HomeMy WebLinkAboutWORKSHOP Grant Administration presentation 2025 JEFFERSON COUNTY
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
AGENDA REQUEST
TO: Board of County Commissioners
Josh Peters, County Administrator
FROM: Amanda Christofferson, Grants Administrator
DATE: July 21,2025
SUBJECT: WORKSHOP: Grant Administrator report out on activities and discussion of
priorities.
STATEMENT OF ISSUE:
Jefferson County staff will provide information on countywide grant revenue and other work in order to
make the efforts of this position transparent and improve coordination and collaboration across county
departments and with stakeholders.
ANALYSIS:
Grant funding opportunities are critical for pursuing expensive capital improvements and achieving
important discretionary goals. Development of strong partnerships and socializing of projects is important to
the success of an application.
FISCAL IMPACT:
No fiscal impact at this time.
RECOMMENDATION:
BOCC should participate in workshop to support collaborative efforts.
REVIEWED BY:
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Jos eters, County Administrator Date
Grants
Administrator
Report Out
July 21, 2025
Staff, Amanda Christofferson
- 2024 Grant Revenue highlights
- 2024/2025 Grant writing/administrative
efforts
- Complexities of utilizing grant funding
- Countywide grant support role
- Commit to projects in alignment with
Strategic Plan
2024 Federal Highlights
US Dept of Treasury — ARPA COVID
( 5 contracts — 2 for Hadlock sewer representing
$11.7M)
Federal Highway Administration
( 8 contracts — Naylor Cr. & Gibbs Lake culverts )
Department of Health and Human Services
(23 contracts, 10 consolidated via state)
Total Federal Revenue
2024 2023
$11,734,621 $4,164,407
$2,8251708 $321,800
$1,119,483 $1,318,875
$17,1651708 $8,232,847
2024 State Highlights
2024 2023
County Road Administration Board $ 1' 458 597 $34,926
(Center Rd. Overlay $1,244,200)
Nurse Family Partnership
$702,000 $265,998
State Dept. of Commerce
(DCD funding for Comp plan and other
planning activities $278,000 ) $501,529 $4,027
Recreation & Conservation Office
(ODT Connection $217,400) $ 259,371 $131,794
Total State Revenue $5,116,800 $3,405,400
2024/2025 Grant writing/administrative efforts
o Community Development Block Grant —General Purpose (Contracted - 2028)
O USDA Rural Development —Congressionally Directed Spending (Contracted -2028)
Jefferson County Early Learning and Family Support Center
O U.S. Economic Development Administration — Recompete (Contracted -2026)
North Olympic Peninsula Recompete Coalition
O USDA Forest Service -Community Wildfire Defense Grant (Application submitted)
Jefferson County Wildfire Alliance
o WA State Department of Ecology -Water Quality Combined Funding (Application
submitted*)
Jefferson County Septage Receiving Facility Expansion Planning - City/County partnership
Efforts Cont.
O Congressional Directed Spending (CDS) Requests — Mason Street Project in partnership
with Habitat for Humanity of East Jefferson, included in Cantwell request
— Hadlock Sewer, not included
O WA State Department of Agriculture — Emergency Food Response (Contracted — 2025)
O Analysis of Consolidated Homeless Grant utilization and homeless response system
O Analysis of Department of Justice funding opportunities with DoveHouse
O U.S. Economic Development Administration — Disaster Resilience
Application development with DEM
Real complexities when utilizing grant funding
O Realistic timelines
o Braided funding required for costly projects
o Administrative efforts and real cost to departments
o Subrecipient development and risk
o Collaborating with diverse stakeholder groups
o Building capacity of county departments that are in need of funding
Countywide grant support role
o Responsible for preparing the County Schedule of Expenditures of Federal Awards
and Schedule of State Financial Assistance in preparation for audit by SAO
O Annual countywide Grants Workgroup meeting
O Grants Management Manual to guide best practices in administration of grants
based on federal, state and local regulation (administrative compliance)
O Goal to implement the Tyler - grant module
Commit to projects in alignment with strategic goals
0 2024-2028 Strategic Plan includes:
Community Resilience - CWDG application as well as the EDA Disaster Resilience grant
being contemplated
Economic Vitality — Efforts to understand local private industry needs in order to achieve
business expansion and retention; Recompete and Early Learning facility
Environmental Stewardship — CWDG and Recompete contribute to a wide variety of
environmental stewardship/economic vitality and community resilience goals
Housing Accessibility — Analysis of the CHG funding, Support of the CDS application for
Mason Street infrastructure, Support of infrastructure solutions to incentivize building in
LAMIRDS and affordable housing in general
Organizational Health -
Thriving People — Promote access to recreational and wellness activities
Focus on opportunities that
will improve county revenue
O Improving housing starts in the county
- Consider developing the infrastructure LAMIRDS in order to incentivize building
o Supporting private industry needs in order to solidify business expansion and
retention
o Support stakeholders who are elevating these goals