The state funding is delivered through the Kansas Infrastructure Hub, which connects multiple state agencies to help communities pursue IIJA and other grant opportunities, and the Build Kansas Fund, which provides non-federal matching dollars. In related statewide support, the Build Kansas Fund has provided required match for 92 federal grants, totaling more than $51.28 million in state matching and helping bring federal grant awards of more than $161 million back to Kansas.
One funded example highlighted in the announcement is the City of Glen Elder, a rural North Central Kansas community with a population of 363. The city used a Section 40101(d) Second Round Grant and matching Build Kansas Funds to purchase new Itron radio-read electric meters for homes and businesses, addressing the need to replace older, difficult-to-read meters that the city’s tight budget could not cover outright.