of revitalizing the park. The Passport grant was the less lucrative of the two grants the village applied for; they also applied for a Trust Fund grant that would have generated even more money.
The approval is only the first step in the process, which will require the village to work with Prein and Newhof and ensure all land requirements are met. The village will also provide $166,000 in matching funds.
The council discussed using the grant as a starting point for other future renovations to the park that it could take up itself through general fund usage.
The village also reported that the new police radios it ordered have arrived well ahead of schedule. They were not expected to arrive for several months, and because of their arrival the village had to move some funds around in order to pay for them this fiscal year. Between the radios, equipment, bulletproof vests and uniforms that were ordered, $63,000 in funds were unanimously approved to be moved as necessary to pay the bills.
