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Alpine council refines nonprofit grant policy, plans May workshops to score applications
Summary
At a Jan. 20 workshop the Alpine City Council reviewed revisions to a proposed community services grant program: removing disaster relief and beautification from eligible uses, shifting a veterans focus to elderly services, excluding library funding from the program, and directing staff to align the scoring rubric with the hotel occupancy tax process ahead of two May workshops.
The Alpine City Council convened a workshop on Jan. 20 to review revisions to a proposed community services grant program for nonprofit organizations and to set timelines for scoring and awarding funds.
The mayor opened the meeting saying, “Today, we're discussing funding for nonprofit organizations and the possible implementation of a community services grant program,” and asked staff and a tourism official with HOT (hotel occupancy tax) scoring experience to help design an evaluation rubric. City staff summarized past work on the draft policy and said the council had discussed the item at multiple meetings in 2025 and in a Jan. 20 workshop earlier that day.
Council members agreed to several substantive edits to the draft policy. They instructed staff to remove disaster relief and community beautification as eligible categories; to replace an explicit veterans line with language prioritizing services for elderly residents;…
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