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Olympia City Council approves 2025 Neighborhood Matching Grant awards totaling about $33,000
Summary
The council voted unanimously April 29 to adopt staff recommendations for the 2025 Neighborhood Matching Grant awards and authorize contract completion. Staff and council discussed program rules, timing, private-property limits and ways to expand participation.
Olympia City Council on April 29 unanimously approved staffrecommendations for the 2025 Neighborhood Matching Grant awards, authorizing contracts to distribute the program funds.
The grants program, run by Community Planning and Development, is reimbursement-based and requires a 50% match from each registered neighborhood association, which can be met with volunteer time, cash or donated materials. Brittney Gillia, an associate planner in CPED, told the council the 2025 recommended awards total $32,480 with an administrative fee of $553 for the online grants platform Submittable, and the adopted 2025 budget for the program is $33,000.
The program funds small neighborhood-led projects such as block parties,…
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