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Finance committee presses staff for clearer rules after rollout of nonprofit partnership work plan
Summary
Staff presented a new Nonprofit Partnership Work Plan and a proposed funding envelope that prompted committee questions about which organizations would be treated as ongoing contractors versus one‑year grantees; staff said some items (YCI, Project Safety Net) had been handled inconsistently and will be clarified.
During the budget overview, staff introduced a new Nonprofit Partnership Work Plan that lays out how nonprofit funding requests not captured in existing multi‑year contracts or the HSRAP (Human Services Request for Assistance Program) would be processed.
What staff proposed Community Services Director Kristen O'Kane described a structure to bring more transparency to how the city funds nonprofits. In the FY2026 proposed materials staff carried forward a total of about $235,000 for the new nonprofit partnership work plan, a figure that staff and committee members later clarified corresponds to previously appropriated one‑time and ongoing amounts. Staff also identified separately a $50,000 proposal for a new community events grant program (unfunded in the proposed budget) and asked the committee whether to reclassify certain grants that had been treated last year as one‑time awards.
Immediate points of confusion Committee members and staff…
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