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Board proposes a lean nonprofit budget, offers small start for new literacy program

Board of Mayor and Aldermen Meetings · April 28, 2026
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Summary

At its April 27 budget workshop, the Board proposed holding nonprofit funding flat from the previous year and tentatively adding $2,500 for Read to Succeed, while staff asked the board for direction on about $192,005 in nonprofit requests.

At a budget workshop on April 27, the Board of Mayor and Aldermen reviewed nonprofit funding requests and signaled a preference for a ‘‘lean’’ approach that keeps previously funded groups at last year’s levels and limits new commitments.

The city’s packet listed roughly $192,005.40 in nonprofit requests across the general and drug funds. Bruce (staff) told the board the general-fund numbers were not yet final and that staff needed…

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