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Public Safety Committee approves Prop S 2026 RFP timeline and names Mental Health Board as external reviewer
Summary
The committee set the Prop S 2026 RFP schedule (open 10/06/2025; questions due 10/17; Q&A posted 10/24; proposals due 11/06) and confirmed the Mental Health Board as the external reviewer; OVP said roughly $890,000 is available for grants.
The St. Louis City Public Safety Committee approved a timeline and external-review process for the Office of Violence Prevention’s (OVP) Prop S 2026 request for proposals (RFP).
Brett Bridal, public information officer for OVP, told the committee there is about $890,000 available for this grant cycle and reviewed the RFP structure: organizational history and capacity, equity-centered practice, proposed programming (priority given to 12 high-need neighborhoods), data collection plans, and budget/fiscal management with a required 12-month timeline. He said awards are listed in the RFP as "up to thousand dollars per organization"; the per-organization cap is…
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