Yes Project scores financial support

In Greenville YES stands for youth, education, and sports. The YES Project committee is a group of volunteers who are planning the new collaborative building on the Greenville Consolidated School campus on Pritham Avenue that will house a pre-K school, a childcare facility, and the town’s recreation department.

At a recent meeting the committee learned that the Piscataquis County Economic Development Council awarded the project an EPA Brownfield Funding grant that will cover the cost of conducting a required environmental impact assessment of the site for the new building. Angie Arno, PCEDC executive director, stated “I am excited about how wonderful it is to be able to provide the funding and support for such a great project for the Moosehead Lake region of Piscataquis County.”

According to Kellie Jewett, the YES Project committee member who wrote the brownfield grant proposal, the grant will cover the entire cost of the assessment, estimated to be between $20,000 and $25,000.

The committee continues to work on the configuration of the three collaborative spaces in the building preliminary to commissioning an architectural rendering of the structure.

The main funding for the facility comes from a $1.561 million United States Department of Housing and Urban Development grant. If grant administration and construction go well, the move-in date for the facility’s occupants could occur two years from now.

Committee members include Janet Chasse, Jennifer Clark, John Contreni, Laurie Davis, Carl Henderson, Don Hodapp, Kellie Jewett, Kevin McAfee, Kelly MacFayden, and Mike Roy.