“It will be a smaller version of what they were doing because it will be less money,” she said. “The grant was cut in half last year. In previous years it had been as high as $600,000.”

If successful, the YMCA would fill 24 part-time positions and one full-time director’s job for the after-school program, Hamm said. It would have a capacity of 120 children in grades kindergarten through five.