To: Board of Supervisors
From: County Administrative Office
Agenda Section: Departmental
SUBJECT:
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Resolution Amending Resolution 19-45 Establishing the Humboldt County Cannabis Micro-Grant & Loan Advisory Committee
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RECOMMENDATION(S):
Recommendation
That the Board of Supervisors:
1. Adopt the attached Resolution amending Resolution 19-45 establishing the Humboldt County Cannabis Micro-Grant & Loan Advisory Committee.
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SOURCE OF FUNDING:
General Fund
DISCUSSION:
On March 12, 2019 your Board adopted a framework for Project Trellis, the County of Humboldt's Cannabis Micro-grant, Marketing, and Local Equity Program. Your Board further directed staff to return with a suggested framework for reviewing, ranking and scoring micro-grant applications. Staff returned with a recommendation for establishing a grant committee and, on May 28th, 2019, your Board adopted Resolution 19-45 forming the Humboldt County Cannabis Micro-Grant & Loan Advisory Committee (hereinafter referred to as Committee).
As per Resolution 19-45, the purpose of this Committee was defined as "to announce, review, rank, and select applications for micro-grant & loan monies, which shall be subject to Humboldt County Board of Supervisors approval, and as defined under Project Trellis: The County of Humboldt Cannabis Micro-grant, Marketing, and Local Equity Program".
Following the adoption of Resolution 19-45, staff worked with the Clerk of the Board to establish the Committee wherein members to the Committee were appointed by your Board, a Board Chair, Vice Chair, and Secretary were selected, and by-laws for the Committee were adopted.
Subsequent to the formation of the Committee and adoption of its by-laws, an initial Committee framework meeting took place wherein a NOFA (Notice of Funding Availability) was released announcing the acceptance of applications beginning October 14, 2019 and a submittal deadline of December 16, 2019.
Once applications were receiv...
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