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Grants Division reports $3.7M awarded, $22M pending; staff seeks follow-up on pending federal and state applications
Summary
The City Grants Division reported submitting 25 grant applications requesting over $84 million, with $3.7 million awarded so far and about $22 million pending; the division highlighted a broad range of department awards and reimbursement-based federal funding processes.
Jamie Tennis, Grants Division Manager, briefed the Legal and Finance Committee on Feb. 12 on the division’s activity and results since its creation. Tennis said the grants team submitted 25 grant applications requesting over $84 million, has been awarded about $3.7 million to date and has roughly $22 million in pending applications.
Tennis described the grants office’s work as more than writing: research, vetting, aligning city priorities with funder priorities, and post-award grant management. She said the division has grown to three staff and that the city’s return on investment for the division’s work is approximately $14 of outside funding for every city dollar invested.
She provided a breakdown of grant purposes the division pursues and supports across city departments: about 5% of applications targeted affordable housing, 13% arts and culture, 41% economic development, 7% environment/beautification, 40% infrastructure and 31% public-safety or safer-communities uses (categories can overlap in multi-department proposals). Tennis listed recent awards and projects funded or pending, including downtown railroad safety (quiet zone analysis), sewer improvements, a water booster station, EMS equipment and training, brownfields cleanup, energy-efficiency upgrades, airport terminal expansion, and water reclamation facility improvements.
Tennis noted most federal grants operate on a reimbursement basis, requiring the city to incur costs and then submit requests for reimbursement on a schedule that can be quarterly or monthly. She estimated federal grant proceeds to the city were about $26 million in 2023 and anticipated $35 million or more for 2024–25, driven largely by airport and water-reclamation projects and grant management timing.
The committee moved to acknowledge the report; the motion carried.
