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Kansas Infrastructure Hub reports rapid growth in grant activity; executive director Matthew Volz announces departure

3024232 · April 16, 2025
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Kansas Infrastructure Hub staff reported a large increase in Build Kansas Fund activity and technical assistance since April 2024, described grant-assistance requests and upcoming grant opportunities, and announced that executive director Matthew Volz will step down for family-care reasons.

Matthew Volz, executive director of the Kansas Infrastructure Hub, updated the Build Kansas steering committee on hub activities, staffing and program metrics and said that the April 9 meeting would be his last in that role due to family-care responsibilities.

Volz summarized the hub's first-year metrics since the office was staffed in April 2024: the hub has approved dozens of Build Kansas Fund applications (Volz said 79 approved previously and that with the six items considered at this meeting the total would be 85), reported roughly $34.63 million committed from the Build Kansas Fund to date and said the combined federal, local and state…

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