The new grant cycle for the Garfield County discretionary funds started this month, as eight organizations requested nearly $30,000 at the commissioner meeting last week.<\/p>\n
With another $10,000 already awarded by Garfield County, the total for the first quarter requests comes to nearly $40,000 \u2013 almost a third of the $120,000 budgeted for 2019 grants.<\/p>\n
On Monday, commissioners elected to award $23,000 of what was requested, bringing the first quarter total to $33,000.<\/p>\n
Garfield County will have $87,000 left in the discretionary awards budget for the rest of the year.<\/p>\n
Among the organizations receiving funding on Monday was Garfield County 4-H and St. Stephen Catholic School, both of which requested funding for their respective Washington, D.C. trips, among other items.<\/p>\n
Emma Thate, the delegate for 4-H, said during a presentation last week that they’d be leaving June 30 for a week-long trip to the nation’s capital. She said they hope to better learn how legislation works and see lawmakers’ day-to-day firsthand.<\/p>\n
Later in that same hearing, Garfield County 4-H member Whitney Chapman outlined a trip to Japan she will be taking this summer<\/a>. She requested $1,000 from the commissioners.<\/p>\n “I will be one of 17 students on the eight-week program to Japan,” she explained.<\/p>\n Garfield County awarded $4,000 for each Washington D.C trip, along with another $1,000 for Chapman.<\/p>\n