The state on Jan. 31 awarded Miami Twp. $379,516 for the project. State law requires a government entity be the recipient of the grant. The township is serving as the pass-through agent of the grant for Dayton Christian, said Chris Snyder, township assistant director of planning and zoning.
He said the township is in charge of hiring a certified firm to oversee the project, also covered under the grant.
Dayton Christian is a ministry of Xenia-based Legacy Ministries International Inc., which in 2005 purchased the project site at 9391 Washington Church Road and soon after began a $75,000 conversion of it into a school campus with community meeting rooms. The offices also are headquarters of Dayton Christian’s home-school program.
Demolition of seven remaining former NCR dormitory structures at the site, however, came to a halt in 2009 when crews discovered 8-foot concrete slabs beneath the buildings.
Elliott said the grant will pay for all remaining work.
“It’s been a long process,” he said. “We’re just absolutely ecstatic.”
Work is expected to begin this spring, with the first phase of the athletic fields ready by fall 2012.
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