If approved by the King County Council, the Kenmore Community Club could receive a $10,000 grant from funds originally slated to pay off the Kingdome in Seattle.

The Kenmore Community Club is one of more than 100 arts, heritage and cultural organizations in King County to receive a slice of the $28 million revenue pie.

Club president David Evans said they already have plans for the funds.

“It’s all about making the interior modern and at the same time restoring it to its original historical look,” Evans said. “We’re very excited.”

Evans said the club will match the grant, for a total of $20,000, which they will use to renovate the interior. Exterior renovations at the club were undertaken earlier this year.

Kenmore Community Club was built in the 1930s, and Evans said that ever since it’s been open to area residents for weddings, dances, birthdays, religious and cultural events among a whole slew of additional gatherings centered around bringing the community together.

“It has been used for exactly that purpose in an unbroken timeline for 90 years,” Evans said. “It’s really a wonderful cross-section of our area here in the Puget Sound.”

The club is also a county-designated landmark, which Evans said makes it easier for them to secure funding from sources such as the Kingdome funds grant.

These funds came after the county paid off its Kingdome construction and maintenance debts earlier this year, 15 years after the stadium was demolished.

The Kingdome was funded through the county’s taxes on hotels and motels, which is around a couple cents per dollar spent on lodging. This funding was slated to continue paying off the debt through the end of 2015.

Since repayment was completed early, the state designated the funds, which have accrued during the remainder of this year, to be turned over to 4Culture, a King County public development authority.

“A lot of the reason it’s been paid off early is the overall economic boom in our area,” said 4Culture spokeswoman Christina DePaulo.

Part of the boom, DePaulo said, has been from the Seahawks’ performance over the past few seasons, which brings in fans from all across the region, but DePaulo said it wasn’t the main reason.

“The overall story of the impact really is the constant increase in tourism and people staying in hotels in the King County region in the past couple years,” she said.

4Culture traces its roots back to 1956, when the county started the King County Arts Commission. Since then, its been through many different iterations, but it’s core focus remains funding public arts, heritage and cultural sites and activities and preserving existing landmarks, among others.

“We end up funding the majority of the arts and cultural projects in King County through a variety of ways,” DePaulo said.

King County Councilman and Kenmore representative Rod Dembowski said that funding was almost turned down until he advocated for the club to receive the money.

“There’s been a backlog of projects that have not received funding for many years, so it’s an exciting opportunity,” he said.

Also receiving funding is the Shoreline Historical Society with a $250,000 grant, and the Shoreline Veteran’s Memorial to the tune of $20,000.

While the funds have not been approved yet, Dembowski said he thinks the council will approve it largely as-is.

“My sense is the allocations as they exist today is primarily what you’ll see,” he said.

Evans said the club is ready to continue serving the greater Seattle area.

“People, they need to know that its mission is just community welfare, you don’t have to live in a particular place to be a member,” he said.