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Ossipee budget panel hears level-funding requests from local nonprofits; asks selectmen to require external audit documents
Summary
At a town budget review meeting, multiple outside agencies asked for level funding. The committee agreed to ask the selectmen to add proof of an external audit or equivalent financial review to future outside-agency application packets and to review the relevant RSA before finalizing language.
At a budget review meeting in Ossipee, local nonprofits and service providers presented requests for level funding and provided service metrics; the committee moved to ask the selectmen to require external-audit documentation as part of future outside-agency applications.
Janaye Smallwood, municipal hunts coordinator for Tri-County CAP, told the panel the agency is requesting $9,837 "in allotted funds" for the coming year and listed services to Ossipee residents that include fuel and energy assistance, housing-stability services, 2-1-1 response, USDA TFAP, transportation, Head Start and ServiceLink. "For last year, we served 703 individuals," Smallwood said, adding the agency recorded 3,300 family households served and reported "services equaling $8,860,982." Select Board members asked about population figures and data sources; Smallwood…
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