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Council reviews proposal to consolidate community grants with annual application cycle; cultural affairs committee may administer
Summary
A councilmember proposed an annual, project-based community-grants process timed to the hotel-motel tax cycle so nonprofits know funding expectations up front; council agreed to move the proposal to the conference agenda for a written draft.
A Portsmouth councilmember proposed on Feb. 10 that the city adopt an annual application process for community grants to align with the existing hotel-motel tax grant cycle and give nonprofits clearer, up-front expectations about funding.
The proposal would take an average of community grant allocations from the previous three full years (2022–24) and use that projection to allocate a fixed pot of community grant money at the start of each year. The presenter said the grants would be project-based, limited to covering up to…
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