Overview

Pursuant to Volusia County Council Resolution 2000-156, the Volusia County ECHO Grants-In-Aid Program funds are to be used solely to finance acquisition, restoration, construction and improvement of environmental/ecological, cultural, historical/heritage and outdoor recreation facilities for public use. Additionally, and in accordance with Resolution 2000-156, the Volusia ECHO Program seeks to enhance the quality of life for Volusia County’s residents by working to achieve the following goals over a broad geographic base:

• Provide environmental/ecological, cultural, historical/heritage and outdoor recreational opportunities.
• Preserve significant archaeological or historic resources; and develop, enhance, and promote heritage tourism opportunities, experiences, and resources.
• Foster public memory and community identity by promoting and providing access to destinations and experiences associated with past events, peoples and places in the County of Volusia.
• Provide high quality, user oriented outdoor recreational opportunities including, but not limited to, access to the Atlantic Ocean beach through the establishment of oceanfront parks and off-beach parking.
• Improve the quality of life for Volusia’s citizens by providing access to the cultural arts, increase culturally based tourism, and encourage redevelopment and revitalization of downtown and urban areas through the provision of cultural arts facilities.
• Stimulate investment in local projects by regional, state, and national public and private sources through provision of local matching funds for grants.