County supervisors this week decided to delay the decision on
allocating money to various nonprofits in the area after some
disagreed with the recommendations made by the Community Foundation
in a long nearly two-hour discussion.
County supervisors this week decided to delay the decision on allocating money to various nonprofits in the area after some disagreed with the recommendations made by the Community Foundation in a long nearly two-hour discussion.
Because of the possible changes that a restructuring of the county’s donations could bring to the budget, the board decided to postpone any decision until the budget hearings next month. Also, supervisors decided to create a sub-committee to figure out a way to best supply nonprofits that are in need, only two years after the board directed the Community Foundation to do the same.
The Community Foundation recommended donations totaling $70,658 to seven different nonprofits, three of which the county has never supported. Because of the new nonprofit donations, two organizations wouldn’t receive the money they got last year.
Supervisor Margie Barrios gave one of those groups, Advocacy, Inc, a lot of support. The group asked the board to change the totals of the other organization to give $5,000 to the nonprofit – and Barrios agreed.
Supervisors Pat Loe and Jaime De La Cruz also both agreed to not give money to new organizations to which the board already had not donated in prior years.
“I will not support funding any organizations we have not funded before,” Loe said.
Only Supervisor Reb Monaco agreed with what the Community Foundation recommended.
“We asked them to do a task and they have done that,” Monaco said. “To reject that would make no sense.”
The discussion broadened after Barrios brought up how Advocacy, Inc. needs the money to get federal grant money. Under a match program, Advocacy, Inc. is dependant on the money it receives from the county to get money from the federal government.
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