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Tazewell County clerk reports $2.15 million in grants over seven years, outlines how funds were used
Summary
County staff told the board that the clerk's office and other departments secured $2,149,281.98 in grant awards over seven years and detailed how the money offset county costs for IT, equipment, capital improvements and community projects.
The Tazewell County Board on June 24 heard a report from county staff detailing $2,149,281.98 in grant awards and reimbursements the clerk's office helped secure over a seven-year period. The presentation listed allocations to several departments and programs and framed the grants as offsets to county general-fund expenses.
Mindy, a county staff member who presented the packet, told the board that the total included a variety of targeted grants: $121,287 to the capital fund for improvements to the Mackenzie building, $144,876 for equipment purchases, $38,000 for community grants (including parking-lot projects), $72,591 in cybersecurity grants distributed across county IT, the sheriff's office and the capital fund, and a $188,000 CARES Act award. Mindy said the office also received a postage grant of $27,971 and other awards that reduced direct county spending.
"The total amount in seven years is $2,149,281.98," Mindy said, summarizing the piecewise totals and noting that some awards reimbursed county expenses while others provided equipment that the county did not have to purchase.
The presenter explained the office had sought and received multiple programmatic awards—including polling place accessibility grants (about $646,383 over seven years), equipment grants, and the Center for Life grant—and that the clerk's office did not request general-fund increases during the COVID pandemic because federal and private grant dollars covered expenses that year.
Board members thanked staff for the packet and asked that copies of the detailed spreadsheet be kept available for review. The presentation prompted brief discussion about how grant-funded equipment and reimbursements are accounted for in the county's budgets and capital-improvement plan. Mindy said detailed line items and the supporting spreadsheet were included in the packet for members to review after the meeting.
Next steps: the board took no separate vote on the report; it moved on to other agenda items after the presentation.
