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Northland Assistance Center requests $5,000 to help Smithville households
Summary
Rita Pierce, executive director of Northland Assistance Center, requested $5,000 to provide rent, utilities and other assistance to Smithville residents (the agency expects to assist roughly 20 households) and offered MOU and reporting options tied to city funding.
Rita Pierce of the Northland Assistance Center presented to the board seeking a $5,000 allocation to help Smithville residents with rent, utilities, food and other basic needs; she said the agency can track assistance by city address (not ZIP code) and can provide reporting and an MOU to the city. Pierce recounted the agency’s COVID-era distributions and emphasized its local vetting and reporting procedures.
"We are asking for $5,000," Rita Pierce (speaker 14) told the board and said funds would be dedicated to people living within Smithville city limits and that the agency can provide address-based reports without naming clients. Board members asked procedural questions about how to review and manage such outside funding requests; staff suggested folding a community-grant process into the budget discussion.
