The Middle Peninsula Planning District Commission (MPPDC) might be the answer to an ongoing problem for Middlesex County and the Town of Urbanna competing with larger, wealthier localities when going after state and federal grant monies.
Middlesex County Administrator Matt Walker informed the county board of supervisors on Tuesday, Aug. 1, that the coming months and years could be a “unique time period” for the availability of large amounts of state and federal grant funds.
“We have to be in a position to find the grant money to meet our needs,” said Walker. “We do not have the staff or the funds to hire grant writers like the larger, wealthier localities in the state.”
Walker said that several counties and towns in the MPPDC are considering the possibility of hiring a professional grant writer through the MPPDC to aid local localities in finding state and federal grants.
Walker brought the matter up during his administrator’s report at the Aug. 1 supervisors meeting after there had been long discussion on how to find grant funding to pay a $1,626,500 proposed multi-purpose bike/walking path in Deltaville.
The county has an $800,000 grant and supervisors have agreed to fund the $200,000 match to go towards it. However, when it was suggested the county pay the $626,000 to finish the job, Saluda District Supervisor Don Harris, Harmony Village District Supervisor Reggie Williams and Jamaica District Supervisor Wayne Jessie suggested grants may be a better alternative…
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