LE Sueur County

LE Sueur County, doing business as Treasurer, is a Minnesota county government entity that acts as a prime recipient on federal grants and as a sub-recipient on pass-through awards from state agencies, with a footprint heavily weighted toward victim services, emergency management, and rural broadband infrastructure funding. The county operates as a local government entity and holds no federal contracts as a prime; all contract work is routed through state intermediaries.

The county's federal grant activity is sparse but recent. As a prime recipient, LE Sueur County holds two active grants: a $1 million Rural Utilities Service Distance Learning and Telemedicine Grants program award (CFDA 10.855) issued September 10, 2025, with performance through September 2027 in Le Center, Minnesota, and a FY24 Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Technology and Equipment Program grant from the Department of Justice's Community Oriented Policing Program awarded March 9, 2024, with completion by March 31, 2027. The specific deliverables and activities under the Rural Utilities Service award are not documented in the source; the COPS program typically funds law enforcement equipment, technologies, and interoperable communications to support community policing and crime prevention capacity.

LE Sueur County's portfolio is dominated by sub-recipient awards (84% of the 19 awards on record) flowing through two primary state intermediaries. The Minnesota Department of Public Safety has issued the county eleven sub-awards since October 2023, including victim services funding (Office of Justice Programs Victims of Crime program), emergency response and recovery funds (designated DR4797 for disaster relief and emergency protective measures), and direct crime victim services. The Minnesota Department of Transportation issued two sub-awards for county road and bridge infrastructure, including a 2023 award for road stabilization and pavement overlay on CSAH 18 and a 2024 award for bridge replacement on CSAH 52 in Waterville. Activity has remained episodic, with 1 award in 2019, 4 in 2021, 3 in 2023, 4 in 2024, and 6 in 2025. Combined obligated dollars across all awards total $5.9 million. Two awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months. The county serves six distinct federal customer agencies but operates almost exclusively as a downstream recipient of state-administered federal funds rather than as a direct federal contractor or prime grantee.