CLEVELAND, Tenn. — The first community grants generated from the sale of Bradley Memorial Hospital will be in local hands soon.

Recommendations for capital projects will be turned over to the Bradley County Commission on Monday for a formal vote a week later.

And the United Way of Bradley County expects to announce its grant recipients in early August.

“It’s something of a miracle,’’ Dr. Matt Ryerson of the Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative said of both groups. They started in January with the task of creating grant application forms, accepting and evaluating them and having them ready for a decision this summer.

“Both of us have somewhat similar processes,” said Dr. Ryerson, who headed the United Way group and consulted with the county committee. “That’s the way we believe the old hospital board wanted it to be. They didn’t want this done in a willy-nilly fashion.’’

After the 2005 hospital sale, the county got $15 million and United Way received $19 million. They created endowment funds with the goal of using interest from the funds to provide grants for health care, wellness and quality of life.

The county’s Healthy Community Initiative, a group of private individuals and two commissioners, will make recommendations for capital projects for government, quasi-government or private agencies.

The United Way’s citizens review group will recommend programs but not bricks-and-mortar projects.

The county committee had $1.9 million in requests but only $480,000 to spend. The County Commission has committed money from the fund for more space at the Cleveland/Bradley Public Library and to buy property for a future recreation center and park.

The United Way group had nearly the same amount of money to distribute this year.

Commissioner Lisa Stanbery is chairwoman of the county’s Healthy Community Initiative. She noted the group spent many weeks winnowing requests.

“With this first round of funding, the committee felt very strongly that the projects show a visible change in a year’s time,’’ Ms. Stanbery said.

“We feel we have a wide diversity across the county,’’ she said of this year’s recommendations.

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