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Decatur City staff propose centralized grant policy, recommend not applying for awards under $10,000
Summary
Community development manager Alan Stover told the Decatur City Council the city handles more than 20 grants and is proposing a centralized grants policy that would generally rule out applying for grants smaller than $10,000 and require earlier coordination with finance to avoid unanticipated city obligations.
Alan Stover, community development manager, told the Decatur City Council on Dec. 1 that the city manages more than 20 grants annually and needs a clearer internal process to avoid unanticipated obligations. “As a policy, we’re not going to apply for anything less than $10,000,” Stover said, arguing the administrative work for small grants often outweighs benefits.
Stover told the council that Decatur is an entitlement community for Community Development Block Grant funding and that city staff carry both HUD-related programs and more than 20 other grant awards,…
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