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Committee debates restoring building‑community grant totals; roadside markers receive small proposed boost
Summary
Members discussed restoring aggregate funding for Building Community Grants to prior levels and agreed to propose modest funding for roadside/historic markers; committee emphasized the 1:1 match requirement and the grants’ focus on nonprofit and municipal capital projects.
The Senate Institutions Committee spent an extended portion of its March 11 session on Section 5, the Building Community Grants program. Members reviewed program purposes (small capital grants for nonprofits and municipalities for projects such as roofs, ADA work, boilers and HVAC) and debated restoring aggregate funding levels that the governor’s proposal had reduced.
Several members urged restoring the total to $2.1 million for the competitive grant pools in each year of the forthcoming biennium, arguing the grants are heavily oversubscribed…
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