Nonprofit agencies have requested more than $376,000 in grants from the City of Issaquah for the 2015 budget year. Mayor Fred Butler has recommended the city pay out $330,000, leaving alone a grant request from the Friends of Lake Sammamish State Park and coming in under the total amount requested by the Downtown Issaquah Associations.
Ten nonprofit organizations made 11 grant applications to the city for 2015, ranging from standard budget supplementation to funding for capital projects, like the replacement of Village Theatre’s wireless microphone system. A breakdown of the requests and Mayor Butler’s recommendations can be found here.
The mayor has recommended an exact payout on the requests for eight of those projects.
The Downtown Issaquah Associations submitted two grant requests: a $60,000 request for operating funds and a $12,707 capital expense request for renovating the historic Front Street Shell Station. Mayor Butler is recommending only $31,500 on the first request. For the Shell Station project, Butler is recommending the payment of more than the money requested — $20,000.
The recommendations wills be discussed further at the City Council’s Oct. 28 work session.
New requests included the Shell Station renovations; $10,000 for a filtration system in the Cougar Mountain Zoo’s World of Tigers habitat; and the request from the Friends of Lake Sammamish State Park.
