County’s grant department brought in $13 million in first year

Grant director Megan Mosely said the new department submitted 44 grant applications, with 25 resulting in awards for a total of $13 million.

“We received $1.4 million in federal funding to support the Community Paramedicine Program,” she told county commissioners during their Oct. 25 meeting, “and then most recently, $4 million through a SAFER award to hire 15 new firefighters.”

Mosley said her department is managing 59 active grant agreements totaling almost $84 million.

“This includes our ARPA allocation and the emergency rental assistance programs through US Treasury,” she said. “We submitted 152 financial and programmatic reports related to those agreements, and the county received $11 million back in cash through reimbursements related to those grant agreements as well.”

Mosley said the department’s first-year operating costs were $311,000.

“If you just look at revenue coming back into the county through reimbursements, for every $1 invested in the grants division, the county received a $35 benefit back,” she said. “If you look at just new awards that we received, for every $1 invested, $42 came back into the county.”