Grants Help Shore Towns Operate, Grow

For municipalities throughout the state, grant money is a helpful tool to offset the burden on taxpayers while providing services and amenities

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By Claire Lowe

Press of Atlantic City

For municipalities throughout the state, grant money is a helpful tool to offset the burden on taxpayers while providing services and amenities.

In the past few years, local shore towns have benefited from grants to complete costly infrastructure projects, said Jim Rutala, principle of Rutala Associates in Linwood, who does grant writing for shore communities in Atlantic County.

“For example, the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation grant. That grant is designed for resiliency, helping towns — not to recover from Superstorm Sandy, but to consider new technologies that will allow them to be more resilient in the future,” Rutala said.

Margate and Brigantine were recipients of $125,000 grants from the foundation in 2015.

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