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Brookhaven details formal guidelines for pursuing grants, sets minimum thresholds
Summary
Brookhaven staff presented a knowledge-management document that sets when the city will pursue federal, state or private grants, emphasizes grants are contracts, and establishes minimum award thresholds (federal aid baseline cited at $5,000,000; federal applications generally avoided under $200,000 except DOJ).
Patty, the city's grants lead, presented a new knowledge-management package on Feb. 24 that lays out how Brookhaven evaluates, applies for and manages grant funding. "Grants are not free money. They are contracts for services," she said, stressing that most grants are reimbursement-based and require administrative capacity to manage reporting and audits.
The presentation set three administrative principles for grant work in Brookhaven: staff will not prepare applications for opportunities not tied to an adopted plan or work strategy; the council's resolution (first passed in 2017 and…
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