{"id":11998,"date":"2012-10-15T16:07:44","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T22:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=11998"},"modified":"2012-10-15T16:30:23","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T22:30:23","slug":"rural-idaho-faces-diminished-federal-grant-dollars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/10\/15\/rural-idaho-faces-diminished-federal-grant-dollars\/","title":{"rendered":"Rural Idaho Faces Diminished Federal Grant Dollars"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12014\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"This spring, Fairfield, Idaho was awarded a $500,000 grant to partially cover the cost of water system improvements.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/10\/Fairfield-wideshot.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12014\" title=\"Fairfield wideshot\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/10\/Fairfield-wideshot-300x132.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"132\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/10\/Fairfield-wideshot-300x132.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/10\/Fairfield-wideshot-620x273.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Molly Messick \/ StateImpact Idaho<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">This spring, Fairfield, Idaho was awarded a $500,000 grant to partially cover the cost of water system improvements.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Rural Idaho communities have struggled with <a title=\"A Rancher, A Logger, And Economic Fate In Rural\u00a0Idaho\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/07\/11\/a-rancher-a-logger-and-economic-fate-in-rural-idaho\/\" target=\"_blank\">high unemployment<\/a>, stalled <a title=\"In Rural Idaho, the Recession Changes One Town\u2019s Fate\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2011\/11\/11\/in-rural-idaho-the-recession-changes-one-towns-fate\/\" target=\"_blank\">home construction<\/a>, and <a title=\"Tiny Idaho Town Ponies Up, But Its School Still Suffers\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/05\/21\/tiny-idaho-town-ponies-up-but-its-school-still-suffers\/\" target=\"_blank\">shrinking school budgets<\/a> since the onset of the recession.\u00a0 Add to that list dwindling federal grant dollars.<\/p>\n<p><em>StateImpact<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/04\/11\/idaho-communities-compete-for-dollars-as-grant-funds-drop\/\" target=\"_blank\">reported in April <\/a>that funding for the Idaho <a href=\"http:\/\/portal.hud.gov\/hudportal\/HUD?src=\/program_offices\/comm_planning\/communitydevelopment\/programs\" target=\"_blank\">Community Development Block Grant Program<\/a> has been cut by a quarter in recent years, leaving the state with about $10 million this year.\u00a0 When the first of four rounds of applications came in early this spring, Idaho communities already had requested nearly $9 million.\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"related-content alignleft\"><h4 class=\"related-header\">Related<\/h4><div class=\"links\"><h5>Posts<\/h5><ul><li class=\"link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/04\/11\/idaho-communities-compete-for-dollars-as-grant-funds-drop\/\">Idaho Communities Compete For Dollars As Grant Funds\u00a0Drop<\/a><\/li><li class=\"link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/07\/11\/a-rancher-a-logger-and-economic-fate-in-rural-idaho\/\">A Rancher, A Logger, And Economic Fate In Rural\u00a0Idaho<\/a><\/li><li class=\"link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/05\/21\/tiny-idaho-town-ponies-up-but-its-school-still-suffers\/\">Tiny Idaho Town Ponies Up, But Its School Still Suffers<\/a><\/li><li class=\"link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2011\/11\/11\/in-rural-idaho-the-recession-changes-one-towns-fate\/\">In Rural Idaho, the Recession Changes One Town\u2019s Fate<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"topics\"><h5>Topics<\/h5><p class=\"topic\"><a href=\"\"><\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;We run into more demand than dollars,&#8221; Dennis Porter of the Idaho Department of Commerce observed at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the state&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/commerce.idaho.gov\/business\/2010-idaho-economic-advisory-council-\/\" target=\"_blank\">Economic Advisory Council<\/a> got an update on how much funding will be available to communities between now and next April.\u00a0 The amounts allotted for senior and community centers and public facilities &#8212; a total of nearly $5.6 million &#8212; are already gone.\u00a0 Left is $3.4 million set aside for economic development and imminent threat projects.<\/p>\n<p>Bannock, Latah, and Idaho counties requested imminent threat grants to help them repair roads damaged by floods<del><\/del> and wildfires earlier this year.\u00a0 The council<del><\/del> put the Idaho County request on standby, believing other funding sources might be available, Department of Commerce spokeswoman Megan Ronk said in an email.<\/p>\n<p>Idaho County requested $78,000 to cover the cost of an engineering study on a main road that saw a large landslide in late March.\u00a0 The Clearwater Economic Development Association&#8217;s Kelly Dahlquist, who prepared the county&#8217;s application, says she doubts another funding source will be easy to come by.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Idaho County &#8212; they get hit with a lot of natural disasters,&#8221; Dahlquist says.\u00a0 &#8220;Their resources have been so tapped out.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rural Idaho communities have struggled with high unemployment, stalled home construction, and shrinking school budgets since the onset of the recession.\u00a0 Add to that list dwindling federal grant dollars. StateImpact reported in April that funding for the Idaho Community Development Block Grant Program has been cut by a quarter in recent years, leaving the state [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[35,46,107],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11998"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}