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Committee forwards Department of Technology NSF grant and confirms BTOP senior funding
Summary
The committee moved Item 1, a National Science Foundation accept‑and‑expend grant for an IPA assignment at the Department of Technology, to the full Board; mayoral staff said BTOP‑funded senior‑center programs have ongoing funding in the mayor's budget but youth programs do not.
The Committee called Item 1 — an ordinance and warrant authorizing the Department of Technology to retroactively accept and expend a National Science Foundation grant for an Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA) assignment — and moved the item to the full Board without opposition.
Ken Bukowski spoke for the Department of Technology and said the NSF awarded a continuation grant intended to reimburse direct costs associated with a senior science and technology officer's IPA assignment, including salary and fringe. The clerk read the grant amount as $257,744 when calling the item; Bukowski read a figure of $257,007.44 in his presentation. The committee had no public comment on the item and voted to forward it to the July 9 Board agenda.
Separately, in a discussion of technology programs, Kate Howard (Mayor's Budget Director) confirmed the mayor's budget includes ongoing funding of a little over $600,000 to continue senior‑center technology programs that had been supported by the federal BTOP (Broadband Technology and Opportunity Program) grant; youth programming that had been BTOP‑funded did not receive ongoing mayoral funding.
Next steps: Item 1 will be placed on the Board agenda for July 9 for final action; the Department of Technology program and BTOP follow‑ups will be tracked in budget documents.
