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St. Charles Parish grants office reports nearly $238 million in active awards, highlights major projects
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Grants officer Carla Chastain told the St. Charles Parish Council the parish is managing roughly $238 million in grant funds across dozens of projects, including large CPRA awards for coastal and pump-station work and ongoing elevation and boat-launch projects.
Carla Chastain, grants officer for St. Charles Parish, told the parish council on Aug. 18 that the parish is managing roughly $238 million in grant funds across dozens of projects.
Chastain said that in 2024 the parish was awarded nearly $30 million across 82 projects and that, as of the meeting, the parish had $2.5 million in awards for 2025 and expected another $23.5 million in state-allocated funds to be presented for approval in the coming months. "So looking back to 2024, I like to give you guys totals, for the year. And so in 2024, we were awarded almost $30,000,000 in grant funds for 82 different projects," she said.
The presentation listed major, named awards that Chastain said are moving forward: a $16.7 million CPRA award for the Cousins T-wall…
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