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Maplewood council discusses changes to charitable-gambling grants, keeps $7,500 cap and category tracking
Summary
At a Feb. 9 workshop, staff summarized options for Maplewood's charitable gambling grant policy; council members agreed to keep three tracking categories, require applicants to identify a category, retain a $7,500 maximum award and favor open allocation. Staff will return with revised policy within a month.
At a Feb. 9 Maplewood City Council manager workshop, senior administrative manager Lois Knutson reviewed the city's charitable gambling grant history and options for changing how awards are distributed.
"We had 32 applicants and only 16 received funding," Knutson said, summarizing this year's application pool and the variability in available funds, which she traced to receipts from local charitable gambling activity. She reminded the council that the city adopted a policy last August that split available funds into three equal categories and set a $7,500 maximum award.
Council members flagged an imbalance in applications across categories and warned against unintended consequences…
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