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Colfax council debates creating community foundation to manage city donations
Summary
Councilmember Trinity proposed a separate 501(c)(3) community foundation and public trust accounts to handle city donations and leverage matching funds; other councilmembers pushed for an advisory committee or stricter public controls. Council directed staff to schedule a workshop and circulate Trinity’s proposed bylaws for further review.
Colfax City Council spent the bulk of its Oct. 8 meeting debating how the city should distribute discretionary funds to local nonprofits.
Councilmember Trinity proposed forming a community foundation — a 501(c)(3) with a board that would include two council representatives and nonprofit members — to administer donations, expand matching opportunities and reduce the appearance of favoritism. "We established a 5 0 1 c 3 nonprofit organization that we would work in partnership with in order to have the decisions on nonprofit…
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