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Council hears Recompete grant update; staff seek extension and outline minority-business, workforce plans
Summary
City grants coordinator briefed the Committee of the Whole on the federal Recompete planning grant, saying an extension to January 2027 has been requested and that the funding has supported community care coordinators, a minority business institute and events to link residents with employers. The EDA has not yet approved the extension.
Jared McCormick, grants coordinator for the Office of Planning and Economic Development, told the Committee of the Whole on Nov. 25 that Springfield’s Recompete strategy-development grant (awarded in late 2023) remains active and that the city has submitted a request to the Economic Development Administration to extend the grant term by one year.
McCormick said the planning grant funds have been used to hire a Recompete coordinator, contract a consulting firm for workforce-demographic analysis, host events that connected residents to city resources and to seed an upcoming minority business institute. “So the purpose of this track is to provide cities with the resources [to] gather workforce data,” McCormick said. He added the city submitted a scope revision that included…
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