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Small Town Officials Urge H.3311 to Make State Grants More Competitive for Rural Communities
Summary
Town officials from Leyden and Ashfield testified they spend many hours preparing competitive grant applications yet often lose awards to better‑resourced applicants; they urged H.3311 to allow regional grant applications or scoring adjustments to help rural towns compete and to incentivize regionalization and shared services.
Michelle Jeruso, town coordinator and grant administrator for Leyden, and Paul McClatchy, town administrator for Ashfield, told the committee that small rural towns lack staff capacity to prepare competitive grant applications and should be given tools to compete for state funding. Jeruso said she has spent more than 50 hours on a climate change grant…
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