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Winchester staff proposes Community Investment Funds to centralize small grants; commission gives preliminary OK
Summary
Finance director Alicia May proposed reclassifying recurring municipal transfers as "shared services agreements" and creating a Winchester Community Investment Fund to centralize discretionary grants. Commissioners generally agreed to proceed with a digital application and a short solicitation period; formal budget allocations will come later.
Finance Director Alicia May told the Winchester City Commission on March 4 that staff wants to separate recurring intergovernmental and partnership payments from one-time or discretionary transfers and create a new Winchester Community Investment Fund for competitive grant awards.
May said the city currently budgets roughly $1.3 million for recurring shared agreements and about $250,000 in open transfers for the current fiscal year. She proposed labeling the recurring items “shared services agreements” and moving nonrecurring community support into a single, public application process to increase…
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