Ten Oak Cliff neighborhood associations got improvement grants for between $72 and $8,760 from the Old Oak Cliff Conservation League at its quarterly meeting Monday. In all, the league, which raises money mostly through its annual home tour, cut checks totaling $21,052.67.

Kessler Plaza got the biggest grant, which will be used to hire police officers to patrol the neighborhood as part of the North Oak Cliff United Police Patrol.

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The L.O. Daniel neighborhood got $4,722 to build a pavilion at a pocket park that is under construction at Marlborough and Jefferson.

Full list after the jump.

The Dells District got $72 to print welcome packets for new neighbors and $192 to hire off-duty police officers to patrol “during holidays with history of random gunfire and fireworks.”

East Kessler Park got $575 to buy signs reminding drivers to slow down.

West Kessler got $1,505.08 to upgrade and maintain its website, produce and print a directory and buy supplies to print newsletters and fliers.

Kidd Springs
got $954 “to support safety, schools and outreach”.

Kings Highway got $750 to hire a landscape designer to make a master plan for the North Polk Street corridor.

Oak Park Estates got $1,260 for 19 street-sign toppers.

Wynnewood North got $1,500 for labor to plant and water trees from the city’s Greenbelt project.

A special grant $762.59 went to Lida Hooe Elementary School to buy two concrete planters for the school’s front entrance.