Turning Point Ministries was featured in the Daily Oklahoman on May 6, 2009, in Diana Baldwin’s article, “Edmond to get energy grant.”

EDMOND — Edmond is expected to receive $3.9 million in federal stimulus money and city officials haven’t stopped looking for other ways to get more.

The largest chunk, $2.35 million, will go to repair six roads in the city while another $600,000 is being used to purchase eight new buses for the city’s new transportation system.

Shannon Entz, the Community Development Block Grant coordinator, said, “This money will help a lot of people and help accomplish things we would not have been able to do.”

Edmond also is in line to get a $726,000 energy efficiency and conservation grant, Entz said.

The money can go toward things like writing an energy and conservation strategic plan or improving the air quality, Entz said. Another option is to revamp the building codes to include energy efficiency, conservation and air quality measurements.

“We are still looking at the best plan for Edmond,” said Entz, transit study project manager.

Two other Community Development Block Grants — $116,968 and $108,599 — will be awarded to Edmond. Plans are to spend almost $175,000 of the two grants to improve the infrastructure for 13 new low-cost homes. A public-private partnership with Habitat for Humanity and Turning Point Ministries has been created to build the new homes west of Broadway Avenue, between Thatcher and Edward streets.

Water and sewer lines would be replaced and extended, and a street would be installed to make way for the 13 owner-occupied homes.

Turning Point Ministries, a nonprofit ministry assisting in the housing needs of Edmond residents, is providing the lots. Bob Turner, founder and past president of Turner & Company, an Edmond-based builder and developer, is on the ministry’s board of directors.

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