East Greenwich Pendulum: Towns lose thousands in expected grants

By GABRIELLE FALLETTA | Aug 18, 2017

EAST GREENWICH - Several Rhode Island towns are facing negative impacts after being notified in late July that many of the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) applications for local programs and agencies will not receive the funding they typically see.

Locally, six social services programs applied for a total of $136,702 to fund several projects in the area, and after the meeting in late July, East Greenwich, along with many other towns across the state, were notified that none of their applications from the Plan Year 2016 will receive funding.

“Historically you'd ask for it, and you'd get something,” said Community Development Consortium Director Geoff Marchant. “You wouldn't always get everything you asked for, but you got part of it, and now, nothing.”

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