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The Mayors’ Council is apparently upset over the government’s delay to implement nearly a $1 million dollars in grant funding to help low income individuals.
Executive Director Angel Sablan says the council and the Department of Public Health signed a Memorandum of Agreement to start Project HELP, which stands for Helping Enhance Lives with Pride [...]

The Guam Humanities Council will host a free grant-writing workshop July 10 at the GHC office.
Registration for the workshop ends July 8.
The workshop is a requirement all those who are first time applicants for GHC’s Community Grant Cycle for 2010. Working in partnership with the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Guam Humanities Council [...]

The Department of Education has chosen the company it wants to hire as a third-party financial manager, but is holding off on releasing the company’s name until its federal counterpart gives the thumbs up.
Deputy Superintendent Taling Taitano said last night DOE chose its preferred bidder last week and expects to receive approval from the U.S. [...]

The Guahan State Clearinghouse received notification of a new grant opportunity from the US Department of Agriculture, Rural Development that would allow local rental property owners to make significant improvements on properties intended for use by low income families. The grant also allows for public agencies, private non-profit organizations, which includes but is not limited [...]

Local farmers and rural small businesses have an opportunity to apply for Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) funding that would enable them to implement renewable energy sources at their businesses and make energy efficiency improvements, all aimed at reducing Guahan’s carbon footprint. The Guahan State Clearinghouse announced the new grant today, which is being [...]

Fiscal mismanagement at the Guam Environmental Protection Agency has hurt the agency’s ability to protect human health and the environment, according to the U.S. EPA’s 2009 End of Year Program Review Summary released April 28.
The 23-page review focuses on Guam EPA’s financial difficulties that it has been experiencing over the last two years and [...]

Resolution 352-30, passed by the Guam Legislature, called for the federal government to avoid awarding ARRA funds to a single entity. IT&E was the sole applicant that was awarded $8 million in the first round of funding for the Broadband Technology Program under the ARRA out of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. The [...]

With over $145 million in federal grants awarded to the Guam Department of Education this fiscal year, the department’s federal programs division is hosting a two-day overview of the grants received by key stakeholders.
The first of the two-day event will be held today from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Hilton Guam Resort [...]

The Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration has announced an American Recovery and Reinvestment Act investment to help bridge the technological divide, boost economic growth, create jobs, and improve education and healthcare on Guam and the CNMI.
The $8 million grant will increase broadband access and adoption by upgrading the existing telecommunications network serving these [...]

The Guam Department of Education will publish packets to attract bidders who want to be the school system’s federally mandated money manager but if the position isn’t filled in two months, millions in federal grant money will be held up.
This is an unlikely worst-case scenario, said Guam DOE Superintendent Nerissa Bretania Underwood during a school [...]

The Government of Guam should have $104 million in its hands to fund the construction of the Layon landfill by May. U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development Area Director Joe Diego tells KUAM News that inspectors visited the island last week to tour the landfill and address issues about compliance to ensure the public [...]

Because of the large sum of federal funds flowing into Guam, the Guam State Clearinghouse has sought the Bureau of Budget Management and Research’s assistance in making sure the local government is in compliance with federal regulations governing these grants.
“The Guam State Clearinghouse in the last fiscal year has reviewed over $300 million in [...]

Guam State Clearinghouse Administrator Roland Villaverde says he is anticipating millions of dollars more in grant money for Guam in the coming months. He was the guest speaker at this week’s Rotary Club of Northern Guam meeting, where he presented the functions that his office provides for the island.
Villaverde says he is working to obtain [...]

The Government Accountability Office released a report on the U.S. insular areas and opportunities that exist to improve the Department of the Interior’s grant oversight and to reduce the potential for mismanagement. The GAO report reviewed the U.S. insular areas of American Samoa, CNMI, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Guam and how they’ve been spending [...]

Governor Felix P. Camacho met with U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) Secretary Ken Salazar in Washington, D.C., to conclude a week of meetings centered on military expansion in the Western Pacific and efforts to expand renewable energy on Guahan. Secretary Salazar committed his agency’s senior leadership to ensure the Guam Military Buildup Program moves [...]