The Sycamore City Council made three Sycamore organizations very happy Monday.

For the past decade, the city budget included funding for three grants, those to be distributed to community organizations for providing outstanding services to its residents and to help offset expenditures of the organization itself.

The DeKalb County Economic Development Corporation received $10,000 as the city’s support for the corporation’s handling of a myriad of impromptu phone calls about Sycamore’s industrial space. Many Fortune 500 companies will call a city asking for information, not citing who they are or what they represent. The DCEDC is an organization acting as an agent to better organize city inquiries via telephone. The DCEDC has received an allocation from the council for the last 17 years.

The council also allocated $1,000 to the DeKalb County Community Foundation. The grant was given to offset aid the foundation has provided over the last 12 years to county agencies and groups, such as the Opportunity House, Sycamore Child Care, and Discover Sycamore.

The Voluntary Action Center received the third allocation of $17,000. Community service providers encompassed within the VAC include TransVac, MedVac and the Meals on Wheels program.

Citing past figures as well as the recent population census, Brian Gregory, the assistant city manager and city treasurer, reported the city can safely expect its overall revenues to keep increasing until 2010.

“Looking at the total revenue increase in fiscal year 2007 of $303,719 — that’s very good news,” he said. “Over the last three years, an increase in the per capita share overall strung out 8.75, 9.62 and 3.4 percent, so that increase in revenue will continue to grow until 2010.”

City Manager Bill Nicklas voiced a similar sentiment based on the census results.

“The population went up about 4 percent per year over the first five years of the decade,” he said. “When you divide the natural population by the number of housing units, you’ll see we’re at about 2.3 persons per household, on average, stress average. In 2000, we were at 2.23. Yes, we have seen a smaller household size. [In the future,] I see, if anything, a leveling off or maybe even a slight increase in