Anonymous - Comments

I understand that through the proposed guidelines that a state agency will be collecting all of a states individual applications and submitting one state request. A few comments on this: Which state agency will be responsible for rolling up the entire states applications? Are the agencies staffed to do that or is part of this grant going to fund a states review and staffing? Is there going to be a list of those state point of contacts published for all to review or have access to in order to ensure individual jurisdictions requests are met/heard? I would recommend that the NHTSA collect all applications, review and award the monies. This ensures that ALL of the money will be awarded directly to the individual agencies that need it as opposed to bleeding off the dollars to admin/handling fees at the state level. This would also ensure that the national needs are met as opposed to what a State believes to be important; this is a national allocation for a national initiative and ultimately the national personnel should make the decisions on what agencies deserve the funding. The Act authorizes more than $1.25 Billion but only slightly more than $40 Million has been appropriated; give as much of that to the people who need it as possible.