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Wellness Coalition urges borough to revisit fiscal sponsorship rules after Kanyama Exchange drops teacher program
Summary
A Ketchikan Wellness Coalition representative told the assembly the coalition's fiscal sponsorship rules discouraged the Kanyama Exchange from using the coalition as fiscal sponsor because sponsorship would have prevented the exchange from applying for borough community grant funds; the exchange chose to discontinue its teacher-exchange program.
Jackie Yates, representing the Ketchikan Wellness Coalition, used the public-comment period at the Jan. 21 assembly meeting to share an epidemiology profile on youth substance misuse and to raise a fiscal-sponsorship issue she said had practical consequences for local programming.
Yates said the coalition has been preparing an epi profile and building a data-analyst work group to explore causes of…
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