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DR. HOLEKA GORO INABA Chair MICHELLE GALIMBA Vice Chair HAWAI`I COUNTY COUNCIL CINDY EVANS JENN KAGIWADA MATT KANEALI`I-KLEINFELDER ASHLEY L. KIERKIEWICZ HEATHER L, KIMBALL SUSAN L.K. LEE LOY REBECCA VILLEGAS Legislative Approvals and Acquisitions Committee County of Haivai'i West Haivai'i Civic Center, Bldg. A CD � 74-5044 Ane Keohokalole Hwy. Kailua-Kona, Hawai'i 96740 o, c; DATE: May 6, 2024 TO: Heather Kimball, Council Chair; and Members of the Hawaii County Council FROM: Dr. Holeka Goro Inaba, Council Member, Council District 8 'd'z SUBJECT: Recommendations for Waiwai Nonprofit Grant Organizations for FY 2024-2025 Enclosed for your review and consideration are the Legislative Approvals and Acquisitions Committee (LAAC) recommendations for the FY 2024-2025 appropriations for grants to nonprofit organizations. These reconunendations were made after reviewing all eligible applications that the Department of Finance provided via Communication No. 761.1, In accordance with Chapter 2, Article 25, section 2439(a)(1)(A) of the Hawaii County Code, $2,500,000 is appropriated to the County of Hawaii Waiwai Nonprofit Grant Program. On January 31, 2024, the application submittal deadline, the Department of Finance received one hundred ninety-six (196) applications, Sixty (60) applications were determined ineligible due to incomplete packet information. A total of one hundred thirty-six (136) applications were determined eligible, with requests totaling $4,792,500. For comparison, in 2023, there were one hundred fifty-five (155) eligible applications with requests totaling $5,007,500, for which the Council fully funded seventy-five (75) requests totaling $2,497,500. On March 19, 2024, at a meeting of the LAAC, an Ad Hoc Committee was formed for the purposes of application review and award recommendations. Members of the Ad Hoc Committee were Council Members Jenttifer Kagiwada, Sue Lee Loy, Michelle Gatimba, and myself serving as Chair. Comm. 4.-Y Ref.To: Ref. Da`�