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Central Services presents decision packages: strategic planning, preservation grant match and DEI training funding

2715492 · January 7, 2025
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Summary

Department 18 staff presented FY2026 decision-package requests including strategic planning funding, a $6,750 match for a historic resources grant and $8,000 to support DEI training and an annual Empower Johnson County Day.

Allison Wells, branch manager and staff liaison to the Historic Preservation Commission, and Paula Jaramillo Guajera, DEI coordinator, presented several Department 18 decision-package requests to the Board of Supervisors on Jan. 7 as part of the FY2026 budget work session.

Wells described a $6,750 request to increase the Historic Preservation Commission’s budget line so the commission can provide a cash match for a consultant if awarded a Historic Resources Development Program grant from the State Historical Society. “The way that they derived at this request … about a $27,000 grant. So 25% of that would be $6,750,” Wells said, adding that the commission would provide volunteer in-kind match for the…

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