While discussing the new Inspire Vancouver cultural access grant, officials noted that the city already distributes community funds through several distinct programs, including housing grants like CDBG and HOME. To evaluate these cross-cutting funding mechanisms, the city manager requested a comprehensive spreadsheet comparing application volumes, funding amounts, and decision-making structures across all of the city's grant opportunities.
Cross_cutting
City Council Workshops · Jun 01, 2026 · 29:00–29:16 · Watch on CVTV ↗
Keywords: state grant CDBG
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27:59 and their overall review of these applications, again, knowing that they've had so much time and attention even put into creating the grant program itself. I don't know if I will, unless my colleagues share my concerns, I'll let it drop, but I've voiced them. No, I appreciate that. And we do recognize it will be a heavy lift for a review committee, and our staff and the staff that we're bringing on board are committed to that work. And I appreciate what you're saying that we can continue to discuss. Thank you, appreciate it. Any other comments? City manager, Mayor Pro Tem brings up a good point. If I'm right, I believe we have five different ways the community receives grants from the city of Vancouver.
28:54 We have LTAC, and so we have a group that works on that. We have housing, CDBG Home, all of those. We have neighborhoods that receive money. We have traffic calming with transportation, and now we have Inspire. I'm wondering if we could get staff to put a spreadsheet together just real quick so that we can kind of see who, what, where, when, why, how many are applying. What type of money is going out the door? Who is at the different levels of decision making? So I know LTAC-- housing has always been kind of a question of who is meeting to help Sam, and then that comes forward to us. So here we have Inspire. How many are we expecting to get?
29:54 How much money? Kind of a timeline here in that decision making process. So if we could look at that along with neighborhoods and traffic calming. Counselors, am I missing any other grant opportunities that are going out to our community? Yeah, it would be nice to see more of a comparison of our processes across the city.
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cross_cutting keyword 29:00–29:16 state grant, CDBG
her comments? City manager, Mayor Pro Tem brings up a good point. If I'm right, I believe we have five different ways the community receives grants from the city of Vancouver. We have LTAC, and so we have a group that works on that. We have housing, CDBG Home, all of those. We have neighborhoods that receive money. We have traffic calming with transportation, and now we have Inspire. I'm wondering if we could get staff to put a spreadsheet together just real quick so that we can kind of see who,