Commission approves miscellaneous appropriations and designated revenue gifts from commissioners

The Montgomery County Commission approved a package of miscellaneous appropriations to local agencies and several designated-revenue gifts at its June 2025 meeting.

On the agenda the commission considered appropriations that included $150 from Commissioner Carmen Moore Ziegler to Young Men on a Mission; $1,000 for Central Alabama Agency for Pilgrim Rest (with some speakers noting an intended alternate recipient); and a series of other small commissioner-funded items read into the record. The transcript lists donations variously as $1,000 from Commissioner Costanza, $1,000 from Chairman Singleton to Family Guidance, $1,000 from Commissioner Harris, $500 from Commissioner Costanza, $1,200 from Chairman Singleton and $5,000 from Commissioner Harris to ASF. During the reading one speaker noted a line item error and corrected an intended recipient.

A separate designated-revenue item included $2,500 from Commissioner Harris, $5,000 from Commissioner Moore Ziegler to The Shares Foundation, $5,000 (noted in the transcript as from Vice Chair Moore Ziegler) to the Alabama Boys (repeated in the reading), $2,500 from Commissioner Costanza to the Alabama Boys and $10,000 from Commissioner Harris to ASU Athletics. The transcript reading is imprecise in places; the meeting record shows the commission approved the items after a motion and second and the clerk recorded "Motion carries." The transcript does not provide detailed program descriptions or the county fund accounts used for each transfer.

Commissioners handled the appropriations in a routine vote; no public debate or objections are recorded in the oral transcript.