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Committee accepts $50,000 Cities for Financial Empowerment grant for United Way programs
Summary
The Budget and Finance Committee approved an ordinance authorizing the mayor to accept and expend a $50,000 award from the Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund to support operations, staffing and training through the United Way of Summit and Medina Counties.
The committee approved an ordinance authorizing the mayor to accept and expend a $50,000 grant from the Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund and to pass those funds to the United Way of Summit and Medina Counties to support operations, staffing and training for local financial empowerment work.
Mr. Wheeler presented the item, describing it as a $50,000 contribution from the Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund and noting the city’s ongoing participation in that network. "This is a $50,000 donation that we will be passing on to the United Way to continue the operations, staffing, and training," Wheeler told the committee.
Committee members offered no substantive objections and moved the item to the consent agenda; the motion passed by voice vote. The ordinance authorizes acceptance and expenditure of the grant and directs that the funds support the United Way’s local financial empowerment activities.
