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Community corrections director secures multiple FY26 grants and reports budget fixes
Summary
Atchison County Community Corrections reported reconciled ledger problems and secured commission approval for several FY2026 grant actions, including a $335,559 adult comprehensive plan grant and a $275,478.73 juvenile comprehensive plan grant.
Catherine Sparks, director of Community Corrections, told the Atchison County Commission on March 11 that she is submitting multiple FY2026 grant applications and that the department has corrected bookkeeping issues affecting prior fiscal years.
Sparks asked the commission to approve the FY2026 adult comprehensive plan grant, a FY2026 juvenile comprehensive plan grant and an FY2026–27 juvenile evidence‑based programs grant. The board moved, seconded and approved the requests. The adult comprehensive plan grant totals $335,559, with $3,223 identified by Sparks as direct client‑services funding; the…
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