EDMOND - The Edmond City Council has agreed to spend $920,000 on projects to celebrate the state's 100th birthday.
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The decision came with the approval of the 2006-07 budget.
Projects to be funded from next year's general fund include:
Centennial clock for downtown -- $35,000.
Centennial Groves -- $100,000 and $100,000 a year for the next three years.
Route 66 signage -- $100,000.
Special events and projects -- $10,000.
Other projects and sources of funding include:
A design study for a pedestrian bridge linking Festival Marketplace with the south side of Second Street -- $35,000 from the 2000 capital improvements tax fund.
An arboretum at Bickham/Rudkin Park -- $300,000 from the park tax fund.
Council members already gave the centennial commission $40,000 from this year's budget to help purchase a statue of Miss Kentucky Daisey for Festival Marketplace.
According to the state Historical Society, Nanitta R.H. "Kentucky" Daisey is known for her leap from the front of a train to claim a piece of land in Edmond during the 1889 Land Run. When Daisey planted her stake in Edmond, she fired a shot into the air and shouted, "I salute Kentucky Daisey's claim." Then she hurried back to the train and was pulled aboard the caboose by a fellow journalist.
In April, Edmond received state grant money for centennial projects from the Oklahoma Capitol Complex and Centennial Commemoration Commission.
A $10,000 grant was awarded for the Kentucky Daisey statue.
Another $5,000 was given to complete renovation of a historical schoolhouse, the first public school in Oklahoma Territory.
The Edmond Centennial Commission meets at 4 p.m. Monday in the Downtown Community Center.
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