WHEATFIELD — The Town of Lewiston will be able to spend more than $800,000 from a parks and recreation fund on three projects, including 5,700 linear feet of new sidewalks in Sanborn, thanks to votes Wednesday from a panel of eight governmental bodies.

The Host Community Standing Committee, without a single dissenting vote, agreed to allow the town to fund the projects during a meeting in the Niagara County Center for Economic Development.

Eight members of the standing committee control a total of $3 million in annual funding for parks and recreation projects. Lewiston’s share of the fund is $510,000 per year.

The funding comes from a settlement with the New York Power Authority for the federal relicensing of the Niagara Power Project. That settlement, made through a number of individual agreements, provides a total of $9 million in annual funding for Greenway projects, which is divided and controlled by four standing committees.

In 2007, the Niagara River Greenway Commission authored a master plan for the Greenway, calling for an interconnected system of trails, parks and greenspaces from Buffalo to Youngstown.

The Host Community panel consists of representatives of the Power Authority, Niagara County, the City of Niagara Falls, the towns of Niagara and Lewiston, and the school districts of Niagara Falls, Lewiston-Porter and Niagara Wheatfield.

The seven members of the committee, not including the authority and which themselves are known as the Niagara Power Coalition, also share a $5 million fund for capital projects. Lewiston’s annual share of that fund is $850,000.

When asked why the town did not seek to pay for the sidewalks with money from the capital fund, Lewiston Supervisor Steven L. Reiter said he believes that the project fits criteria established for Greenway projects.

The town has other projects, such as water and sewer line work, for which the capital projects fund can be used, Reiter said.

“We were just trying to judiciously use our funds in the most productive way to support the town,” he said.

The sidewalks are to be installed from Niagara County Community College on Saunders Settlement Road in order to connect with Buffalo Street, according to the town’s application. Plans also include the installation of street lighting and benches.

Aside from the sidewalk project, Lewiston officials received approval for improvements at Kiwanis Park on Oxbow Lane, and a 5,000-square-foot expansion for the Sanborn Area Historical Society.

The sidewalk project has an estimated cost of $323,799. Improvements at Kiwanis Park, including adding a new safety surface and a multiuse court, are budgeted at $240,775, while the historical society’s project will receive $260,000 in funding.

Each of the three projects was endorsed by the Niagara River Greenway Commission on May 18.

Commission Chairman Robert J. Kresse, along with Commissioners Ronald J. Pilozzi and Alice A. Roth, voted against endorsing the sidewalk project, according to a memo from Niagara County Economic Development Department Senior Planner Benjamin J. Bidell to county Economic Development Commissioner Samuel M. Ferraro.

A fourth proposal from the town, to create a dog park on Lewiston Plateau, was tabled Wednesday after procedural concerns were raised. Some standing committee members said they thought the panel should wait to vote until 90 days had passed from the time the town submitted its application to the Greenway Commission, which was about March 18, town officials said.

The dog park proposal calls for a fenced-in, off-leash area of about 1.3 acres. Another fence will be installed to separate the dog area from a wildlife habitat area.

Members of the Host Community panel will meet again at noon June 18 for a vote on funding the proposed dog park.

The Power Coalition was created in the early 1990s to prepare for collective negotiations with the authority over a new federal operating license for the Power Project. Those negotiations culminated in a 50-year settlement agreement that was reached in 2005 and that took effect Sept. 1, 2007.

The Power Authority, as part of the relicensing, has also agreed to provide $2.5 million annually to Erie Canal Harbor Development Corp., as well as a$4 million up-front payment to the agency for waterfront development in the City of Buffalo.