The Hollister City Council voted 4-1 in budget hearings to move
ahead on awarding $30,000 to local nonprofits for fiscal year
2011-12.
The Hollister City Council voted 4-1 in budget hearings to move ahead on awarding $30,000 to local nonprofits for fiscal year 2011-12.
Council members met this week in the hearings, which preclude an official budget approval for the fiscal year starting July 1. The allocation is same total as the current fiscal year, but with slight adjustments to dollar amounts for specific organizations.
Councilwoman Pauline Valdivia was the lone dissenter. On Friday, Valdivia said she favored a separate plan that would award an equal figure to the two organizations receiving the most money – which would amount to $7,500 each for Hollister Youth Alliance and Emmaus House.
“What I was advocating for was that we divide those two in equal parts,” she said.
The council voted to allocate the $30,000 in total to the following organizations:
– Advocacy Inc.: $3,408
– Emmaus House: $5,000
– Hollister Youth Alliance: $10,000
– Senior Council: $6,829
– Suicide Prevention: $1,353
– Senior Citizen Legal Services: $3,408
