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Pueblo County commissioners discuss $500 sponsorships for local nonprofits, decline funding an individual pageant entry
Summary
County staff presented three funding requests for local events. Commissioners signaled support for $500 sponsorships to nonprofit fundraisers but said they would not fund an individual's pageant expenses. No formal binding vote was recorded on the requests at the work session.
Tommy Ferrell, a county staff member presenting funding requests, told the Pueblo County Board of County Commissioners that he had three items: one follow-up and two new requests for the board's discretionary line-item funds.
Ferrell said the follow-up request came from Kelly Sloan for the Ag Her Culture pageant and that Sloan told staff the $500 would be used for her own pageant expenses to travel around Colorado to promote women and youth in the agriculture industry and to reach a national pageant. “The $500 request will be used to help her travel around Colorado to promote women and youth in the Colorado agriculture industry and to help get her to the national pageant,” Ferrell said.
Commissioners pushed back on funding an…
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