The Town is committed to pursuing grants and alternative funding opportunities to support a wide range of projects, acquire specialized equipment, and enhance training efforts. These resources allow the Town to extend beyond the limitations of its operational budget and address the evolving needs of a growing community. To promote transparency and provide clear, up-to-date information, this grant funding page is reset annually on July 1. We are grateful to the funding agencies that continue to recognize and invest in the future of the Town.
The Leland Tourism Development Authority grant program assists organizations with the marketing, promotion, and execution of projects and initiatives that promote tourism in – and attract visitors to – the Town of Leland.
As our Town grows, Leland Parks, Recreation, & Cultural Recourses is committed to growing and adapting our recreational amenities and programs to meet the expectations of our community. We look forward to increasing the number of performances and events so all ages can interact at the heart of the Town, while creating memories as families, neighbors, and friends.
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.
DRMG funds can be used for flood mitigation efforts that stabilize areas and reduce future damage, or for predevelopment assistance to provide small and underserved communities with technical assistance to identify and design shovel-ready projects related to disaster relief and flood mitigation.
Leland is susceptible to many coastal hazards such as natural disasters, excess flooding, and storm surge. During Hurricane Florence, parts of Leland were isolated due to flooding of roadways, including NCDOT identified evacuation routes. With climate change and coastal hazards increasing, the Town is taking steps to make Leland more resilient and to flourish for many years to come.
The Town has assessed critical transportation routes within its municipal boundaries subject to coastal hazards. The Town identified and ranked priority transportation improvement projects to adapt and mitigate potential transportation vulnerabilities vital for emergency services, evacuations, and the movement of supplies in a natural disaster.
As the Town of Leland continues to grow, focus is being placed on improving and updating areas with flooding issues. The Town of Leland is striving to modernize infrastructure assets to meet the safety needs of the residents of the town. Leland is dedicated to creating resilient routes in order to bring safe and equitable modes of transportations.
Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) supports states, local communities, tribes and territories as they undertake hazard mitigation projects, reducing the risks they face from disasters and natural hazards.
The program’s guiding principles are supporting communities through capability and capacity building; encouraging and enabling innovation; promoting partnerships; enabling large infrastructure projects; maintaining flexibility; and providing consistency.
The South Navassa Road Pump Station is increasingly vulnerable to flooding as climate change is affecting storm surge, high-tide, and rising sea levels. The requested FEMA BRIC grant will fund relocation of the South Navassa Road Sewer Pump Station to reduce potential flood hazards.