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Committee review finds 22 grant applications, urges town to increase human-services funding
Summary
The Contract Review Committee reported reviewing 22 applications and recommending awards within constrained budgets (roughly $650,000 for human services and ~$175,000 for substance-misuse). Committee members said demand far exceeded available funds and indicated plans to ask town leadership for an inflation adjustment to grant pools.
Veronica (committee chair) reported that the town’s Contract Review Committee (CRC) reviewed 22 grant applications and recommended funding allocations after deliberations, but that requests far outpaced available dollars.
The CRC review “got a total of 22 applications in,” Veronica said, with 18 in the human-services category and 4 in substance-misuse. The committee found roughly $1,200,000 in total requests against about $650,000 available for human services and about $175,000 allocated to substance-misuse grants.
That gap meant some applicants received no funding. “For the first time in my experience, we 0 funded a number of the applications,” Veronica said. She told members the committee used a rubric during interviews and deliberations and required interviews for new applicants and…
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