(Imogene) The city of Imogene was awarded a grant from the Governor’s Empower Rural Iowa Initiative’s Building Ownership & Organization by Strengthening Teams (BOOST) program.
The Rural BOOST program connects community and business leaders with expert guidance to develop actionable growth plans. Grant funding supports the implementation of those plans. Projects must serve communities with 20,000 or fewer residents and not be adjacent to a city of more than 40,000. Countywide projects must be located in one of the state’s 88 least-populous counties.
With a population of 39, the city of Imogene wants to invest in professional design and engineering services to prioritize community needs, such as street repairs, a campground expansion, a bridge replacement and downtown building renovations, in an effort to curb population decline.
