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Penobscot County committee pushes for clearer grant metrics, application fixes and limits on admin costs
Summary
The Penobscot County opioid settlement committee on March 10 discussed tightening how grantees report outcomes, fixing application mechanics that disadvantaged some applicants, training reviewers to reduce scoring variance, and setting policy on allowable indirect (administrative) costs before round two of awards.
Jamie, chair of the Penobscot County opioid settlement committee, led a March 10 discussion about tightening the county’s approach to awarding and tracking opioid-settlement funds as the committee prepares for a second round of grants.
Committee members said the first round succeeded in distributing funds but produced uneven reporting and measurement. One participant reported awardees had received their checks and said the group now needs clearer ways to judge whether projects met their stated goals. Lindsay of the MOSS Center described a two-part reporting approach that other communities have used: a short narrative quarterly report and a linked spreadsheet where grantees update SMART objectives. “We are creating a substance-use vulnerability index dashboard,” Lindsay…
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