2008 ECHO applicants and awarded projects

Grant application information

 

On November 7, 2000, Volusia County residents approved two funding initiatives created to advance our quality of life; Volusia Forever and Volusia ECHO.

The following ECHO projects were recommended by the ECHO Advisory Board for grant awards and were approved by the County Council on
March 13, 2008.

Total funds awarded: $8,015,831*.
Included an Exceptional Grant to the
Volusia County – Ocean Center for the Cultural Information Center.
*
Does not include annual $1,000,000 allocation for trails of the County's Trails Master Plan approved by the County Council June 3, 2004.

2008 Approved projects

2008 Approved projects

 
Rank GRANT# APPLICANT PROJECT TITLE AVG. SCORE REQUEST/
AWARD
1. 08-18 Volusia County-Ocean Center Cultural Information Center 90.86 $3,000,000
2. 08-08 Stetson University Homer & Dolly Hand Art Center 90.83 $600,000
3. 08-09 Museum of Arts & Sciences Children's Museum 87.29 $543,000
4. 08-07 Volusia County
Leisure Services
East Central Regional Rail Trail 1&2 87.14 $600,000
5. 08-16 Volusia County
Leisure Services
Spring to Spring Trail - Segment 7A 86.43 $600,000
6. 08-17 Enterprise Preservation Society, Inc. Enterprise Heritage Museum
Schoolhouse Project
86.00 $140,000
7. 08-20 Museum of Florida Art Children's Art Annex 85.86 $160.460
8. 08-03 Daytona Beach College ECHO Plaza at
Daytona Beach College
85.57 $167.982
9. 08-13 Town of Ponce Inlet Ponce Preserve Recreation Facilities, Phase II 84.57 $400,000
10. 08-19 Art League of Daytona Beach, Inc. Side Lot Parking Development 84.14 $41,900
11. 08-14 Cultural Arts Center, Inc. Cultural Arts Center Land Acquisition 84.00 $207,500
12. 08-01 Town of Ponce Inlet Meyer-Davis House & Hasty Cottage/
Post Office Restoration Project
83.86 $223,195
13. 08-04 City of DeLand Robert M. Conrad Education &
Research Center Expansion
83.71 $60,000
14. 08-21 City of Orange City Valentine Park/Little League
Facilities Construction/Renovation
83.71 $80,000
15. 08-05 City of DeLand Fish Building Adaptive Re-use 82.43 $218,700
16. 08-06 City of Port Orange All Children's Park Playground &
Danview Dog Park
81.71 $175,000
17. 08-02 City of Oak Hill Village Improvement Association
Building Renovation
81.29 $149,240
18. 08-10 West Volusia YMCA Deltona Splash Park 80.71 $57,000
19. 08-11 West Volusia YMCA DeLand Splash Park 80.57 $71,000
20. 08-15 Gateway Center for the Arts Gateway Center for the Arts 78.00 $345,854
21. 08-12 Commemorative Air Force Aircraft Museum Hangar Expansion 77.57 $175,000

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Daytona Beach 257-6068
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