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CONSIDERATION OF SUBMISSION OF THE CERTIFIED LOCAL GOVERNMENTS (CLG) PROGRAM 2017-2018 APPLICATION FOR FUNDING IN THE AMOUNT OF $11,250 TO BE SUBMITTED TO THE OKLAHOMA STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICE.
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BACKGROUND: On April 14, 1998, Council approved Contract K-9798-108 with the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) making Norman a member city in the Certified Local Governments (CLG) Program. The CLG Program is part of the U.S. Department of the Interior's national program for development and support of local historic preservation programs. Since its initial participation in 1999, the City of Norman has received an approximate annual average allocation of $11,000 in CLG grant funds. Over the 15 years that the city has participated in the CLG program, the City has received nearly $194,000 in funding. In February SHPO notified the City of Norman's Historic Preservation Officer that the City was eligible to apply for up to $11,250 in CLG funding for the 2017-2018 program year. This amount is reduced from the $15,000 that the City had been receiving in recent years. This reduction is a result of Enid becoming a CLG city with a population over 50,000, allowing them to draw a larger amount of funds from the large city portion. This means the available funds will be divided amongst five cities instead of four, reducing the amount of funds slightly for all the cities in the category. However, SHPO anticipates that some CLG cities may not apply for all of their allocation, thereby creating additional funds which will be made available to the other CLG cities. If this were to occur, the City of Norman could apply for those additional funds at that time.
Designation as a CLG city recognizes Norman's historic preservation efforts and entitles the City to apply for a portion of the education/outreach funding set aside by the SHPO out of each year's budget. Funding is intended to be used for historic research, public education and outreach programs. Ov...
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