Nine organizations in Whitehorse will receive more than $22,000 from the city to go to their environmental projects.

Council approved the environmental grants at its meeting Monday evening.

The city provides $25,000 each year for environmental grants with two application periods. A total of $22,331 was available for the final application period of 2018.

With a total of more than $38,000 requested though, the city will not provide the full funding requested for some projects, but rather a portion.

The largest funding request of $12,853 came from WildWise Yukon, for example.

The request was for the design, sign installation, consultation and materials for multiple education projects that would have a total cost of $17,588.

The city will give WildWise a grant of $2,028 for one of the projects to install signs on picnic tables at the Robert Service Campground.

Meanwhile, the smallest funding request came from the Valleyview Community Association.

It will receive the full $1,000 it sought for a water tank and fittings on its estimated $1,488 project to install a water tank at the community greenhouse to provide water before and after municipal water is available.

Other grants approved will go to:

• Fireweed Market, which will receive $1,225 of the $2,127 requested for its estimated $2,415 purchase of a stand-alone electrical panel and extension cord that would offer electricity to more vendors during the summer Thursday markets at Shipyards Park;

• Philippe’s Bike Repair, which will get $1,500 of the $2,200 requested (representing the full cost) for bike parts and advertising of its Purple Bike program, an affordable used-bike rental program;

• Shannon Powell Consulting, which will receive the full $2,000 requested for wages for a $2,600 report describing ways of managing the common nighthawk in the city;

• Downtown Urban Gardeners, which will get the full $2,793 requested for the first phase of its $17,973 two-phased project to remove low-functioning plots and replace those with 11 beds.

The first phase would see the demolition and disposal of the plots with the city’s funding paying for labour for the demolition;

• Yukon Invasive Species Council, which will get $2,900 of the $5,846 it sought for its project – estimated to cost $6,546 ­– to update, redesign and print a brochure. The city’s portion would fund the design and review, but not the printing;

• Yukon Fish and Game Association, which will get the full $2,907 requested for its $5,215 project to replace an interpretive sign and refurbish three existing signs at the Wolf Creek Interpretive Site. The city’s funding will pay for the design work, a sign post and four signs; and

• the new Whitehorse Community Thrift Store, which will receive $5,975 of the $6,830 it sought for its $17,735 project to purchase storage carts and a rack as well as sandwich boards for advertising and to hire a consultant to develop a volunteer program.

The reduced amount is because the city will not fund the sandwich boards.

Council was unanimous in Monday evening’s vote.