City Of Medicine Lodge

City of Medicine Lodge, a Kansas municipal government entity operating as a federal grant recipient, has received $3.9 million across twenty-two federal grants since 2006, with nearly all awards (95%) directed to the City as prime recipient rather than sub-recipient. The City competes in full-and-open federal grant programs with no set-aside designations; as a local government, it is ineligible for SBA certifications and competes on its public-entity status and project merit.

The City's federal award footprint is concentrated almost entirely within airport infrastructure. The Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration Central Region funds nineteen of twenty-two awards, accounting for the vast majority of the City's federal grant activity. The remaining three awards split between the Department of Agriculture Rural Utilities Service, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Recent activity has centered on Medicine Lodge Airport drainage reconstruction and erosion control, a multi-phase project funded across four separate FAA awards issued between July 2025 and July 2026. The first phase, awarded July 24, 2025, under the Airport Improvement Program (CFDA 20.106), provided $267,521.05 for design and Airport Geographic Information System survey work through July 2029. A concurrent phase-one award on August 28, 2025, under the same program, delivered $115,789.47 for similar design and AGIS survey activities. Two final-phase construction grants followed in July 2026: one for $203,105.26 under the Airport Infrastructure Grants program (CFDA 20.117) and a second for $142,483.16 under the Airport Improvement Program (CFDA 20.116), both running through July 2030. Each construction-phase grant is explicitly paired with complementary Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act funding covering remaining eligible portions. The City also holds a June 2023 formula grant from FAA for obstruction removal (trees and brush clearance from Runway 16/34 approach and departure paths) extending through June 2027, and a November 2021 American Rescue Plan Act project grant for COVID-19 pandemic economic relief (operations, personnel, cleaning, sanitation, and debt service) concluding November 2025. One sub-award appears in the portfolio: a May 2026 pass-through from the Kansas Adjutant General Department for community property repair or improvement.

Activity has been sporadic — two awards in 2020, three in 2021, one in 2023, two in 2025, and three in 2026 — with only one award reaching completion within the next twenty-four months (the November 2025 pandemic-relief grant), indicating limited near-term recompete exposure in the City's grant portfolio.