GORHAM — Plans to relocate a Gorham learning center and examinations of infrastructures in two other communities are three projects that will get funding through New Hampshire Community Development Finance Authority planning grant money.

Gorham, Belmont and Plymouth will each get $12,000 to give their projects a boost, according to Kevin Flynn, CDFA’s communications director.

“Each year, CDFA sets aside money to fund these planning grants. It removes that first financial barrier for cities and towns, allowing them to gauge the feasibility implementation and funding,” Flynn said.

“It helps ensure communities come back to us with the strongest … proposals possible, ones that benefit the greatest number of low- to moderate- income residents in their area.”

In Gorham, a feasibility study will evaluate potential new sites for the Gorham Community Learning Center. One goal is to provide space to increase the number of children served. Another is to expand those services.

The hope is that a total of 50 children will benefit from the center, and that a therapist will be able to better serve children with special needs.

Lakes Region Cooperative members in Belmont want to have an engineering study performed on the water, sewer and electrical infrastructure at that manufactured-housing community.

Several homes there have lost electrical service due to aging equipment and increased demand brought by greater use of modern electronic equipment in homes.

In Plymouth, a similar project will evaluate Whip-o-Will Cooperative’s water and sewer systems, as well as roads and electrical service, all of which, according to CDFA administrators, are showing signs of deterioration.

The study will be an important first step in setting “realistic and manageable objectives” for capital improvements to the infrastructure.

The New Hampshire Legislature created CDFA in 1983 as a public nonprofit. It administers nearly $57 million in funding resources.

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Bob Hookway may be reached at bhookway@newstote.com.