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Crookston council hears nonprofit funding pitches, asks staff to use $60,000 placeholder for grants
Summary
Nonprofits seeking city support presented budget requests Dec. 24; Tri Valley asked for $17,000 to sustain transit, New Hope Food Shelf/Care & Share requested $20,000, Golden Link sought $75,000 and Oxcart Days asked for $6,000. Council set a $60,000 placeholder while staff finalizes levy numbers.
The Crookston City Council convened a budget workshop on Dec. 24, 2025, to hear presentations from local nonprofits seeking city support and to give staff direction on how to treat nonprofit grant awards in the preliminary 2026 budget. Staff said they would use a $60,000 placeholder total for nonprofit grants while final levy and capital-improvement figures are finalized.
The presentations opened with James Bogochnik, chair of the Oxcart Days Committee, who asked the council for $6,000 to fund the festival’s fireworks and said roughly 4,000 people attended the 2025 event. "This year, as we have done in the past, we are asking for $6,000," Bogochnik said, and shared a near‑break‑even 2025 budget with a roughly $978 deficit.
Carolina Diaz, speaking for New Hope Food Shelf and Care and Share Shelter…
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