The North Providence Town Council voted on Dec. 3 to adopt Resolution 25‑008, releasing $80,000 in Community Development Block Grant funds to Tri‑County (TriTown) Food Bank for an award made in program year PY22. Maria Rosa Takuma, the town's CDBG project manager, told the council the project work is complete and that supporting documentation — invoices, receipts and donation logs — is assembled and available for review.

Takuma explained the town functions as a pass‑through for the grant: Tri‑County performs the services, the town pays the grantee, then submits the paperwork to the state/federal CDBG administrator to request reimbursement. She said the award period for the project was set for work completed between Dec. 19, 2023 and Dec. 31, 2025 and that Tri‑County's records document program activities, food distributions and program reach. Takuma reported Tri‑County served 4,066 people through its food pantry and provided related assistance programs, and she supplied demographic breakdowns from the grantee's reporting.

New grant writer Sherry Lupoli told the council CDBG grants are reimbursable and that, if requirements and deadlines are met, she has not experienced reimbursement problems. Council members questioned whether reimbursements to the town have been reliable historically; Takuma and Lupoli said documentation is complete and that prior reimbursements (a referenced $130,000 project) had been returned when paperwork complied with CDBG rules.

Councilman Martone moved and Councilman Pollock seconded adoption of the resolution to release $80,000 to Tri‑County; the motion passed on a voice vote.

Next steps: the town will issue the payment to Tri‑County and submit the reimbursement package to state/federal administrators; finance staff will track the cleared check and forward documentation as required by CDBG rules.