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Consultants Merchant McIntyre outline federal grant pipeline and recommend transportation, public-safety targets
Summary
Merchant McIntyre briefed Montgomery County commissioners on recent awards and pending federal applications, recommended near-term targets (rural surface transportation, BUILD resubmission, Safe Streets) and urged coordination on matching funds and board resolutions.
Consultants Will Howink and Mary Ellen Guacecki of Merchant McIntyre briefed Montgomery County commissioners on recently awarded items and a pipeline of pending federal grant opportunities, and they recommended priority targets for the county.
"As recently as last week, Montgomery County was awarded the Department of Interior's slip on tanker unit. So, well, it's about $85,000," Mary Ellen Guacecki, Consultant, Merchant McIntyre, told the commission. She and Will Howink reviewed pending Assistance to Firefighters (AFG) applications, BUILD (Department of Transportation) and earmark activity, and program-specific opportunities such as Safe Streets, EDA public-works funding and DOJ rural public-safety grants.
Why it matters: the presentation laid out the timing, match requirements and competitiveness for several federal programs and asked the commission to help prioritize projects, consider available matching funds and authorize staff to provide…
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