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<p style="font-size: 150%; font-weight: bold;">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</p>
<p style="font-size: 120%; margin-top: -5px; font-weight:bold;">October 26, 2023</p>
<p style="float:right; font-weight:bold; margin-bottom: 25px; font-size: 100%; text-align:right;">CONTACT: Rusty Palmer
<br />Senior Planner
<br />Community Development
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<br />573.874.7239
<br />Rusty.Palmer@CoMo.gov</p>
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<div style="font-size: 110%; line-height:150%;"><h1 style="clear:both; margin-top: 75px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-weight: bold; font-size: 130%;">Columbia receives federal grant for historic preservation project</h1>
<div class="content"><span style="padding-left: 50px;">(COLUMBIA, MO)</span> - <p style="display:inline;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The City of Columbia has been awarded a $15,000 grant from the federal Historic Preservation Fund. The money will be used to create a preservation plan for use by the City’s historic preservation commission. The grant will be overseen by the Missouri State Historic Preservation Office. The deadline to complete the grant project is summer 2025. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The preservation plan will summarize the current state of historic preservation in Columbia and will list goals for future preservation efforts. The public will have opportunities to comment on the preservation plan as it is drawn up.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The funding for the survey project comes from a $2 million grant awarded to the Missouri Department of Natural Resources by the National Park Service. Under the terms of the federal grant, the Department is required to pass through 10% of the funding as subgrants to Certified Local Governments (CLGs) throughout the state. The city has agreed to provide a 40% match to the federal funds. CLG grants are awarded based on a competitive scoring process and the direct relation of the projects to the identification, evaluation, or protection of historical, architectural or archaeological resources. Columbia is one of 64 CLGs in Missouri.</span></p></div>
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