The Town of Leland actively seeks grants and other funding opportunities to fund various projects, procure specialty equipment, and provide funding for training. Grant funding allows the Town to go beyond the limits of our operational budget and provide a solution for evolving community problems. Thank you to the agencies for recognizing the needs of our Town.
The Leary Firefighters Foundation was established in 2000 by actor Denis Leary in response to a tragic fire in Worcester, Massachusetts that claimed the lives of his cousin, a childhood friend, and four other brave firefighters. The Leary Firefighters Foundation considers grant requests for training, equipment, and technology for fire departments, both paid and volunteer, in the US.
Areas of Support
Training – the Foundation is pleased to fund training that enhances the professional development of departments.
Equipment – the Foundation provides funding for departments to be outfitted with the best possible equipment for the health and safety of firefighters and in turn, the public they serve.
Technology – the Foundation also makes technology grants.
Attorney General Josh Stein awards grants annually to projects that will help improve and protect North Carolina’s natural resources through the Environmental Enhancement Grant (EEG) program.
Since the EEG Program began, the Attorney General has awarded more than $41 million to 210 projects. These projects have resulted in the closure of 240 abandoned hog waste lagoons and the restoration or permanent conservation of more than 31,000 acres of land, wetland restoration, stormwater remediation, stream stabilization, as well as several environmental education and research initiatives.
In 2000, the Attorney General and Smithfield Foods entered into a 25-year agreement that, in part, provided $2 million per year for environmental projects across the state. This money was used to establish the EEG Program, which has awarded environmental grants since 2002.
The EEG Program offers reimbursement grants for projects that improve North Carolina’s air, water, and land quality by addressing the goals of the Smithfield Agreement.
The Town of Leland has applied for funding to clear fallen trees and debris to allow the water to flow freely, revitalizing the creek's stream flow.
In January 2005, Joey DiBernardo responded to a tenement fire in the Bronx with Rescue 3. This day would come to be known as “Black Sunday” in FDNY history as three firefighters died that day in the line of duty. Joey DiBernardo and the other survivors initiated a campaign for the issuance of personal life safety ropes for all members of FDNY and, as result of this fire, FDNY did reissue ropes to all its members. The Lt. Joseph P. DiBernardo Memorial Foundation provides grants to fire departments in need of personal safety PSS systems.
The Town of Leland has applied for 46 bailout systems for all line members within the fire department.
The NC Division of Public Health is awarding a limited number of bike amenity packages, which include one public work stand and two bike racks for North Carolina communities. Partial awards may be granted based on the number of available items. The public work stands are outdoor self-service repair stations with ADA-compliant design, providing tools that can be used for bikes and other wheeled devices. These amenities can be used to help support North Carolina communities promote physical activity opportunities.
If awarded, the Town of Leland will install the bike racks and bike repair stand at the newly renovated Founders Park.
The Gateway District Utility Resiliency project is the relocation of approximately 4,800 linear feet of existing overhead power and telecommunication lines to underground service conduits. The Gateway District project area is located along Village Road between Andrew Jackson Highway and Oakland Avenue, which includes a primary electric utility substation, as well as many basic service businesses, such as grocery stores, medical facilities, pharmaceutical retailers, fuel centers, and restaurants, and approximately four hundred and fifty (450) directly-served residential units.
The Gateway District Utility Resiliency project, also known as the Village Road Utility Conversion project, will reduce the risk of power line and telecommunication destruction in a natural disaster, sustain existing businesses, reduce obstructions impacting vehicular crashes with possible fatalities, and potentially attract new businesses to the area. Leland, as part of Brunswick County, has been under a Presidentially declared FEMA emergency ten times since 2010. This mitigation project is critical to the resiliency of our community and its citizens.
The initial scoping, feasibility, and preliminary layout phase of the project was completed in 2019 in conjunction with Duke Energy.
The Town of Leland was awarded $750,000 through the FY23 Appropriations process towards the engineering and design portion of this project.
Leland Unpaved Road Improvements project is the improvement the gravel roads of John Sneed Lane, Breman Lane, Graham Drive and Appleton Way by widening, paving, adding curb and gutter, installing new signs and sidewalks, and drainage improvements to allow the Town to provide safe and equitable modes of transportation. The Leland Unpaved Road Improvements project will improve safety of these roadways, provide safer multimodal facilities by providing sidewalks for nonmotorized travel, increase access to roadways, and allow greater connectivity to parks and multi-use paths.
The Leland Unpaved Road Improvements project will widen the dirt roadway to two 9-foot travel lanes on John Sneed Lane. In addition, a 5-foot concrete sidewalk will be installed along one side of the road. Graham Drive will widen and pave the dirt roadway to two 10-foot travel lanes with a 5-foot sidewalk along one side of the road. Appleton Way will pave and widen the dirt roadway to 10-foot travel lanes with 5-foot sidewalk along one side of the road. The total length of pavement needed for the Leland Unpaved Road Improvement plan is approximately 5,690 Linear Feet. The length of paving for sidewalk is approximately 5,470 Linear Feet.