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Porterville Approves Commemorative Grant Program for Centennial and U.S. 250th; Council Narrows Scope Pending Budget Review
Summary
The council authorized creation of a commemorative grant program to support small businesses and nonprofits for the city’s centennial and the nation’s 250th anniversary, but members amended direction to ask staff to return with a smaller-scale pilot and to hold final awards until labor negotiations and budget issues are clearer.
The Porterville City Council authorized staff to develop a commemorative grant program recognizing the city’s 100th anniversary as a charter city and the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Staff proposed a program modeled on the existing community benefit grant program and recommended allocating $50,000 from the council’s FY25–26 special purpose fund to support awards for small businesses and nonprofits.
Vice Mayor McCurvey, who…
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