Delaware County authority adopts new grants-management software after vendor demo

The Delaware County Interactive Gaming Revenue Authority voted to adopt a new grants-management system following a demonstration from Majain Technologies and authorized the chair and treasurer to proceed with implementation.

Vendor representative Yacine Majain walked the board through applicant and administrator views, showing saved accounts, consolidated application packets, internal notes and voting-recommendation features. Majain said the platform includes AI-enabled tools to summarize applicant pools and an example readout showing about "$150,000 remaining" in pool tracking. "Essentially, you'll be able to gather all the kind of data you'll need, using your AI assistant to make it a lot more convenient to just navigate the platform," Majain said. He told the board the annual cost would be about $18,000 and that he had waived a data-migration fee to move records from the current form-based system.

Treasurer Francis Sheehan and other members praised the prospect of a consolidated system and the waived migration charge. Board members agreed to let the authority trial the software: Majain said the food-insecurity grant will go live on the new platform on October 1 for a testing window, and the board will use October to evaluate whether to continue before issuing the next RFP or full production in November. The motion to adopt the system as presented passed on a voice vote.