Title
Grants, Gifts, and Other Resources Delegation Policy
Body
Agenda of: July 22, 2020
Item No.: 2020-248
Amount: Not to Exceed $40,000,000
TO: The Honorable
Board of Directors
Great Lakes Water Authority
FROM: Sue F. McCormick
Chief Executive Officer
Great Lakes Water Authority
DATE: July 22, 2020
RE: Grants, Gifts, and Other Resources Delegation Policy
MOTION
Upon recommendation of Nicolette Bateson, Chief Financial Officer/Treasurer, the Board of Directors (Board) of the Great Lakes Water Authority (GLWA), approves the Grants, Gifts, and Other Resources Delegation Policy as presented with an immediate effective date, and authorizes the CEO to take such other action as may be necessary to accomplish the intent of this vote.
BACKGROUND
The Articles of Incorporation for the Great Lakes Water Authority (GLWA) provide authority for GLWA's Board of Directors to solicit and receive grants, gifts, and other resources as stated in Article 4 - Powers, Section B(4). Excerpts are below.
B. Except as otherwise provided in the Act or these Articles, and without limiting the generality of the foregoing paragraph (A), the Authority may do all things necessary or convenient to implement the purposes, objectives, and provisions of the Act and the purposes, objectives, and jurisdictions vested in the Authority or the Board by the Act or other law, including, but not limited to, all of the following:
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(4) Solicit, receive, and accept gifts, grants, labor, loans, contributions of money, property, or other things of value, and other aid or payment from any federal, state, local, or intergovernmental government agency or from any other person or entity, public or private, upon terms and conditions acceptable to the Authority, or participate in any other way in a federal, state, local, or intergovernmental government program.
JUSTIFICATION
A key driver in Board engagement in the above provision is to ensure that the commitmen...
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