By KENNEDY GRIFFIN
(Greenfield, MA)
Greenfield has been awarded over $37 million in grants for the City, public schools, and community partners in the 2022-2023 fiscal years. The latest grant is an award of $100,000 from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Urban Agenda Grant Program. The funds will support the Stone soup Culinary Institute, a twelve-week program that prepares students for a variety of roles in the food service industry.
“These grants represent state and federal tax dollars paid by Greenfield residents and businesses flowing back into the local community,” said Mayor Wedegartner. “While much of this is one-time revenue that can’t be built into operating budgets, it is helpful as we improve our infrastructure and build for the future. I want to thank our dedicated City staff for aggressively pursuing grant opportunities, and our Grant Manager Athena Lee Bradley, who has certainly embraced the vision I had for the position when it was added last year.”
The grants for fiscal years 2022 and 2023 include: more than $8.4 million in direct grant funding to executive branch departments, $3.4 million from the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, nearly $1 million from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to help fund an emergency operations center at the new fire station.