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Flagstaff reports $203 million in active grants; downtown mile and Spruce Wash among largest projects
Summary
The city’s grants manager said the city currently has $203,000,000 in active grants and 12 pending applications. The downtown mile, Butler/4th multimodal project and flood mitigation awards are among the biggest awards in process.
Stacy Breckler Nags, grants manager, provided the council a detailed update on Feb. 13, saying the city is actively managing more than $203,000,000 in grant awards and pending applications.
Stacy said staff had 12 in‑progress applications and had submitted 22 grants in the current cycle; she announced one recent award: roughly $1,800,000 from FEMA for the Killup outlet portion of the Spruce Wash project. “We just received the first of the week, the Killup outlet grant for Spruce Wash, $1,800,000 from FEMA,” she said. She also told the council the downtown mile project carries the largest single project tally—approximately $56,000,000 total project cost including federal share and local match—and that obligations are pending until NEPA is finished.
Stacy described other large active items: a Federal Highway Administration award for Butler Avenue multimodal safety improvements (about $29,000,000 total project cost), a 100%‑funded interbasin water line awarded through state / forest grants (about $16.1M), a Safe Streets for All award (~$12M), and a Spruce Wash wedge project (~$7M after reallocation of earlier funding). She noted the city is exploring ADOT “Smart Match” opportunities that can cover part of grant matches; she said ADOT provided $3,000,000 in smart‑match funding to reduce the city’s downtown mile match and that BNSF has committed about $11,000,000 toward downtown mile match.
Stacy also summarized technical and administrative capacity: the grants team is comprised of a manager, three specialists and an administrative specialist (one vacancy) and has supported both high‑dollar infrastructure grants and numerous smaller awards across divisions (police, engineering, capital projects). She said the team treats smaller grants with the same compliance rigor as federal grants and noted scheduled updates, including an ARPA status report to council on Feb. 25.
Ending: The city’s grants portfolio is a material source of near‑term capital funding for transportation, flood mitigation, and downtown infrastructure; staff told council they will continue to bring grant agreements and request council action as awards reach obligation and agreement stage.
