City cleaning up community grant process
The City of Red Deer is working to clean up and modernize its processes for handling community grants.
City council has authorized administration to continue to review Red Deer’s Community Development Grant programs with the goal of reducing duplication, increasing accountability and reporting, and standardizing applications, adjudication, and authority as appropriate.
“It can be said that the activities of community groups and agencies who are working on behalf of our residents are all worthwhile in the community. However, it’s often very difficult for council to allocate funding to one group over another,” Sarah Tittemore, Red Deer’s general manager for community services, told council on Monday.
The plan is to have a new program ready in time for the 2023 budget.