Southtowns Record

10/13/26 Board Packet

Government
Village of Gowanda
Board
Village Board
Meeting
Oct 13, 2026
Kind
Agenda packet
Topics
Audits and oversight, Water, sewer and drainage, Public safety, Budget and taxes, Roads and traffic, Zoning and land use, Parks and recreation

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HERITAGE RESOURCES,  LLC
  INTRODUCTION

Alma O’Connell-Brown founded Heritage Resources LLC in 2020 to provide high
quality professional grant and historic preservation services, She has provicled Historic
Preservation Project Management and Grant Writing and Administration services across
New York for over 28 years for over 160 municipal, community & private clients as a key
leader of Clinton Brown Company Architecture pe. (CBCA)

Heritage Resources LLC is her NYS Certified Woman-Owned Business - WBE - to help
projects meet WBE goals with integrity. Alma is a graduate of the UB Center for
Entrepreneurial Leadership Allstate Minority and Women  Emerging Entrepreneurs
Program & a Grant Professionals Association member. Offering a full spectrum of grant
writing to grant administration & close-out, she has assisted clients in raising over $43
million for historic preservation & fagade improvement projects and provided grant
administration for most of those grants. Examples of client projects include:

  *  Grant Administrator: NY Main Street projects in the Towns of Eden, Port
  Henry-Moriah & Burns; the Hamlet of Forestville, Villages of Angola, Springville,
  LeRoy, Sherman, Lakewood and Cuba; University District  & a NY Main Street
  Anchor Grant for Utica’s Uptown Theater for Creative Arts.
  @  DRI Project ~ Kirkland Art Center, Clinton, NY — §2.6 Million
  ©  Small Project Funds in Villages of Haverstraw, Endicott; the Cities of Norwich
  and Geneva; Staten Island & BKEDC’s 161" St BID in the Bronx,
  e  NY Forward Grants  — Kirkland Art Center, Villages of Cape Vincent, Moravia &
  Montour Falls
  ®  Buffalo Main Street Initiative programs in the Broadway-Pratt, Black Rock,
  Allentown, Lovejoy & Kaisertown neighborhoods.
  @  Project Administration & Design Consultant Services for Empire State
  Development's Buffalo Billion-funded East Side Commercial District Program.
  @  Project Manager -2003-2025 for the CDBG funded Erie County Commercial
  Center Improvement Program facade grants for over 150 small businesses.
  #  Grant Writing ~ Save America’s Treasures; NYS Parks EPF & NY Main Street via
  the State CFA portal; Member Initiative grants for the African American Cultural
  Center; Preservation League's Preserve NY program; Landmark Society of WNY
  and many private as well as NYSCA grants for our arts & cultural clients.
Heritage Resources LLC’s mission is to support our clients in creating successful
projects. We strive to do this with a team of professionals who are knowledgeable and
experienced in grants and historic preservation projects.

  A NEW YORK STATE CERTIFIED WOMAN BUSINESS ENTERPRISE (WBE) #73187