CAPCOG recommended 42 criminal justice projects for funding recommending projects beyond the state’s regional budget estimates for the five program areas of which it assists the Office of the Governor (OOG) in selecting awards for Plan Year (PY) 2024. The OOG should send funding award notices in late September with CAPCOG’s PY 2025 application process starting at about the same time.
For PY 2024, CAPCOG reviewed and prioritized 54 project applications requesting about $15.6 million; the state’s regional budget estimate for the funding opportunities was about $10.7 million. If the state follows CAPCOG’s recommendations and its budget estimate, 27 projects would be funded. The OOG has funded more and less projects than its budget estimate in previous years. The General Victims Assistance program was the region’s most sought-after funding opportunity consisting of 20 applications, making up 37 percent of all applications and 68 percent of the requested funding. The Truancy Prevention program was the region’s only under prescribed program for the year with three qualifying grant applications seeking $813,000 of the $1.5 million regional budget estimate.
CAPCOG’s Criminal Justice Advisory Committee reviewed each application and heard presentations from applicants to score and rank them based on the CAPCOG’s funding priorities and scoring criteria. The CAPCOG Executive Committee then finalized the prioritized project recommendation lists before they were submitted to the OOG. The OOG will ultimately determine which applicants will receive funding.
Review CAPCOG’s prioritized recommendations.
Read more about the CAPCOG Criminal Justice Process.
