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Rowlett council approves most FY26 community service grants, excludes DEI outreach request
Summary
City Council reviewed FY26 community service grant applications and approved funding for several nonprofit applicants, including Harvest Life Ministries and Friends of Rescue Animals; council declined the $5,500 DEI community outreach request after objections and attached a one‑year performance expectation to a sensory trailer grant.
Rowlett City Council agreed on Aug. 18 to fund most of its recommended fiscal year 2026 community service grants after hearing presentations from applicants.
Council members approved funding for multiple applicants and discussed reporting and performance conditions for a mobile sensory trailer. Council did not approve the DEI community outreach request after at least two members opposed the $5,500 allocation.
At a work session focused on grant applicants, Harvest Life Ministries presented outreach totals and asked for $20,000 to support local care-portal work connecting churches with at-risk families. Pastor Cassin Huddleston said Harvest Life served 52 children in Rowlett since partnering with the CarePortal tool and that the ministry’s regional work produced 95 requests (about 220 children) with an estimated economic impact of $65,005.54 in the last 12 months. He told the council the grant funds would be used directly for Rowlett requests and that the church intends to form a nonprofit separate from the church within about 30 days.
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