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Council approves grants, contracts and budget reallocations including violent-crime grant and YMCA renovation
Summary
Council approved budget amendments to accept state grants (including $1.5M for violent-crime intervention), vehicle and equipment reallocations, and contracts for a YMCA early-learning renovation and boardwalk design; staff described many grants as pass-throughs with no local match.
Jackson City council unanimously approved a set of budget amendments, grant recognitions and contracts at its December meeting, including a $1.5 million state violent-crime intervention grant and a pass-through contract to renovate a YMCA early-learning center.
Presiding speaker introduced a package of financial items that the council approved on voice votes recorded in the transcript as 6–0. City staff (Speaker 7) described Item 2 as a state OCJIP Violent Crimes Intervention Fund grant for $1,500,000, telling council it is a zero-match grant that arrives in a lump sum and must be expended within three years. "We put it in an interest-bearing…
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