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Council adopts budget/donation policy to guide public funding requests
Summary
Finance Officer Nicole Siemonsma proposed rewording the donation resolution to allow controlled donations to non-profits while protecting taxpayer funds; the council approved and activated the Budget/Donation Policy (Action 25-108).
Montrose’s finance staff presented a proposed Budget/Donation Policy on July 8 and the council voted to approve and activate the policy.
Finance Officer Nicole Siemonsma described the proposal as a way to allow controlled donations to nonprofit organizations through a formal budgetary approach and to protect taxpayer funds. She said she had consulted the city attorney about legal boundaries and about preventing attempts to use city accounting to avoid tax obligations. The council approved the budget/donation policy (Action 25-108) with a motion by Council Hanisch and a second by Council Binder; the vote was recorded as unanimous.
Resolution #2025-006 (Set Donations/Budgetary Policy) will be revised to include clarified language on eligible donations and will be brought back to the council for final authorization in August.
