The $500,000 Keystone Grant was awarded to the 2013 Media-Upper Providence Library renovations project.
Good news came to the Media-Upper Providence Library at Thursday night's Media Borough council meeting. A $500,000 Keystone matching grant was awarded to the library on Feb. 15, said Marie Sciocchetti, secretary of the Media-Upper Providence Library Board. According to Sciocchetti, the grant process was highly competitive and in its history, there have only been 212 libraries awarded "and we are now one of the privileged few of the thousands of libraries in the state." "There were 41 applicants, 21 actually triggered the applications and 15 were chosen," said Sciocchetti. "We were one of those 15." The $500,000 is the maximum amount awarded to an organization or project, according to Sciocchetti. The grant will be an 18 month-process once…
Media Borough Council earmarked funding for the 2013 library renovations, however, Upper Providence Township Council did not.
While the fate of the Media-Upper Providence Library renovations seem uncertain at the moment, Library Board President Fran Shields says the plans are proceeding. Media Borough Council earmarked $200,000 in funding for the library renovations in 2013, but Upper Providence Township Council did not approve funding for 2013. The total cost of the library renovation is estimated at $2.5 million. The library board has asked for $684,000 from Media, $516,000 from Upper Providence and they are applying for a $500,000 Keystone Grant from the state. Private donors have given $100,000 so far to the project. "I remain cautiously optimistic that the Upper Providence Council will see that the residents of their community are very interested in …
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Kent Davidson
11:02 am on Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Let's put the politics aside for a second and clarify the facts: First, the Library is an independent project of Media Borough, it is a project by the Library board. They came to Media Borough and Upper Providence with a request for funding. Media Borough obliged, Upper Providence said they were unable to, mostly due to financial constraints on their side. Second, Upper Providence has expressed a… more ›