Video & Transcript Research : 'grant programs'
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NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Public School Capital Outlay Oversight Task Jun 9th, 2025
Public School Capital Outlay Oversight Task Force
Transcript Highlights:
- one being our standards-based program.
- , um, biggest program that we have.
- Next we have Grants Bluewater.
- The ones out in grants and, uh, to Hatchley.
- to be similar CTE programs in the high school?
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- grants by $1.2 million.
- Because the grant amount is lower.
- Line 65 and 66 are taxpayer assistance grants and tax credit outreach grants.
- I'm here to thank you for including the Political Contribution Refund Program and Modernization Program
- Continue to fund the program.
Keywords:
local government debt, municipal bonds, county bonds, capital improvements, public financing, bond issuance, public hearing, notice period, bond guarantee, Minnesota Public Facilities Authority, volume cap, private activity bonds, housing finance, residential rental bonds, LIHTC, low-income housing tax credits, redevelopment, courthouse financing, jail financing, law enforcement center
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Capitol Projects and Bond Oversight Committee (1-22-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- Do I have a motion and a second to approve the grant for Kentucky WATS program?
- Do I have a motion and a second to approve the grant for Kentucky WATS program?
- Do I have a motion and a second to approve the grant for Kentucky WATS program?
- Do I have a motion and a second to approve the grant for Kentucky WATS program?
- Do I have a motion and a second to approve the grant for Kentucky WATS program?
Keywords:
00:13 Call to Order and Roll Call
01:00 Election of Co-Chairs
03:38 Approval of Minutes
04:09 Information Items
05:55 Project Rpt from Finance and Admin Cab
12:13 Lease Rpt from Finance and Admin Cab
17:48 Ky Infrastructure Authority
28:50 Economic Development - EDF Grants
32:50 Ofc of Financial Mgmt
36:30 SFCC Debt Issues
40:50 Adjournment, 958, all
Summary:
The committee first reorganized by electing new co-chairs for the Capital Projects and Bond Oversight Committee: Senator Fanny Fromom? as Senate co-chair and Representative McPherson as House co-chair, both by acclamation. The committee then approved the minutes from the prior meeting and received quarterly capital project status reports from the Administrative Office of the Courts, Finance and Administration Cabinet, and postsecondary institutions. Those reports noted University of Kentucky equipment purchases, several school districts planning general obligation and revenue bond issues, a notification of non-approval for PR 3567, and Kentucky Community and Technical College System asset preservation projects.
Kevin Cardwell of the Finance and Administration Cabinet reported two action items: a $5,100 federal-funded Transportation Cabinet renovation of the Rowan County east and westbound rest areas, and a $1 million federal fund increase for the Capitol City Airport terminal building project, bringing the total federal support to $10 million and reducing the need for restricted funds. The committee also received a no-action report on a $1,363,000 Kentucky State University exterior repairs project funded through the 2024 asset preservation pool. Both action items were approved unanimously after roll call votes.
The committee approved four lease renewals presented by Natalie Bronner for Cabinet for Health and Family Services locations in Bell, Lee, and Clay counties, plus a parking lease for the Department of Corrections in Jefferson County. Members asked about lease pricing and were told renewals must remain at existing terms and conditions. The committee then approved a $57,000 Kentucky WATS emergency grant for Wood Creek Water District to cover part of arrears tied to the City of Livingston; members discussed the city’s audit delinquency, possible regional water/sewer solutions, and concerns about rates and private involvement, but the grant was approved.
Finally, the committee approved a $1 million line-item water grant to the City of Williamsburg with no action required, three Economic Development Fund grants for Bell, Franklin, and Shelby counties totaling $8 million in state support for site acquisition and infrastructure work, and five SFCC-supported school debt issues for Elizabethtown Independent, Erlanger Independent, Boyd County, Henderson County, and Union County. The school projects included middle school, high school, and vocational school renovations or new construction, and members requested a breakdown of the space funded by the debt. All action items were approved, and the meeting adjourned.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Environment, Climate and Legacy - 02/27/25
Environment, Climate, and Legacy
Transcript Highlights:
- Landscape program.
- The Lawns to Legumes program is one of our most popular programs.
- Landscape program.
- It is not a grant program like the others I was referring to.
- others<01:42:59.840>
I is not a grant program like the others I is not a grant program like
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - New Mexico Finance Authority Oversight Nov 3rd, 2025
New Mexico Finance Authority Oversight Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- She's a program manager and has been operating this program for 12 or 13 years.
- Before we actually close on the grant, the loan grant award, so that we know that they're ready to go
- The water, the colonias program, and the tribal infrastructure fund, which are very similar programs
- All three of those programs operate under NMFA; they're three of our, I'd say, 15 active programs.
- If it's 90% grant, 10% loan, for the Water Trust Board, it could be anywhere from 100% grant to 60% grant
AR
Transcript Highlights:
- The third objective was to identify funding and grants obtained by the program and determine if funds
- The program received a $50,000 grant from the Central Arkansas Planning and Development District, which
- Stanley, as a sponsored research program, a sponsored program, meaning external funding.
- The study abroad, I think, was actually paid for through an external grant that the program pulled down
- Some are funded out of federal grants, and those grants have been cut.
MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
Committee on Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband and Rural Development - 03/21/25
Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband, and Rural Development
Transcript Highlights:
- Grants and financial assistance programs offered by the Minnesota Department of Agriculture.
- investment grant program, bioenergy awards, cost-share grants for the installation of biofuel blender
- Um, grants, loans, and agri program.
- Yeah, so subdivision 2 lists the authorized expenses that we can use the Agri grant program for.
- So that was a source that was given to the Agri grant program for those purposes.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- There's a negative $1 million per year ongoing cut to the County Feedlot Grant Program.
- off-highway motorcycle grant-in-aid off-highway motorcycle grant-in-aid program<00:15:26.120>
- Program.
- for the Community Grants Program. for the Community Grants Program.
- . program. program.
Summary:
The working group on the Omnibus Environment Bill opened with remarks from House and Senate co-chairs describing the agreement as a compromise with wins and tradeoffs for both sides, and thanking nonpartisan staff and administration agencies for helping negotiate the package. Staff then walked through the finance spreadsheet, explaining that the agreement met the group’s general fund target by combining new spending with cancellations and fund shifts across the Pollution Control Agency, DNR, BWSR, Metro Parks, the Zoo, the Science Museum, and other entities. Major fiscal items included PCA operating and permitting-efficiency funding, PFAS-related and mercury-related provisions, county feedlot reductions, closed landfill and remediation fund changes, groundwater and aquatic invasive species fee increases, DNR groundwater and AIS spending, ATV trail grants, watercraft enforcement, and several one-time appropriations and extensions for specific water quality and conservation projects.
The policy walk-through covered Article 3’s community grants changes, including a requirement that grants benefit all regions of the state, permission to use some funds for trail maintenance and AIS management, prohibitions on awards to certain entities, and a DNR reporting requirement. Article 4 contained a range of natural resources and environmental policy provisions, including abandoned watercraft seizure and forfeiture authority, higher watercraft AIS surcharges, disabled veterans license fee reductions, a county-based replacement for the shotgun zone, a one-year crossbow extension, a continuous bass season, increased water use permit fees, PFAS sales exemptions for certain products, creation of the Sustainable Foraging Task Force, and a moratorium on DNR foraging rules shortened to July 1, 2026. Article 5 addressed state lands, including an additional Cass County land sale authority.
Article 6 focused on PCA permitting reform, requiring more emphasis on complex Tier 2 permits in annual reporting, giving applicants five business days to fix deficiencies, allowing the PCA to decline expedited permitting when it lacks capacity, and letting the agency retain certain fees if expedited permits are completed early. It also included changes to environmental review procedures, feedlot permitting, and EQB rules. During member questions, Senator McEwen asked about the $952,000 ATV trail appropriation and whether projects must have permits before receiving funds; DNR Assistant Commissioner Bob Myers said no project list had been finalized and that grants would go through the existing process, with environmental review and readiness considered, but he said he would need to verify the exact permitting policy and follow up with the committee.
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Appropriations - S/C on Articles I, IV, & V Feb 25th, 2025
Appropriations - S/C on Articles I, IV, & V
Transcript Highlights:
- These professionals bring with them a lot of institutional knowledge on conducting the grant program,
- Grant Program to award grant funding to community non-profit organizations, local government departments
- veterans education program.
- The pilot program, the pilot program was slated to be, we were given a budget for 120 clients.
- A pilot program for trauma recovery centers in that grant.
HI
Transcript Highlights:
- saying to the program the program do the saying to the program the program do the interviews<01:
- funded by those grants so the grants are funded by those grants so the grants are really<01:29:11.360
- of that grant.
- It's a 10-year grant.
- <02:30:47.399>
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Summary:
The joint Ways and Means and Health and Human Services committees heard Hawaii Health Systems Corporation’s biennium budget request, with testimony from HHSC leadership on the Hilo/Big Island region (HTH 212) and the Oahu region (HTH 215), plus discussion of capital improvement projects and systemwide partnerships. HHSC described its role as the rural healthcare safety net, serving a high share of Medicare, Medicaid/Quest, and uninsured patients, and said its costs are elevated by state employee fringe benefits, which it said are about 64% compared with roughly 30% in the private sector. HHSC also said pandemic-era federal aid, including relief funds and PPP loans totaling about $100 million, reduced the need for general fund support in prior years.
For HTH 212, HHSC said its general fund request for fiscal years 2026 and 2027 was higher than the governor’s recommendation because of rising insurance, pharmaceutical, and contractor labor costs, and because it includes $13.2 million in FY 2026 and $2.3 million in FY 2027 for Epic electronic medical record implementation in East Hawaii. For HTH 215, HHSC said the requested general funds were aligned with the governor’s recommendation, in part because of increased Medicaid reimbursement rates for long-term care facilities under prior legislation. HHSC also said it was restoring a special fund ceiling so the region could spend its cash collections on operations.
Members asked about the 64% fringe rate, and HHSC explained the difference was mainly due to defined-benefit pension and retiree health insurance costs, which private hospitals generally do not bear at the same level. Members also asked about the Daniel K. Akaka State Veterans Home, and HHSC said operations would be funded through the general fund corporation for the home when it opens, with management by Ohana Pacific, but no additional legislative operating funds were being requested at that time. Other questions focused on staffing and vacancies, including an abolished procurement position and an ongoing IT help desk recruitment need.
HHSC highlighted several capital and partnership projects, including a $25 million state CIP request matched by $25 million from the Benioff family for the Benioff Health Center, an ER expansion and reconfiguration at Corner Community Hospital, and $7.5 million in each fiscal year for Kauai EMR capital funds to join the Epic platform. Testimony also described collaborations with Queen’s, the University of California San Francisco, Hawaii Pacific Health, the Hawaii Cancer Consortium, the Department of Health, and the state hospital to improve specialty access, clinical trials, behavioral health, and patient placement across the system.
MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
Conference Committee on HF2432 5/7/25
Transcript Highlights:
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- It adds a reporting requirement to the community crime intervention and prevention program grants.
- It adds a reporting requirement to the community crime intervention and prevention program grants.
- <01:03:56.079>
for Hometown Heroes Program for Hometown Heroes Program for Firefighters.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Jobs and Economic Development - 04/15/26
Jobs and Economic Development
Transcript Highlights:
- And lastly is $1 million for the Getting to Work Grant program.
- . program. program.
- for the Getting to Work Grant program. for the Getting to Work Grant program.
- , Hmong American Partnership, and the Getting to Work Grant program.
- Chair, Madam Chair, the committee, for including an appropriation for the Getting to Work Grant program
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Finance Dec 11th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- Line 94 is to match federal funds for grant programs under the Line 94 is to match federal funds for
- grant programs under the Infrastructure Act.
- it can expect funding from and which programs it can continue. ...about which grants it can expect funding
- Currently, there's. ...block grants that's been a successful program that's seen a lot of movement.
- are set up, that's an existing grant program with EDD.
Summary:
The Department of Public Safety presented its FY27 budget request, emphasizing three priorities: improving community engagement through a redesigned website and outreach, expanding statewide data and intelligence integration through intelligence-led policing, and improving emergency response and officer safety through fleet replacement, a driving track, and a requested helicopter. DPS said much of its increase is driven by rising health care premiums, and it is also seeking special appropriations for fleet replacement, the website rebuild, and an Honor Guard program created after the 2022 helicopter crash that killed four public servants. Members asked about vacancies, fleet costs, cybersecurity compliance, the real-time crime center, EV fleet participation, and the Metro DPS facility. DPS said its vacancy rate is about 9%, its fleet replacement needs are driven by mileage and condition, it is compliant with federal CJIS standards even though DoIT has raised concerns, the real-time crime center would be built as a regional model to complement Albuquerque’s center, and the Metro facility is moving toward a January groundbreaking.
Committee members also discussed several DPS-related capital and IT requests, including the intelligence-led policing data lake, recurring maintenance for critical systems, and a $5.6 million reauthorization for state crime lab DNA backlog work and a $900,000 reauthorization for fingerprinting equipment. DPS explained that the website request is high because the current site must be rebuilt from scratch to support missing-person alerts, memorial updates, ADA compliance, and better communication with law enforcement and the public. Members also raised concerns about speed enforcement, construction-zone cameras, and whether EVs are practical for patrol use; DPS said it is not pursuing speed cameras and is only partially participating in the state EV initiative because patrol needs make full electrification difficult.
The committee then received an LFC quarterly update on non-recurring appropriations from the 2025 General Appropriation Act. LFC reported that of the $1.4 billion appropriated in Section 5, $164 million had been expended and $333 million encumbered, leaving $897.4 million unspent, which is a slower pace than the prior year. Staff highlighted a number of reauthorization requests and slow-moving projects across agencies, including AOC cybersecurity funding, DFA housing and public safety grants, DoIT cybersecurity and higher education funds, EDD economic development and energy programs, OSI mitigation and malpractice funds, EMNRD energy and geothermal grants, Health Care Authority behavioral health-related appropriations, DPS crime lab and fingerprinting funds, PED career technical education and special education initiatives, and higher education loan repayment and technology funds. Members questioned why some large appropriations had little or no spending, discussed the need to monitor reauthorizations more closely, and asked for follow-up on several specific line items and project balances.
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Agriculture REVISED: HB3902 - Added Feb 16th, 2026 at 03:00 pm
Agriculture
Transcript Highlights:
- Is that going to be a grant program, correct? Yes, ma'am. And who creates that grant program?
- Yeah, so it'd be a grant program promulgated by the Department of Ag.
- So assuming that, Yeah, so it'd be a grant program promulgated by the Department of Ag.
- to create that grant program.
- Create that grant program. Okay, are there any other questions?
Keywords:
raw milk, unpasteurized, farm sales, Oklahoma Milk and Milk Products Act, local producers, advertising, animal welfare, commercial pet breeders, licensing, animal cruelty, labor, employment definitions, agricultural services, Oklahoma Workforce Commission, confidentiality, data access, right to repair, agriculture, OEM, repair providers
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund spending 3/17/26
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Um, I'm very excited about establishing the community grants program. I think we all are.
- funding for the community grants funding for the community grants appropriation<00:02:26.319>
- about establishing the community grants about establishing the community grants program.<00:02:54.959
- stood community grants program will be stood community grants program will be stood up<00:03:41.040
- program.
Summary:
The committee took up House File 3426, an LCCMR bill, and focused on amendments while noting that the bill would be laid over for further work. Members said they were still negotiating one additional section, including guardrails to work with the DNR, and that the bill would return the following week.
The committee adopted the A10 amendment, which addressed the “critical and emerging issues” account and was described as adding guardrails so the account would be used for truly emerging issues rather than as a fallback funding pot. The A11 amendment was also adopted after discussion; it added funding for the community grants appropriation and required applicants to provide a surety bond, with supporters describing it as an accountability measure for the new program.
Several members expressed support for the amendments and for continuing to refine the bill, while one member initially indicated the A11 was not yet supported before the committee clarified the position and proceeded. No final vote on the bill itself was taken; instead, the motion to lay over House File 3426, as amended, carried so the committee could continue work on the remaining section and bring the bill back later.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 6 on Public Safety Apr 20th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- Expand the Right Grants to include survivor-centered programs, including Unapologetically Hers, whose
- Expand the Right Grants to include survivor-centered programs, including Unapologetically Hers, whose
- You guys know Transformative Programming Works and the Wright Grant.
- The Wright Grant has been a key point in keeping our program going at multiple institutions.
- The Wright Grant has been a key point in keeping our program going at multiple institutions.
Summary:
The Assembly Budget Subcommittee hearing focused on the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s handling of mental health care in prisons and allegations of sexual abuse, retaliation, and excessive force in the state’s women’s facilities. CDCR officials described their PREA-based prevention and response efforts, including training, oversight, body-worn cameras, retaliation follow-up, and partnerships with outside groups. The Office of the Inspector General explained its monitoring role, noting increased authority under SB 1069, but also limited staffing and the ability to monitor only a portion of cases. The Legislative Analyst’s Office added that prison population trends could allow the state to close a prison and save over $100 million, with some savings potentially redirected to prevention or response efforts.
Advocates and formerly incarcerated witnesses from Sister Warriors Freedom Coalition and the California Coalition of Women Prisoners testified that meaningful systemic change has not occurred and that retaliation, blocked programming, and unsafe reporting conditions remain widespread. They described alleged barriers to community-based services, forced or coercive treatment concerns involving Suboxone, and the need for survivor-centered reentry support, trauma-informed care, and more independent oversight. Sandra DeAnda gave detailed testimony about alleged staff abuse, retaliation, denial of mental health care, and a large use-of-force incident at Central California Women’s Facility, while Amika Mota and April Grayson urged release or resentencing for survivors housed with their abusers and greater investment in outside programs.
Members of the committee pressed CDCR and OIG on accountability, use-of-force standards, criminal referrals, disciplinary outcomes, and whether investigations are completed within statutory timelines. CDCR acknowledged cultural problems at both women’s prisons and said it was retraining staff and working on reforms, while OIG said it had monitored 161 investigations and found most grievance routing appropriate, though some cases had lapsed due to time limits. Later exchanges revealed that CDCR has over 13,500 active cases and 109 investigators, and that some cases have exceeded deadlines, prompting concerns from members about whether the current system can adequately investigate misconduct and impose consequences. No votes were taken.
VT
Transcript Highlights:
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The ready response grant program. The ready response grant program. - This would establish in title 20 a new program to issue grants of not more than $5,000 per grant, totaling
- authority program managers granted APA authority program managers granted APA authority to<00:10
- Program and the Technical Rescue Grant Program only if there are available funds, as a former presenter
- year 2027 for the Ready Response Grant year 2027 for the Ready Response Grant Program<00:25:12.640
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Health and Human Services Jul 22nd, 2025
Legislative Health & Human Services Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- The funds were used for various programs, one of which was a respite care program that provided direct
- There's also a program, the New Mexico Health Service Corps, which is a stipend program.
- program.
- I can get that grant.
- They've adapted well with the forest programs and the allied health programs.
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Higher Education Jun 21st, 2026 at 01:00 pm
Joint Committee on Higher Education
Transcript Highlights:
- In the Bright Act, it contemplates both direct spending and it contemplates grant programs.
- Similarly, I wonder how you're imagining the rollout of grant programs and how you're thinking about
- We wanted to hit the ground running on this right away, and having these grant programs gives us the
- , including the Workforce Skills Capital Grants Program.
- We strongly support the reauthorization of the Skills Capital Grants program.
Summary:
The Joint Committee on Higher Education held its second public hearing of the 194th General Court on capital investments in higher education, focusing primarily on H.54, the Bright Act, along with H.1426/S.949 on green and healthy public colleges and universities and deferred maintenance, and H.1424 on capital investment in Gateway Cities. Chairs and administration officials framed the hearing as a response to aging campus infrastructure, climate goals, workforce needs, and federal pressures on higher education, and explained that testimony would be taken from pre-registered speakers in person and virtually.
University of Massachusetts leaders strongly supported the Bright Act, describing large deferred maintenance backlogs, aging buildings, and the need to decarbonize campuses while modernizing research and teaching facilities. UMass officials said the bill would help keep tuition and fees lower by reducing the need for campuses to finance capital work themselves, and argued that the investments would improve competitiveness, support research, and create construction jobs. Governor Healey, Lieutenant Governor Driscoll, Secretary of Education Tuttweiler, and Secretary of Administration and Finance Gorzkowicz also backed the bill, saying it would leverage Fair Share surtax revenues for a proposed $2.5 billion in campus investments plus additional targeted grants, and that it would support affordability, economic growth, and climate resilience.
Committee members asked about the balance between deferred maintenance and decarbonization, the role of grant programs versus direct spending, the impact on tuition and fees, and how the plan would help campuses respond to federal cuts such as NIH and NSF funding. Administration officials said the proposal was designed to be phased in quickly, with some projects ready to start immediately and others taking longer, and that the grant programs would be structured to include all campuses equitably. They also said the plan would build on an existing financing model similar to the Commonwealth Transportation Fund and could help campuses avoid future tuition increases tied to capital costs.
Additional testimony came from MassBay Community College, where President David Podell and recent nursing graduate Deanna Cavazos described the benefits of a new Framingham campus building and said community colleges need modern labs, better planning capacity, and deferred maintenance support to serve the enrollment growth from MassReconnect and MassEducate. State university leaders, including President Mary Grant, President Linda Thompson, and President John Keenan, said their campuses face outdated classrooms, insufficient electrical capacity, and aging facilities, and urged passage of the Bright Act as a long-overdue investment in student success and workforce preparation.
HI
Transcript Highlights:
- 2383 relating to the workforce PEL grant 2383 relating to the workforce PEL grant program.<01:03
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program <01:03:59.200>to federal workforce PEL grant program to federal - c> uh<01:04:06.880>
program <01:04:07.280>approval workforce PEL grant uh program approval - Moving on to HB 2383 relating to workforce PEL grant program.
- Uh for to workforce PEL grant program.
Keywords:
workforce development, craftspersons, skilled trades, artisan, craftsmanship, trade recognition, award program, DLIR, Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, Meilleur Ouvrier de France, vocational education, career pathways, cultural preservation, workforce excellence, apprenticeship, Hawaii trades, economic diversification, public nominations, governor awards, historically significant venue