City Of Minot

City of Minot, a municipal government entity headquartered at 10 3rd Avenue SW in Minot, North Dakota, acts as a federal grant recipient funding infrastructure and public-service projects, with 94% of recent awards in the prime-recipient role and 6% as a sub-recipient to state pass-through agencies. The city operates across three distinct capability areas: airport capital improvements funded through FAA Airport Improvement Program grants (CFDA 20.106), public transit operations and equipment funded through Federal Transit Administration formula grants (CFDA 20.507), and community development and public-safety equipment funded through HUD Community Development Block Grants (CFDA 14.218) and Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Assistance block grants. The city also holds a single federal contract with the Air Combat Command for utility bill payments at Minot Air Force Base ($18,091, completed February 2024).

Federal grant concentration is dominated by the Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration Great Lakes Region, which accounts for 45 of 397 total awards across airport runway rehabilitation, taxiway realignment, snow-removal equipment acquisition, wildlife-hazard drainage improvements, and lighting-system reconstruction at Minot International Airport. Recent representative FAA grants include a $4.97 million Airport Improvement Program project grant awarded July 16, 2026, for runway lighting reconstruction, taxiway realignment, and runway pavement rehabilitation (performance through July 2030); a $6.83 million project grant awarded September 9, 2024, for taxiway C pavement and lighting rehabilitation; and a $2.1 million project grant awarded February 20, 2024, for wildlife-hazard drainage installation. The Federal Transit Administration awarded the city $3.11 million on July 18, 2025, under the Federal Transit Formula Grants program (CFDA 20.507) for fixed-route transit operations, preventive maintenance, and paratransit services (completion March 2027), and $550 thousand on March 16, 2026, for replacement of outdated Genfare fareboxes and associated software. HUD's Community Development Block Grant program provided recurring formula-grant funding on October 1, 2024 ($CDBG amount unspecified; completion September 2033), and the Bureau of Justice Assistance awarded block grants on October 1, 2023, and October 1, 2022, for law-enforcement equipment including remote monitoring cameras, radar speed-display signs, and personal protective equipment.

The city acts as sub-recipient to the North Dakota Department of Transportation on federal transportation and planning grants (Central Dakota Metropolitan Planning Organization funding totaling $417 thousand as of December 2025) and to the North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality on drinking-water infrastructure sub-awards for lead service-line identification and watermain replacement projects (multiple sub-awards dated June–September 2025). Sub-awards also flow through federal public-safety and disaster-assistance programs, including Department of Homeland Security grants for regional bomb/SWAT team enhancement and emergency-management cybersecurity (dated July–August 2026).

Award activity was relatively flat from 2022 to 2024 (7, 6, and 17 awards respectively) with a slight contraction to 14 awards in 2025 and 7 awards through August 2026. Combined potential value across all awards stands at $16.5 million, but combined obligated dollars total $404.4 million, indicating substantial prior-year funding flowing through open or multi-year grant periods. Only four awards carry ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months and carry combined potential value of $9 thousand, suggesting most active grants run through 2027 or later. The city's award footprint reflects its core municipal function as an airport operator, public-transit provider, and community-development grantee in the Great Plains rather than a federal contractor pursuing competitive federal business; it does not compete on GSA Schedules, GWACs, or IDIQs as a prime vendor, though it historically served as a lessor of office space to federal agencies under General Services Administration Public Buildings Service leasing vehicles (16 awards, $7.5 million combined potential value), a profile that has contracted significantly in recent years.