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Show Two Davis Groups Allocated United Way Funds Davis County Home Health Care and Davis County Infor-. mation Center were allocated $3,600 and $3,330 respectively at a March 26 meeting of the United Way of the Great Salt Lake Area Board of Directors. A TOTAL of $2,536,996 was allocated to 55 member agencies. agen-cies. According to Lorin Pugh, volunteer vice president of planning and allocations and general manager of Cummins lntermountain Diesel, this total to-tal amount is a 9.3 percent increase over the amount of money allocated to agencies in 197a The money was raised during dur-ing the 1978 fund drive and is to be used for expenses incurred in-curred in 1979. Mr. Pugh said that the amount of money available to allocate to agencies is the total to-tal dollars raised minus money allocated to United Way's campaign partners, the Cancer Society and Heart Association; a six percent reserve for uncollectibles; ' approximately $90,000 reserved for emergency and special needs; and operating expenses. $3,300,000 was raised by the United Way in 197a PUGH STATED that allocation's volunteers began studying the agencies programs and budgets last fall. "We split the agencies by areas of service into six panels of about seven agencies agen-cies each and assigned about 15 volunteers to each panel," said Pugh. "These volunteers spent many hours visiting the agency staff and volunteers and studying programs and budgets. "WE ASKED the panel to prioritize agency programs and develop a strategy to move funds to our higher priority programs. It has been a very difficult task." Examples of programs that were deemed high priority, said Pugh, include the information infor-mation and referral service and the home health care offered of-fered by the Davis County agencies, YWCA's residence program which includes the Y's "Women in Jeopardy" project for battered women, foster care programs of Children's Service Society and Catholic Chanties, drug treatment programs offered by Odyssey House and Project Reality and the low cost legal assistance provided by Legal Aid Society. "I'D LIKE to thank the many volunteers and the agencies themselves for assisting as-sisting in this process," said Mr. Pugh. "It's rewarding to see so many effective programs that are meeting local needs." He added that agencies that would like to appeal their allocation may do so and have until April 16th to inform the United Way. |