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County staff ask commissioners to fund additional grants staff and contracted services to pursue federal and state grants
Summary
Grants and Community Resources staff asked commissioners to retain an existing grants administrator and fund new positions and a contracted-services line to centralize grant acquisition and management functions across county departments.
Missoula County's Grants and Community Resources (GCR) staff presented a suite of budget enhancement requests aimed at retaining an existing grants administrator position and adding new full-time equivalents to create an internal grant services function and expand federal/state grant administration capacity.
Staff said the top priority is to retain an existing grants administrator; the request was described as a FY26 ongoing personnel cost of $98,360 that would move the position from ARPA funding into the county's base budget. A second request would create an "internal grant services" division position to provide centralized grant support to county departments; staff said that FY26 request had a stated start date of Oct. 1, 2025, but the exact…
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