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Hocking County grants coordinator outlines DOJ, CDBG, opioid and transit funding opportunities
Summary
Grants coordinator Sean Burks told the Hocking County Board of Commissioners on Jan. 23 that the county manages three active DOJ-related grants and is preparing for multiple competitive and formula grant opportunities in 2025, including the county's $150,000 CDBG allocation and a large ODOT rural and tribal transit program.
Sean Burks, Hocking County grants coordinator, told the Board of Commissioners on Jan. 23 that the county is managing three Department of Justice grants and is pursuing additional funding for economic and community development, infrastructure and opioid-response work.
Burks said one DOJ award — an improving criminal justice grant sometimes described locally as a “lethality grant” — is not yet fully functioning and that the county has been “rebuilding that,” adding that My Sister’s Place has agreed to take over part of the advocacy role previously provided by another local group. "Now we have to just work out the finer details of exactly what the other pieces of this puzzle will come into play with the sheriff's department, the prosecutor's office, and where those commitments will lie," Burks…
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