City Of Roswell, Georgia

City of Roswell, Georgia Grants Division, a municipal government entity based in Roswell, Georgia, receives federal grant funding and executes a single federal contract as a prime recipient across community development, public safety, infrastructure, and cultural programming. The Grants Division does not operate as a federal contractor on competitive contract vehicles or as a subcontractor; it is a local government agency that receives direct federal assistance awards and administers grant programs at the municipal level.

The Grants Division's federal footprint spans fourteen distinct customer agencies, with the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development (CDBG formula grants) and the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs dominating award count at 15 and 7 awards respectively across the recent period. By potential value, however, the Department of the Interior National Park Service Southeast Region anchors the portfolio with $363 thousand in combined potential value tied to a single $219,076 firm-fixed-price purchase order (modification to exercise option year one) for 9-1-1 emergency communications services for the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area, running through April 2030. The remaining dollar volume sits primarily in obligated federal grant funding rather than contracting potential value; combined dollars obligated across all awards reach $21.5 million, substantially exceeding the $378 thousand in combined potential value—a signal that most Roswell awards are formula grants or completed projects rather than open contract vehicles.

Recent grant work reflects Roswell's focus on community infrastructure and public safety. A $3.45 million EPA Region 4 Congressionally Mandated Projects (CFDA 66.202) cooperative agreement awarded June 1, 2026, funds stormwater infrastructure construction and environmental restoration along the Chattahoochee River, including stream restoration, wetland construction, bank stabilization, and an interactive children's stormwater garden with completion by December 31, 2027. A $2.5 million Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration Reconnecting Communities Pilot discretionary grant (CFDA 20.940) awarded May 23, 2024, funds the Big Creek Greenway Community Connectivity Planning Project to connect the historically disadvantaged Liberty Square neighborhood with Roswell town center through June 2029. The Grants Division also holds recurring Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) entitlement awards from HUD's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development (formula grants with ultimate completion dates extending through 2033) and cultural grants from the National Endowment for the Arts supporting theater programming at the Roswell Cultural Arts Center and folk arts programming for the U.S. 250th anniversary. A $656,811 Federal Emergency Management Agency Assistance to Firefighters Grant (CFDA 97.044) awarded August 6, 2024, funds personal protective equipment, emergency response vehicles, and firefighter health and wellness programs through August 2026.

The Grants Division acts as a sub-recipient on four federal grants passed through state intermediaries. Two Georgia Department of Transportation sub-awards for trail feasibility studies and state route improvements (January and March 2025) and one Georgia Environmental Finance Authority sub-award for lead service line inventory work (October 2024) reflect transportation and water infrastructure sub-award activity. Activity has been modest and episodic; the past five years show four awards in 2022, two in 2023, seven in 2024, three in 2025, and one in 2026. Three awards are scheduled for completion within the next twenty-four months.