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City presents Recompete planning-grant update, seeks one-year extension
Summary
Springfield's Office of Planning and Economic Development outlined how federal Recompete planning funds were used for community care coordinators, a minority business institute and stakeholder data collection; staff said a one-year EDA extension request is pending and $294,000 remains unspent to cover staff and program costs.
Jared McCormick, grants coordinator in Springfield’s Office of Planning and Economic Development, told the Committee of the Whole the city received the Recompete strategy-development planning grant from the Economic Development Administration and has used it to fund planning, stakeholder outreach and pilot programming.
"The city of Springfield was awarded the strategy development track," McCormick said, describing activities that included hiring a Recompete coordinator, contracting a consultant for…
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