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Staff says state DOT could administer grant if Fremont applies and receives award
Summary
City staff told council a verbal offer from the state Department of Transportation could allow NDOT to take over grant administration if Fremont were the applicant and an award was received, but any transfer would require federal sign-off and would be returned to council for approval.
City Administrator Jody Sanders told the council the state Department of Transportation had verbally offered to administer a CRISI award for the city if Fremont applied and received the grant, citing precedent in Grand Island and Lincoln. Sanders said that if the award were made, the city could pursue a transfer so that the state would manage the funds and contracts rather than the city itself.
Councilmembers and staff stressed that transfers require federal approval and that any written transfer agreement would come back to council before the city signed grant award documents. "We have to make the application. If they receive the award, we could make that change so that the city would not ever really have gotten any of the funds, and it would all run through the state," Sanders said, describing the potential step.
