Legal Aid Works and other local nonprofits urge Stafford supervisors to restore or maintain funding

Several local nonprofit leaders used the budget public hearing to urge the Board of Supervisors to restore or maintain modest county funding that they say supports vulnerable residents.

Anne Kloeckner, executive director of Legal Aid Works, said the county’s proposed FY2026 budget “zeroes out all funding for our work in your community.” She told the board staff had provided a reason that money was scarce and that application scores were low; she said the scoring group included people “who clearly knew little about who we are and what we do” and that the result was the county “eliminating all support for the work we do.” Kloeckner urged the board to consider proportional cuts across programs rather than zeroing out individual providers.

Joel Young, chair of Legal Aid Works’ board, asked the supervisors…