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Commissioners discuss outreach to boost chip grant applications
Summary
At a Jones County Commission meeting, commissioners discussed contacting nine applicants who had not returned completed applications for a chip grant so the county can use awarded funds for home repairs.
At a Jones County Commission meeting, commissioners discussed contacting residents who had not completed applications for a county chip grant after staff reported 12 applications were sent and three were returned.
Commissioner 2, Commissioner, said the county had mailed or otherwise distributed 12 applications and had received only three back, and proposed reaching out to the nine remaining applicants to offer help completing their paperwork. "I was reading over our project update, and I saw with the chip grant that we sent out 12 applications and 3 we've received 3 applications. And I was gonna ask with mister, Charles' approval, can we reach out to those 9 other applicants to find out where they are and if they need help with the application, try to help them out?" he said.
The commissioner said staff would contact Sherry to learn what additional materials applicants needed and that prior rounds had shown the county sometimes did not find enough completed projects to spend grant funds. "In the past, I've the board, they received a chip grant. They were not able to find funding, and what they had to find, they didn't find enough projects to use the money on, and that's why I just wanna make sure that if there are people out there that need improvements at their homes, we have the money," Commissioner 2 said.
Commissioner 1, Commissioner, described strong public response to earlier outreach by the water department and suggested the county might need another round of notices. "She had, like, 50 calls. So Right. Almost immediately. So we may have to do another round of that," Commissioner 1 said, referring to staff who handled initial outreach.
The discussion focused on outreach and application support rather than on changes to the grant itself; no formal motion or vote on outreach was recorded in the transcript. Commissioners indicated staff would follow up with Sherry to identify outstanding application requirements and contact applicants who had not returned forms.
The commission did not specify timelines for outreach or a deadline for returning applications during the recorded discussion; those details were referred to staff.
