Council accepts $5,000 Walmart Spark Good grant to support National Night Out and community programs
Summary
The council accepted a $5,000 Walmart Spark Good Community Support grant to help fund National Night Out and other community engagement and safety programs. Police Chief Dave Borcher described the grant’s use for outreach items and youth engagement.
The council voted to accept a $5,000 Walmart Spark Good Community Support and Social Action Grant to support New Ulm Night Out and related community programs.
Chief Dave Borcher described the grant as funding small outreach items used for community engagement with youth and residents at events such as National Night Out: "It gives us an opportunity to have some funding as far as making some of those trinkets and different types of items available." Councilor [unnamed] moved adoption of the resolution to accept the grant and the motion carried on a roll-call vote.
City staff said the grant will be used to support community engagement and safety programming and that the city will coordinate with partners to deploy funds at upcoming events.
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