Updates: Ohio Department of Commerce - The Ohio Cemetery Grant Program Awards for 2021 AND "5 Valley Cemeteries Receiving Funding for Repairs, Improvements" - WFMJ in Youngstown, Ohio

These are the first announcements noted thus far identifying the cemeteries that have received grants from the Ohio Cemetery Grant Fund Program for use in the year 2021. 

Excerpts.:

"The Ohio Department of Commerce’s Division of Real Estate & Professional Licensing awarded $73,846 in grants today to 45 Ohio cemeteries through the 2021 Cemetery Grant Fund."

"Cemeteries receiving funding from this grant in the Valley included five cemeteries, including two in Mahoning and three in Trumbull County. The Valley will receive a third of all the funds,$25,069 out of $75,000 awarded, which is available for restorations and improvements."

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And!

From the Twitter account of the Ohio Department of Commerce's Department of Real Estate and Professional Licensing.:

We congratulate all of the recipients who received these much needed grants from the 2021 Ohio Cemetery Grant Fund Program! 

OHIO CEMETERY GRANT PROGRAM FOR 2021 - DEADLINE IS JULY 31 2020

From Ohio's  "REPL" - The Division of Real Estate and Professional Licensing - of the Ohio Department of Commerce.:

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"PURPOSE OF GRANT"

"The Ohio Department of Commerce, Division of Real Estate and Professional Licensing (REPL) is pleased to announce the availability of grant funding in State Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 for eligible applicants to defray the costs of exceptional cemetery maintenance or training cemetery personnel in the maintenance and operation of cemeteries. The grant cycle is July 01, 2020* to July 31, 2020." 
***(Take Note:)***
"Exceptional maintenance shall be construed broadly to cover non-routine, non-repetitive maintenance. 
Reasonable maintenance, pursuant to Ohio Revised Code (ORC) section 4767.09, done in the day-to-day operations of a cemetery is not considered exceptional for purposes of awarding grants. The amount of funding available for grant cycle FY 2021 is $80,000."

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"CEMETERY GRANT"

"The Ohio Department of Commerce Division of Real Estate and Professional Licensing (REPL) is pleased to announce the availability of the FY 2021 Cemetery Grant for qualifying not-for-profit and local government cemeteries. 

Allowable grant requests include those to defray costs of exceptional cemetery maintenance or training cemetery personnel in the maintenance and operation of cemeteries. 

Eligible applicants shall be cemetery operators properly registered with REPL, be a documented not-for-profit entity under the IRS tax code and be in compliance with any applicable endowment and/or preneed cemetery merchandise and services trust accounts. The REPL Superintendent is accepting only online applications.

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*****Please gather all information prior to application entry. 

Once you start the application, the information entered cannot be saved and if you exit out of the application you will lose all information previously entered. *****

The Cemetery Grant application instructions are being provided as a worksheet guidance document only. 

This will allow you to gather all of the necessary information prior to submitting the grant application online.

The application must be answered completely to be considered for grant funds and submitted no later than July 31, 2020." 

Contact: 

Laura A. Monick at (614) 466-5384" 

or 

CemeteryGrants@com.state.oh.us. 

Website:

https://cemeterygrants.com.ohio.gov/

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Link below to Instructions:

https://www.com.ohio.gov/documents/CemeteryGrantFinalInstructions21.pdf

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Please note that there is an "Apply Now" button on this link.:https://cemeterygrants.com.ohio.gov/

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THE CEMETERY GRANT APPLICATION