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Kansas City hosts recorded training for Neighborhood Empowerment grantees on contracts and payments
Summary
City staff and a contracted consultant reviewed contracting steps, required documents, insurance minimums, allowable expenses and invoicing rules for the Neighborhood Empowerment Grant Program, and urged grantees to submit contract documents by Aug. 15.
Kansas City Neighborhood Services held a recorded webinar for recipients of the Neighborhood Empowerment Grant Program to explain how awarded groups can finalize contracts, start spending funds and comply with reporting requirements. Sarah Wagner, the grants manager for the neighborhood services department, opened the session and said the training and slide deck will be distributed after the session so groups unable to attend can complete the training on their own time.
Wagner outlined the program's basic mechanics and urged recipients to get contract paperwork in quickly so they can begin work. "We cannot start any grant activity or basically you cannot charge anything to the grant until you have the contract in place," Wagner said, explaining that the procurement department issues a purchase-order email that marks the official start date for charging the grant. Staff said the project period has been extended so grantees will have until July 31 next year to complete their award-funded work.
