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Nonprofits outline 2025 budget requests as council begins FY26 budget review
Summary
Boys & Girls Club, Watershed Friends (formerly Friends of the Kavassee Watershed), Gardiner Main Street and Johnson Hall presented program statistics and municipal funding requests during the Gardiner City Council’s budget meeting; Watershed Friends asked the city for $7,000 and Johnson Hall requested increased municipal support.
At the Gardiner City Council’s May 14, 2025 budget meeting, several nonprofit organizations presented program overviews and municipal funding requests as the council begins its FY26 budget review.
Denise Brown, the city finance director, opened the nonprofit presentations and introduced speakers. April Stanchfield, chief executive officer of the Boys & Girls Club of Kennebec Valley, told the council the Gardiner clubhouse served 497 registered Gardiner program participants in the past year and that the organization records about 1,300 registered participants annually across sites. Stanchfield highlighted a free school‑year teen center (grades six through 12), daily after‑school meals (two busloads arriving each day), tutoring, scholarships (72 scholarships distributed last year totaling $145,000) and a $2.8 million annual operating budget. Stanchfield asked the city to continue its longstanding…
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