In Braidwood, $30,000 will be used to re-tile the community swimming pool and install solar panels.

In Bungendore, $41,000 will be spent to develop an extensive streetscape design plan to enhance and link the commercial and tourist centres and a for landscaping plan for Frogs Hollow on the western entrance to the town.

Majors Creek will get $10,000 towards refurbishment of the community tennis courts, while the Manar/Mulloon area will get $10,000 for a children's bus shelter on the Kings Highway.

The Mongarlowe/Charleys Forest community will get $9,500 for termite treatment and minor repairs to Charleys Forest Hall, and Nerriga $2,500 on a project yet to be determined.

In Burra $16,150 will go towards resurfacing the Burra Community tennis courts and for some minor community hall repairs.

Other projects include $32,000 to build two composting toilets on Les Reardon Reserve and $10,000 for a new children's bus shelter at Bywong, $20,000 to modify the existing Carwoola community hall to provide external access to the toilets, verandah repairs and painting, and $25,000 to upgrade the power supply and provide an emergency generator for the Wamboin rural fire service complex and community hall.

Across the shire rural areas $38,500 will be spent on locality signs.

The Council subcommittee allocating the grants said it had been difficult as communities had nominated almost a million dollars worth of projects.

"These all were worthy projects," the sub-committee reported. "So as well as taking into account the Federal Government's guidelines for the grants we had to establish our own supplementary set of criteria to fine-tune the allocations.

"These included demonstrated needs within each community, whether projects would assist local business and employment and if they would provide benefits for Palerang residents beyond the locality proposing the project."

The sub-committee said the Council recommendations now had to be submitted to the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government for approval. Work on all approved projects and expenditure of the funds had to be completed by September 30, 2009.