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The grant-refund clause is §5.5 of the roadwork development agreement, titled the "Overpayment Amount." It provides that if the road-work project receives public grant awards — Ohio's State 629 funds or ODOD Jobs & Commerce grants — that public money effectively backfills the developer's "Company Contribution," and the corresponding amount is refunded to the Company.
The mechanism qualifies the claim that the $14.5M road package is privately funded: to the extent public grants are awarded, public money can substitute for the private contribution. The clause is read from the executed agreement; what share of the contribution is ultimately refunded is not fixed in the document — it depends on the grants actually awarded.