Get Full Government Meeting Transcripts, Videos, & Alerts Forever!
Board adjusts nonprofit grant math, agrees to divide allocations by six
Summary
Trustees agreed informally to recalculate community-grant averages over six organizations (not seven) to avoid penalizing groups with missing entries and discussed allocating a $40,000 placeholder from tobacco taxes to help fund a middle-school counselor.
Trustees debated and then agreed to an adjustment in how community-grant allocations are averaged after several organizations were effectively penalized when a blank entry was treated as a zero. Speaker 9 said some organizations felt "penalized" by the spreadsheet math, and Speaker 6 proposed spreading any small overage proportionally rather than treating blanks as zeros. "I haven't done the math until just…
Already have an account? Log in
Subscribe to keep reading
Unlock the rest of this article — and every article on Citizen Portal.
- Unlimited articles
- AI-powered breakdowns of topics, speakers, decisions, and budgets
- Instant alerts when your location has a new meeting
- Follow topics and more locations
- 1,000 AI Insights / month, plus AI Chat
